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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• ကျ | kja1; kja1
  
  (1) fall down; drop.
  
  မျက်ရည်ကျ | myet-yay2 kja1 - shed tears.
  
  သွားရည်ကျ | tha1-yay2 kja1 - salivate; drool; be craving with desire.
  
  သူသစ်ပင်ပေါ်ကပြုတ်ကျတယ် | thu2 thit-pin2 pau2 ga1 pyoat-kja1 deare2 - He fell down from the tree.
  
  (2) fall; decrease; reduce.
  
  ဈေးကျ | zay3 kja1 - price to drop; price to fall.
  
  ပေါင်ချိန်ကျ | poun2-jain2 kja1
  အဆီကျ | a-hsi2 kja1 - slim down; lose weight; shed a few pounds.
  
  အနည်ကျ | a-neare2 kja1 - sediment to settle down at the bottom.
  
  အဖျားကျ | a-pfya3 kja1 - fever to go down.
  
  (3) fail.
  
  မောင်ဘစာမေးပွဲကျပြန်ပြီ | moun2-ba1 sa2-may3-bweare3 kja1 pyan2 byi2 - Maung Ba failed the exams again.
  
  (4) cost; be priced at.
  
  ဘယ်လောက်ကျမလဲ | beare2-lout kja1 ma1-leare3 - how much will the service cost?
  
  (5) die in battle.
  
  (6) be in certain positive condition or desirable state of mind as in
  
  စိတ်တိုင်းကျ | sate-tine3 kja1 - be in line with one's wishes.
  
  ဇိမ်ကျ | zain kja1 - be in the state of enjoyment.
  
  သဘောကျ | dtha1-bau3 kja1 - be highly appreciative of the beauty or something desirable.
  
  ဟန်ကျ | hun2 kja1 - situation to turn out as desired; be in luck.
  
  (7) arrival of certain season or time.
  
  သင်္ကြန်ကျပြီ | dtha1-jan2 kja1 byi2 - New Year Water Festival has arrived.
  
  (8) just like; as if; as though.
  
  ဘုရင်ကျနေတာပဲ | ba1-yin2 kja1 nay2 da2 beare3 - He is acting just like a king.
  
  (9) suffix "each" after numbers or numerical classifiers.
  
  တယောက်နှစ်​ထောင်ကျပေးပါ | ta1-yout hna1-htoun2 kja1 pay3 ba2 - Please pay two thousand each.
  
  ကျကျနန | kja1 ja1 na1 na1 - properly; to one's heart desire.
  
  ကျခံ | kja1 khan2 - (1) bear expenses. (2) be sentenced to time in jail.
  
  ကျစွာ | kja1 zwa2 - (1) Kyaswa (1198–1251), son of ထီးလိုမင်းလို | hti3-lo2 min3-lo2 - Htilominlo, and the 9^th king of Pagan from 1211 to 1235. (2) Kyaswa of Sagaing (1323–1349) also known as ကျော်စွာ | kjau2 zwa2 - the 4^th king of Sagaing from 1339 to 1349.
  
  ကျဆုံး | kja1 hsone3 - be killed in battle.
  
  ကျဆင်း | kja1 hsin3 - (1) decline. (2) flow down; fall.
  
  ကျဆင်းမှု | kja1-hsin3 hmu1 - a decline; slippage (in performance; output.)
  
  ကျန | kja1 na1 - (1) be exact. (2) be properly done.
  
  ကျနေ | kja1 nay2 - afternoon sun.
  
  ကျပန်း | kja1-bun3 - impromptu.
  
  ကျပန်းလုပ် | kja1-bun3 loat - do odd jobs.
  
  ကျပျောက် | kja1 pyout - dropped something and lost.
  
  ကျဗဟုံး | kja1 ba1-hone3 - (1) infantile disease. (2) a type of shrub (flemingia chappar.)
  
  ကျရောက် | kja1 yout - season or occasion to arrive.
  
  ကျရှုံး | kja1 shone3 - fail.
  
  ကျရှုံးနိုင်ငံ | kja1 shone3 nine2-ngan2 - failed state.
  
  ကျလူ | kja1 lu2 - aging person; person on the decline.
  
  ကျသင့် | kja1 thin1 - cost.
  
  
• ကျာ | kja2
  
  ကျာပွတ် | kja2-boot
  ကျာပွတ်နှင်တံ | kja2-boot hnin2-dun2 - whip.
  
