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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• ပ | pa1; pa1; pa1
  
  (1) the twenty first character ပစောက် | pa1 zout.
  
  (2) make something disappear; no longer exist; dispel.
  
  (3) ignore; banish; dismiss.
  
  (4) exclude; omit.
  
  (5) external; outside.
  
  ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပ | pyi2-dwin3 pyi1-pa1 - Domestic & International.
  
  (6) be bright; shining.
  
  တောက်ပ | tout pa1 - bright; brilliant; shining; lustrous.
  
  (7) make offering (to the spirits) as in နတ်ပ | nut pa1.
  
  (8) part of female Burmese names as in ပပ | pa1 pa1 - Pa Pa.
  
  (9) particle suffixed to some verbs for emphasis.
  
  (10) particle ending word.
  
  
• ပကတိ | ba1-ga1-de1 - [Pali] original, normal, unaffected state.
  
  ပကတိမျက်စိ | ba1-ga1-de1 myet-si1 - naked eyes.
  
  ပကတူး | ba1-ga1-du3 - the beginning of time.
  
  ပကာသန | pa1-ka2 tha1-na1 - [Pali] ostentation; flashy display; vanity.
  
  ပကောဋိ | pa1-kau3-de1 - [Pali] trillion; million million.
  
  
• ပခုံး | pa1-khone3 - shoulder.
  
  ပခုံးချင်းယှဉ် | pa1-khone3 chin3 shin2 - shoulder to shoulder (be able to fight with comrades or against enemy on the equal terms.)
  
  ပခုံးထမ်း | pa1-khone3 htun3 - carry on the shoulder.
  
  ပခုံးပြောင်း | pa1-khone3 pyoun3 - transfer responsibility.
  
  ပခြုပ် | pa1-choat - basket with cover.
  
  
• ပငို | pa1-ngo2 - sea cradle.
  
  
• ပစိပစပ် | ba1-zi1 ba1-zut - irritatingly (talk trivia matters.)
  
  ပစိဖိတ်သမုဒ္ဒရာ | pa1-si1-pfate tha1-moat-da1-ya2 - Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean in the world.
  
  
• ပဆစ် | pa1-hsit - pachisi, an ancient Indian board game played on a cross-shaped board.
  
  ပဆုပ်ပနီ | pa1-hsoat pa1-ni2 - wasp.
  
  
• ပဇာ | ba1-za2 - who; where; which; what.
  
  
• ပဉှာ | pyin2-hnya2 - [Pali] question as in မိလိန္ဒပဉှာ | mi1-lain2-da1 pyin2-hnya2 - "Questions of Milinda", a Buddhist text that recorded the dialog between Buddhist sage Nagasena and Indo-Greek King Menander between 100 BCE and 200CE. (Note: small symbol below ဉ is ha1 hto3.)
  
  ပညာ | pyin2-nya2 - (1) knowledge; learning; education. (2) skill; expertise; specialization. (Note: ည in the original Pali is double-stacked ဉ | nya1 ga1-lay3.)
  
  ပညာကျော် | pyin2-nya2 jau2 - scholar; learned person; pundit.
  
  ပညာခံ | pyin2-nya2 gun2 - basic skill or knowledge.
  
  ပညာချွန် | pyin2-nya2 choon2 - be outstanding.
  
  ပညာစက္ခု | pyin2-nya2 set-khu1 - [Pali] insight.
  
  ပညာစမ်း | pyin2-nya2 sun3 - test someone's knowledge or skill usually as a challenge.
  
  ပညာတော်သင် | pyin2-nya2 dau2 thin2 - scholarship; government sponsored higher education.
  
  ပညာတတ် | pyin2-nya2 dut - educated person. pyin2-nya2 tut - have knowledge.
  
  ပညာတတ်လူတန်းစား | pyin2-nya2 dut lu2-dun3-za3 - educated class; intelligentsia.
  
  ပညာပေး | pyin2-nya2 pay3 - give informative lecture.
  
  ပညာပေးဇာတ်ကား | pyin2-nya2 pay3 zut ka3 - documentary.
  
