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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'Au'

• ဂေါ | gau3
  
  ဂေါဇာဂြိုဟ် | gau3-za2 jo2 - [astrology] present position of planets in the zodiac.
  
  ဂေါတမ သိဒ္ဓတ္ထ | gau3-da1-ma1 thate-dut-hta1 - Prince Gotama Siddhattha (before becoming a Buddha.)
  
  ဂေါတမ | gau3-da1-ma1 - Gautama Buddha, name of the fourth Buddha to appear in this World out of the five in the order of ကကုသန်၊ ကောဏာဂုံ၊ ကဿပ၊ ဂေါတမ၊ အရိမေတ္တယျ.
  
  ဂေါပက | gau3 pa1-ka1 - pagoda trustee.
  
  ဂေါရာစဉ်း | gau3-ya2 zin3 - gallstone from cattle.
  
  ဂေါရီ | gau3-ri2 - eight-year old girl.
  
  ဂေါဝိန်ဂြိုဟ် | gau3-wain2 jo2 - [astrology] position of planets at the time of one's birth.
  
  
• ဂေါ့ | gau1
  
  ဂေါ့ပလ္လင် | gau1 pa1-lin2 - Buddha's throne.
  
  
• ဂေါ် | gau2; gau2
  
  (1) dust-pan; shovel as in ဂေါ်ပြား | gau2-bya3.
  
  (2) flaw found in gem stones.
  
  (3) woo; make a move at a girl.
  
  ဂေါ်ဖီချိုချဉ်ဆိမ့်သုတ် | gau2-be2 cho2-chin2-hsain1 thoat - coleslaw (KFC menu item.)
  
  ဂေါ်ဖီထုပ် | gau2-be2 doat - cabbage.
  
  ဂေါ်ဖီပန်း | gau2-be2 bun3 (or) ပန်းဂေါ်ဖီ | pan3 gau2-be2 - cauliflower.
  
  ဂေါ်မိတ် | gau2 mate - zircon (a type of gem).
  
  ဂေါ်မုတ် | gau2 moat - garnet (hard glassy gemstone.)
  
  ဂေါ်ရခါး | gau2-ra1-kha3 - Gurkha.
  
  ဂေါ်ရခါးသီး | gau2-ra1-kha3 dthi3 - chayote.
  
  ဂေါ်ရာ | gau2-ya2 - British soldier in the colonial days.
  
  ဂေါ်ရာဖျင် | gau2-ya2 pfyin2 - coarse white canvass.
  
  ဂေါ်လီလုံး | gau2-li2 lone3 - small marble ball about one inch or less in diameter that children in the old days played by striking one ball by an another.
  
  ဂေါ်သဇင် | gau2 dtha1-zin2 - (1) a type of orchid. (2) creeper (Porana spectablis.)
  
  
• ဂျော် | jau2
  
  ဂျော်ဂျီယာ | jau2 ji2 ya2 - (1) Georgia, a republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea. (2) a state in southeastern United States.
  
  ဂျော်ဒန် | jau2 dun2 - Jordan, an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea.
  
  
• ဂျော့် | jau1
  
  ဂျော့်ဘွတ်ရှ် | jau1 boot (sh) - George Bush Junior and Senior, two former presidents of the United States.
  
  
• ငေါ | ngau3 - protrude out; jut out.
  
  
• ငေါ့ | ngau1
  
  (1) push out one's chin.
  
  (2) be sarcastic.
  
  ငေါ့လုံး | ngau1-lone3 - sarcastic remark; sarcasm.
  
  
• ငေါ် | ngau2
  
  (1) produce a loud sound; shout.
  
  (2) protrude out; jut out.
  
  
• စော | sau3; sau3; sau3
  
  (1) be early.
  
  (2) do something early as in စောစော | sau3-zau3
  
  စောစောပိုင်း | sau3-zau3 bine3 - early.
  
  စောစောလာပါ | sau3-zau3 la2 ba2 - Please come early.
  
  စောစောစီးစီး | sau3-zau3 si3-zi3 - too early, usually used to express surprise or contempt.
  
  စောစောစီးစီး ဘာထလုပ်နေတာလဲ | sau3-zau3 si3-zi3 ba2 hta1 loat nay2 da2 leare3 - What are you doing so early in the morning?
  
  စောလျင်စွာ | sau3-lyin2 zwa2 - as soon as possible; ASAP.
  
  (3) contemplate; consider.
  
  (4) honorable; holy; famous; renowned.
  
  ကျော်စော | kjau2 zau3 - become famous.
  
  (5) part of some female Burmese names.
  