  ကျာပွတ်နှင့်ရိုက် | kja2-boot hnin1 yite - whip; lash; wale.
  
  ကျာပွတ်ရာ | kja2-boot-ya2 - injury mark on the skin produced by blow of a whip; wale; weal; welt; wheal. (Also အရှိုး | a-sho3).
  
  
• ကျား | kja3; kja3; kja3
  
  (1) tiger. 🐅
  
  (2) [US] checkers game; [UK] draughts.
  
  (3) buttress; support in building structure.
  
  (4) abbreviation for Men as in Men's room; gent.
  
  (5) motley; multi-colored; having patches with different colors or stripes with alternate colors as in ကြောင်ကြောင်ကျားကျား | kjoun2-joun2 kja3-ja3.
  
  ကျားကန် | kja3 kun2 - prop up; buttress; make structural reinforcement.
  
  ကျားကျားလျားလျား | kja3-kja3 ya3-ya3 - manly.
  
  ကျားကျုတ် | kja3-joat - leopard cat (Felis bengalensis.)
  
  ကျားကြီးဆည် | kja3-ji3 hseare2 - large fishing screen.
  
  ကျားဂမုန်း | kja3 ga1-mone3 - slipper orchid (Paphiopedilum bellatulum.)
  
  ကျားထိုး | kja3 hto3 - play checkers.
  
  ကျားနနွင်း | kja3 na1-nwin3 - wild turmeric; yellow zedoary (Curcuma aromatica.)
  
  ကျားနာ | kja3 na2 - insulted or beaten person who is out for revenge.
  
  ကျားပါးစပ် | kja3 ba1-zut - conical fish net.
  
  ကျားပိန်တွယ် | kja1-bain2 dweare2 - doggedly.
  
  ကျားဖောင် | kja3 pfoun2 - offshore fishery using bamboo raft.
  
  ကျားမ | kja3 ma1 - tigress.
  
  ကျား၊ မ | kja3 ma1 - abbreviation for male-female; gender; sexual.
  
  ကျား၊ မ ကွာဟမှု | kja3 ma1 kwa2 ha1 hmu1 - gender imbalance; skewed sex ratio; gender gap with inequalities between the number of male and female in the population.
  
  ကျား၊ မ ခွဲခြားမှု | kja3 ma1 khweare3-cha3 hmu1 - sexual prejudice or bias; sex discrimination.
  
  ကျား၊ မ တန်းတူညီမျှမှု | kja3 ma1 dun3-du2 nyi2-hmya1 hmu1 - gender equality.
  
  ကျားမော့ | kja1-mau1 - strut placed diagonally as roof structure of the house.
  
  ကျားမျက်လုံး | kja3 myet-lone3 - bull's eye lantern.
  
  ကျားမြီးဆွဲမိ | kja3-myi3 hsweare3 mi1 - get oneself into trouble.
  
  ကျားလက်သည်း | kja3 let-theare3 - giant clam; tridacna.
  
  ကျားလိုက်တုတ်ခုတ် | kja3-lite doat-khoat - react to a situation without preparation.
  
  ကျားလျှာ | kja3 sha2 - coarse file; rasp.
  
  ကျားသားမိုးကြိုး | kja3-dtha3 mo3-jo3 - expression of surprise.
  
  ကျားသစ် | kja1-thit - leopard. 🐆
  
  ကျားသစ်နက် | kja1-thit-net - panther; black panther; jaguar (a large black feline of South America.)
  
  
• ကြ | kja1 ja1
  
  (1) volume measurement for granary equivalent to 256 တင်း | tin3.
  
  (2) [archaic] bamboo; reed.
  
  (3) suffix after verbs to indicate plurality; reference to more than one person.
  
  နေကောင်းကြလား | nay2 koun3 ja1 la3 - How's everyone?
  
  ကြခတ် | kja1-khut - a type of bamboo with thorns (Babbusa arundinacea.)
  
  ကြငှန်း | kja1-ngan3 - (1) sunshade used in the palace. (2) [archaic] palace. (3) revered person or thing.
  
  ကြငှန်းဖို | kja1-ngan3 bo2 - post at north side of the house.
  
  ကြငှန်းမ | kja1-ngan3 ma1 - post at south side of the house.
  
  ကြစု | kja1-zu1 - a type of tree (Terminalia citrina.)
  
  ကြလို | kja1-lo2 - giant bamboo (Dendrocalamus brandisii.)
  
