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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• မာ | ma2
  
  (1) hard and solid; tough.
  
  (2) free from sickness; healthy as in ကျန်းမာ | kjan3-ma2 - feeling well; be healthy.
  
  မာကရိုနီ | ma2-ka1-ro2-ni2 - [Italian] macaroni, pasta in the shape of tubes.
  
  မာကျော | ma2-kjau3 - rigid; stiff (material); stern (facial expression), harsh (speech).
  
  မာကျောကျော | ma2 kjau3-jau3 - stubborn. ma2 kjau3-jau3 - arrogantly.
  
  မာကျူရီမီး | ma2-kyu2-ri2 mi3 - Mercury vapor street lamp.
  
  မာကျောက် | ma2-kjout - Chinese mahjong game.
  
  မာဃ | ma2-ga1 - (1) the four brightest stars of constellation Leo (♌). (2) Indra, a deity in Hinduism ; Sakka (Sakra), a guardian deity king in Buddhism.
  
  မာဏဝ | ma2-na1-wa1 - [Pali] young man.
  
  မာဏဝီ | ma2-na1-we2 - [Pali] young lady.
  
  မာတိကာ | ma2-ti1-ka2 - table of contents.
  
  မာတုဂါမ | ma2-tu1 ga2-ma1 - Buddhist monk's term for women.
  
  မာတောင့်စေသည် | ma2-toun1 zay2 dthi2 - stiffen.
  
  မာတောင့်နေခြင်း | ma2-toun1 nay2 jin3 - stiffness.
  
  မာတောင့်နေသော | ma2-toun1 nay2-dthau3 - stiff; rigid; potent; strong.
  
  မာတောင့်အေးစက်နေသော | ma2-toun1 ay3-set nay2-dthau3 - stone-cold.
  
  မာတင် | ma2-tin2 - strong bull elephant.
  
  မာန | ma2-na1 - pride.
  
  မာနကြီး | ma2-na1 kji3 - be haughty; be arrogant.
  
  မာန၊ ကြွားဝါခြင်းမရှိသော | ma2-na1 kjwa3-wa2-jin3 ma1-shi1 dthau3 - humble.
  
  မာဖလာ | ma2-pfa1-la2 - [English] muffler, a wrap or scarf worn around the neck for warmth. (not an exhaust pipe used to deaden the sound of automobiles.)
  
  မာယာ | ma2-ya2 - enchanting deception.
  
  မာယာများသော မိန်းမချော | ma2-ya2 mya3 dthau3 main3-ma1-chau3 - temptress; enchantress; siren; femme fatale; Delilah (mistress of Samson in the Old Testament who betrayed him.)
  
  မာရသွန် | ma2-ra1-thoon2 - Marathon, a long-distance walking race of 42.195 kilometers (26.219 miles).
  
  မာလကာ | ma2-la1-ka2 - guava.
  
  မာလကာသီး | ma2-la1-ka2 dthi3 - guava fruit.
  
  မာလာ | ma2-la2 - (1) [Pali] flower; garland. (2) female Burmese name.
  
  မာလာဖူး | ma2-la2 bu3 - a type of aromatic ginger-like vegetable (hitchenia glauca) endemic to Myanmar.
  
  မာလီ | ma2-li2 - (1) [Pali] gardener. (2) Mali, a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
  
  မာလိန် | ma2-lain2 - ship captain.
  
  မာသ | ma2 tha1 - [Pali] month.
  
  
• မာ့ | ma1
  
  Possessive form of names with မာ | ma2 ending. E.g., မြန်မာ့စီးပွားရေးဘဏ် | myan2-ma1 si3-bwa3-yay3 bun2 - Myanmma Economic Bank.
  
  မာ့စ်ဝါဒ | ma1 (s) wa2-da1 - Marxism, the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
  
  မာ့စ်ဝါဒလမ်းလွဲသူ | ma1 (s) wa2-da1 lun3 lweare3 dthu2 - revisionist.
  
