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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• င | nga1; nga1; nga1
  (1) the fifth character.
  
  (2) be sufficient in quantity.
  
  စေ့င | say1 nga1 - be sufficient for everyone.
  
  လောက်င | lout nga1 - be adequate; be sufficient for rationing.
  
  (3) derogatory prefix used as names or in front of names such as
  
  ငကြွား | nga1-kjwa3 - braggart.
  
  ငဇင်ကာ | nga1-zin2-ka2 - Portuguese mercenary Filipe de Brito e Nicote.
  
  ငတိ | nga1-ti1 - small guy.
  
  ငနဲ | nga1-neare3 - idiot.
  
  ငတုံး | nga1-tone3 - dummy; idiot; stupid jerk; knuckle head; moron; retard; bonehead; simpleton; pinhead; dimwit; dumbbell; airhead.
  
  လငပုပ်ဖမ်း | la1 nga1-poat pfun3 - lunar eclipse; "moon captured by evil Nga-poat."
  
  ကောက်ညှင်းငချိပ် | kout-hnyin3 nga1-chate
  ငချိပ် | nga1-chate - black glutinous rice; sticky black rice.
  
  ငရမန်ကန်း | nga1-ra1-mun2 kun3 - Yamankan (1039–1084), (Raman Khan?) - ethnic Mon Governor of Pegu (Bago) from 1077 to 1084. He and the 2^nd king of Pagan စောလူး | sau3-lu3 - Saw Lu grew up together at Pagan court. He is remembered in history as killing Saw Lu after Kyansittha tried to rescue Saw Lu from him, but Saw Lu refused to be rescued.
  
  ငရဲ | nga1-yeare3 - Hell; purgatory; inferno.
  
  ငရဲကြီး | nga1-yeare3 kji3 - suffer in accordance with the Law of "Karma" especially for the bad deeds done on the elders.
  
  ငရဲပြည် | nga1-yeare3 pyi2 - realm of suffering.
  
  ငရဲမီးပမာလောင်နေသော | nga1-yeare3 mi3 pa1-ma2 loun2 nay2 dthau3 - infernal.
  
  ငရဲမီးလောင် | nga1-yeare3 mi3 loun2 - burn in Hell.
  
  ငရဲသား | nga1-yeare3 dtha3 - denizen of Hell.
  
  ငရဲအိုး | nga1-yeare3 o3 - pot of molten metal and fire in Hell.
  
  ငရုတ် | nga1-yoat - pepper; chilli.
  
  ငရုတ်ကောင်း | nga1-yoat-goun3 - pepper.
  
  ငရုတ်ကျည်ပွေ့ | nga1-yoat ja1-bway1 - pestle for grinding red chilli, garlic, etc..
  
  ငရုတ်ချို | nga1-yoat cho2 - green pepper (larger, longer, and less hot).
  
  ငရုတ်ဆုံ | nga1-yoat hsone2 - mortar for grinding red chilli with pestle.
  
  ငရုတ်ပွ | nga1-yoat bwa1 - bell pepper.
  
  ငရုတ်ဆီ | nga1-yoat hsi2 - chilli sauce.
  
  ငရုတ်သီး | nga1-yoat thi3 - chilli.
  
  ငရုတ်သီးမှုန့် | nga1-yoat-thi3 hmome1 - chilli powder.
  
  ငရုတ်သီးအလှော်မှုန့် | nga1-yoat-thi3 a-hlau2-hmome1 - roasted red chilli powder.
  
  ငလျင် | nga1-lyin2 - earthquake; quake; seism; tremblor; temblor.
  
  အင်အားသေးငလျင် | in2-ah3-dthay3 nga1-lyin2 - tremor; a small earthquake.
  
  ငလျင်တိုင်းပညာ | nga1-lyin2-tine3 pyin2-nya2 - seismology.
  
  ငလျင်တိုင်းပညာရှင် | nga1-lyin2-tine3 pyin2-nya2-shin2 - seismologist.
  
  ငလျင်တိုင်းကိရိယာ | nga1-lyin2-tine3 ka1-ri1-ya2 - seismometer.
  
  ငလျင်နှင့်သက်ဆိုင်သော | nga1-lyin2 hnin1 thet-hsine2 dthau3 - seismic.
  
  ငလျင်လှုပ် | nga1-lyin2 hloat - quake; tremor; shake with seismic vibrations.
  
