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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'Ay'

• ဇေ | zay2
  
  ဇေတဝန်ကျောင်းတော် | zay-ta1-woon2 kjoun3 dau2 - Anathapindika monastery in Jeta's Groves near a place called Savatthi. Anathapindika (အနာထပိဏ် သူဌေးကြီး) was a wealthy supporter of the Buddha.
  
  ဇေယျ | zay2-ya1 - success; victory.
  
  ဇေယျသိင်္ခ | zay2-ya1 thain3-kha1 - the 8^th king of Pagan. (See ထီးလိုမင်းလို | hti2-lo2 min3-lo2.)
  
  
• ဈေး | zay3
  
  (1) marketplace.
  
  သိမ်ကြီးဈေး | thain2-ji3 zay3 - Theingyi Market in downtown Yangon.
  
  ဈေးကပြန်လာတာပါ | zay3 ga1 pyan2 la2 da2 ba2 - I just came back from the market.
  
  (2) selling price; sticker price.
  
  ကုန်ဈေးနှုန်း | kone2 zay3-hnome3 - commodity prices.
  
  ဈေးကြီးတယ် | zay3 kji3 deare2 - It's expensive.
  
  ဈေးချိုတယ် | zay3 cho2 deare2 - It's cheap.
  
  ဒီနှစ်ခုဈေးတူတယ် | de2 hna1-khu1 zay3 tu2 deare2 - Those two items cost the same.
  
  ဘယ်ဈေးလဲ | beare2 zay3 leare3 - What's the price?
  
  (3) sales, dealing, and trading associated with profits.
  
  ဈေးအကြီးဆုံး | zay3 a-kji3 zone3 - the most expensive.
  
  ဈေးအချိုဆုံး | zay3 a-cho2 zone3 - least expensive.
  
  ဈေးအပေါဆုံး | zay3 a-pau3 zone3 - cheapest.
  
  ဈေးကစား | zay3 ga1-za3 - (1) manipulate market price. (2) price to become unstable.
  
  ဈေးကစားမှုပြုခြင်း | zay3 ga1-za3 hmu1 pyu1 jin3 - price manipulation; short-selling in stock-market.
  
  ဈေးကား | zay3 ka3 - mobile market; mobile shop; a vehicle selling fresh fruits, meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, etc.. (Also ‌‌ရွေ့လျားဈေးကား | yway1-lya3 zay3 ka3.)
  
  ဈေးကောက် | zay3 gout - (1) market stall tax. (2) market stall tax collector.
  
  ဈေးကိုက် | zay3 kite - selling price to be profitable.
  
  ဈေးကောင်း | zay3 koun3 - selling price to be high.
  
  ဈေးကိုင် | zay3 kine2 - merchants to wait for price to go up.
  
  ဈေးကုန် | zay3-gome2 - maximum amount that consumers are willing to pay.
  
  ဈေးကျ | zay3 kja1 - price to drop; price to fall.
  
  ဈေးကြီး | zay3 kji3 - price to be expensive.
  
  ဈေးကြို | zay3 kjo2 - buy goods from wholesaler for retailing. zay3-jo2 - wholesale market.
  
  ဈေးကွဲ | zay3 kweare3 - shoppers and market crowd to dwindle away.
  
  ဈေးကွက် | zay3-gwet - opportunity or strategy to make profits.
  
  ဒါမျိုးဈေးကွက်ရှိလား | da2 myo2 zay3-gwet shi1 la3 - Is there a market for such item? Can sales be made profitably?
  
  ဈေးကွက်စီးပွားရေးစနစ် | zay3-gwet si3-bwa3-yay3 sa1-nit - market economy.
  
  ဈေးကွက်လက်ဝါးကြီးအုပ်မှု | zay3-gwet let-wa1-ji3 oat hmu1 - monopoly.
  
  ဈေးခေါ် | zay3 khau2 - seller to call asking price; zay3-gau2 - one who promotes sales by attracting customers.
  
  ဈေးခေါင်း | zay3-goun3 - superintendent of a market.
  
  ဈေးချ | zay3 cha1 - make discount sales.
  
  ဈေးချို | zay3 cho2 - price to be cheap.
  
  ဈေးချိုသော | zay3 cho2 dthau3 - inexpensive.
  
