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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• ခ | kha1; kha1
  
  (1) the second character ခခွေး | kha1 gway3.
  
  (2) approach and serve with respect.
  
  (3) lightning to strike; catch fire.
  
  (4) fall to the ground; encounter with danger.
  
  (5) part of male Burmese names such as မောင်မောင်ခ | moun2 moun2 kha1 - Maung Maung Kha.
  
  ခခယယ | kha1 kha1 ya1 ya1 - subserviently.
  
  ခစား | kha1 za3 - attend on and serve (the royalty).
  
  ခယ | kha1 ya1 - devote all attentions and serve humbly.
  
  ခယဝယ | kha1-ya1 wa1-ya1 - submissively.
  
  ခဏ | kha1-na1 - for a while.
  
  ဒီမှာခဏစောင့် | de2 hma2 kha1-na1 soun1 - Wait here for a while.
  
  ခဏခဏ | kha1-na1 kha1-na1 - frequently; often.
  
  ခဏတစ်ဖြုတ် | kha1-na1 ta1-pfyoat - momentarily.
  
  ခဏနေ | kha1-na1 nay2 - later.
  
  ခနဲ | kha1-neare3 - suffix word to express a sudden movement.
  
  'လက်' ခနဲ ဝင်းထိန်သွား၏ | let kha1-neare3 win3-htain2 thwa3 e1 - A brilliant flash of light suddently lights up the whole sky.
  
  ခနဲ့ | kha1-neare1 - make fun of someone.
  
  ခနော်ခနဲ့ | kha1-nau2 kha1-neare1 - not strong, firm, or secure in structure; flimsily built with shaky structure.
  
  ခနောက်စိမ်း | kha1-nout sain3 - antimony (white brittle metal.)
  
  ခမာ | kha1-ma2 - Khmer people in Mon State in Myanmar to Cambodia in the east.
  
  ခမီ | kha1-mi2 - Khami people in Rakhine and Chin state.
  
  ခမောက် | kha1-mout - bamboo hat with broad brim all around.
  
  ခမည်း | kha1-mi3 - close relative.
  
  ခမည်းခမက် | kha1-mi3 kha1-met - family term for how parents of a man is related to parents of his wife.
  
  ခမည်းတော် | kha1-mi3-dau2 - father of Buddhist monks or royalty; [euphoric] father of an ordinary person.
  
  ခမန်း | kha1-mun3 - suffix 'almost'.
  
  သေလုခမန်း | thay2-lu1-kha1-mun3 - almost die.
  
  ခမျာ | kha1-mya2 - suffix 'poor thing' deserving sympathy or pity.
  
  သူ့ခမျာ | thu1 kha1-mya2 - poor him!
  
  ခရာ | kha1-ya2 - wind instrments of various sizes from whistle, bugle to trumpet.
  
  ခရာတုတ် | kha1-ya2 toat
  ခရာတွတ် | kha1-ya2 toot - blow a bugle.
  
  ဘင်ခရာ | bin2 kha1-ya2 - marching band; drum and bugle corps.
  
  ခရီး | kha1-yi3 - travel; journey.
  
  ခရီးကြမ်း | kha1-yi3 jan3 - treacherous journey; rough travel path.
  
  ခရီးကြုံ | kha1-yi3 kjone2 - happen to be on the way.
  
  ခရီးကျွံ | kha1-yi3 kjoon2 - travel further than planned.
  
  ခရီးစရိတ် | kha1-yi3 za1-yate - travel expenses.
  
  ခရီးစဉ် | kha1-yi3-zin2 - itinerary.
  
  ခရီးဆောင် | kha1-yi3 zoun2 - portable.
  
  ခရီးဆောင်ချက်လက်မှတ် | kha1-yi3 zoun2 chet let-hmut - traveler's check.
  
  ခရီးဆောင်သေတ္တာ | kha1-yi3 zoun2 thit-ta2 - portable bag; carry-on luggage.
  
  ခရီးဆန့် | kha1-yi3 hsun1 - go on a journey with rest in between.
  