  ကြလှဲ | kja1-hleare3 - [archaic] whirlpool.
  
  ကြသောင်း | kja1-thoun3 - a type of bamboo (bambusa polymorpha.)
  
  
• ကြာ | kja2; kja2
  
  (1) take a long time.
  
  ကြာလိုက်တာ | kja2 lite da2 - Why is it taking so long?
  
  (2) lotus; water lily.
  
  ကြာကလပ် | kja2 ka1-lut - (1) vessel or coffin decorated with lotus petals. (2) lotus shaped design in building structure.
  
  ကြာခို | kja2 kho2 - commit adultery.
  
  ကြာခြည် | kja2 ji2 - royal bedcover.
  
  ကြာဆူး | kja2-zu3 - skin eruption.
  
  ကြာဆံ | kja2-zun2 - rice noodle; vermicelli; thin noodle made with either rice or bean.
  
  ကြာဆံကြီး | kja2-zun2 ji3 - thick rice noodle.
  
  ကြာဆံကြော် | kja2-zun2 jau2 - fried rice vermicelli.
  
  ကြာဆံဟင်းခါး | kja2-zun2 hin3-ga3 - vermicelli soup.
  
  ကြာညို | kja2 nyo2 - blue lotus.
  
  ကြာညို့ | kja2-nyo1 - soya sauce (thick).
  
  ကြာညောင်း | kja2 nyoun3 - be of a long span of time.
  
  ကြာနီ | kja2 ni2 - red lotus.
  
  ကြာနု | kja2 nu1 - lotus petals design in structure of the pagoda..
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  ကြာပေး | kja2 pay3
  ကြာပစ် | kja2 pyit - ogle; leer; make an advance with a look of desire.
  
  ကြာပြန် | kja2-byan2
  ကြာလန် | kja2-lun2 - section of pagoda resembling a spreading lotus flower.
  
  ကြာဖက်နင်း | kja2-bet nin3 - (1) the bronze-winged jacana bird. (2) pheasant-tailed jacana bird.
  
  ကြာဖြူ | kja2 byu2 - white lotus.
  
  ကြာမုံ | kja2 mone2 - [poetic] lotus bud.
  
  ကြာမြင့် | kja2 myin1 - be a long time.
  
  ကြာမှောက် | kja2 hmout - inverted lotus flower design in structure of the pagoda.
  
  ကြာယပ် | kja2 yut - rounded edge.
  
  ကြာရင့် | kja2 yin1 - lotus flower design in structure of the pagoda.
  
  ကြာရှည် | kja2 shay2 - be lengthy in time.
  
  ကြာရှည်ခံသော | kja2-shay2 khan2 dthau3 - durable; long-lasting.
  
  ကြာရှည်စေသည် | kja2-shay2 zay2 dthi2 - protract; prolong.
  
  ကြာရှည်သော | kja2-shay2 dthau3 - protracted; lengthy; prolonged; extended (time); tenable (contract that lasts for a certain period.)
  
  ကြာသင်္ကန်း | kja2 thin3-gun3 - ornamental robe woven from lotus fiber.
  
  ကြာသပတေး | kja2-dtha1-ba1-day3 - Thursday.
  
  ကြာသပတေးဂြိုဟ် | kja2-dtha1-ba1-day3 jo2 - Jupiter.
  
  ကြာသပတေးအရပ် | kja2-dtha1-ba1-day3 a-yut - west.
  
  ကြာသည့်အချိန် | kja2 dthi1 a-chain2 - duration.
  
  
• ကြား | kja3 ja3
  
  (1) hear something; be aware of sound or noise.
  
  ကြားရ | kja3 ya1 - be audible.
  
  ကြားရလား | kja3 ya1 la3 - Can you hear me?
  
  ကြားပြင်း | kja3 byin3 - hate to hear; be tired of hearing.
  
  ကြားပြင်းကတ် | kja3-byin3 kut - hate the sound of.
  
  ကြားဖူးနားဝ | kja3-bu3 na3-wa1 - something that is heard of before.
  
  ကြားသား | kja3 dtha3 - animal slaughtered within earshot.
  
  ကြားသိ | kja3 thi1 - receive information.
  
  နိုးကြားဖျတ်လတ် | no3-kja3 pfyut-lut - be vigilant; be alert; be watchful.
  
  အလန့်တကြား | a-lun1 da1-ja3 - in a way to cause someone to jump with shock and surprise; startlingly.
  