  မာ့စ်ဝါဒီ | ma1 (s) wa2-de2 - Marxist.
  
  
• မား | ma3 - particle suffix to denote high magnitude.
  
  ကြီးမား | kji3-ma3 - huge.
  
  မားမား | ma3-ma3 - with imposing or soaring height.
  
  မားမားမတ်မတ် | ma3-ma3 mut-mut - (1) firmly. (2) in great height.
  
  မားမားရပ် | ma3-ma3 yut - stand by someone in times of trouble.
  
  
• များ | mya3; mya3; mya3
  
  (1) be many; plenty; many; rife (too many of unpleasant things); fairly large, substantial (amount).
  
  ဘေးရန်များတယ် | bay3-yan2 mya3 deare2 - It's too dangerous.
  
  (2) plural marker in literary form.
  
  ဘေးရန်များ | bay3-yan2 mya3 - dangers.
  
  (3) suffix particle to belittle or to poke fun.
  
  ဒါလေးများ | da2 lay3 mya3 - big deal; you are making a big deal.
  
  များပြား | mya3-pya3 - be abundant.
  
  များပြားလှသော | mya3-pya3 hla1 dthau3 - myriad; countless; innumerous; numerous; many; vast.
  
  များများ | mya3-mya3
  များများစားစား | mya3-mya3 sa3-za3 - a lot; in large quantity.
  
  များရာဆန္ဒမဲ | mya3 ya2 hsun2-da1 meare3 - majority of the votes.
  
  များလာသည် | mya3 la2 dthi2 - increase; accrue; accumulate; grow; snowball; swell.
  
  များသောအားဖြင့် | mya3-dthau3 ah3-pfyin1 - generally speaking; usually.
  
  
• မြ | mya1; mya1
  
  (1) emerald, a translucent green colored precious gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl.
  
  (2) used as particle suffix and intensifier for pleasant sensations.
  
  အေးမြသော | ay3-mya1 dthau3 - quiet, peaceful, and serene.
  
  (3) part of both male and female Burmese names as in မြနန္ဒာ | mya1 nun2-da2 - Mya Nunda (female).
  
  မြကန် | mya1 kun2 - Mya Kan, an artificial lake and တစ်ဖက်ဆည်ကန် | ta1-pfet hseare2 kun2 - a reservoir formed by damming up one side of the rivine at the base of ပိုက်လှမ်းတောင် - 'Pike Hlun' mountain located at the south east of Bagan. It was built by King ကျန်စစ်သား | kjan2-sit-tha3 - Kyansittha of Pagan dynasty, and originally called မဟာနိဗ္ဗာန လက်ဆွဲချီရေ, also known as အမရကန် | a-ma1-ra1 kun2 - 'deathless' or 'forever' lake.
  
  မြစေတီ | mya1 zay2-de2 - emerald stupa.
  
  မြစေတီ ကျောက်စာ | mya1 zay2-de2 kjout-sa2 - Myazedi inscription; Myazedi pillar script; Yazakumar Inscription; Gubyaukgyi Inscription inscribed in 1113 in Burmese, Pyu, Mon, and Pali. It is the oldest surviving stone inscription of the Burmese script. Myazedi Quadrilingual stone Inscription is recognized as Memory of the World Register by UNESCO in 2014.
  
  
• မြား | hmya3 - arrow. (spelled as mya3.)
  
  မြားကျည်တောက် | hyma3 kji2-dout - quiver (case for holding arrows).
  
  မြားဆိပ် | hmya3 zate - poison from "Poison Arrow Tree" antiaris toxicaria.
  
  မြားပြ | hmya3 pya1 - show direction with arrow sign.
  
  မြားဦးလှည့် | hmya3 u3 hleare1 - head in a certain direction.
  
  
• မွ | mwa1; mwa1
  
  (1) be puffy like a curry puff; puffy.
  
  (2) be loose such as loose soil for cultivation.
  