  စောဒက | sau3 da1-ga1 - (1) argument. (2) Buddhist rules for monastic. (3) inquisitor.
  
  စောဒကတက် | sau3 da1-ga1 tet - argue; dispute.
  
  စောဒနာ | sau3 da1-na2 - blame; reproof. sau3 da1-na2 - blame; reprove; interrogate.
  
  စောပြာ | sau3 bya2 - a type of wood used for making matches.
  
  စောယွမ်း | sau3 yoon3 - Saw Yun (1299–1327), teenage son of King Thihathu (co-founder of Myinsaing Kingdom and founder of Pinya Kingdom) who set up rival Sagaing Kingdom in 1315.
  
  စောရ | sau3 ya1 - thief.
  
  စောလူး | sau3 lu3 - Saw Lu, son of King Anawrahta and second King of Pagan from 1077 to 1084 before Kyansittha took over.
  
  
• စော် | sau2 - unpleasant smell; foul smell.
  
  ပုပ်စော်နံတယ် | poat-sau2 nun2 deare2 - It smells rotten.
  
  ညှော်စော်နံတယ် | hnyau2-zau2 nun2 deare2 - Smells like something is burning.
  
  စော်ကား | sau2-ga3 - to insult.
  
  စော်ကားခြင်း | sau2-ga3 jin3 - insult; act of verbal abuse.
  
  စော်ကားမော်ကား | sau2-ga3 mau2-ga3 - rudely; in an insulting manner.
  
  စော်ကဲ | sau2-keare3 - Kayin Chief in the old days.
  
  စော်ဘွား | zau2-bwa3 - chieftain of Shan tribe.
  
  စော်ဘွားစော်ကန် | zau2-bwa3 zau2-kun2 - Shan chieftains.
  
  
• ဆော | hsau3
  
  ဆောတလျင် | hsau3-ta1-lin2
  ဆောလျင် | hsau3-lin2 - at once; without delay; immediately.
  
  ဆောလျင်စွာ | hsau3-lin2 zwa2 - ASAP; as soon as possible.
  
  
• ဆော့ | hsau1 - play; play around.
  
  ကလေးတွေ ဆော့နေကြတယ် | kha1-lay3-dway2 hsau1 nay2 ja1 deare2 - Kids are playing.
  
  ဆော့ဖ်ဝဲ | sau1-(pf) weare3 - [English] software.
  
  
• ဆော် | hsau2; hsau2
  
  (1) [Slang] chick (young woman); girl.
  
  (2) attack or hit someone in a fight as in ဆော်ပလော်တီး | hsau2-pa1-lau2 ti3.
  
  (3) join by soldering or welding.
  
  (4) [poetic] wind to blow gently.
  
  (5) urge or rouse people for action as in နှိုးဆော် | hno3 zau2 - urge.
  
  နိဗ္ဗာန်ကို အကျိုးမျှော်၍ နှိုးဆော်အပ်ပါတယ် | nate-bun2 go2 a-kjo3-hmyau2 yway1 hno3 zau2 ut ba2 deare2 - We urge you in view of the benefits of reaching Nibbana (Nirvana).
  
  ဆော်ဒါ | hsau2-da2 - [English] soda; baking powder.
  
  ဆော်ဒီအာရေဗျ | hsau2-de2 ah2-yay2-bya1
  ဆော်ဒီအာရေးဘီးယား | hsau2-de2 ah2-yay3-be3-ya3 - Saudi Arabia, an Arab monarchy in Arabian Peninsula.
  
  ဆော်ဖန် | hsau2-pfun2 - manage.
  
  ဆော်ဩ | sau2-au3 - urge.
  
  ဆော်ဩသူ | sau2-au3 dthu2 - organizer.
  
  
• ဇော | zau3 - surge of emotion; passion; zeal.
  
  ဇောကပ် | zau3 kut - become emotionally attached to.
  
  ဇောချွေးပြန် | zau3 jway3 pyan2 - sweat or perspire in face of danger.
  
  ဇောသန် | zau3 thun2 - be ardent; be enthusiastic; be zealous.
  
  ဇောသန်စွာ | zau3 thun2 zwa2 - eagerly; enthusiastically; zealously; fervently; ardently; avidly.
  
  ဇောသန်သော | zau3 thun2 dthau3 - eager; enthusiastic; zealous; fervent; ardent; avid.
  
  
• ဇော် | zau2
  
  (1) top in class or category; the best person.
  
  (2) wizard; commercial name of a Burmese font as in ဇော်ဂျီ | zau2-ji2.
  
