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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• ဇ | za1 - the eighth character ဇကွဲ | za1 gweare3.
  
  ဇနကဇာတ် | za1-na1-ka1 zut - [Buddhism] one of the Great ten Jataka Tales.
  
  ဇနီး | za1-ni3 - [formal] wife.
  
  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.
  
  ဇယားကွက် | za1-ya3 gwet - table cell.
  
  ဇယားချ | za1-ya3 cha1 - 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.
  
  ကညာပျိုနဲ့ဇရာအို | ka1-nya2-pyo2 neare1 za1-ya2-o2 - a young maiden and the old man.
  
  ဇရန်း | za1-yan3 - a variety of high quality tea leaves.
  
  ဇရပ် | za1-yut - open-aired public resthouse.
  
  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.
  
  ဇဝေဇဝါ | za1-way2 za1-wa2 - in a state of confusion.
  
  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.
  
  စစ်ကိုင်းမြို့ | za1-ghine3 myo1 - city of Sagaing
  
  စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး | za1-ghine3-tine3 day2-tha1 ji3 - Sagaing Region.
  
  ဆံတောက် | za1-dout - a type of hairstyle for young girls in the old days.
  
  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; bet of the lot; group of finalists.
  
  တံတွေး | za1-dway3 - saliva; spittle.
  
  
• 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.
  
  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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.