  ပညာရေး | pyin2-nya2 yay3 - education.
  
  ပညာရေးချေးငွေ | pyin2-nya2-yay3 chay3 ngway2 - student loan.
  
  ပညာရေးဆိုင်ရာ | pyin2-nya2-yay3 hsine2-ya2 - (1) educational. (2) academic.
  
  ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန | pyin2-nya2-yay3 woon2-ji3 hta2-na1 - Ministry of Education.
  
  ပညာရေးသုတေသန စီမံကိန်းနှင့် လေ့ကျင့်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန | pyin2-nya2-yay3 thu1-tay2-tha1-na1 si2-mun2-gain3 hnin1 lay1-kjin1-yay3 u3-zi3 hta2-na1 - Department of Education Research, Planning and Training.
  
  ပညာရည်ချွန်ဆု | pyin2-nya2 yay2-joon2 hsu1 - outstanding student award.
  
  ပညာရပ် | pyin2-nya2 yut - discipline; branch or field or studies.
  
  ပညာရပ်သုံးစကား | pyin2-nya2-yut thone3 za1-ga3 - technical jargon.
  
  ပညာရှိ | pyin2-nya2 shi1 - sage; learned person.
  
  ပညာရှင် | pyin2-nya2 shin2 - specialist.
  
  ပညာသားပါ | pyin2-nya2 dtha3 pa2 - be skillful.
  
  ပညာသင် | pyin2-nya2 dthin2 - trainee. pyin2-nya2 thin2 - acquire knowledge and skill.
  
  ပညာသင်ဆု | pyin2-nya2-thin2 hsu1 - scholarship.
  
  ပညာသင်ထောက်ပံ့ကြေး | pyin2-nya2 dthin2 htout-pan1 jay3 - bursary; fellowship; student grant; scholarship; stipend (for student.)
  
  ပညာသင်နှစ် | pyin2-nya2 dthin2 hnit - academic year.
  
  ပညာသည် | pyin2-nya2 dtheare2 - (1) craftsman. (2) witch.
  
  ပညောင် | pyin2 nyoun2 - banyan tree (Ficus indica).
  
  ပညတ် | pyin1-nyut - conventional name or designation. pyin1-nyut - (1) designate. (2) prescribe. (3) forbid.
  
  ပညတ်ချက် | pyin1-nyut chet - (1) designation. (2) commandment. (3) prohibition.
  
  ပညတ်တော် | pyin1-nyut tau2 - [Christian] Commandment.
  
  
• ပဋိဃာတ် | pa1-ti1-gut - wrath; ire.
  
  ပဋိဇီဝဆေး | pa1-ti1 zi2-wa1 hsay3 - antibiotics.
  
  ပဋိဇီဝဆေးယဉ်ပါးခြင်း | pa1-ti1-zi2-wa1 hsay3 yin2-ba3 jin3 - antibiotic resistance developed by bacteria which makes drugs less effective.
  
  ပဋိညာဉ် | ba1-dain2 nyin2 - vow; pledge; treaty or agreement.
  
  ပဋိပက္ခ | pa1-ti1 pet-kha1 - [Pali] conflict.
  
  ပဋိပက္ခ စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု | pa1-ti1 pet-kha1 si2-mun2 khan1-gweare3 hmu1 - conflict management.
  
  ပဋိပစ္စည်း | pa1-ti1 pyit-si3 - antibody; antibodies.
  
  ပဋိပတ် | pa1-ti1-pup - [Buddhism] rules for the monks as spelled out in Vinaya.
  
  ပ⁠ဋိဘာနကဝိ | pa1-ti1 ba2-na1 ka1-we1 - [Pali] learned person.
  
  ပဋိဘာန် | pa1-ti1 bun2 - acumen; insightfulness.
  
  ပဋိလောမ | pa1-ti1 lau3-ma1
  ပဋိလုံ | pa1-ti1 lone2 - reverse order.
  
