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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• ဇ | za1 - the eighth character ဇကွဲ | za1 gweare3.
  
  ဇနကဇာတ် | za1-na1-ka1 zut - [Buddhism] Mahajanaka Jataka, one of the Great ten Jataka Tales.
  
  ဇနီး | za1-ni3 - [formal] wife; spouse; uxor (Latin word and legal terminology used by lawyers.)
  
  ဇနီးကောင်းမီသသော | za1-ni3 goun3 pe2-tha1 dthau3 - wifely.
  
  ဇနီးမောင်နှံ | za1-ni3 moun2-hnun2 - young couple.
  
  ဇနီးသည် | za1-ni3 dtheare2 - [literary] wife.
  
  ဇယ | za1-ya1 - four. za1-ya1 - on equal term.
  
  ဇယတု | za1-ya1-tu1 - be successful.
  
  ဇယား | za1-ya3 - table; tabular form; tabular array.
  
  ဇယားကွက် | za1-ya3 gwet - table cell.
  
  ဇယားချ | za1-ya3 cha1 - tabulate; make table entries; make detailed plans.
  
  ဇယော်ဇယ | za1-yau2 za1-ya1 - sloppily.
  
  ဇရာ | za1-ya2 - old age; decay.
  
  ဇရာထောင်း | za1-ya2 htoun3 - feel the effects of aging.
  
  ဇရာအို | za1-ya2 o2 - old person.
  
  ကညာပျိုနဲ့ ဇရာအို | ka1-nya2-pyo2 neare1 za1-ya2-o2 - 'A Young Maiden and the Old Man,' a classic 1972 Myanmar movie starring ကောလိပ်ဂျင်နေဝင်း၊ ကျော်ဟိန်း၊ စံရှားတင်၊ ခင်သန်းနု.
  
  ဇရန်း | za1-yan3 - a variety of high quality tea leaves.
  
  ဇရပ် | za1-yut - open-aired public resthouse; shelter.
  
  ဇလဗေဒ | za1-la1 bay2-da1 - hydrology.
  
  ဇလီဖားတုံး | za1-li2 pfa3 dome3 - railroad tie; railway track sleeper underneath across two rails.
  
  ဇလပ် | za1-lut - Pink kopsia, a type of flowering shrub.
  
  ဇလုံ | za1-lone2 - washbasin; round bottomed vessel with relatively large circumference to height ratio.
  
  ဇဝနဉာဏ် | za1-wa1-na1 nyan2 - quick wit.
  
  ဇဝနဉာဏ်ရွှင်သော | za1-wa1-na1 nyan2 shwin2 dthau3 - witty; using words in a clever and funny way.
  
  ဇဝေဇဝါ | za1-way2-za1-wa2 - in a state of confusion.
  
  ဇဝေဇဝါဖြစ် | za1-way2-za1-wa2 pfyit - bewilder; dumbfound; puzzle; perplex; stupefy; vex.
  
  ဇဝေဇဝါဖြစ်ခြင်း | za1-way2-za1-wa2 pfyit jin3 - dilemma; confusion; perplexity; double bind; quandary.
  
  ဇဝက်သာ | za1-wet-tha2 - Ammonium Chloride (NH₄Cl) - a type of white salt for various purposes.
  
  ဇမ္ဗုသပြေ | za1-bu1 dtha1-byay2
  ဇမ္ဗူ | za1-bu2 - (1) Eugenia tree. (2) rose apple (Eugenia Jambos).
  
  ဇမ္ဗူပနီ | za1-bu2 pa1-ni2 - tulip tree.
  
  ဇမ္ဗူရစ် | za1-bu2-yit - [myth] gold from Eugenia tree.
  
  
• [Sounds like za1]
  
  See under စ | sa1 for words such as
  စကား | za1-ga3
  စပါး | za1-ba3
  စပျစ် | za1-byit
  စရိတ် | za1-yate.
  
  စံကား | za1-ga3 - magnolia; champac.
  
  Also See under စား | sa3 for words such as
  စားပွဲ | za1-bweare3
  
  စံကားစိမ်း | za1-ga1-zain3 - flowering tree (Cananga odorada.)
  
  စံကားဝါ | za1-ga1-wa2 - magnolia; champac.
  
  စံပယ် | za1-beare2 - jasmine.
  
  စံပယ်တင်မှဲ့ | za1-beare2 din2 hmeare1 - mole on the cheek.
  
  စံပယ်ထပ် | za1-beare2 dut - stepped roof for light and ventilation.
  
  စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး | za1-ghine3-tine3 day2-tha1 ji3 - Sagaing Region.
  