  ဈေးချောင် | zay3 choun2 - get a bargain price.
  
  ဈေးချုပ် | zay3-joat - ready-made clothes.
  
  ဈေးခြင်းတောင်း | zay3 jin3-doun3 - shopping basket.
  
  ဈေးစကား | zay3 za1-ga3 - gossip.
  
  ဈေးဆို | zay3 hso2 - call a high price.
  
  ဈေးဆိုင် | zay3-zine2 - stall; shop; store. zay3 hsine2 - make a deal.
  
  ဈေးဆစ် | zay3 hsit - make a bargain.
  
  ဈေးဆစ်ကြည့်လိုက် | zay3 hsit kji1 lite - see if you can bargain.
  
  ဈေးဆွဲ | zay3 hsweare3 - hold back the sales and wait for higher price.
  
  ဈေးတက် | zay3 tet - rise in price.
  
  ဈေးတင် | zay3 tin2 - mark up price.
  
  ဈေးတောင်းခေါင်းရွက် | zay3-doun3 goun3-ywet - hawker; pedlar.
  
  ဈေးတည့် | zay3 teare1 - make a successful deal.
  
  ဈေးတန့် | zay3 tan1 - price to become stable.
  
  ဈေးတန်း | zay3-dun3 - row of shops or stalls. zay3 tan3 - price to remain static.
  
  ဈေးတွက် | zay3-dwet - quick summing method in the head used by sellers in the market.
  
  ဈေးထိုင်း | zay3 htine3 - sales to be slump.
  
  ဈေးထွက် | zay3 htwet - go out to sell in the market.
  
  ဈေးနာ | zay3 na2 - make inquiries on current commodity prices.
  
  ဈေးနေ့ | zay3 nay1 - market day.
  
  ဈေးနှုန်း | zay3-hnome3 - price of commodities; quotation.
  
  ဈေးနှုန်းစတစ်ကာ | zay3-hnome3 sa1-tit-ka2 - price label; price tag.
  
  ဈေးပါးစပ် | zay3 ba1-zut - irresponsible talk.
  
  ဈေးပေါ | zay3 pau3 - price to be cheap.
  
  ဈေးပေါင်ကျိုး | zay3 boun2-jo3 - time when crowd thins out.
  
  ဈေးပတ် | zay3 but - pre-arranged market day in some regions.
  
  ဈေးဖိုး | zay3 bo3 - shopping money for daily needs.
  
  ဈေးဖိတ်နေ့ | zay3-bate nay1 - day before pre-arranged market day.
  
  ဈေးဖျက် | zay3 pfyet - spoil the market by underselling; do short selling.
  
  ဈေးဖြတ် | zay3 pfyut - determine selling price.
  
  ဈေးမှန် | zay3 hmun2 - prevailing price at market value.
  
  ဈေးမြင့်နေသောနှုန်း | zay3 myin1 nay2 dthau3 hnome3 - overvaluation; an overestimate; overestimation; overappraisal.
  
  ဈေးမြှင့်ရောင်း | zay3 hmyin1 youn3 - overcharge.
  
  ဈေးရင်း | zay3-yin3 - cost price. zay3 yin3 - invest money.
  
  ဈေးရောင်း | zay3 youn3 - sell something in the market.
  
  ဈေးလိုက် | zay3 lite - sales to pick up.
  
  ဈေးလန် | zay3 lun2 - fail negotiation and sale not made.
  
  ဈေးလန့် | zay3 lun1 - panic in the market regarding buying or selling decisions.
  
  ဈေးလျော့နေသောနှုန်း | zay3 yau1 nay2 dthau3 hnome3 - undervaluation; an underestimate; underestimation.
  
  ဈေးလှန့် | zay3 hlun1 - manipulate prices to create market instability.
  
  ဈေးလျှော့ရောင်း | zay3 shau1 youn3 - undersell; undercut (to beat the competition.)
  
  ဈေးဝယ် | zay3 weare2 - go shopping in the market. zay3-weare2 - customer; buyer.
  
  ဈေးဝယ်စင်တာ | zay3-weare2 sin2-ta2 - shopping center; shopping mall.
  
  ဈေးဝယ်သူ | zay3-weare2 dthu2 - shoppers.
  