  (3) part of some male Burmese names. E.g., ဇော်ဦး | zau2 u3 - Zaw Oo.
  
  ဇော်ဂနီ | zau2 ga1-ni2 - a type of witch.
  
  ဇော်ဂျီတောင်ဝှေး | zau2-ji2 toun2-mway3 - a type of long-stemmed plant (Dracaena fragrans.)
  
  ဇော်ဂျီမံ | zau2-ji2 mun2
  ဇော်မံ | zau2 mun2 - insulate pot or container with mud or cloth.
  
  ဇော်ဂျီမုတ်ဆိတ် | zau2-ji2 moat-hsate - (1) spikenard plant for making perfumed ointment (Nardostachys jatamansi.) (2) a type of black lily (Tacca cristata.)
  
  ဇော်ဂျီရောင် | zau2-ji2 youn2 - dark red color.
  
  ဇော်ဆွဲ | zau2 hsweare3 - be the best. zau2 zweare3 - the best person.
  
  ဇော်မွှား | zau2 hmwa3 - carnation.
  
  ဇော်ရန်း | zau2 yan3 - purple; violet color.
  
  ဇော်တ | zau2 ta1 - [literature] plant with flowers resembling royal barge.
  
  ဇော်တခိုင်လုံး | zau2 ta1-khine2 lone3 - a type of poem with nineteen syllables.
  
  
• ညှော် | hnyau2 - emit burning oil smell; smell smoke.
  
  ညှော်တယ်ဗျို့၊ ဘာတွေကြော်နေတာလဲ | hnyau2 deare2 byo1, ba2 dway2 kjau2 nay2 da2 leare3 - There's too much smoke in here. What are you frying?
  
  ညှော်ခံ | hnyau2 khan2 - (1) inhale cooking smell. (2) develop tolerance to exposure of cooking smell.
  
  ညှော်စော်နံ | hnyau2-zau2 nun2 - smell like something is burning.
  
  ညှော်တိုက် | hnyau2 tite - annoy neighbors by smoke and cooking smell.
  
  ညှော်မိ | hnyau2 mi1 - feel headache or dizziness from exposure to smoke and cooking smell.
  
  ညှော်ရှောင် | hnyau2 shoun2 - avoid exposure to smoke and fumes.
  
  ညှော်လုပ် | hnyau2 loat - smoke and fume to emit from cooking.
  
  ညှော်ဝင် | hnyau2 win2 - fumes and smoke to adversely affect sore and open skin infections.
  
  
• တော | tau3; tau3
  
  (1) forest; jungle.
  
  (2) rural area; countryside.
  
  (3) prefix in front of some undomesticated animals living in the wild.
  
  တောကြောင် | tau3 joun2 - wild cat.
  
  (4) crowd, throng, herd, vast multitude of things as in လူတော | lu2 dau3 - crowd of people.
  
  (5) evil.
  
  (6) rustic; wild.
  
  တောကောင် | tau3 goun2 - (1) wild animals. (2) evil spirits.
  
  တောကျ | tau3 kja1 - (1) be away from urban areas. (2) be a country bumpkin.
  
  တောကျဆည် | tau3-kja1 hseare2 - large fishing screen.
  
  တောကျီးကန်း | tau3 kji3-gun3 - wild crow; rook.
  
  တောကြီးမြက်မည်း | tau3-ji3 myet-meare3 - dense forest; wilderness.
  
  တောကြီးမြွေဟောက် | tau3-ji3 mway2-hout - king cobra.
  
  တောကြက် | tau3 jet - jungle fowl.
  
  တောကြောင် | tau3 joun2 - (1) wild cat; lynx; bobcat; serval; eyra (African wild cat.) (2) robbers; thieves.
  
  တောကြမ်း | tau3 kjan3 - be infested with wild animal or evil spirits.
  
  တောကျွံ | tau3 kjoon2 - be lost in the jungle.
  
  တောကျွမ်း | tau3 kjoon3 - have thorough knowledge of the terrain and forest.
  
  တောခို | tau3 kho2 - go underground and hide from authorities or become a rebel.
  
  တောခေါင်း | tau3 goun3 - forest ranger.
  
  တောခုတ် | tau3 khoat - clear jungle or undergrowth.
  
  တောချက်ချက် | tau3-jet chet - cook a simple dish.
  
  တောခြောက် | tau3 chout - (1) make noises to force hunted animals to run out from the hiding place. (2) get lost in the jungle and suffer hallucinations.
  
  တောခြောက်သမား | tau3-chout tha1-ma3 - hunter helper who makes noises to frighten wild game to come out from the hiding place.
  
