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Myanmar English Dictionary
Vowel 'A'
ဗ ဗာ ဗား ဗျ ဗျာ ဗျား sounds like ဗြ ဗြာ ဗြား ဘ sounds like ဘ ဘာ ဘား ဘွား Back to Dictionary Main Menu-
ဗ | ba1
- the twenty third character ဗထက်ခြိုက် | ba1 det chite.
ဗမာ | ba1-ma2 - ethnic Burmese in Myanmar.
ဗယာကြော် | ba1-ya2 jau2 - yellow split pea fritter.
ဗယောက်ဗယက် | ba1-yout ba1-yet - restlessly in a state of confusion.
ဗရ | ba1-ra1 - prefix used as intensifier or to transform some verbs and adjectives into adverbs.
ဗရချာ | ba1-ra1-cha2 - showing lousy quality, condition or appearance.
ဗရပျစ် | ba1-ra1-byit - disorderly piled up in ample amount.
ဗရပွေ | ba1-ra1-bway2 - messily jumbled up.
ဗရပြွတ် | ba1-ra1-byoot - swarming with; teeming with; abundantly together.
ဗရုတ် | ba1-yoat - mischievous prankster.
ဗရုတ်ကျ | ba1-yoat kja1 - do practical jokes for fun.
ဗရုတ်သုတ်ခ | ba1-yoat thoat-kha1 - in a state of chaos and confusion.
ဗရုန်းဗရင်း | ba1-yone3 ba1-yin3
ဗရုန်းသုန်းကား | ba1-yone3 thone3-ga3 - rowdily; in commotion
ဗလ | ba1-la1 - strength.
ဗလကြီး | ba1-la1 ji3 - hulk.
ဗလငါးတန် | ba1-la1 nga3 dun2 - the five noble strength.
ဗလာ | ba1-la2 - empty; void. ba1-la2 - plain.
ဗလာစာအုပ် | ba1-la2 sa2-oat - notebook.
ဗလာဆိုင်း | ba1-la2 hsine3 - musical rendition with instruments only (no vocal).
ဗလာပွဲ | ba1-la2 bweare3 - show with free entrance fee.
ဗလာမဲ | ba1-la2 meare3 - lucky draw ticket with blank prize.
ဗလက္ကာရ | ba1-let ka2-ya1 - molestation.
ဗလက္ကာရပြုလုပ် | ba1-let ka2-ya1 pyu1 loat - molest.
ဗလီ | ba1-li2 - (1) mosque. (2) polo. (3) squash.
ဗလီရိုက် | ba1-li2 yite- play polo; play squash.
ဗလောင်ဆူ | ba1-loun2 hsu2 - (1) be extremely noisy. (2) be extremely distressed.
ဗလောင်ဆန် | ba1-loun2 hsun2 - disarray.
ဗလောင်းဗလဲ | ba1-loun3 ba1-leare3 - inconsistently (talk).
ဗလစ်ဗလစ် | ba1-lit ba1-lit - pretentiously (talk).
ဗလုံ | ba1-lone2 - bubble; foam.
ဗလုံးဗထွေး | ba1-lone3 ba1-htway3 - incoherently (talk)
ဗဝန်း | ba1-wun3 - bamboo fish trap at the shore where fish are trapped as the tide recedes.
ဗဟုဂံ | ba1-hu1-gun2 - [Math] polygon, a closed plane bounded by three sides or more.
ဗဟုဝုစ် | ba1-hu1-woat - [grammar] plurals.
ဗဟုသုတ | ba1-hu1 thu1-ta1 - general knowledge.
ဗဟို | ba1-ho2 - center. ba1-ho2 - central.
ဗဟိုစာရင်းအင်းအဖွဲ့ | ba1-ho2 sa1-yin3 in3 a-pfweare1 - Central Statistical Organization.
ဗဟိုစက်ပစ္စည်း စာရင်းအင်းနှင့် စစ်ဆေးရေးဦးစီးဌာန | ba1-ho2 set-pyit-si3 sa1-yin3-in3 hnin1 sit-hsay3-yay3 u3-zi3 hta2-na1 - Central Equipment Statistics and Inspection Department.
ဗဟိုဇီဝဆေးပညာစာကြည့်တိုက် | ba1-ho2 zi2-wa1 hsay3-pyin2-nya2 sa2-kji1-dite - Central Biomedical Library.
ဗဟိုချက် | ba1-ho2 jet - epicenter (earthquake).
ဗဟိုချုပ်ကိုင်မှုလျှော့ချခြင်း | ba1-ho2 choat-kine2-hmu1 shau1-cha1 jin3 - decentralization.
ဗဟိုပို့ဆောင်ဆက်သွယ်ရေးကျောင်း | ba1-ho2 po1-hsoun2 hset-thweare2-yay3 kjoun3 - Central Institute of Transport and Communications.
