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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• န | na1 - the twentieth character နငယ် | na1 ngeare2.
  
  နကျယ်ကောင် | na1-jeare2 goun2 - wasp.
  
  နကျယ်အိမ် | na1-jeare2 ain2 - wasp cell.
  
  နဂါး | na1-ga3 - mythical dragon; wyvern, a fire-breathing dragon with wings and two legs.
  
  နဂါးငွေ့တန်း | na1-ga1-ngway1 dun3 - the Milky Way; galaxy.
  
  နဂို | na1-go2 - original; innate.
  
  နနွင်း | hsa1-nwin3 (spelled as na1-nwin3) - tumeric.
  
  နပန်း | na1-bun3 - wrestling.
  
  နပန်းလုံး | na1-bun3 lone3 - wrestle.
  
  နပန်းသမား | na1-bun3 dtha1-ma3 - wrestler.
  
  နပုန်းပဏ္ဍုက် | na1-bone3 pan3-doat - a person of unclear sex or with both male and female sex organs; hermaphrodite.
  
  နပုလ္လိင် | na1-pone3-lain2 - [Grammar] no gender. E.g., tree, rock, river.
  
  နဖား | na1-pfa3 - hole made in the nose of bullock or buffalo for harness to pass through.
  
  နဖားကြိုး | na1-pfa3 jo3 - cord to harness bullock or buffalo.
  
  နဖူး | na1-pfu3 - forehead.
  
  နဖူးစည်း | na1-pfu3 zi3 - headband.
  
  နဖူးတွေ့ဒူးတွေ့တွေ့ | na1-pfu3-dway1 du3-dway1 tway1 - encounter face to face.
  
  နဖူးရိုး | na1-pfu3-yo3 - sinciput (of the skull.)
  
  နဘေ | na1-bay2 - rhyme.
  
  နဘေထပ် | na1-bay2 dut - verse with rhyme.
  
  နမီးဘီးယား | na1-mi3-be3-ya3 - Namibia, a republic in southwestern Africa.
  
  နမူနာ | na1-mu2-na2 - example; sample; specimen; illustration; instant; representative.
  
  နမူနာကမ္ဘာတု | na1-mu2-na2 ga1-ba2-du1 - virtual world; virtual reality; computer simulated world.
  
  နမူနာကမ္ဘာတုဖန်တီး | na1-mu2-na2 ga1-ba2-du1 pfun2-ti2 - simulate.
  
  နမူနာကမ္ဘာတုဖန်တီးခြင်း | na1-mu2-na2 ga1-ba2-du1 pfun2-ti2-jin3 - simulation; computer simulation; VR programming.
  
  နမော်နမဲ့ | na1-mau2 na1-meare1 - carelessly.
  
  နယူးဇီလန် | na1-yu3 zi2 lun2 - New Zealand, a British Commonwealth country in the South Pacific.
  
  နယုန် | na1-yone2 - third month of the year in Myanmar calendar.
  
  နရပတိ (အင်းဝ) | na1-ra1-pa1-ti1 (in3-wa1) - Narapati I of Ava, the 10^th king of အင်းဝ | in3-wa1 - Ava from 1442 to 1468.
  
  ရွှေနန်းကြော့ရှင် နရပတိ | shway2-nun3 kjau1-shin2 na1-ra1-pa1-ti1 - Narapati II of Ava Shwenankyawshin (1476–1527), the 14^th king of အင်းဝ | in3-wa1 - Ava from 1501 to 1527.
  
  မိုးဗြဲ နရပတိ | mo3-byeare3 na1-ra1-pa1-ti1 - Narapati III of Ava, the ethnic ရှမ်းစော်ဘွား | shan3 zau2-bwa3 - Shan saopha (hereditary ruler) of the Confederation of Shan states was the 17^th king of အင်းဝ | in3-wa1 - Ava from 1545 to 1551.
  
  နရပတိ စည်သူ | na1-ra1 pa1-ti1 si2-thu2 - (1) Narapatisithu (1138–1211), the 7^th king of Pagan from 1174 to 1211.
  
  (2) Narapati Sithu, also known as စည်သူကျော်ထင် | si2-thu2 kjau2-htin2 - Sithu Kyawhtin was the 18^th and the last king of အင်းဝ | in3-wa1 - Ava from 1551 to 1555.
  
  နရသီဟပတေ့ | na2-ra1 thi2-ha1 pa1-tay1 - Narathihapate (1238 – 1287), also known as တရုတ်ပြေးမင်း | ta1-yoat pyay3 min3, the 11^th and the last king of Pagan Empire.
  