  စစ်ကိုင်း နေပြည်တော် | za1-ghine3 nay2-pyi2-dau2 - Sagaing Kingdom (1315 to 1365), one of those small kingdoms that emerged following the collapse of Pagan Empire in 1287, followed by မြင်စိုင်းခေတ် | myin2-zine3 khit - era of Myinsaing Kingdom (1297-1313). The founder of Sagaing Kingdom, Prince Saw Yun, was the son of founder of ပင်းယ | pin3-ya1 - Pinya Kingdom Thihathu, who was the youngest of the three Myinsaing brothers. Prince Saw Yun fought for autonomy from his father Thihathu, and formally seceded from Pinya in 1325 after Thihathu's death. Full list of kings: အသင်္ခယာ စောယွမ်း၊ တရဖျားကြီး၊ သီရိ သီဟသူရ ရွှေတောင်တက်၊ ကျစွာ၊ နော်ရထာ မင်းရဲ၊ ဆင်ဖြူရှင် တရဖျား၊ သီဟပတေ့၊ သတိုးမင်းဖျား။
  
  The last king သတိုးမင်းဖျား dtha1-doe3 myin3-bya3 - Thado Minbya defeated the rival Pinya Kingdom in 1364, and started the era of much larger အင်းဝခေတ် | in3-wa1 khit - Ava Kingdom that ruled upper Myanmar that lasted until 1555 when it was defeated by ဘုရင့်နောင် | ba1-yin1 noun2 - Bayinnaung of Toungoo dynasty (the second dynasty of Myanmar)
  
  စစ်ကိုင်းမင်း | za1-ghine3 min3 - (See ဘကြီးတော် | ba1 ji3 dau2.)
  
  စစ်ကိုင်းမြို့ | za1-ghine3 myo1 - city of Sagaing once known as ဇေယျာပူရ | zay2-ya1 pu2-ra1.
  
  ဆံတောက်သိမ်း | za1-dout thain3 - time of transition from adolescence to womanhood. za1-dout thain3 - change hair style to that of a grown-up woman.
  
  ဆံထိုး | za1-doe3 - hairpin.
  
  ဆံထုံး | za1-dome3 - traditional hair-style for Myanmar women.
  
  ဆံပင် | za1-bin2 - hair.
  
  ဆံပင်ဆိုးဆေး | za1-bin2 hso3 zay3 - hair coloring dye.
  
  ဆံပင်ညှပ် | za1-bin2 hnyut - cut hair.
  
  ဆံပင်ညှပ်ဆိုင် | za1-bin2 hnyut hsine2 - barber's shop; hair cut and styling saloon.
  
  ဆံပင်တု | za1-bin2 du1 - wig; toupee.
  
  ဆံပင်လေပူမှုတ်စက် | za1-bin2 lay2-bu2 hmoat set - hairdryer.
  
  ဆက်ရက် | za1-yet - the common myna bird (Acridotheres tristis.)
  
  ဆန်ကော | za1-gau3 - round bamboo tray.
  
  ဆန်ကောဝိုင်း | za1-gau3 wine3 - in rotating movement.
  
  ဆန်ကွဲ | za1-gweare3 - broken rice.
  
  ဆန်ခါ | za1-ga2 - sieve; strainer; screen.
  
  ဆန်ခါချ | za1-ga2 cha1 - sift.
  
  ဆန်ခါတင် | za1-ga2 din2 - cream of the crop; best of the lot; group of finalists.
  
  တံတွေး | za1-dway3 - saliva; spittle.
  
  တံတွေးထွေး | za1-dway3 htway3 - spit out.
  
  
• ဇာ | za2
  
  (1) lace.
  
  (2) part of both male and female Burmese names.
  
  ဇာဂနာ | za2-ga1-na2 - tweezers.
  
  ဇာတာ | za2-ta2 - horoscope diagram of one's birth with relation to planets.
  
  ဇာတိ | za2-ti1 - place of birth.
  
  ဇာတိမာန် | za2-ti1 mun2 - national pride
  
  ဇာတိပ္ဖိုလ် | za2-date-pfo2 - nutmeg.
  
  ဇာထိုး | za2 hto3 - knit lace; crochet.
  
  ဇာနည် | za2 ni2 - Zar Ni (male Burmese name.)
  
  ဇာဘုရင် | za2 ba1-yin2 - Czar (Tsar); monarch of Russia prior to 1917.
  
  ဇာဘုရင်မ | za2 ba1-yin2-ma1 - Czarina; Tsarina; Czaritza; Tsaritsa; the wife of a Czar (Tsar).
  
  ဇာဘော်လီ | za2 bau2-li2 - lace brassiere.
  
  သူဇာ | thu2 za2 - Thuzar (female Burmese name.)
  
  
• ဈ | za1 the ninth character ဈမျည်းဆွဲ | za1 myin2 zweare3.
  
  
• ဈာ | za2
  
  ဈာပန | za2-pa1-na1 - funeral.
  
  ဈာပန အခမ်းအနား | za2-pa1-na1 a-khan1 a-na3 - funeral wake.
  
  
• ဉ | nya1 the tenth (Pali) character
  
  ဉကလေး | nya1 ga1-lay3.
  
  ဉငယ် | nya1 ngeare2.
  
  
• ဉာ | nya2 -
  
  ဉာဏ | nya2-na1 - intellect; intellectual capacity.
  
  ဉာဏဗလ | nya2-na1 ba1-la1 - intellectual strength; brain power.
  
  ဉာဏလုပ်သား | nya2-na1 loat-tha3 - white-collar worker.
  
  
• ည | nya1
  
  (1) the tenth character ညကြီး | nya1 ji3.
  
