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Myanmar English Dictionary
Vowel 'A'
သာ သား သားက သားခ သားင သားစ သားတ သားထ သားပ သားဖ သားမ သားရ သားလ သားသ သားအ သွာ သွား သျှ သျှား ဿ Back to Dictionary Main Menu-
သာ | tha2; tha2
dtha2
(1) better; be superior; excel.
သူပိုသာတယ် | thu2 po2 tha2 deare2 - He's better.
(2) moon to shine.
လသာနေတယ် | la1 tha2 nay2 deare2 - The moon is shining.
(3) pleasant; peaceful.
(4) particle 'only', 'just'.
သူ့ကိုသာပေးလိုက် | thu1 go2 dtha2 pay3 lite.- Just give it to him.
သာတူညီမျှ | tha2-du2 nyi2-hmya1 - equally; impartially.
သာမက | dtha2 ma1-ka1 - not only, but also.
သာယာ | tha2-ya2 - delightful. tha2-ya2 - feel pleasant.
သာယာညင်းပျောင်း | tha2-ya2 hnyin3-pyoun3 - in gentle and pleasant way.
သာယာဝပြော | tha2-ya2 wa1 byau3 - prosperous with bountiful natural resources.
သာယာဝပြောရေး | tha2-ya2 wa1 byau3 yay3 - prosperity.
သာရာစီး | tha2-ya2 zi3 - opportunist.
သာရေးနာရေး | tha2-yay3 na2-yay3 - social concourse in times of happiness and sorrow.
သာလွန် | tha2-loon2 - exceed. tha2-loon2 - better; superior.
သာလျှင် | dtha2-hlyin2 - noun suffix particle 'only'.
သာသာထိုးထိုး | tha2-dtha2 hto3-doe3 - positively biased; favorably.
သာဂူ | tha2-gu2 - (1) sagu (matroxylon sagu). (2) tapioca.
သာဓက | tha2 da1-ka1 - example.
သာဓု | tha2-du1 - Excellent!; Well-done!
သာဓုခေါ် | tha2-du1 khau2 - utter gratitude to someone for making the world a better place.
သာမည | tha2-ma1-nya1 - mediocre; ordinary.
သာမညောင်ည | tha2-ma1-nyoun2 nya1 - ordinary person. tha2-ma1-nyoun2 nya1 - mediocre; ordinary. tha2-ma1-nyoun2 nya1 - ordinarily; normally.
သာမိုမီတာ | tha2-mo2 mi2-ta2 - [English] thermometer.
သာမဏေ | tha2-ma1-nay2 - novice monk.
သာမန် | tha2-mun2 - normal; average; ordinary. tha2-mun2 - casually.
သာမန်အားဖြင့် | tha2-mun2 ah3-pfyin1 - normally.
သာယာဝတီဗျိုင်း | tha2-ya2-wa1-de2 byine3 - Indian egret (Egretta intermedia); medium-sized heron bird.
သာလာယံ | tha2-la2-yan2 - [Pali] public rest-house. tha2-la2-yan2 - open to public.
သာလိကာ | tha2-li1-ga2 - Indian grackle bird; common hill myna (Gracula religiosa intermedia).
သာလဲ | tha2-leare3 - paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera).
သာဝက | tha2-wa1-ka1 - [Pali] disciple.
သာသနာ | tha2-dtha1-na2 - religious teaching.
သာသနာတော် ထွန်းကားပြန့်ပွားရေး ဦးစီးဌာန | tha2-dtha1-na2-dau2 htoon3-ga3 pyan1-pwa3-yay3 u3-zi3 hta2-na1 - Department for the Promotion and Propagation of Sasana.
သာသနာတွင်း | tha2-dtha1-na2 dwin3 - the first five thousand years of Buddhist Era.
သာသနာနှစ် | tha2-dtha1-na2 hnit - Buddhist calendar year based on Buddhist Era. A calendrical system dating from after the death of the Buddha (taken as 543 BCE).
သာသနာပ | tha2-dtha1-na2 pa1 - time period beyond Buddhist Era.
သာသနာပိုင် | tha2-dtha1-na2 bine2 - head of religious order.
သာသနာပြု | tha2-dtha1-na2 pyu1 - propagate religion through missionary work.