  ငဟစ် | nga1-hit - eastern purple heron or gray heron (bird).
  
  
• ငါ့ | nga1 - [informal] my.
  
  အဲဒါ ငါ့ဟာကွ | eare1-da2 nga1 ha2 kwa1 - That's mine!.
  
  ငါ့ရှင် | nga1 shin2 - term of address among monks about the same age.
  
  
• ငါ | nga2 - [informal] I; colloquial first person term used when speaking to one's equal or lower in social status.
  
  ငါစွဲ | nga2 zweare3 - obsession and preoccupation with self; self-centeredness; egoism; narcissism.
  
  ငါစွဲထားသော | nga2-zweare3 hta3-dthau3 - self-centered; egotistic; egotistical.
  
  ငါတို့ | nga2 doh1 - we (among peers).
  
  
• ငါး | nga3
  
  (1) five.
  
  ငါးပါးသီလ | nga3 ba3 thi2-la1 - the five precepts in Buddhism.
  
  
  1. ပါဏာတိပါတ | pa2-na2-ti1 pa2-ta1 - Not taking life.
  2. အဒိန္နာဒါန | a-date-na2 da2-na1 - Not taking what is not given.
  3. ကာမေသုမိစ္ဆာစာရ | ka2-may2-thu1 mate-hsa2 sa2-ya1 - Refraining from sexual misconduct.
  4. မုသာဝါဒ | moat-tha2 wa2-da1 - Refraining from false speech.
  5. သုရာမေရယ | thu1-ya2 may2-ra1-ya1 - Refraining from consumption of alcohol.
     
     
  (2) fish.
  
  ငါးကင် | nga1-ghin2 - grilled fish.
  
  ငါးကျည်း | nga1-ji3 - fossil catfish (small); Asian stinging catfish.
  
  ငါးကြီးဆီ | nga3 ji3 zi2 - cod-liver oil.
  
  ငါးကြော် | nga3 jau2 - fried fish.
  
  ငါးကြင်း | nga1-jin3 - Hamilton's Carp.
  
  ငါးကြင်းမျက်ဆန်နီ | nga1-jin3 myet-hsun2-ni2 - Red-eyed gudgeon; Pigmouth Carp.
  
  ငါးကွမ်းရှပ် | nga1-koon3-shut - Mackerel.
  
  ငါးခူ | nga1-khu2 - Walking Catfish.
  
  ငါးခုံးမ | nga1-khone3-ma1 - Barbus.
  
  ငါးချိုချဉ်ကြော် | nga3 cho2-chin2 jau2 - sweet & sour fish.
  
  ငါးခြောက် | nga1-chout - salted dried fish.
  
  ငါးစင်ရိုင်း | nga1-zin2-yine3 - Striped dwarf catfish.
  
  ငါးစိမ်းသည် | nga1-zain3 dtheare2 - fish-monger.
  
  ငါးဆုပ် | nga1-hsoat - minced fish ball.
  
  ငါးပိ | nga1-pe1 - preserved salted fish or shrimp paste.
  
  ငါးပိကောင် | nga1-pe1 goun2 - whole preserved salted fish.
  
  ငါးပိကြော် | nga1-pe1 jau2 - fried shrimp paste with garlic and onion.
  
  ငါးပိချက် | nga1-pe1 jet - shrimp paste cooked with tomatoes.
  
  ငါးပိထောင်း | nga1-pe1 doun3 - baked ground shrimp paste with spices.
  
  ငါးပိရေကျို | nga1-pe1 yay2-jo2 - preserved salted fish sauce with baked red chilli powder.
  
  ငါးပူတင်း | nga1-pu2-din3 - Globe Fish.
  
  ငါးပုဏ္ဏား | nga1-pone2-na3 - Mango fish (polynemus paradiseus).
  
  ငါးပတ် | nga1-but - Sheat-fish.
  
  ငါးပတ်မွှေ | nga1-but hmway2 - shreded and cooked Sheat-fish.
  
  ငါးပုပ်ခြောက် | nga1-boat chout - salted dried fish of ကကူရံ or ကသပေါင်း.
  
  ငါးဖမ်းလုပ်ငန်း | nga3 pfun3 loat-ngan3 - fishery.
  
  ငါးဖယ် | nga1-pfeare2 - Featherback.
  