  (2) communicate; inform; report; announce; let something known to the general public (usually used as suffix word.)
  
  ကြားရောက် | kja3 yout - [obsolete] inform by letter.
  
  တိုင်ကြား | tine2 kja3 - complain.
  
  ထင်ပေါ်ကျော်ကြား | htin2-pau2 kjau2-kja3 - be famous; be well-known; be outstanding.
  
  ပန်ကြား | pan2 kja3 - ask for permission; beg; make a polite request
  
  ပြန်ကြား | pyan2 kja3 - reply to query.
  
  ဖတ်ကြား | pfut kja3 - read aloud to the audience.
  
  ဖိတ်ကြား | pfate kja3 - send an invitation.
  
  ဖြေကြား | pfyay2 kja3 - answer; reply.
  
  လူသိရှင်ကြား | lu2-dthi shin2-ja3 - publically (make known usually of private affairs.)
  
  အကြောင်းကြား | a-kjoun3 kja3 - inform; make a report.
  
  (3) instruct; direct; teach (usually by a teacher, monk, superior, someone in authority, politician or public figure.)
  
  ကြားနာဆုံးဖြတ် | kja3 na2 hsone3-pfyut - conduct a hearing to make a legal decision.
  
  ကြားနာမှု | kja3 na1 hmu1 - oral proceedings; court hearing.
  
  ညွှန်ကြား | hnyoon2 kja3 - direct; supervise.
  
  ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး | hnyoon2-kja3-yay3 hmu3 - director.
  
  ပြောကြား | pyau3 kja3 - make a speech; speak; instruct.
  
  မိန့်ကြား | main1 kja3 - announce; give a speech.
  
  သင်ကြား | thin2 kja3 - teach.
  
  ဟောကြား | hau3 kja3 - give a speech.
  
  (4) in-between; interim; transitional; buffer.
  
  ကြားကာလ | ja3 ka2-la1 - interim period; transitional period.
  
  ကြားခံ | ja3 gun2 - buffer.
  
  ကြားခံစစ် | ja3 gun2 sit - proxy war.
  
  ကြားချောင် | ja3 choun2 - be missed out.
  
  ကြားညှပ် | ja3 hnyut - be sandwiched in between.
  
  ကြားထိုးထည့်သွင်း | ja3 hto3 hteare1 thwin3 - intercalate; insert.
  
  ကြားနေ | ja3 nay2 - stay neutral.
  
  ကြားနေခြင်း | ja3-nay2 jin3 - neutrality.
  
  ကြားနေရေးဝါဒ | ja3-nay2-yay3 wa2-da1 - non-aligned policy.
  
  ကြားပေါက် | ja3 bout - odd job.
  
  ကြားပေါက်ဝင်ငွေ | ja3-bout win2-ngway2 - extra income.
  
  ကြားပေါက်အလုပ် | ja3-bout a-loat - second job.
  
  ကြားဖောက် | ja3 pfout - come in between.
  
  ကြားဖျဉ် | ja3 pfyin2
  ကြားဖျန် | ja3 pfyan2 - mediate.
  
  ကြားဖြတ် | ja3 pfyut - intercept. ja3-byut - interim; between regular sessions.
  
  ကြားဖြတ်စီမံဆောင်ရွက်ချက် | ja3-byut si2-mun2 hsoun2-ywet jet
  ကြားဖြတ်အစီအမံ | ja3-byut a-si2 a-mun2 - provisional measures.
  
  ကြားဖြတ်တိုက်လေယာဉ် | ja3-byut tite lay2-yin2 - interceptor.
  
  ကြားဖြတ်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ | ja3-byut yway3-kout pweare3 - by-elections.
  
  ကြားဖြတ်သတင်း | ja3-byut dtha1-din3 - breaking news.
  
  ကြားလူ | ja3 lu2 - middleman; broker.
  
  ကြားဝင် | ja3 win2 - intervene.
  
  ကြားဝင်စွက်ဖက်ခြင်း | ja3 win2 swet-pfet jin3 - intervention (using force and aggression.)
  
  ကြားဝင်တေးသီချင်း | ja3-win2 tay3 tha1-chin3 - musical interlude.
  
  ကြားဝင်ဖျန်ဖြေခြင်း | ja3 win2 pfyan2-byay2 jin3 - intervention; mediation.
  