  ခရီးတစ်သောင်း | kha1-yi3 ta1-thoun3 - about twenty miles.
  
  ခရီးတွင် | kha1-yi3 twin2
  ခရီးပေါက် | kha1-yi3 pout - make good progress.
  
  ခရီးထောင့် | kha1-yi3 htoun1 - journey to be hard to travel; place to be hard to reach.
  
  
  ခရီးထွက် | kha1-yi3 htwet - be away on a trip.
  
  ခရီးပန်း | kha1-yi3-pan3 - feel exhausted from a trip.
  
  ခရီးပြင်းနှင် | kha1-yi3-byin3 hnin2 - travel without rest.
  
  ခရီးဖင့် | kha1-yi3 pfin1 - encounter hard time and delay.
  
  ခရီးမတ်တတ် | kha1-yi3 mut-tut - on the way.
  
  ခရီးယာယီ | kha1-yi3 ya2-yi2 - [astrology] temporary change in location.
  
  ခရီးရောက် | kha1-yi3 yout - make good progress.
  
  ခရီးရောက်မဆိုက် | kha1-yi3 yout ma1-hsite - as soon as one arrives.
  
  ခရီးလမ်းညွှန်စာအုပ် | kha1-yi3 lun3-hnyoon2 sa2-oat - street directory; travel guide book.
  
  ခရီးလွန် | kha1-yi3 loon2 - reach the point of no return.
  
  ခရီးလှည့် | kha1-yi3 hleare1 - go on tour.
  
  ခရီးသည် | kha1-yi3-dtheare2 - passenger.
  
  ခရီးသည်တင် | kha1-yi3-dtheare2 din2 - passenger (vehicle).
  
  ခရီးသွား | kha1-yi3 thwa3 - travel.
  
  ခရီးသွားမှတ်တမ်း | kha1-yi3-dthwa3 hmut-tan3 - traveler's blog. travel diary.
  
  ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်း | kha1-yi3-dthwa3 loat-ngan3 - travel business; travel agency.
  
  ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်းဝန်ထမ်း | kha1-yi3-dthwa3 loat-ngan3 woon2-dun3 - travel agent.
  
  ခရီးသွားဟန်လွှဲ | kha1-yi3-dthwa3 hun2 hlweare3 - falsely; pretentiously.
  
  ခရီးဦးကြိုပြု | kha1-yi3 u3 jo2 pyu1 - greet upon arrival; welcome; receive someone.
  
  ခရု | kha1-yu1 - snail; some shellfish such as clams and oysters.
  
  ခရုခွံ | kha1-yu1 goon2 - shell of shellfish.
  
  ခရုစုတ် | kha1-yu1 zoat - ibis (bird).
  
  ခရုခါးတောင်းကျိုက်ဖမ်း | kha1-yu1 ga1-doun3-jite pfun3 - make an exaggerated act.
  
  ခရုဆီ | kha1-yu1-zi2 - oyster sauce.
  
  ခရုပက်ကျိ | kha1-yu1 pet-kji1 - snail.
  
  ခရုပတ် | kha1-yu1-but - spiral.
  
  ခရုပတ်လမ်း | kha1-yu1-but lun3 - winding mountain road.
  
  ခရုသင်း | kha1-yu1-dthin3 - shell of cowry or shellfish.
  
  ခရေ | kha1-yay2 - Indian Medlar tree, evergreen tree reaching a height of about 16 m (52 ft). Its small white star shaped flowers are used as garland.
  
  ခရေစေ့တွင်းကျ | kha1-yay2-zi1 twin3 ja1 - meticulously; in detail.
  
  ခရေပင်လမ်း | kha1-yay2-bin2 lun3 - Khayae Pin (tree) Road.
  
  ခရေပန်း | kha1-yay2 bun3 - star flower.
  
  ခရေပွင့် | kha1-yay2 bwin1 - asterisk *.
  
  ခရော်ခရွတ် | kha1-yau2 kha1-yoot - uneven.
  
