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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• 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).
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• ဗား | ba3 - valve.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• ဗျား | bya3; bya3
  
  (1) colloquial (male) answer to the call.
  
  (2) colloquial ending word (male) for positive statements.
  
  ဟုတ်ပါံ့ဗျား | hote pa1 bya3 - absolutely!
  
  
• [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:
  
  
  1. မေတ္တာ | myit-ta2 - loving-kindness.
  2. ကရုဏာ | ga1-yu2-na2 - compassion.
  3. မုဒိတာ | mu1-de1-ta2 - empathy.
  4. ဥပက္ခာ | u1-pyit-kha2 - equanimity.
     
     
  ဗြဟ္မာ | bya1-ma2 - Brahma (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मा), creator god in Hinduism.
  
  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.]
  
  
• ဗြာ | bya2
  
  ဗြာမ | bya2 ma1 - gray color cow or hen.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• [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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.