  ကြားဝင်မစွက်ဖက်ရေး မူဝါဒ | ja3 win2 ma1-swet-pfet-yay3 mu2-wa2-da1 - policy of non-interference in internal affairs of other countries.
  
  ကြိုကြိုကြားကြား | jo2-jo2 ja3-ja3 - nook and corner.
  
  ခါးကြားထိုး | kha3 ja3 hto3 - pack a pistol or mobile phone in the waist.
  
  ချိုင်းကြား | jine3 ja3 - armpit.
  
  ခြင်းကြား | chin3 ja3 - large basket woven with wide interstices.
  
  တောင်ကြား | toun2 ja3 - valley.
  
  နံကြား | nun2 ja3 - space between two ribs.
  
  ရင်ကြားစေ့ | yin2 ja3 say1 - be reconciled (close the gaps between two hearts.)
  
  လမ်းကြား | lun3 ja3 - alley.
  
  
• ကွ | kwa1 colloquial ending word used when explaining or telling something to someone with enthusiasm.
  
  ဒီမှာကွ | de2 hma2 kwa1 - It's right here!
  
  
• ကွာ | kwa2; kwa2
  
  (1) colloquial ending word to express frustration.
  
  ကြာလိုက်တာကွာ | kja2 lite da2 kwa2 - It's taking ages!
  
  (2) be separated; differ as in ကွာခြား | kwa2 cha3 - differ; vary.
  
  ကွာစိ | kwa2-si1 - water-melon seed.
  
  ကွာတ | kwa2-ta1 - [English] quarter.
  
  ကွာရန်တင်း | kwa2-run2-tin3 - [English] quarantine; isolation to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
  
  ကွာရန်တင်းစင်တာ | kwa2-run2-tin3 sin2-ta2 - [English] quarantine center.
  
  ကွာရန်တင်းဝင် | kwa2-run2-tin3 win2 - be isolated in quarantine.
  
  ကွာရှင်း | kwa2 shin3 - divorce.
  
  ကွာလာလမ်ပူ | kwa2-la2 lun2-pu2 - Kuala Lumpur; KL; the largest city and former capital city of Malaysia. The administrative capital of Malaysia is Putrajaya, 25 km to the south of KL.
  
  ကွာလှမ်း | kwa2 hlun3
  ကွာဝေး | kwa2 way3 - be far away.
  
  ကွာဝေးသော | kwa2-way3 dthau3 - distant; remote.
  
  ကွာဟ | kwa2 ha1 - be different.
  
  ကွာဟချက် | kwa2-ha1 jet - discrepancy; disconnect; variance; variation.
  
  
• ကြွ | kjwa1
  
  (1) honorable person to arrive; invite such people.
  
  (2) [slang] get killed as in ကြွသွားပြီ | kjwa1 thwa3 byi2.
  
  (3) rise up as in ဖောင်းကြွ | pfoun3 kjwa1 - swell.
  
  ကြွကြွရွရွ | kjwa1-kjwa1 ywa1-ywa1 - energetically.
  
  ကြွချီ | kjwa1 chi2 - honorable persons to arrive.
  
  ကြွစောင်းစောင်း | kjwa1 soun3-zoun3 - arrogantly.
  
  ကြွမြန်း | kjwa1 myan3 - honorable person to arrive.
  
  ကြွရောက် | kjwa1 yout - arrive.
  
  တက်တက်ကြွကြွ | tet-tet kjwa1-jwa1 - enthusiastically.
  
  
• ကြွား | kjwa3
  
  (1) brag; boast.
  
  (2) be prominent.
  
  ကြွားကြွားဝင့်ဝင့် | kjwa3-kjwa3 win1-win1 - proudly.
  
  ကြွားလုံးထုတ် | kjwa3-lone3 htoat - brag about onesef; blow one's own trumpet; gloat.
  
  ကြွားပြ | kjwa3 pya1 - flash; flaunt; splurge; show off.
  
  ကြွားဝါ | kjwa3 wa2 - boast; brag; show off; vaunt; tout.
  
  ကြွားဝါလိုသဖြင့် တောက်တောက်ပြောင်ပြောင် ဝတ်စားပြသော | kjwa3-wa2 lot2 tha1-pfyin1 tout-tout pyoun2-pyoun2 woot-sa3-pya1 dthau3 - flashy; gaudy; showy; splashy.
  
  ကြွားဝင့် | kjwa3 win1 - boast with arrogance.
  
  ငကြွား | nga1-kjwa3 - [informal] braggart.