ဗဟိုဘဏ် | ba1-ho2 bun2 - central bank.
ဗဟိုအစိုးရ | ba1-ho2 a-so3-ya1 - central government; federal government.
ဗဟိုအာဏာလျှော့ခြင်း | ba1-ho2 ah2-na2 shau1 jin3 - decentralization.
ဗဟို အာဖရိက ပြည်ထောင်စု | ba1-ho2 ah2-pfa1-ri1-ka1 pyi2 doun2 zu1 - Central African Republic, a landlocked country in central Africa.
ဗဟိဒ္ဓ | ba1-hate-da1 - [Pali] external.
ဗဟန်း | ba1-hun3 - pyrite (mineral containing iron).
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ဗာ | ba2
ဗာတီကန်မြို့တော် | ba2-ti2-kun2 myo1-dau2 - Vatican City.
ဗာဒံသီး | ba2-dun2 dthi3
ဗာဒံစေ့ | ba2-dun2 si1 - Indian almond seed.
ဗာရာဏသီ | ba2 ya2 na1-thi2 - Varanasi (Benares; Banaras).
ဗာရာဏသီချဲ့ | ba2 ya2 na1-thi2 cheare1 - exaggerate.
ဗာလချောင် | ba2-la1-choun2 - [Malay] balachan; dried shrmip paste fried with garlic and onion.
ဗာဟီရကိစ္စ | ba2-he2-ya1 kate-sa1 - odd jobs.
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ဗား | ba3
- valve.
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ဗျ | bya1
- colloquial ending word (male) as in ဟုတ်တယ်ဗျ | hote deare2 bya1 - Yes, true!
ဗျသနတရားငါးပါး | bya1-tha1-na1 ta1-ya3 nga3 ba3 - [Buddhism] the five kinds of loss and decay: family, wealth, health, morality and precepts.
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ဗျာ | bya2
(1) colloquial (male) answer to the call.
(2) interjection (male) to express shock.
ဗျာကရိုဏ်းကျမ်း | bya2-ka1-rine3 kjan3 - grammar book.
ဗျာဒိတ် | bya2-date - prophecy.
ဗျာပါဒ | bya2-ba2-da1 - [Pali] ill will.
ဗျာများ | bya2 mya3 - become restless due to anxiety.
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ဗျား | bya3; bya3
(1) colloquial (male) answer to the call.
(2) colloquial ending word (male) for positive statements.
ဟုတ်ပါံ့ဗျား | hote pa1 bya3 - absolutely!
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[sounds like ဗြ | bya1]
ဗြဟ္မစရိယ | bya1-ma1 sa1-ri1-ya1 - abstinence from sexual intercourse; celibacy.
ဗြဟ္မစိုရ်တရား | bya1-ma1-zo2 ta1-ya3
ဗြဟ္မဝိဟာရတရားလေးပါး | bya1-ma1 we1-ha2-ra1 ta1-ya3 lay3 ba3 - [Buddhism] the four virtues:
- မေတ္တာ | myit-ta2 - loving-kindness.
- ကရုဏာ | ga1-yu2-na2 - compassion.
- မုဒိတာ | mu1-de1-ta2 - empathy.
- ဥပက္ခာ | u1-pyit-kha2 - equanimity.
ဗြာဟ္မဏ | bya1-ma1-na1 - Brahmin ब्राह्मण - an upper class (caste) ပုဏ္ဏား | pone2-na3 in Hinduism specializing as priests, fortune-tellers and teachers.
[Aslo see 'sounds like ဘ | ba1.]
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ဗြာ | bya2
ဗြာမ | bya2 ma1 - gray color cow or hen.
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ဗြား | bya3
ဗြားစီး | bya3 si3 - (1) scatter all over. (2) talk without focus and in desultory manner; in a jumpy manner from one subject to another.
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ဘ | ba1; ba1
(1) the twenty fourth character ဘကုန်း | ba1 gome3.
(2) father.
(3) prefix for father's elder brother or a man's name.
(4) part of male Burmese names as in ဘမော် | ba1 mau2 - Ba Maw.
ဘကြီး | ba1 ji3- elder brother of parent.
ဘဂန္ဒိုလ်နာ | ba1-gun2-doe2 na2 - hemorrhoid.
ဘဇူကာ | ba1-zu2-ka2 - bazooka, a portable rocket launcher.
ဘတစ်ပြန်ကျားတစ်ပြန် | ba1 da1-byan2 kja3 da1-byan2 - alternately winning and losing.
ဘထွေး | ba1 dway3 - younger brother of father.
ဘနန်း | ba1-nun3 - nearly; almost.
ဘဘကြီး | ba1 ba1 ji3 - polite term to adress an elderly man older than one's own father.
ဘယာ | ba1-ya2 - (1) danger. (2) fear.
