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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• တာ | ta2; ta2; ta2 da2
  
  (1) suffix appended to verbs or adjectives to make nouns.
  
  ပြော | pyau3 - say (verb).
  
  ပြောတာ | pyau3 da2 - speech (noun).
  
  (2) action, durability or responsibility relating to length of time or distance.
  
  (3) levee; embankment as in တာတမံ | ta2 ta1-mun2.
  
  (4) Myanmar new year period as in သင်္ကြန်အတာ | thin3-jan2 a-ta2.
  
  (5) prattle; blabber; be talkative.
  
  (6) measure as in တိုင်းတာ | tine3 ta2.
  
  တာဂျီကစ္စတန် | ta2-ji2 kit-sa1-tan2 - Tajikistan, a landlocked republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan.
  
  တာစူ | ta2-su2 - get ready at the start line for a race; get ready to do something.
  
  တာတိုပြေး | ta2-doh2 pyay3 - sprint.
  
  တာထွက် | ta2 htwet - spring into action from the starting point of a race.
  
  တာပတ်ကွင်း | ta2-but kwin3 - racetrack.
  
  တာရိုး | ta2-yo3 - dyke.
  
  တာရိုးလမ်း | ta2-yo3 lun3 - causeway.
  
  တာရှည်ခံ | ta2-shay2 khan2 - ability to last for a long time; be durable.
  
  တာရှည်ခံသော | ta2-shay2-khan2 dthau3 - durable; long-lasting.
  
  တာလီဘန် | ta2-li2-bun2 - Taliban, a Sunni Islamic militant group in Afghanistan founded in 1994 by Mullah Mohammed Omar.
  
  တာလွှတ် | ta2 hloot - pop a gun or send a signal to start a race.
  
  တာဝါတိုင် | ta2-wa2-dine2 - tower; power pylon; telecommunication tower; mobile phone tower; cellphone tower.
  
  တာဝေး | ta2 way3 - long distance run.
  
  တာဝန် | ta2-woon2 - duty; responsibility; obligation.
  
  တာဝန်ကျေ | ta2-woon2 kjay2 - fulfill responsibility.
  
  တာဝန်ကျေပွန်သော | ta2-woon2 kjay2-poon2 dthau3 - dutiful; filial as in filial son who is dutiful to his parents.
  
  တာဝန်ခံ | ta2-woon2 khan2 - take responsibility. ta2-woon2-gun2 - responsible person.
  
  တာဝန်ခံမှု | ta2-woon2-khan2 hmu1 - accountability.
  
  တာဝန်ခံအရာရှိ | ta2-woon2-gun2 a-ya2-shi1 - officer-in-charge.
  
  တာဝန်မကျေပွန်သော | ta2-woon2 ma1-kjay2-poon2 dthau3 - neglectful; remiss.
  
  တာဝန်မဲ့ | ta2-woon2 meare1 - irresponsibly.
  
  တာဝန်မဲ့သော | ta2-woon2 meare1 dthau3 - irresponsible; unaccountable.
  
  တာဝန်ရှိသော | ta2-woon2 shi1 dthau3 - accountable; responsible (person).
  
  တာဝန်လစ်ဟင်းခြင်း | ta2-woon2 lit-hin3 jin3 - negligence of duty.
  
  တာဝန်လွှဲအပ် | ta2-woon2 hlweare3 ut
  တာဝန်အပ်နှင်း | ta2-woon2 ut-hnin3 - delegate authority.
  
  တာဝန်လွှဲအပ်နှံခြင်း | ta2-woon2 hlweare3 ut-hnun2 jin3
  တာဝန်အပ်နှင်းခြင်း | ta2-woon2 ut-hnin3 jin3 - delegate authority.
  
  တာယာ | ta2-ya2 - [English] tire.
  
  တာရာ | ta2-ya2
  နက္ခတ်တာရာ | net-khut ta2-ya2 - constellation; a group of stars.
  