  ပဋိဝေဓ | pa1-ti1 way2-da1 - [Pali] (1) activity of mind. (2) faculty of understanding.
  
  ပဋိသန္ဓာရစကား | pa1-ti1 thun2-da2-ra1 za1-ga3 - friendly greeting.
  
  ပဋိသန္ဓေ | pa1-ti1 thun2-day2 - pregnancy.
  
  ပဋိသမ္ဘိဒါဉာဏ် | pa1-ti1 thun2-be1-da2 nyan2 - analytical mind.
  
  ပဋိစ္စသမုပ္ပာဒ် | pa1-date-sa1 tha1-moat-pup - [Buddhism] - Law of Dependent Origination; Law of Dependent Co-Arising.
  
  
• ပဋ္ဌာန်း | pa1-htun3 - Buddhist analysis on the 24 causes of phenomena.
  
  
• ပဏာမ | pa1-na2 ma1 - [Pali] (1) obeisance. (2) the first part of written material.
  
  ပဏိတဒါန | pa1-ni1-ta1 da2-na1 - [Pali] charity given with rightfully earned money.
  
  
• ပတိုး | ba1-doe3 - buffalo horn.
  
  ပတောက် | ba1-dout - small elongated basket.
  
  
• ပတ္ထနာ | pa1-hta1-na2 - [Pali] prayer.
  
  ပထမ | pa1-hta1-ma1 - [Pali] first.
  
  ပထဝီ | pa1-hta1-we2 - [Pali] solidity; geography; earth.
  
  ပထဝီဓာတ် | pa1-hta1-we2 dut - element of hardness or softness; earth element.
  
  ပထဝီနိုင်ငံရေး | pa1-hta1-we2 nine2-ngan2-yay3 - geopolitics.
  
  ပထဝီဝင် | pa1-hta1-we2 win2 - geography.
  
  ပထဝီဝင်ပညာရှင် | pa1-hta1-we2-win2 pyin2-nya2-shin2 - geographer.
  
  ပထွေး | pa1-htway3 - step-father.
  
  
• ပဒ | ba1-da1 - [Pali] word.
  
  ပဒေသရာဇ် | ba1-day2 tha1-rit - feudal lord.
  
  ပဒေသရာဇ်စနစ် | ba1-day2 tha1-rit sa1-nit - feudal system; feudalism.
  
  ပဒေသာ | ba1-day2-dtha2 - variety; plenty of something.
  
  ပဒေသာပင် | ba1-day2-dtha2 bin2 - Christmas tree-like structure with offering to the monks.
  
  ပဒေါင် | ba1-doun2 - ethnic Padaung people known for long-neck women.
  
  ပဒိုင်း | ba1-dine3 - Datura; angel's trumpet flower (Datura suaveolens.)
  
  ပဒိုင်းခေတ္တာ | ba1-dine3 khit-ta2 - thorn-apple; stramonium (Datura stramonium.)
  
  ပဒိုင်းပွင့်မီးအိမ် | ba1-dine3 bwin1 mi3 ain2 - chandelier; pendant; pendent.
  
  ပဒုမ္မာ | ba1-dome2 ma2 - (1) sacred lotus flower (Nelumbium speciosum.) (2) thin cotton cloth.
  
  ပဒုမ္မာကြာ | ba1-dome2 ma2 kja2 - sacred lotus flower.
  
  
• ပဓာန | ba1-da2-na1 - [Pali] what is important, essential, fundamental.
  
  ပဓာနကျ | ba1-da2-na1 kja1 - be fundamental.
  
  
• ပနားမား | pa1-na3 ma3 - Panama, a country on the isthmus (relatively narrow strip of land) linking Central and South America.
  
  ပနံစား | pa1-nun2 sa3
  ပနံရ | pa1-nun2 ya1
  ပနံသင့် | pa1-nun2 thin1 - be compatible.
  
  
• ပပြောက် | pa1 pyout - be removed; be eradicated.
  
  
• ပမာ | pa1-ma2 - example.
  
  ပမာဒ | pa1-ma2-da1 - [Pali] carelessness.
  