  (3) break or be shattered into pieces as in ကြေမွ | kjay2 mwa1
  
  
• မှ | hma1; hma1; hma1
  
  (1) from.
  
  ရန်ကုန်မှလာသောကား | yan2-gome2 hma1 la2 dthau3 ka3 - the vehicle that came from Yangon.
  
  (2) particle to show the decision to do something.
  
  သွားမှပဲ | thwa3 hma1 beare3 - I'd better go.
  
  (3) particle between double nouns or adjectives for emphasis.
  
  ကောင်းမှကောင်း | koun3 hma1 koun3 - It's so good!
  
  (4) conjunction "only if".
  
  သူလာမှကောင်းမယ် | thu2 la2 hma1 koun3 meare2 - Only if he comes, everything will be OK.
  
  (5) conjunction "unless" in combination with negative particle မ | ma1.
  
  သူမလာမှကောင်းမယ် | thu2 ma1-la2 hma1 koun3 meare2 - Unless he comes, everything will be OK. Only if he doesn't come, everything will be OK.
  
  မှတစ်ဆင့် | hma1 ta1-hsin1 - (1) through; via a place en route to an another place. (2) care of; through someone for delivery of something.
  
  မှတစ်ပါး | hma1 da1-ba3 - except (for someone).
  
  
• မှာ | hma2; hma2
  
  (1) postpositional marker equivalent to preposition 'at', 'on', 'in' used as location indicator.
  
  ဒီမှာ | de2 hma2 - here.
  
  (2) order something.
  
  မှာပြီးပြီလား | hma2 pyi3 byi2 la3 - have you made your order?
  
  (3) leave word, message or reminder.
  
  ဘာမှာသွားလဲ | ba2 hma2 thwa3 leare3 - Did he leave any word?
  
  မှာကြား | hma2-kja3 - order; prescribe.
  
  မှာကြားချက် | hma2-kja3 jet - message; prescription; direction.
  
  
• မှား | hma3; hma3
  
  (1) wrong; incorrect.
  
  (2) make a mistake; err.
  
  မှားနိုင်စရာမရှိ‌သော | hma3 nine2 za1-ya2 ma1-shi1 dthau3 - unmistakable; unquestionable.
  
  မှားယွင်း | hma3-ywin3 - err; be incorrect.
  
  မှားယွင်းစွာ | hma3-ywin3 zwa2 - erroneously; mistakenly; wrongly.
  
  မှားယွင်းသော | hma3-ywin3 dthau3 - incorrect; wrong.
  
  
• မျှ | hmya1; hmya1
  
  (1) share; give out as in မျှဝေ | hmya1 way2.
  
  (2) approximate number (literary).
  
  ငါးယောက်မျှသာသွားသည် | nga3-yout hmya1 dtha2 thwa3 dthi2 - only about five people went there.
  
  (3) negative imperative (literary).
  
  မည်သူမျှမဝင်ရ | myi2 dthu2 hmya1 ma1-win2 ya1 - No entry by anyone. No person allowed.
  
  မျှတ | hmya1-ta1 - be fair; be just.
  
  မျှမျှတတ | hmya1-mya1 ta1 da1 - fairly; justly.
  
  
• မျှား | hmya3 - angling, a fishing technique using angle (fish hook), bait and fishing rod.
  
  
• မွှား | hmwa3
  
  (1) tick (a parasite).
  
  (2) small, insignificant matter as in အသေးအမွှား | a-thay3 a-hmwa3.
  
  
• မြွှာ | hmwa2; hmwa2; hmwa2
  
  (1) segment of some fruits such as durians and oranges; twins as in အမြွှာ | a-hmwa2.
  
  (2) break into segments.
  
  (3) numerical classifier (measure word) for cloves of garlic or segments of fruit such as durians and oranges.
  
  ဒူးရင်းသီး တစ်မြွှာ | du3-yin3-dthi3 ta1-hmwa2 - a segment of durian which may contain two or more seeds.