သာသနာရေးနှင့် ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန | tha2-dtha1-na2-yay3 hnin1 yin2-kjay3-hmu1 woon2-ji3 hta2-na1 - Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture.
သာသနာရေးဦးစီးဌာန | tha2-dtha1-na2-yay3 u3-zi3 hta2-na1 - Department of Religious Affairs.
သာသနာ့မြေ | tha2-dtha1-na1 myay2 - property owned by religious organization.
သာသနာ့ရိပ်သာ | tha2-dtha1-na1 yate-tha2 - religious center.
သာသနာ့ဝန်ထမ်း | tha2-dtha1-na1 woon2-dun3 - person who volunteers or works for propagation of religion.
သာသနာ့အမွေ | tha2-dtha1-na1 a-mway2 - Buddhist heritage.
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သား | tha3; tha3; tha3; tha3
dtha3
(1) son.
(2) reference to younger male in place of "you" and "I".
(3) suffix for wood, meat, poultry, newly born young mammals and fish, fabric, tissue, metal and earth elements.
ကြက်သား | kjet-tha3 - chicken (meat).
ကြွက်သား | kjwet-tha3 - muscle (tissue).
ဝက်သား | wet-tha3 - pork.
သားသတ်သမား | tha3-dthut tha1-ma3- butcher.
သုံးထပ်သား | thone3-htut tha3 - plywood; three-layered side of pork with rind, fat, and lean meat.
အမဲသား | a-meare3 dtha3 - beef.
(4) numerical classifier (measure word) for young age.
ခြောက်လသား | chout-la1 dtha3 - six months old.
(5) weight measurement in ticals.
(၁၀)သားဘယ်လောက်လဲ | ta1-hseare2 dtha3 beare2 lout leare3 - How much for 10 ticals (0.036 lb or 0.016kg)?
(6) belong to a certain group.
တောသား | tau3 dtha3 - country bumpkin.
တိုင်းရင်းသား | tine3 yin3 dtha3 - ethnic people.
ရွာသား | ywa2 dtha3 - villager.
မြို့သား | myo1 dtha3 - city dweller.
မြန်မာပြည်သား | myan2-ma2 pyi2 dtha3 - Myanmar Citizen.
သင်္ဘောသား | thin3-bau3 dtha3 - ship's crew; sailor.
(7) belong to male classification as in ကျောင်းသား | kjoun3 dtha3 - male student as opposed to ကျောင်းသူ | kjoun3 dthu2 - female student.
(8) delineate; draw a line as in မျဉ်းသား | myin3 tha3.
(9) particle suffixed to a verb or adjective to be more explicit.
မှတ်သား | hmut tha3 - make a mental note.
ပြတ်သား | pyut tha3 - be decisive; be clear.
ရိုးသား | yo3 tha3 - honest.
ပြောသားပဲ | pyau3 dtha3 beare3 - I told you so.
ပျောက်ချက်သား ကောင်းနေတယ် | pyout chet dtha3 koun3 nay2 deare2 - Haven't heard from him for a while.
(10) ending word used as an emphasis to a prayer, wish or oath.
ဖြစ်ပါစေသား | pfyit ba2 zay2 dtha3 - May this happen.
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သားကင် | tha3 ghin2 - barbecued, grilled or roasted meat.
သားကောင် | tha3 goun2 - game animal or prey hunted for food.
သားကျ | tha3 kja1 - animal to give birth.
သားကြီး | tha3 ji3- eldest son.
သားကြီးငါးကြီး | tha3-ji3 nga3-ji3 - meat of large animals and fish. (Consumption of beef and large types of fish from the ocean is abstained by some Myanmar Buddhists at least during the Sabbath day.)
သားကြီးမယားကြီး | tha3-ji3 ma1-ya3 ji3 - legal wife.
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သားချင်း | tha3 jin3 - siblings; a person's brothers and sisters.
သားခွဲ | tha3 khweare3 - animals to wean.
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သားငါး | tha3 nga3 - meat and fish.
သားငယ်မယားငယ် | tha3 ngeare2 ma1-ya3 ngeare2 - illegitimate wife; lesser wife.
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သားစာမယားစာ | tha3 za2 ma1-ya3 za2 - food and living expenses for wife and family.