  ပမာဒလေခ | pa1-ma2-da1 lay2-kha1 - [Pali] sloppy authorship.
  
  ပမာဏ | pa1-ma2-na1 - [Pali] magnitude; size.
  
  ပမာတန္တု | pa1-ma2 tan2-du1 - analogy.
  
  ပမာမခန့် | pa1-ma2 ma1-khan1 - disrespectfully.
  
  
• ပယောဂ | pa1-yau3-ga1 - [Pali] (1) effort. (2) witchcraft; black magic; sorcery.
  
  ပယင်းရောင် | pa1-yin3 youn2 - amber color.
  
  
• ပရဆေး | pa1-ra1 hsay3 - medicinal ingredient.
  
  ပရဆေးဆိုင် | pa1-ra1 hsay3 zine2 - shop selling traditional herbal medicines.
  
  ပရနိမ္မိတဝသဝတ္တီ | pa1-ra1 nain2-mi1-ta1 wa1-tha1 wa1-de2 - [Buddhism] highest level of the six levels of "Nat" celestial beings.
  
  ပရမာဏုမြူ | pa1-ra1-ma2 nu1 myu2 - [Buddhism] sub-atomic particle; quantum world.
  
  ပရမာဏုမြူ ငြိတွဲဆက်သွယ်ခြင်း | pa1-ra1-ma2-nu1-myu2 nyi1-tweare3 hset-thweare2-jin3 - quantum entanglement.
  
  ပရမတ် | pa1-ra1-mut - [Buddhism] Ultimate Reality; Absolute Truth as opposed to ပညတ် | pyin1-nyut - conventional truth.
  
  ပရလောက | pa1-ra1 lau3-ka1 - [Pali] the next life after death.
  
  ပရဝုဏ် | pa1-ra1-wone2 - fence around religious structure.
  
  ပရဟိတ | pa1-ra1 he1-ta1 - [Pali] altruism, selfless act for the welfare of others.
  
  ပရဟိတဒါန | pa1-ra1 he1-ta1 da2-na1 - philanthropy.
  
  ပရဟိတဒါနရှင် | pa1-ra1 he1-ta1 da2-na1 shin2 - philanthropist; altruist.
  
  ပရဟိတလုပ်ငန်း | pa1-ra1 he1-ta1 loat-ngan3 - voluntary social welfare service.
  
  ပရိဒေဝ | pa1-ri1 day2-wa1 - [Pali] grief, lamentation and sorrow.
  
  ပရိနိဗ္ဗာန်စံ | pa1-rate nate-bun2 sun2 - Buddha and the arahats to pass away and reach Nibbana.
  
  ပရိဘောဂ | pa1-ri1 bau3-ga1 - [Pali] furniture.
  
  ပရိဘောဂလုပ်ငန်း | pa1-ri1 bau3-ga1 loat-ngan3 - furniture business.
  
  ပရိဘောဂအသစ်လဲ | pa1-ri1-bau3-ga1 a-thit-leare3 - refurnish.
  
  ပရိယေသန | pa1-ri1-yay2 tha1-na1 - [Pali] striving for one's livelihood.
  
  ပရိယတ် | pa1-ri1-yut - study of Buddhist scriptures.
  
  ပရိယာယ် | pa1-ri1-yeare2 - deceptive maneuver; gambit; ploy; tactical maneuver.
  
  ပရိသတ် | pa1-rate-thut - audience; spectators.
  
  ပရိဟာရ | pa1-ri1 ha2-ra1 - [Pali] explanation.
  
  ပရီမီယံ | pa1-ri2-mi2-yan2 - [English] insurance premium.
  
  ပရံပရ | pa1-run2 pa1-ra1 - [Pali] previous life.
  
  ပရိုတင်း | pa1-ro2-tin3 - [English] protein.
  
  ပရိုတွန် | pa1-ro2-toon2 - [English] proton.
  
  ပရိက္ခရာ | pa1-rate kha1-ya2 - essential articles for the use of Buddhist monks.
  
