Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

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အ | ah1; a-; ah1; ah; a-

(1) the thirty third character (letter) and also a vowel.

(2) dumb; stupid.
- တကယ်အတဲ့ကောင် | da1-geare2 ah1 deare1 koun2
  အင်မတန်အတဲ့လူ | in2-ma1-tan2 ah1 deare1 lu2
  အင်မတန်အသောသူ | in2-ma1-tan2 ah1 dthau3 dthu2 - very stupid person; retard; bonehead; moron; idiot; pinhead.
(3) particle prefix in front of some verbs and adjectives to form nouns, or in the form of အ... အ... pair to form adverbs.
- အဖြူ | a-pfyu2 - (noun) white color where ဖြူ | pfyu2 - (adjective) white as in having white skin.
- အလုပ်အကိုင် | a-loat a-kine2 - (noun) job; occupation, where လုပ်ကိုင်စားသောက် | loat-kine2 sa3-thout - (verb) earn a living.
- အပေါင်းအသင်း | a-poun3 a-thin3 - (noun) buddies; friends; colleagues where ပေါင်းသင်း | poun3-thin3 - (verb) to associate with.
- အညီအမျှ | a-nyi2 a-hmya1 - (adverb) equally where ညီမျှ | nyi2-hmya1 - (verb) to be equal.
- သူ့အပြောပဲ | thu1 a-pyau3 beare3 - "Those are his words" or "That's what he said," where ပြော | pyau3 - (verb) to say or to tell.
(4) particle to indicate that there are multiples or many of the noun.

လူအယောက် သုံးဆယ် | lu2 a-yout thone3-zeare2 - 30 people. (in multiple of ten.)

အမြို့မြို့ အရွာရွာ | a-myo1-myo1 a-ywa2-ywa2 - not just one town or village, but in each of the towns and villages all over the places.

(5) negate some words with Pali roots.
- အကုသိုလ် | ah1 ku1-dtho2 - misdeed; demerit; sin; the breaking of religious or moral law.
- အဓ္ဓမ | ah1 da1-ma1 - unjust action. ah da1-ma1 - forcibly.
- အနိစ္စ | a-nate-sa1 - impermanance (ɪmˈpɝː.mə.nəns 🔊).
- အနိစ္စရောက် | a-nate-sa1 yout - pass away; die.
- အနိစ္စလက္ခဏာ | a-nate-sa1 let-kha1-na2 - sign of impermanence.
- အမင်္ဂလာ | ah min1-ga1-la2 - something inauspicious.
- အဝိညာဏက | a-wain2-nya2 na1-ka1 - lifeless; inanimate object.
- အဝိဇ္ဇာ | a-wate-za2 - ignorance.