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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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  များများ | mya3-mya3
  များများစားစား | mya3-mya3 sa3-za3 - a lot; in large quantity.
  
  များရာဆန္ဒမဲ | mya3 ya2 hsun2-da1 meare3 - majority of the votes.
  
  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).
  
  
• 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.
  
  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.
  
  မှားယွင်း | hma3-ywin3 - err; be incorrect.
  
  မှားယွင်းစွာ | hma3-ywin3 zwa2 - erroneously; mistakenly.
  
  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.