  နရသူ | na1-ra1 thu2 - (1) Narathu (1118–1171), the 5^th king of Pagan after murdering his 77 year old father King အလောင်းစည်သူ | ‌a-loun3 si2-thu2 - Alaungsithu in 1167. He built ဓမ္မရံကြီးဘုရား | da1-ma1 yan2-ji3 pfa1-ya3 - Dhammayangyi Temple, the largest temple in Bagan to atone for his sins. He is also known for killing one of his queens, according to a folktale, for complaining his "uncleanliness" regarding the way he used the toilet (obviously without running water in those days.) The queen's father, the chief of Pateikkaya (somewhere in present day India) sent a group of eight assassins disguised as Brahmin astrologers and killed him.
  
  (2) Narathu of Pinya (1333–1364), also known as မောပါ နရသူ | mau3-pa2 na1-ra1-thu2 or သီဟသူရ | thi2-ha1 thu2-ra1 - Thihathura, the 5^th of the six kings of ပင်းယ | pin3-ya1 - Pinya Kingdom.
  
  နရသိင်္ခ | na1-ra1 thain3-kha1 - Naratheinkha (1141–1174), son of နရသူ | na1-ra1 thu2- Narathu and the 6^th king of Pagan. He was assassinated for sending one of his brothers Narapati away so that he could take Narapati's wife ဝေဠုဝတီ | way2-lu1 wa1-de2 - Weluwaddy. Narapati became the next king, and known as နရပတိ စည်သူ | na1-ra1 pa1-ti1 si2-thu2.
  
  နရာဝရ | na1-ra2 wa1-ra1 - Narawara (1650–1673), son of ပြည်မင်း | pyi2 min3 - Pye Min was the the 11^th king of Taungoo Dynasty for about eleven months from 1672 and 1673.
  
  နဝဂံ | na1-wa1-gun2 - nonagon, a nine-sided polygon.
  
  နဝမ | na1-wa1-ma1 - [Pali] ninth.
  
  နဝရတ် | na1-wa1-rut - [Sanskrit] the nine precious stones namely, ruby, pearl, coral, emerald, topaz, diamond, sapphire, garnet and cat's eye.
  
  [sounds like na1]
  
  နံ့သာ | na1-dtha2 - (1) fragrance. (2) aromatic substance.
  
  နံ့သာဆီ | na1-dtha2 hsi2 - scented oil; fragrant oil.
  
  နံ့သာနီ | na1-dtha2 ni2 - red sandalwood.
  
  နံ့သာပု | na1-dha2 bu1 - fragrant plantain (banana).
  
  နံ့သာပျောင်း | na1-dtha2 byoun3 - sandalwood paste.
  
  နံ့သာဖြူ | na1-dtha2 pfyu2 - sandalwood.
  
  နံ့သာရောင် | na1-dtha2 youn2 - pale yellow color.
  
  နတ်တော် | na1-dau2 - the ninth month of the Myanmar calendar.
  
  [Also see နား | na3.]
  
  [Also see နိ | ni1.]
  
  
• နာ | na2
  
  (1) be painful.
  
  စိတ်နာတယ် | sate na2 deare2 - feel hurt psychologically.
  
  (2) suffer a loss of time, money or chance as in နစ်နာ | nit-na2.
  
  (3) listen attentively as in
  
  တရားနာ | ta1-ya3 na2 - listen to Dhamma (religious) talks.
  
  နာခံ | na2 khan2
  နာယူ | na2 yu2 - listen to advice and obey.
  
  နာခံကျိုးနွံသော | na2-khan2 kjo3-noon2 dthau3 - obedient; docile.
  
  နာခံခယသော | na2-khan2 kha1 ya1 dthau3 - submissive.
  
  နာကျင် | na2 kjin2 - feel painful.
  
  နာကျင်သော | na2-kjin2 dthau3 - painful; sore; agonizing; excruciating; harrowing; torturous; poignant; traumatic.
  
  နာကြည်း | na2-kji3 - feel hurt.
  
  နာဇီ | na2-zi2 - German Nazi.
  
  နာဇီအထူးတပ်ဖွဲ့စစ်သည် | na2-zi2 a-htu3 tut-pfweare1 sit-thi2 - storm trooper.
  
  နာဇီအထူးရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ | na2-zi2 a-htu3 yeare3 tut-pfweare1 - SS; Schutzstaffel; ᛋᛋ.
  
  နာဂ | na2-ga1 - ethnic Naga people living in the north west hills of Myanmar and north-east region of India.
  
  နာဂရီ | na2-ga1-ri2 - Nagari script.
  
  နာတာလူးပွဲ | na2-ta2-lu3 pweare3 - Christmas celebrations.
  
  နာတာရှည်ရောဂါ | na2-ta2-shay2 yau3-ga2 - chronic illness.
  