  ပရိစ္စာဂ | pa1-rate sa2-ga1 - [Pali] charity.
  
  ပရောဂျက် | pa1-rau3-jet - [English] project.
  
  ပရိတ် | pa1-rate - Buddhist scriptures in Pali.
  
  ပရိတ်ရွတ် | pa1-rate yoot - recite Buddhist scriptures to ward off harm.
  
  ပရုတ်ဆီ | pa1-yoat hsi2 - hot rubbing balm to relieve muscular pain.
  
  ပရုတ်လုံး | pa1-yoat lone3 - moth-ball; napthalene ball.
  
  ပရန္နဝါ | pa1-yan2 na1-wa2 - hogweed; Boerhaavia diffusa; (tall coarse plant bearing white or purple flowers.)
  
  ပရမ်းပတာ | ba1-yan3 ba1-da2 - poorly (executed workmanship.)
  
  
• ပလာတာ | pa1-la2-ta2 - Indian flatbread parata (paratha).
  
  ပလာတူး | pa1-la2-tu3 - Indian mackerel.
  
  ပလာယာ | pa1-la2-ya2 - [English] pliers.
  
  ပလိဗောဓ | pa1-li1 bau3-da1 - [Pali] anxiety.
  
  ပလီပလာ (ပြော) | pa1-li2 pa1-la2 (pyau3) - (speak) in a misleading way with an intent to deceive.
  
  ပလူ | pa1-lu2 - flying white ant.
  
  ပလူတို | pa1-lu2-toh2 - [English] Pluto.
  
  ပလူတိုနီယမ် | pa1-lu2-toh2 ni2-yun2 - [English] Plutonium.
  
  ပလေကတ် | pa1-lay2-kut - [Hindi] cotton longyi from Pulicat, India.
  
  ပလက်တီနမ် | pa1-let-ti2-nun2 - [English] platinum.
  
  ပလက်ဖောင်း | pa1-let-pfoun3 - [English] platform; pavement.
  
  ပလက်ဖောင်းပေါင် | pa1-let-pfoun3 boun2 - curb, an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway constructed with curbstones.
  
  ပလောင် | pa1-loun2 - ethnic Palaung people.
  
  ပလိုင်း | pa1-line3 - cane basket with shoulder strap.
  
  ပလပ် | pa1 lut - dismiss a legal case.
  
  ပလွှား | pa1 hlwa3 - brag; boast; praise oneself; blow one's own trumpet.
  
  ပလတ် | pa1-lut - [English] plug.
  
  ပလတ်ပေါက် | pa1-lut pout - [English] electric outlet.
  
  ပလတ်စတာ | pa1-lut-sa1-ta2 - [English] plaster; adhesive tape.
  
  ပလတ်စတစ် | pa1-lut-sa1-tit - [English] plastics.
  
  ပလတ်စတစ်လောင်း | pa1-lut-sa1-tit loun3 - laminate document, ID, etc..
  
  ပလတ်စတစ်အိတ် | pa1-lut sa1-tit ate - plastic bag.
  
  ပလုတ် | pa1-loat - mouth cavity.
  
  ပလုတ်ကျင်း | pa1-loat kjin3 - gargle; rinse the mouth.
  
  ပလုတ်ပလောင်း | pa1-loat pa1-loun3 - with mouthful (food.)
  
  ပလုတ်တုတ် | pa1-loat-toat - rattle (baby's toy.)
  
  ပလိန်းကိတ် | pa1-lain3 kate - [English] plain cake.
  
  ပလိပ်ရောဂါ | pa1-late yau3-ga2 - [English] plague (disease).
  
  ပလုံး | pa1-lone3 - small bamboo container.
  
  ပလွေ | pa1-lway2 - flute; recorder; piccolo, bigpipe.
  
  ပလွေမှုတ် | pa1-lway2 hmoat - play a flute or recorder.
  
  ပလွေမှုတ်သူ | pa1-lway2-hmoat dthu2 - flute player; flutist; piper; bigpiper.
  