  တောခွေး | tau3 gway3 - wild dog.
  
  တောစာ | tau3 za2 - (1) inferior quality part of log (of tree) that is discarded. (2) flaw in a gem stone. (3) inferior type of mango.
  
  တောစိုးသစ်ပင် | tau3-zo3 thit-pin2 - large deified tree.
  
  တောဆန် | tau3 hsun2 - rustic.
  
  တောတက် | tau3 tet - go to the forest to gather wood.
  
  တော၊ တောင်ခရီးလမ်း | tau3 toun2 kha1-yi3 lun3 - trail; mountain trail; forest trail.
  
  တောတိုင် | tau3 tine2 - inform the spirits before burial at the cemetery.
  
  တောတွင်နေသော | tau3 twin2 nay2 dthau3
  တောတွင်ပေါက်သော | tau3 twin2 pout dthau3 - wild.
  
  တောထ | tau3 hta1 - overgrown with trees and shrubs.
  
  တောထိုင် | tau3 htine2 - relieve oneself in the woods.
  
  တောထုတ် | tau3 htoat - drive away evil spirits with drums.
  
  တောထွက် | tau3 htwet - leave the household life and worldly pursuits to practice meditation in the forest. tau3 dwet - someone who becomes a monk late in life.
  
  တောနက် | tau3 net - dense forest. tau3 net - be deep in the forest; forest to be dense.
  
  တောနင်း | tau3 nin3 - search and scour the forest for fugitives.
  
  တောပစ် | tau3 pyit - go for hunting trip; hunt.
  
  တောပုန်း | tau3-bone3 - bandits and fugitives who hide in the jungle.
  
  တောဖိတ်နေ့ | tau3 bate nay1 - two days before Buddhist Sabbath day.
  
  တောဘဲ | tau3 beare3 - wild duck.
  
  တောမီး | tau3 mi3 - forest fire.
  
  တောမှား | tau3 hma3 - attacked by a tiger in the forest.
  
  တောမှောက် | tau3 hmout - shoot a person by mistaking him to be a game animal during hunting trip.
  
  တောရကျောင်း | tau3-ya1 joun3 - cloister; Buddhist monastery in a countryside away from villages and towns.
  
  တောရိုင်း | tau3-yine3 - wild.
  
  တောရိုင်းတိရစ္ဆာန်များ | tau3-yine3 ta1-rate-hsun2 mya3 - wildlife.
  
  တောရမ်းပယ်ဖွဲ့ | tau3-yan3 peare2-pfweare1 - without concrete evidence; conjecturally.
  
  တောရွာ | tau3 ywa2 - hamlet; small village.
  
  တောလိုက် | tau3 lite - hunt for game in the forest.
  
  တောလိုက်ခွေး | tau3-lite khway3 - hunting dog.
  
  တောလိုက်အုံပါ | tau3-lite ome2 ba2 - in accordance with rural customs.
  
  တောလည် | tau3 leare2 - hunt for game animals.
  
  တောဝက် | tau3 wet - wild boar.
  
  တောဝင် | tau3 win2 - (1) retire into the forest as a recluse. (2) banana plants revert back to the wild state with seeds. (3) be possessed by evil spirits of the forest.
  
  တောသား | tau3-dtha3 - country bumpkin.
  
  တောသူ တောင်သား | tau3-dthu2 toun2-dtha3 - country folks.
  
  တောအရက် | tau3 a-yet - moonshine; illicitly distilled liquor.
  
  တောအုပ် | tau3 oat - forest ranger.
  
  တောအုံကနား | tau3-ome2 ka1-na3 - rural area.
  
  
• တော့ | tau1; tau1 dau1
  
  (1) repeatedly toss something such as a ball into the air by using legs, head, shoulder, chest, or hands.
  
  (2) [colloquial] ending exclamation word to express surprise by female speakers.
  
  ဟုတ်တယ်တော့ | hote deare2 tau1 - Oh my God! That's true!
  
  (3) [colloquial] about to do something.
  
  ကန်တော့မယ် | kun2 dau1 meare2 - (He is) about to kick the ball.
  
  (4) a word to persuade someone to do something.
  
  ပြန်လာပါတော့ | pyan2 la2 ba2 dau1 - Please come back!
  
  (5) never as in ဘယ်တော့မှ | beare2 dau1 hma1.
  
  (6) no longer.
  
  မသွားတော့ဘူး | ma1-thwa3 dau1 bu3 - There was a plan or intention to go, but it has changed and I am no longer going.
  