ဘယာနကရသ | ba1-ya2 na1-ka1 ya1 tha1 - literature that evokes the feeling of fear.
ဘယက် | ba1-yet - necklace.
ဘရဏီ | ba1-ra1-ni2 - constellation Aries.
ဘရာစီယာ | ba1-ra2-zi2-ya2 - [English] brassiere; bra.
ဘရာဇီး | ba1-ra2 zi3 - Brazil.
ဘရူနိုင်း | ba1-ru2 nine3 - Brunei.
ဘရင်ဂျီ | ba1-yin2 ji2 - Roman Catholic.
ဘရိတ် | ba1-rate - [English] brake.
ဘရိတ်အုပ် | ba1-rate oat - apply brakes.
ဘရန်ဒီ | ba1-run2-de2 - [English] Brandy.
ဘလိဇ် | ba1-li1 (z) - Belize, a country on the northeastern coast of Central America.
ဘလောက် | ba1-lout - [English] (1) printing block. (2) blouse.
ဘဝ | ba1-wa1- life with experiences and encounters.
ဘဝတူ | ba1-wa1 du2 - someone going through the same hardship in life.
ဘဝဖြစ်စဉ် | ba1-wa1 pfyit sin2 - life story.
ဘဝမေ့ | ba1-wa1 may1 - act arrogant for present success and forgotten how one was poor in the past.
ဘဝသစ် | ba1-wa1 thit - new life.
ဘဝဟောင်း | ba1-wa1 houn3 - the past.
ဘဝဲ | ba1-weare3 - octopus.
ဘဝဂ် | ba1-wet - [Pali] highest form of existence; zenith; apex.
ဘဝင် | ba1-win2 - subconscious mind.
ဘဝင်မြင့်ခြင်း | ba1-win2-myin1 jin3- [literary] conceit.
ဘဟားမား | ba1-ha3 ma3 - Bahamas.
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[sounds like ba1]
ပိတောက် | ba1-dout - Padauk tree (pterocarpus macrocarpus).
ပိတုန်း | ba1-dome3 - bumble bee; carpenter bee.
ပုစဉ်း | ba1-zin3 - dragonfly.
ပုစဉ်းထိုး | ba1-zin3 doe3 - green bee-eater (merops orientalis).
ပုစဉ်းရင်ကွဲ | ba1-zin3 yin2-gweare3 - cicada.
ပုစွန် | ba1-zoon2- general term for prawn, shrimp, crab, lobster.
ပုစွန်ကြော် | ba1-zoon2 jau2- fried prawns.
ပုစွန်ချဉ် | ba1-zoon2 jin2 - pickled shrimps.
ပုစွန်ခြောက် | ba1-zoon2 jout- dried shrimp.
ပုစွန်ဆီ | ba1-zoon2 zi2 - yellowish fat extracted from shrimps and prawns.
ပုစွန်ဆိတ် | ba1-zoon2 zate - small shrimps
ပုစွန်တာရာ | ba1-zoon2 ta2-ya2 - constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear).
ပုစွန်တုပ် | ba1-zoon2 doat - large prawn; lobster.
ပုစွန်တုပ်ဟင်း | ba1-zoon2-doat hin3- [cuisine] chili lobster.
ပုစွန်လုံး | ba1-zoon2 lone3 - land crab.
ပုစွန်ဟင်း | ba1-zoon2 hin3- [cuisine] Burmese curry prawn dish.
ပုတီး | ba1-de3 - (1) pearl necklace. (2) string of beads.
ပုတီးစိပ် | ba1-de3 sate - a type of serenity meditation practice where the mind is focused on counting the beads in a string.
ပဲခူးဆား | ba1-go3 hsa3 - salt manufactured from brine.
ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး | ba1-go3 tine3 day2-tha1-ji3 - Bago Region.
ပဲခူးမြို့ | ba1-go3 myo1 - Bago town.
ပဉ္စင်း | ba1-zin3 - fully ordained Buddhist monk.
ပဉ္စင်းခံ | ba1-zin3 khan2
ပဉ္စင်းတက် | ba1-zin3 tet - receive ordination as a Buddhist monk.
ပတ္တမြား | ba1-da1-mya3 - ruby.
Also see ပ - pa1.
Also see ပါး - pa3.
Also see ပျား - pya3.
Also see ပြ - pya1.
ဗြာဟ္မီအက္ခရာ | ba1-run2-mi2 et-kha1-ya2 - Brahmi Script.
ဘီလူး | ba1-lu3 - ogre; giant.
ဘီလူးမ | ba1-lu3 ma1 - ogress; giantess.
ဘီလူးဂမုန်း | ba1-lu3 ga1-mone3 - orchid (paphiopedilum parishii).
ဘီလူးစီး | ba1-lu3 si3 - have a nightmare.
ဘုရင် | ba1-yin2 - king.