  နာနာ | na2-na2 - forcefully.
  
  နာနာဘာဝ | na2-na2 ba2 wa1 - ghosts; evil spirits.
  
  နာနတ်ဖျော်ရည် | na2-nut pfyau2-yay2 - pineapple juice.
  
  နာနတ်သီး | na2-nut thi3 - pineapple.
  
  နာမ | na2-ma1 - [Pali] name.
  
  နာမကျန်းဖြစ် | na2-ma1-kjan3 pfyit - be sick; suffer from illness.
  
  နာမကျန်းဖြစ်သော | na2-ma1-kjan3 pfyit dthau3 - sick; ill; unwell; bedridden; under the weather.
  
  နာမ ရူပ | na2-ma1 yu2-pa1 - name and form; spiritual and physical; psychological constructs.and corporality.
  
  နာမဝိသေသန | na2-ma1 we1-thay2-tha1-na1 - adjective.
  
  နာမည် | nun2-meare2 - name.
  
  နာမည်ကျော် | nun2-meare2 jau2 - famous.
  
  နာမည်ကြီး | nun2-meare2 kji3 - be famous; be well-known. nun2-meare2 ji3 - celebrity.
  
  နာမည်ခံ | nun2-meare2 gun2 - figure-head; front-man. nun2-meare2 khan2 - (1) be in name only. (2) assume a name.
  
  နာမည်ဆိုးဖြင့် ကျော်ကြားသော | nun2-meare2-zo3 pfyin1 kjau2-kja3 dthau3 - notorious; infamous; ill-famed.
  
  နာမည်ထွက် | nun2-meare2 htwet - become well-known; become subject of gossip.
  
  နာမည်ပျက် | nun2-meare2 pyet - ruin one's reputation; reputation to be tainted.
  
  နာမည်ပျက်စေသည် | nun2-meare2 pyet zay2 dthi2 - tarnish or taint the reputation.
  
  နာမည်ပျက်မှုမရှိသော | nun2-meare2-pyet hmu1 ma1-shi1 dthau3 - untainted; unsullied; untarnished; unstained; unblemished.
  
  နာမည်ဖျက် | nun2-meare2 fyet - defame; slander; denigrate; discredit; badmouth; sully; smear; smirch; besmirch.
  
  နာမည်ဖျက်ခြင်း | nun2-meare2 fyet jin3 - defamation; slander; libel; character assassination; smear campaign; denigration.
  
  နာမည်မှည့် | nun2-meare2 hmeare1 - give a name to someone or something.
  
  နာမည်ယူ | nun2-meare2 yu2 - take credit.
  
  နာမည်အမှား | nun2-meare2 a-hma3 - misnomer.
  
  နာယက | na2-ya1-ka1 - chairperson.
  
  နာရဒဇာတ် | na2-ra1-da1 zut - [Buddhism] Culla-Narada Jataka, one of the ten Great Jataka tales.
  
  နာရီ | na2-yi2 - clock; watch.
  
  နာရီစင် | na2-yi2 zin2 - clock tower.
  
  နာရီထိုး | na2-yi2 hto3 - strike the hour.
  
  (၄) နာရီထိုးပြီ | lay3 na2-yi2-hto3 byi2 - It's 4 O'clock.
  
  နာရီဝက် | na2-yi2 wet - half an hour
  
  နာလန်ထ | na1-lun2 hta1
  နာလန်ထူ | na1-lun2 htu2 - recover from illness or misfortune; pull through; recuperate (from sickness.)
  
  နာလန်ထူမြန်သော | na1-lun2-htu2 myan2 dthau3 - resilient.
  
  နာလန်ထူလာခြင်း | na1-lun2-htu2 la2 jin3 - recuperation; gradual healing from sickness.
  
  နာရေး | na2-yay3 - gathering after death of someone for burial or cremation.
  
  နာရေးကြော်ငြာ | na2-yay3 kjau2 nya2 - obituary notice.
  
  
• နား | na3; na3
  
  (1) rest.
  
  နားပါဦး | na3 ba2 ome3 - Please take a rest.
  
  (2) ear.
  
  
• နားကလော | na3 ka1-lau3
  နားကြားပြင်းကတ် | na3-ja3-byin3 kut - be irritating to the ears.
  
  နားကလောစရာကောင်းသော | na3 ka1-lau3 za1-ya2-koun3 dthau3 - raucous; strident.
  
  နားကပ် | na1-gut - earring with a fastener.
  
  နားကြားလွဲ | na3-kja3 lweare3 - be misunderstood.
  
  နားကြပ် | na1-jut - stethoscope (used by doctors); headphone; earphone; hearing aid.
  