  ဘယ်တော့မှ မသွားတော့ဘူး | beare2 dau1 hma1 ma1-thwa3 dau1 bu3 - I will never go there again! This sentence makes use of both "never" and "no longer".
  
  (7) therefore; if; when that happens; emphasis on the word before it.
  
  ဒီတော့ ဘာဆက်လုပ်ရမလဲ | de2 dau1 ba2 hset loat ya ma1-leare3 - If that is the case, how shall I proceed?
  
  စိတ်ချရရင်တော့ ကောင်းတာပေါ့ | sate-cha1 ya1 yin2 dau1 koun3 da2 bau1 - If you can trust (him), that's great!
  
  နေ့တိုင်းတော့ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး | nay1-dine3 dau1 ma1-hote ba2 bu3 - "It's not everyday" to emphasize the fact that it's not to that extent.
  
  ဒီလောက်တော့ မဆိုးသေးပါဘူး | de2 lout dau1 ma1-hso3 thay3 ba2 bu3 - "It's not that bad - not yet, anyway" to emphasize the fact that it's not to that extreme degree.
  
  
• တော် | tau2; tau2 dau2
  
  (1) excel in something; be smart; be clever.
  
  တော်တယ် | tau2 deare2 - excellent! You're smart!
  
  (2) be related.
  
  ဘာတော်လဲ | ba2 tau2 leare3 - How are you two related?
  
  အစ်ကိုဝမ်းကွဲ တော်တယ် | a-ko2 woon3-gweare3 tau2 deare2 - We are cousins (half-brothers).
  
  (3) be sufficient; be enough.
  
  တော်ပြီ | tau2 byi2 - I have enough already!
  
  (4) be suitable and fitting as in သင့်တော် | thin1 tau2.
  
  ဒီအင်္ကျီတော်ရဲ့လား | de2 ain3-ji2 tau2 yeare1 la3 - Does this shirt fit you?
  
  (5) "yes" to answer a call or ending word used by some women.
  
  (6) pronoun "you" used by some women.
  
  (7) suffix word to show reverence or royalty.
  
  နေပြည်တော် | nay2 pyi2 dau2 - Nay Pyi Taw, Capital of Myanmar. In the old days, it refers to the royal city with palace such as Mandalay.
  
  တော်ကာကျ | tau2 ga2 kja1 - be just sufficient.
  
  တော်ကာလျော်ကာ | tau2-ga2 yau2-ga2 - in a sloppy manner.
  
  တော်စပ် | tau2 sut - be related.
  
  တော်စွလျော်စွ | tau2-zwa1 yau2-zwa1 - in a casual way; not meticulously.
  
  တော်တော် | tau2-tau2 - moderately; quite.
  
  တော်တော်တန်တန် | tau2-tau2 tan2-tan2 - to a certain degree.
  
  တော်တည့် | tau2 teare1 - upright; honest; straightforward.
  
  တော်ပီဒို | tau2-pe2-doh2 - [English] torpedo.
  
  တော်ဖီ | tau2-pfe2 - [English] toffee.
  
  တော်ဖြောင့် | tau2 pfyoun1 - honest.
  
  တော်မီဂန်း | tau2-mi2 gun3 - [English] tommy gun; Thompson sub-machine gun.
  
  တော်ရိလျော်ရိ | tau2-yi1 yau2-yi1 - sloppily.
  
  တော်ရုံတန်ရုံ | tau2-yone2 tan2-yone2 - in moderation; reasonably.
  
  တော်လေးဝ | tau2-lay3 wa1 - the four respected women in the Buddha's previous lives (အမရာဒေဝီ၊ စန္ဒကိန္နရီ၊ မဒ္ဒီဒေဝီ၊ သမ္ဘူလ).
  
  တော်လည်း | tau2-leare3 - earthquake to rumble.
  
  တော်လှန် | tau2 hlun2 - revolt; rebel.
  
  တော်လှန်ရေး | tau2-hlun2-yay3 - (1) revolution. (2) resistance.
  
  တော်လှန်ရေးနေ့ | tau2-hlun2-yay3 nay1 - Resistance Day.
  
  တော်လှန်ရေးသမား | tau2-hlun2-yay3 dtha1-ma3 - revolutionary.
  
  တော်ဝင် | tau2 win2 - fit for royalty. tau2-win2 - items for use by the royalty. tau2-win2 - royal; regal; imperial; majestic.
  
  တော်သလင်း | tau2-tha1-lin3 - Month of Tawthalin in Myanmar Calander, which usually falls near the end of the rainy season around September.
  
  တော်အောင်လျော်အောင် | tau2-oun2 yau2-oun2 - not seriously; not meticulously; in a sloppy manner.