  (2) night; words related to night or evening.
  
  ညကျောင်း | nya1 joun3 - evening classes.
  
  ညကြီးမင်းကြီး | nya1 ji3 min3-ji3 - late at night. nya ji3 min3-ji3 - untimely hour of the night.
  
  ညချမ်း | nya1 jan3 - evening.
  
  မင်္ဂလာညချမ်းပါ | min2-ga1-la2 nya1 jan3 ba2 - Good evening!
  
  ညစာ | nya1 za2 - evening meal; dinner; supper.
  
  ညဈေး | nya1 zay3 - night bazaar.
  
  ညဈေးတန်း | nya1 zay3-dun3 - row of stalls at night bazaar.
  
  ညတိုင်း | nya1 dine3 - every night.
  
  ညတွင်းချင်း | nya1 dwin3 jin3 - within the same night.
  
  ညနေ | nya1 nay2 - evening.
  
  ညနေခင်း | nya1 nay2 ghin3 - sunset time. [literary]
  
  ညနေချမ်း | nya1 nay2 jan3
  ညနေစောင်း | nya1-nay2 zoun3
  
  ညနေရီတရော | nya1 nay2 yi2 ta1-yau3 - early evening when the sun starts to go down.
  
  ညပိုင်း ထကြွလှုပ်ရှားသော | nya1 bine3 hta1-kjwa1 hloat-sha3 dthau3 - nocturnal (animals, birds, etc..)
  
  ညမထွက်ရအမိန့် | nya1 ma1-htwet ya1 a-main1 - nighttime curfew.
  
  ညမွှေးပန်း | nya1 hmway3 bun3 - queen of the night (flower).
  
  ညလုံးပေါက် | nya1 lone3-bout - all night from dusk to dawn.
  
  ညလုံးပေါက်ဝတ်ပြုခြင်း | nya1 lone3-bout woot-pyu1 jin3 - vigil.
  
  ညဝါ | nya1 wa2 - evening lectures to the student monks.
  
  ညသန်းခေါင် | nya1 dtha1-goun2 - midnight.
  
  ညဦးယံ | nya1 u3 yan2 - [literary] early hour of the night.
  
  
• ညာ | nya2; nya2
  
  (1) right-hand side.
  
  (2) tell lie; bluff.
  
  လိမ်ညာ | lain2 nya2 - deceive.
  
  ညာစားခြင်း | nya2 sa3 jin3 - trickery; fraud; dupery.
  
  ညာတာပါတေး | nya2-ta2 pa2-tay3 - slyly.
  
  ညာဘက် | nya2-bet - right side.
  
  ညာလုံး | nya2 lone3 - bluff.
  
  ညာလက်ရုံး | nya2 let-yone3 - right-hand man; trusted person.
  
  ညာဝါဖြန်းသန်း | nya2-wa2 pfyun3-thun3 - tell lies.
  
  ညာသံ | nya2-dthun2 - high pitch note.
  
  ညာသန် | nya2 thun2 - be right-handed.
  
  ညာသန်ခြင်း | nya2 thun2 jin3 - right-handedness; dextrality.
  
  
• ညား | nya3 - become husband and wife.
  
  ညားခါစလင်မယား | nya3 ga2 za1 lin2 ma1-ya3 - newly weds.
  
  
• ညှာ | hnya2
  
  (1) be considerate.
  
  (2) be lenient.
  
  ငဲ့ညှာ | ngeare1 hnya2 - show mercy and consideration..
  
  ညှာညှာတာတာ | hnya2-hnya2 ta2-ta2 - leniently; with due consideration.
  
  ညှာတာ | hnya2-ta2 - be considerate.
  
  ညှာတာစိတ်မရှိသော | hnya2-ta2-zate ma1-shi1-dthau3 - inconsiderate; unkind; pitiless; ruthless.
  
  မညှာမတာ | ma1-hnya2 ma1-ta2 - without care or concern.
  
  
• ဋ | ta1 - the eleventh character ဋသန်လျင်းချိတ် | ta1 ta1-lin3-jate.
  
  
• ဌ | hta1 the twelfth character ဌဝမ်းဘဲ | hta1 win2 beare3.
  
  
• ဌာ | hta2
  
  ဌာန | hta2-na1 - department.
  
  ဌာနချုပ် | hta2-na1 joat - headquarters.
  
  ဌာနစိတ် | hta2-na1 zate - section of the department.
  
  ဌာနမှုး | hta2-na1 hmu3 - department head.
  
  ဌာနေ | hta2 nay2 - place of birth; place that one lives.
  
  ဌာနန္တရ | hta2 nan2-da1-ra1 - official rank.
  
  ဌာပနာ | hta2 pa1-na2 - (1) relics enshrined inside pagoda. (2) hta2 pa1-na2 - enshrine relics inside pagoda.
  
  
• ဍ | da1 - the thirteenth character ဍရင်ကောက် | da1 yin2 gout.
  
  
• ဎ | da1 - the fourteenth character ဎရေမှုတ် | da1 yay2 hmoat.
  
  
• ဏ | na1 the fifteenth character ဏကြီး | na1 ji3.