  ခရိုနီ | kha1-ro2-ni2 - [English] crony; a close associate of the ruling class who enjoys special privileges.
  
  ခရိုနီစနစ် | kha1-ro2-ni2 sa1-nit - cronyism.
  
  ခရိုအေးရှား | kha1-ro2 ay3-sha3 - Croatia, eastern European country with long coast line running parallel to Italy.
  
  ခရိုင် | kha1-yine2 - district; county.
  
  ခရိုင်ဝန် | kha1-yine2 woon2 - district commissioner (during the British colonial time.)
  
  ခရစ်ကက် | kha1-rit-ket - [sports] Cricket.
  
  ခရစ် | kha1-rit - relating to Christ and Christians.
  
  ခရစ္စမတ် | kha1-rit-sa1-mut - Christmas.
  
  ခရစ်တော် | kha1-rit-tau2 - Jesus Christ.
  
  ခရစ်နှစ် | kha1-rit hnit - Anno Domini (AD), Christian years.
  
  ခရစ်ယာန် | kha1-rit-yan2 - Christian.
  
  ခရိယာန်တရားဟောဆရာ | kha1-rit-yan2 ta1-ya3 hau3 hsa1-ya2 - pastor; preacher; evangelist.
  
  ခရိယာန်ဘုန်းကြီး | kha1-rit-yan2 pfone3-ji3 - Chistian cleric; priest; clergyman.
  
  ခရစ်ယာန်နှစ်ခြင်းမင်္ဂလာ | kha1-rit-yan2 hnit chin3 min2-ga1-la2 - baptism.
  
  ခရမ်းသီး | kha1-yan3 dthi3 - eggplant (aubergine).
  
  ခရမ်းရောင် | kha1-yan3 youn2 - purple; violet; color of eggplant.
  
  ခရမ်းရောင်လွင်ပြင် | kha1-yan3 youn2 lwin2-byin2 - Purple Plain, Hollywood movie starring American actor Gregory Peck and Burmese actress Win Min Than.
  
  ခရမ်းလွန်ရောင်ခြည် | kha1-yan3 loon2 youn2-ji2 - ultraviolet rays.
  
  ခရမ်းချဉ်သီး | kha1-yan3-jin2 dthi3 - tomato.
  
  ခလောက် | kha1-lout - wooden or bamboo bell.
  
  ခလုတ် | kha1-loat - switch.
  
  ခလုတ်တိုက် | kha1-loat tite - trip over.
  
  ခလုတ်နှိပ် | kha1-loat hnate - press the button.
  
  ခလုတ်ပိတ် | kha1-loat pate - switch off.
  
  ခလုတ်ဖွင့် | kha1-loat pfwin1 - switch on.
  
  ခလယ် | kha1-leare2 - middle; center.
  
  ခဝါ | kha1-wa2 - laundry.
  
  ခဝါချ | kha1-wa2 cha1 - wash clothes.
  
  ခဝါသည် | kha1-wa2 dtheare2 - launderer; laundress.
  
  ခဝဲသီး | kha1-weare3 dthi3 - Ridged gourd; Luffa.
  
  
• ခါ | kha2; kha2
  
  (1) shake something off.
  
  ခါချလိုက် | kha2 cha1 lite - shake it off.
  
  (2) suffix used for frequency and time.
  
  (၃) ခါ | thone3 kha2 - three times.
  
  ခါတိုင်းလို | kha2-dine3 lo2 - as before; as usual.
  
  ခါနီး | kha2 ni3 - verb suffix particle 'about to' or 'just before'.
  
  သွားခါနီးပြီ | thwa3 kha2 ni3 byi2 - It's about time to go.
  
  ခါချဉ် | kha2-jin2 - red ant (fire ant).
  
  
• ခါး | kha3; kha3
  
  (1) waist.
  
  (2) bitter.
  
  ခါးတယ် | kha3 deare2 - It's bitter.
  
  ခါးကိုက် | kha3 kite - have backache.
  