  တာလပတ် | ta2-la1-but - waterproof canvas.
  
  တာဝတိံသာ | ta2-wa1-dain2 dtha2 - [Buddhism] Heavenly World of "Nat" two levels above the Human World.
  
  
• တား | ta3 - prevent; prohibit.
  
  တားဆီး | ta3 hsi3 - prevent; block and obstruct; deter; stymie.
  
  တားဆီးခြင်း | ta3 hsi3 jin3 - deterrence.
  
  တားဆေး | ta3 zay3 - contraceptive pill.
  
  တားမြစ် | ta3-myit - prohibit; forbid.
  
  တားမြစ်စာချွန်တော်အမိန့် | ta3-myit sa2-choon2-dau2 a-main1 - [law] Writ of Prohibition from a higher court ordering a lower court not to exercise jurisdiction in a particular case.
  
  
• တွ | twa1 - limbs to feel stiff.
  
  ဆိုင်းတွ | hsine3 twa1 - limbs to be temporarily paralyzed or incapacitated.
  
  
• တွား | twa3 - crawl; creep.
  
  တွားသွားသတ္တဝါ | twa3-thwa3 thut-ta1-wa2 - reptile; reptilian.
  
  
• ထ | hta1; hta1
  
  (1) the seventeenth character ထဆင်ထူး | hta1 hsin2 du3.
  
  (2) get up, rise up, stand as in အိပ်ရာထ | ate-ya2 hta1 - get up from bed.
  
  (3) erupt; outbreak as in ရောဂါထ | yau3-ga2 hta1 - outbreak of disease.
  
  ထကြွ | hta1 kjwa1 - arouse.
  
  ထကြွစေသော | hta1 kjwa1 zay3 dthau3 - rousing; capable of arousing; stimulating.
  
  ထနောင်းပင် | hta1-noun3 bin2 - thorny tree; acacia leucaphloea.
  
  ထဘီ | hta1-main2 - sarong worn by women.
  
  ထမနဲ | hta1-ma1-neare3 - Htamanè, a delicacy made of sticky rice, peanut, oil.
  
  ထမနဲထိုး | hta1-ma1-neare3 hto3 - outdoor making of Htamanè on a large frypan.
  
  ထမနဲထိုးပွဲ | hta1-ma1-neare3 hto3 bweare3 - Htamanè cooking festival on the 11th month of Myanmar calendar.
  
  ထမင်း | hta1-min3 - cooked rice.
  
  ထမင်းကြော် | hta1-min3 jau2 - fried rice.
  
  ထမင်းကြမ်း | hta1-min3 jan3 - leftover rice.
  
  ထမင်းခူး | hta1-min3 khu3 - prepare meal by scooping rice on the plate.
  
  ထမင်းချက် | hta1-min3 jet - cook or kitchen help. hta1-min3 chet - cook rice.
  
  ထမင်းချိုင့် | hta1-min3 jine1 - two or three stacked round metallic lunch container.
  
  ထမင်းစားခန်း | hta1-min3-sa3 gun3 - dining room.
  
  ထမင်းစားချိန် | hta1-min3-sa3 jain2 - mealtime; lunchtime; dinnertime.
  
  ထမင်းစားဆောင် | hta1-min3-sa3 hsoun2 - dining-hall; refectory (in a monastery or university.)
  
  ထမင်းစားရေသောက် | hta1-min3-za3 yay2-dthout - not fluently; know just basic words to get by.
  
  ထမင်းထုပ် | hta1-min3 doat - a packet of meal.
  
  ထမင်းပေါင်း | hta1-min3 boun3 - steamed rice & meat.
  
  ထမင်းဖြူ | hta1-min3 byu2 - plain rice.
  
  ထမင်းဘူး | hta1-min3 bu3 - lunch box.
  
  ထမင်းရည် | hta1-ma1-yay2 - thin porridge water; gruel.
  