  ငါးဖယ်ချောင်ကျောင်းတိုက် | nga1-pfeare2-choun2 kjoun3-dite - Nga Phe Chaung Monastery, a tourist attraction on the Inle Lake of Myanmar is also known as ကြောင်ခုန်ကျောင်း | kjoun2 khone2 kjoun3 - 'Jumping Cat Monastery' where acrobatic cats are trained to jump through rings.
  
  ငါးဖောင်ရိုး | nga1-pfoun2-yo3 - Garfish.
  
  ငါးဖမ်းသင်္ဘော | nga3-pfun3 thin3-bau3 - fishing boat; fishing vessel; trawler; dragger.
  
  ငါးမုတ် | nga1-moat - Pomfret.
  
  ငါးမန်း | nga1-mun3 - shark.
  
  ငါးမန်းတောင် | nga1-mun3 doun2 - (1) shark fin. (2) propeller of a ship.
  
  ငါးမန်းတောင်ဟင်းချို | nga1-mun3-doun2 hin3-jo2 - shark fins soup.
  
  ငါးမဲလုံး | nga1-meare3-lone3 - Tuna fish.
  
  ငါးမြစ်ချင်း | nga1-myit-chin3 - Carp.
  
  ငါးမျှား | nga3 hmya3 - fish; fishing with a fishing rod; angling.
  
  ငါးမျှားချိတ် | nga1-hmya3 jate - fish hook.
  
  ငါးမျှားတံ | nga1-hmya3 dun2 - fishing rod.
  
  ငါးရံ့ | nga1-yun1 - Snakehead fish.
  
  ငါးရွှေ | nga1-shway2 - Conger eel.
  
  ငါးရှဉ့် | nga1-shin1 - Eel.
  
  ငါးရှဉ့်ကြော် | nga1-shin1 jau2 - crispy hot eels.
  
  ငါးလုပ်ငန်းဦးစီးဌာန | nga3 loat-ngan3 u3-zi3 hta2-na1 - Department of Fisheries.
  
  ငါးသလောက် | nga1-tha1-lout - Hilsa; Ilish.
  
  ငါးသလောက်ပေါင်း | nga1-tha1-lout boun3 - braised Hilsa.
  
  ငါးသလဲထိုး | nga1-tha1-leare3-hto3 - Loach.
  
  ငါးသေတ္တာငါး | nga3-thit-ta2 nga3 - Sardine.
  
  ငါးဟင်း | nga3 hin3 - curry fish.
  
  ငါးအလှမွေးကန် | nga3 a-hla2 mway3 gun2 - aquarium.
  
  ငါးဥ | nga3 u1 - roe; spawn; caviar (expensive salted roe of sturgeon found in Europe.)
  
  ငါးဥအု | nga3 u1 u1 - spawn.
  
  ငါးအုပ်တစ်အုပ် | nga3-oat ta1-oat - a shoal of fish; a school of fish.
  
  
• ငြာ | nya2 - shout to incite and rouse emotions or to show support.
  
  ကြော်ငြာ | kjau2-nya2 - advertisement.
  
  ငြာသံပေး | nya2-dthun2 pay3 - make a rallying cry.
  
  
• ငြား | nya3 - particle used for emphasis.
  
  သို့သော်ငြား | dtho1-dthau2 nya3 - although.
  
  
• ငှ | hnga1 - distribute as in ဝေငှ | way2 hnga1.
  
  
• ငှာ | hnga2; hnga2
  
  (1) postpositional marker used as 'for'.
  
  အကျိုးငှာ | a-kjo3 hnga2 - for the benefit of.
  
  (2) possession; belonging.
  
  
• ငှား | hnga3
  
  (1) borrow something; rent a house or a car.
  
  ကားငှားချင်တယ် | ka3 hnga3 chin2 deare2 - I want to rent a car.
  
  (2) lend or loan something to someone.
  
  (3) hire people and helping hands as in လူငှား | lu2 hnga3.
  
  ငှားထားသော | hnga3 hta3 dthau3 - rented.
  
  ငှားရမ်း | hnga3-yan3 - to rent, to let out, hire.
  
  ငှားရမ်းခ | hnga3-yan3 ga1 - rent fees.
  
  ငှားရမ်းခြင်း | hnga3-yan3 jin3 - lease; leasing.