  ခါးကုန်း | kha3 kone3 - have hunched spinal bone due to oldage.
  
  ခါးကြားညှပ် | kha3 ja3 hnyut - tuck something between waist and the lower garment.
  
  (Also see words that sound like ga1.)
  
  ခါးခါးသီးသီး | kha3-kha3 thi3-dthi3
  ခါးသီးစွာ | kha3-thi3 zwa2 - bitterly.
  
  ခါးနာ | kha3 na2 - have back sprain.
  
  ခါးထောက် | kha3 htout - stand akimbo with hands at the waist and elbows extending outward.
  
  ခါးသက်သက် | kha3 thet-thet - slightly bitter.
  
  
• ချ | cha1
  
  (1) [slang] fight.
  
  (2) [slang] consume alcohol, etc..
  
  (3) put down; to lower.
  
  ခြင်ထောင်ချ | chin2-doun2 cha1 - set up a mosquito-net.
  
  (4) place or arrange something.
  
  ချပါတီ | cha1-pa2-ti2 - Indian round flatbread Chapati.
  
  ချလန် | cha1-lun2 - receipt from government office.
  
  ချလန်ထုတ် | cha1-lun2 htoat - get the receipt.
  
  
• ချာ| cha2 - inferior in quality.
  
  ချာချီ | cha2-chi2 - Winston Churchill, prime minister of United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 during the second World War and again from 1951 to 1955.
  
  ချာတူးလံ | cha2-tu3 lun3 - very poor quality.
  
  ချာတိတ် | cha2-tate - kid.
  
  ချာတိတ်မလေး | cha2-tate-ma1 lay3 - little girl.
  
  ချာလပတ်လည် | cha1-la1-but leare3 - lost one's direction and go in circle.
  
  
• ချား | cha3 - merry-go-round (Carousel); ferris-wheel.
  
  ချားစီး | cha3 si3 - ride a merry-go-round or ferris-wheel.
  
  ချားရဟတ် | cha3 ya1-hut - ferris-wheel.
  
  
• ခြ | cha1 - termite; white ant,
  
  ခြစား | cha1 sa3 - eaten by termite; officials to be corrupt.
  
  ခြတက် | cha1 tet - eaten by termite.
  
  ခြတောင်ပို့ | cha1 toun2-bo1 - ant-hill.
  
  
• ခြာ | cha2 - have space or gap in between.
  
  တစ်အိမ်ခြာ | ta1-ain2 cha2 - be separated by one house in between.
  
  
• ခြား | cha3 - differ; be separated.
  
  ခြားနား | cha3-na3 - differ.
  
  ခြားနားချက် | cha3-na3 jet - difference.
  
  ထူးခြား | htu3 cha3 - be unusual.
  
  
• ခွ | khwa1; khwa1 ; gwa1
  
  (1) straddle as in ခွစီး | khwa1 si3 - ride by sitting astride.
  
  (2) bolster.
  
  (3) fork position of road or tree branch.
  
  (4) wrench; spanner.
  
  ခွကျ | gwa1 kja1 - be in a dilemma or in dificult position.
  
  ခွကျတာပဲ | gwa1 kja1 da2 beare3 - That's tough to proceed!
  
  ခွကျသော | gwa1 kja1 dthau3 - awkward.
  
  ခွစာ | gwa1-za2 - difficult person.
  
  လေးခွ | lay3-gwa1 - sling; catapult.
  
  
• ခွာ | khwa2; khwa2
  
  (1) hoof.
  
  (2) Clematis, a type of orchid flower:
  
  (3) peel off.
  
  (4) pull away as in ဆုတ်ခွာ | hsoat khwa2.
  
  ခွာညိုပန်း | khwa2-nyo2 bun3 - Clematis (brown)
  
  ခွာနာလျှာနာရောဂါ | khwa2-na2 sha2-na2 yau3-ga2 - foot-and-mouth disease; hoof-and-mouth disease.
  
  ခွာပြာပန်း | khwa2-bya2 bun3 - Clematis (blue)