သားစားတိရစ္ဆာန် | tha3 za3 ta1-rate-hsun2 - carnivore; flesh-eating animal.
သားစဉ်မြေးဆက် | tha3-zin2 myay3-zet - family line from direct ancestors to their decendants; posterity.
သားစပ် | tha3 sut - animals to breed.
သားစိမ်းငါးစိမ်း | tha3-zain3 nga3-zain3 - raw meat or fish.
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သားတစ် | tha3-dit - a piece of meat or flesh.
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သားထိုး | tha3 hto3 - slaughter the animal for meat.
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သားပိုက်ကောင် | tha3-pike koun2 - kangaroo.
သားပုပ်လေလွင့် | tha1-boat lay2-lwin1 - slanderously (speak to defame and smear the good name and reputation of someone.)
သားပျိုသမီးပျို | tha3 byo2 tha1-mi3 byo2 - sons and daughters of marriageable age.
သားပျက် | tha3 pyet - have miscarriage.
သားပြောမယားပြော | tha3 byau3 ma1-ya3 byau3 - make advances and intimately speak as if from husband to his wife.
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သားဖောက် | tha3 pfout - breed; incubate eggs.
သားဖွား | tha3 pfwa3 - give birth.
သားဖွားခန်း | tha3-pfwa3 gun3 - maternity ward.
သားဖွားထုံဆေး | tha3-pfwa3 htone2 zay3 - epidural; regional anesthesia used in childbirth and gynecological surgery.
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သားမယား | tha3 ma1-ya3 - (1) wife. (2) family.
သားမင်း | tha3 min3 - (1) takin; goat-antelope. (2) lion in fables.
သားမြီးယပ် | tha3 myi3-yut - yak-tail fly-swatter.
သားမြတ် | tha3 myut - woman's breasts.
သားမွေး | tha3 mway3 - fur.
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သားရေ | tha1-yay2 - leather; animal's hide.
သားရေကွင်း | tha1-yay2 gwin3 - rubber band; rubber ring.
သားရေကွင်းပစ် | tha1-yay2-gwin3 pyit - game of quoits using rubber ring.
သားရေစိမ်း | tha1-yay2 zain3 - raw hide.
သားရေတု | tha1-yay2 du1 - artificial leather; synthetic leather.
သားရေနယ် | tha1-yay2 neare2 - tanned leather.
သားရေပတ်ကြိုး | tha1-yay2-but kjo3 - drive belt.
သားရေသေတ္တာ | tha1-yay2 thit-ta2 - leather luggage; leather suitcase.
သားရေအိတ် | tha1-yay2 ate - leather bag.
သားရေးသမီးရေး | tha3 yay3 tha1-mi3 yay3 - welfare of children.
သားရဲတိရစ္ဆာန် | tha3 yeare3 ta1-rate-hsun2 - wild beast.
သားရဲတွင်း | tha3-yeare3 dwin3 - den; lair.
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သားလောင်း | tha3 loun3 - embryo.
သားလမ်း | tha3 lun3 - uterine canal.
သားလှီးဓား | tha3 hli3 da3 - chooper; meat cleaver.
သားလျှော | tha3 shau3 - have miscarriage.
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သားသမီး | tha3 tha1-mi3 - children.
သားသမီးဝတ် | tha3 tha1-mi3 woot - filial duties.
သားသမက် | tha3 tha1-met - son-in-law.
သားသည်အမေ | tha3 dtheare2 a-may2 - breastfeeding mother.
သားသတ်ရုံ | tha3-dthut yone2 - slaughter house; butchery; abattoir; shambles.
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သားအဖ | tha3 a-pfa1
- father and son.
သားအမိ | tha3 a-mi1- mother and child.
သားဦး | tha3-u3 - first born child.
သားအုပ်မ | tha3-oat ma1 - mother with litters or brood of chicks.
သားအိမ် | tha1-ain2- uterus.
သားအိမ်ကင်ဆာ | tha1-ain2 kin2-hsa2- uterus cancer.
သားအိမ်ခေါင်း | tha1-ain2 goun3 - cervix.
သားအိမ်ခွဲစိတ်ကုသခြင်း | tha1-ain2 khweare3-sate ku1-tha1 jin3 - hysterotomy.