ဘုရင်ခံ | ba1-yin2 gun2 - governor.
ဘုရင်ခံချုပ် | ba1-yin2-gun2 joat - governor general.
ဘုရင်မ | ba1-yin2 ma1 - queen.
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ဘာ | ba2; ba2
- The first word in questions "what" and "why".
ဒါဘာလဲ | da2 ba2 leare3 - What is this?
ဒါဘာဟင်းလဲ | da2 ba2 hin3 leare3 - What dish is this?
ဘာမဆို | ba2 ma1-hso2 - anything; whatever.
ဘာလိုလိုနဲ့ | ba2 lo2-lo2 neare1 - seemingly (reference to the time that passes-by so quickly.)
ဘာလိုလိုနဲ့ (၁၅)နှစ်တောင်ရှိသွားပါလား | ba2 lo2-lo2 neare1 hseare1 nga3 hnit doun2 shi1 thwa3 ba2 la3 - It seems like yesterday, but it has been 15 years already!
ဘာကီးနားဖားဆို | ba2-ki3-na3 pfa3-hso2 - Burkina Faso, a country in western Africa.
ဘာဂျာ | ba2-ja2 - harmonica.
ဘာဂျာတံခါး | ba2-ja2 da1-ga3 - accordion door.
ဘာဘူ | ba2-bu2
ဘာဘူကြီး | ba2-bu2 ji3 - [Hindi] term of address to an elder Indian gentleman.
ဘာဘူစောင် | ba2-bu2 soun2 - coarse cotton blanket.
ဘာဘေးဒိုးစ် | ba2-bay3-doe3 (s) - Barbados, an island country in the easternmost of the West Indies.
ဘာရိန်း | ba2-rain3 - Bahrain, an island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia.
ဘာလီ | ba2-li2 - (1) [English] Barley. (2) Bali, an island in Indonesia to the east of Java.
ဘာဝ | ba2-wa1 - [Pali] (1) nature. (2) genitals.
ဘာဝရုပ် | ba2-wa1 yoat - physical features (of male/female.)
ဘာဝနာ | ba2-wa1-na2 - [Pali] bhavana, cultivating of the mind (meditation).
ဘာဝနာပွား | ba2-wa1-na2 pwa3 - practice bhavana meditation.
ဘာသာ | ba2-dtha2 - language; religion; subject of study in school such as Science. ba2 dtha2 - (do something) autonomously; by itself, himself, myself.
ဘာသာစကား | ba2-dtha2 za1-ga3 - spoken language.
ဘာသာတရား | ba2-dtha2 ta1-ya3 - religion.
ဘာသာဓလေ့ဆန့်ကျင်ဝါဒ | ba2-dtha2 da1-lay1 hsun1-kjin2 wa2-da1 - heresy; unorthodoxy.
ဘာသာပြန် | ba2-dtha2 byan2 - translation. ba2-dtha2-pyan2 - translate.
ဘာသာပြန်သူ | ba2-dtha2-pyan2 dthu2- translator.
ဘာသာဗေဒ | ba2-dtha2 bay2-da1 - linguistics.
ဘာသာဗေဒပညာရှင် | ba2-dtha2 bay2-da1 pyin2-nya2-shin2- linguist.
ဘာသာရေး | ba2-dtha2-yay3 - religion.
ဘာသာရေးစော်ကားမှု | ba2-dtha2-yay3 sau2-ga3 hmu1 - blasphemy.
ဘာသာရေးကိုင်းရှိုင်းသော | ba2-dtha2-yay3 kine3-shine3 dthau3 - religious; pious; devout.
ဘာသာရေးဆိုင်ရာ | ba2-dtha2-yay3 hsine2 ya2 - religious; concerned with sacred matters.
ဘာသာရေးမနွယ်သောဝါဒ | ba2-dtha2-yay3 ma1-nweare2-dthau3 wa2-da1 - secularism.
ဘာသန္တရ | ba2-thun2-da1-ra1 - [Pali] foreign language.
ဘာသိဘာသာ | ba2-thi1 ba2-dtha2 - indifferently by oneself and not pay attention to others.
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ဘား | ba3
(1) [English] a horizontal bar used by gymnasts or a similar metal bar as in ဘားတန်း | ba3-dun3.
(2) gymnastics as in ကျွမ်းဘား | joon3-ba3.
(3) [English] bar; establishment where alcohol is served.
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ဘွား | bwa3
- grandmother as in ဘိုးဘွား | bo3 bwa3 - ancestors. Also commonly pronounced as pfwa3
in အဘွား | a-pfwa3 - grandmother.
ဘွားခနဲ (ပေါ်လာ) | bwa3 ga1-neare3 (pau2 la2) - suddenly (appears).
ဘွားဘွားပေါ် | bwa3-bwa3 pau2 - what was hidden becomes obvious; secret to be exposed.