Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

အလိုတော်ပြည့်ဂူဘုရား | a-lo2-dau2 pyay1 gu2 pfa1-ya3 - Alodawpyi Pagoda, located to the south-east of Htilominlo Temple in Bagan, said to be built by Kyansittha, the 3^rd king of Pagan Dynasty in the 12^th century.

According to the legend, Kyansitha, still a military commander at the time, knelt down at that location and silently wished for the victory in the battle that he was about to engage. He also made a pledge that he would one day build a temple at that very place if he were to become a king.

အလိုတော်ပြည့် | a-lo2 dau2 pyay1 means His Majesty's wish made at that place had been fulfilled, and ဂူဘုရား | gu2 pfa1-ya3 stands for 'Cave Temple'.
အလိုပမာဏ | a-lo2 pa1-ma2-na1 - deficit.
အလိုပြည့် | a-lo2 pyay1 - wish to be fulfilled.
အလိုဖြည့် | a-lo2 pfyay1 - [US] fulfill; [UK] fulfil desire.
အလိုမဲ့ | a-lo2 meare1 - without reason.
အလိုရမ္မက် | a-lo2 ya1-met - craving.
အလိုရှိ | a-lo2 shi1 - wanted. E.g., ဝန်ထမ်းအလိုရှိသည် | woon2-dun3 a-lo2 shi1 dthi2 - "help wanted" sign displayed at the door to show that the shop is hiring.