  ထမင်းသုပ် | hta1-min3 dthoat - rice vegetable salad.
  
  ထမင်းအိုးကွဲ | hta1-min3-o3 kweare3 - break one's rice bowl (job, livelihood.)
  
  ထမင်းအိုးခွဲ | hta1-min3-o3 khweare3 - break someone's rice bowl (job, livelihood.)
  
  ထရံ | hta1-yan2 - wall of the house.
  
  ထရီနီဒတ်နှင့် တိုဘက်ဂို | hta1-ri2-ni2-dut hnin1 toe2-bet-go2 - Trinidad and Tobago, an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela.
  
  ထရန်စစ္စတာ | hta1-ran2-sit-sa1-ta2 - [English] transistor.
  
  [sounds like hta1]
  
  ထန်းကျင့်လှေကား | hta1-jin1 hlay2-ga3 - ladder used by toddy-palm climber.
  
  ထန်းခလက်တဲ | hta1-ga1-let teare3 - hut with roof made of palmyra fronds.
  
  ထန်းညှပ် | hta1-hnyut - wooden clamp used for sap collection of palmyra palm.
  
  ထန်းနို့ | hta1-no1 - spadix (fleshy spike) of toddy palm from which the sap is tapped.
  
  ထန်းပလပ် | hta1-ba1-lut - base of the toddy-palm branch.
  
  ထန်းပင်မြစ် | hta1-bin2 myit - shoot sprouting from toddy-palm nut.
  
  ထန်းဖူးရစ် | hta1-bu3 yit - grooving.
  
  ထန်းရည် | hta1-yay2 - sap from toddy palm.
  
  ထန်းရည်ခါး | hta1-yay2 ga3 - fermented drink made from the toddy palm sap.
  
  ထန်းရည်ချို | hta1-yay2 jo2 - sap from toddy palm.
  
  ထန်းလက် | hta1-let - stem of the toddy palm leaf.
  
  ထန်းလျက် | hta1-nyet - palm-sugar; jaggery.
  
  ထန်းလျက်ခိုးကောင် | hta1-nyet kho3 goun2 - a type of large ant.
  
  ထန်းလျက်အိုးတွေ့ | hta1-nyet-o3 tway1 - stumble on the object of desire.
  
  
• ထာ | hta2
  
  ထာဝရ | hta2-wa1-ra1 - [literary] forever; everlastingly; eternally; evermore.
  
  ထာဝရဖြစ်သော | hta2-wa1-ra1 pfyit dthau3 - [literary] everlasting; eternal; ageless; unending; perpetual; unceasing.
  
  ထာဝစဉ် | hta2-wa1-zin2 - [literary] always.
  
  
• ထား | hta3; hta3
  
  (1) put; place; keep; retain.
  
  ဒီမှာထား | de2 hma2 hta3 - put it here.
  
  (2) particle equivalent to present participle [~ing].
  
  အဖြူရောင်အင်္ကျီဝတ်ထားတဲ့လူ | a-pfyu2-youn2 ain3-ji2 woot hta3 deare1 lu2 - The man who is wearing a white shirt.
  
  (3) do something in advance.
  
  ဝယ်ထားလိုက် | weare2 hta3 lite - Go ahead and buy it now. (Buy now while there is opportunity although the item is not for immediate use or consumption.)
  
  
• ထွာ | htwa2; htwa2; htwa2
  
  (1) a span of a stretched palm — from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger — used as measurement.
  
  (2) numerical classifier (measure word) for how many of such spans.
  
  (3) make such a measurement with hand as in as in တိုင်းထွာ | tine3 htwa2.
  
  
• ထွား | htwa3 - burly; husky; large in size, usually used to describe the spurt of growth during adolescence, or to describe plants and animals that grow to a large size.
  
  ထွားကျိုင်း | htwa3 kjine3 - (1) be stout. (2) plants to be luxuriant.