  နားကွင်း | na1-gwin3 - earring.
  
  
• နားခါး | na3 kha3 - feel bitter upon hearing.
  
  နားခံသာ | na3 khan2 dtha2 - bearable to the ears.
  
  နားခင် | na1-khin2 - eardrum.
  
  နားချိန် | na3 chain2 - recess; rest time; break; time out.
  
  နားချ | na3 cha1 - pursuade.
  
  နားခွက် | na1-khwet - ear structure; gun-powder pan of flintlock gun.
  
  
• နားငြီး | na3 nyi3 - be tired of hearing.
  
  
• နားစိုက်ထောင် | na3-site htoun2 - listen attentively.
  
  နားစည် | na1-zi2 - eardrum (inner ear.)
  
  နားစွင့် | na3 swin1 - strain the ears to pick up a sound.
  
  နားစွန်နားဖျားကြား | na1-soon2 na1-pfya3 kja3 - hear something indistinctly.
  
  
• နားဆွဲ | na1-hsweare3 - drop earring; eardrop.
  
  
• နားထင် | na1-htin2 - temple.
  
  နားထောင် | na3 htoun2 - listen.
  
  နားထိုင်း | na3 htine3 - be hard of hearing; be partially deaf.
  
  နားထွင်း | na3 htwin3 - bore a hole in the ear.
  
  
• နားနားနေနေ | na3-na3 nay2-nay2 - leisurely with frequent rest.
  
  
• နားပါး | na3 pa3 - have good hearing with sharp ears.
  
  နားပူ | na3 pu2 - (1) feel uncomfortable upon hearing something. (2) nag.
  
  နားပူနားဆာလုပ် | na1-bu2 na1-hsa2 loat - nag repeatedly.
  
  နားပေါက် | na1-bout - ear hole bored in the lobe for earring. na3 pout - understand.
  
  နားပင်း | na3 pin3 - be hard of hearing. na1-bin3 - hearing-impaired person; a deaf person.
  
  နားပန်းဆံ | na1-bun3 hsun2 - a type of hairstyle with a tail hanging down over each ear.
  
  နားပြည်ယိုနာ | na3 pyi2 yo2 na2 - suffer from otorrhea (discharge from ear.)
  
  
• နားဖာကလော် | na1-pfa2 ka1-lau2 - cotton stick for removing ear-wax.
  
  နားဖာချေး | na1-pfa2 chi3 - ear-wax.
  
  နားဖောက် | na3 pfout - bore a hole in the ear.
  
  
• နားမလည်နိုင်သော | na3 ma1-leare2 nine2 dthau3 - incomprehensible; uncomprehensible; puzzling; unfathomable.
  
  
• နားယောင် | na3 youn2 - be misled.
  
  နားယဉ် | na3 yin2 - become used to hearing something.
  
  
• နားရင်းအုပ် | na1-yin3 oat - give a hard slap on the ear.
  
  နားရိုင်း | na3 yine3 - be unfamiliar with (the source of sound.)
  
  နားရွက် | na1-ywet - outer ear.
  
  နားရှက် | na3 shet - feel embarrassed upon hearing something.
  
  နားရှုပ် | na3 shoat - be perplexed upon hearing something.
  
  
• နားလေး | na3 lay3 - hard of hearing.
  
  နားလည် | na3 leare2 - understand.
  
  နားလည်မှု | na3-leare2 hmu1 - understanding between two parties where agreement is reached for a win-win situation.
  
  နားလည်မှုစာချွန်လွှာ | na3-leare2-hmu1 sa2-joon2 hlwa2 - memorandum of understanding (MOU).
  
  နားလည်သဘောပေါက် | na3-leare2 dtha1-bau3-pout - realize; see; understand.
  
  
• နားဝင်ချို | na1-win2 cho2 - be pleasant to the ears.
  
  
• နားသွင်း | na3 thwin3 - pursuade.
  
  
• နားအထူးကုဆရာဝန် | na3 a-htu3-ku1 hsa1-ya2-woon2 - otologist; ear doctor; ear specialist.
  
  နားအထူးကုပညာ | na3 a-htu3-ku1 pyin2-nya2 - otology.
  
  နားအူ | na3 u2 - have ringing in the ears.
  
  နားအေး | na3 ay3 - have peace and quiet.
  
  နားအေးပါးအေး | na3-ay3 pa3-ay3 - peacefully without anyone bothering.
  
  နားအုံ | na1-ome2 - ear structure.
  
  
• နျာ | na1-ya2
  
  နျာသကျမ်း | na1-ya2 tha1 kjan3 - title of a Pali grammer text also called ဉာသ်ကျမ်း | nyut kjan3.