  
• ပဝါ | pa1-wa2 - scarf.
  
  ပဝေဏီ | pa1-way2 ni2 - tradition; custom.
  
  ပဝေသဏီ | pa1-way2 tha1-ni2 - ancient time.
  
  ပဝတ္တိ | pa1-wut ti1 - (1) lifespan. (2) birthplace; childhood hometown.
  
  
• ပသာဒ | pa1-tha2-da1 - one of five senses.
  
  ပသာဒရုပ် | pa1-tha2-da1 yoat - sense organ.
  
  ပသိ | pa1-thi1 - tonsil.
  
  ပသျှူး | pa1-shu3 - Malay.
  
  
• ပဟေဠိ | pa1-hay2-li1 - riddle; puzzle; enigma; unsolved mystery.
  
  ပဟိုရ် | ba1-ho2 - time equivalent to 3 hours.
  
  ပဟိုရ်စည် | ba1-ho2 si2 - drum used to strike every 3 hours in the old days of Burmese Kingdoms.
  
  
• ပအိုဝ့် | pa1-o1 - ethnic Pa-o people.
  
  
• [sounds like pa1]
  
  ပုခက် | pa1-khet - cradle; hammock.
  
  ပုဆိုး | pa1-hso3 - sarong worn by Burmese male. ထဘီ | hta1-main2 is a similar garment worn by female in a different fashion. Unisex term is လုံချည် | lone2-ji2, worn in different styles according to the gender.
  
  ပုဆိုးကြမ်း | pa1-hso3 jan3 - tripe; bovine stomach lining.
  
  ပုဆစ် | pa1-hsist - knee joint.
  
  ပုဆိန် | pa1-hsain2; (pout-hsain2) - axe.
  
  ပုဆိန်ရိုး | pa1-hsain2 yo3 - traitor; betrayer; double-crosser.
  
  ပုထိုး | pa1-hto3 - stupa with entrance at the base.
  
  ပုရပိုက် | pa1-ra1-bite - ancient writing pad made of paper, cloth or metal that is folded like an accordion rather than bound like books; scroll.
  
  ပုရပိုက်စာကြည့်တိုက် | pa1-ra1-bite sa2-kji1-dite - scriptorium.
  
  ပုရစ် | pa1-yit - cricket.
  
  ပုရွက်ဆိတ် | pa1-ywet-hsate - ant.
  
  ပုလဲ | pa1-leare3 - pearl.
  
  ပုလင်း | pa1-lin3 - bottle.
  
  ပုလိပ် | pa1-late - [English] police.
  
  ပုသိမ်ထီး | pa1-thain2 hti3 - traditional Pathein bamboo umbrella.
  
  ပီလောပီနံ | pa1-lau3 pe2-nun2 - (1) cassava plant (Manihot utilissima) (2) [Malay] tapioca.
  
  ပီလောပီနံမှုန့် | pa1-lau3-pe2-nun2 hmone1 - Tapioca powder.
  
  ပတ္ထနာ | pa1-hta1-na2 - prayer.
  
  ပန္နက် | pa1-net - (1) stake to mark off ground plan. (2) beginning of an undertaking. pa1-net - establish firmly; pledge.
  
  ပန္နက်ချ | pa1-net cha1
  ပန္နက်ရိုက် | pa1-net yite - drive in a stake.
  
  ပန္နက်သဲ | pa1-net theare3 - the beginning of an undertaking.
  
  ပလ္လင် | pa1-lin2 - throne; alter.
  
  ပလ္လင်ခံ | pa1-lin2 khan2 - make a formal introductory talk.
  
  ပလ္လင်ဆေးမိုး | pa1-lin2 hsay3 mo3 - heavy rain after the end of usual rainy season.
  
  ပလ္လင်ဆင်းငွေချေ | pa1-lin2 hsin3 ngway2 chay2 - (1) fee payment immediately after the sermon. (2) cash on delivery.
  
  
• ပါ့ | pa1 - word used as an emphasis as in ဟုတ်ပါ့ | hote pa1 - yes, indeed.