သားအိမ်ခွဲထုတ်ခြင်း | tha1-ain2 khweare3 htoat jin3 - hysterectomy.
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သွာ | thwa2
သွာတိ | thwa2 ti1 - a cluster of two stars in the fifteenth lunar mansion; Arcturus (The 4th brightest star in the constellation Bootes, 36 light-years away from Earth.)
သွာဟာ | thwa2 ha2
သွာဟုံဟုံ | thwa2 hone2 hone2 - magical word at the end of chanting.
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သွား | thwa3; thwa3; thwa3
(1) go; move.
ဘယ်သွားမလဲ | beare2 thwa3 ma1-leare3 - Where are you going?
သွားချည်လာချည် | thwa3-ji2 la2-ji2 - go to and fro.
သွားရောက် | thwa3 yout - go to a place.
သွားလာ | thwa3 la2 - come and go.
သွားလာမှုကန့်သတ်စောင့်ကြည့် | thwa3-la2-hmu1 kun1-thut soun1-kji1 - quarantine for medical reason.
သွားလမ်းလာလမ်း | thwa3 lun3 la2 lun3 - public road for daily commute.
(2) die; be a goner or a loser who is doomed.
သွားပါပြီ | thwa3 ba2 byi2 - We are doomed!; It's all gone; We have lost everything!
သွားလေသူ | thwa3 lay2 dthu2 - the departed one (who passed away).
(3) teeth; tooth; cog; razor-sharp edge.
သွားကျိန်း | thwa3 kjain3 - teeth on edge after biting sour food.
သွားကြားထိုးတံ | thwa3 ja3 hto3 dun2 - toothpick.
သွားကြိတ် | thwa3 kjate - grind teeth; gnash teeth.
သွားခေါ | thwa3 khau3 - tooth to protrude; have buck tooth. tha1-khau3 - person with buck tooth.
သွားချေး | tha1-chi3 - impurities on teeth.
သွားချေးကျောက် | thwa3 chay3 kjout - tartar build-up.
သွားစိုက် | thwa3 site - fix denture.
သွားဆရာဝန် | thwa3 hsa1-ya2-woon2- dentist.
သွားညှပ် | tha1-hnyut - small tooth in between regular two teeth.
သွားတု | thwa3 du1 - denture.
သွားတက် | tha1-det - redundant tooth.
သွားတိုက် | thwa3 tite- brush teeth.
သွားတိုက်ဆေး | thwa3-dite hsay3 - tooth paste.
သွားထပ် | tha1-htut - overlapping teeth.
သွားပညာ | thwa3 pyin2-nya2
သွားအတတ်ပညာ | thwa3 a-tut pyin2-nya2 - dentistry; odontology.
သွားပွတ်တံ | dtha1-boot tan2 - tooth brush.
သွားဖုံး | tha1-pfone3- gum.
သွားဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် | thwa3 bet hsine2-ya2 hsay3 tet-ka1-tho2 - University of Dental Medicine.
သွားရည် | tha1-yay2 - saliva.
သွားရည်ကျ | tha1-yay2 kja1
သွားရည်ယို | tha1-yay2 yo2 - salivate; drool; craving with desire.
သွားရည်ခံ | tha1-yay2 gun2 - bib for babies; napkin tied under the chin while eating.
(4) verb suffix particle roughly equivalent to 'has', 'have', 'become'.
သူသိသွားပြီ | thu2 thi1 thwa3 byi2 - He has found out.
ကုန်သွားပြီ | kone2 thwa3 byi2 - We have run out of the item.
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သျှ | sha1
ဗြိတိသျှ | byi1-ti1-sha1 - British.
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သျှား | sha3
သျှားထွဋ် အိန္ဒြာ | sha3 htoot ain2-dra2 - Sharr Htut Eaindra (female), Miss Myanmar 2014 who participated in the 2015 Miss Universe contest.
သျှားဖြူ | sha3 byu2 - Eastern gooseberry (Emblica officinalis) also called ဆီးဖြူ.
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ဿ | tha1 ji3
- stand alone character equivalent to သ် + သ | tha1-thut plus tha1.
ဝိပဿနာ | we1-pup-tha1-na2 can be broken down as ဝိ ပသ် သ နာ - Vipassana meditation.