  ဈေးသည် | zay3-dtheare2 - seller in the market; monger.
  
  ဈေးသုံး | zay3 dthone3 - money for household expenses.
  
  ဈေးဦးဈေးဖျား | zay3-u3 zay3-pfya3 - the first sale of the day.
  
  ဈေးဦးပေါက် | zay3-u3-bout - the first instance. zay3-u3 pout - make the first sale.
  
  ဈေးဦးပေါက်သွားတယ် | zay3-u3-pout thwa3 deare2 - the first sale was made.
  
  ဈေးဦးဖောက် | zay3-u3 pfout - (1) be the first buyer. (2) be the first person to do something.
  
  ဈေးအေး | zay3 ay3 - business to be stagnant.
  
  
• ဌေး | htay3
  
  (1) be rich; be wealthy.
  
  သူဌေး | tha1-htay3 - rich man; the boss.
  
  (2) part of both male and female Burmese names which implies richness just like American comic character Ritchie Rich. E.g., ဦးသန်းဌေး | u3 than3 htay3 - Mr. Millionaire.
  
  
• တေ | tay2
  
  (1) beat or pound repeatedly.
  
  (2) be unruly; be headstrong.
  
  တေလေ | tay2-lay2 - vagabound; vagrant.
  
  တေဇ | tay2-za1 - might; power; glory.
  
  တေဇော | tay2-zau3 - element of fire; heat.
  
  တေဇော် | tay2-zau2 - (1) heat. (2) power; glory.
  
  တေမိ | tay2-mi1 - person of few words.
  
  တေမိဇာတ် | tay2-mi1 zut - Temiya Jataka; Muga-Pakkha Jataka, One of the Ten Great Jataka Tales.
  
  တေသံ | tay2 dthun2 - (1) wrought iron. (2) one of the seven basic Myanmar musical notes.
  
  
• တေ့ | tay1 - touch the edge of an object to the edge of an adjacent object.
  
  ကတော့ကို ပုလင်းအဝမှာ တေ့ထား | ga1-dau1 go2 pa1-lin3 a-wa1 hma2 tay1 hta3 - hold the bottom edge of the funnel at the opening of the bottle.
  
  တေ့တေ့ဆိုင်ဆိုင် | tay1-day1 hsine2-zine2 - face to face.
  
  တေ့ဖြုတ် | tay1 pfyoat - (1) shoot someone point blank. (2) ruin someone's business at the last possible moment.
  
  တေ့လွဲလွဲ | tay1-lweare3 lweare3 - miss narrowly.
  
  
• တေး | tay3; tay3
  
  (1) make a mental note; jot down.
  
  (2) song; the same as သီချင်း | tha1-chin3.
  
  တေးထပ် | tay3-dut - a type of Myanmar lyric poem.
  
  တေးဖွဲ့ | tay3 pfweare1 - compose a song.
  
  တေးရေး | tay3-yay3
  တေးရေးဖွဲ့သူ | tay3 yay3-pfweare1 dthu2 - composer; song writer; lyricist.
  
  တေးသီချင်း | tay3 dtha1-chin3 - song.
  
  တေးသီချင်း တစ်ပုဒ် | tay3 dtha1-chin3 da1-boat - a song.
  
  တေးသံရှင် | tay3-dthun2-shin2 - vocalist for the song, which in direct translation means 'the one who owns the voice of the song'.
  
  တေးသံသွင်း | tay3-dthun2 dthwin3 - recording studio.
  
  တေးသွား | tay3-dthwa3 - tune of a song; melody.
  
  တေးသွားမျဉ်း | tay3-dthwa3 myin3 - staff; stave; the five horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
  
  
• တွေ | tway2 ; dway2
  
  (1) be in dilemma; hindered by indecision; be confused; not mentally alert and productive.
  
  (2) particle after a noun to make it plural.
  
  လူတွေ | lu2 dway2 - many people.
  
  တာတေတို့တစ်တွေ တွံတေးတောတွင် တစ်တီတူးတွေတောက်တဲ့တွေ တွေ့တယ်တဲ့တော့ | ta2-tay2 doh1 da1-dway2 toon2-tay3-tau3 dwin2 tit-ti2-du3 dway2 tout-teare1 dway2 tway1 deare2 deare1 tau1.
  
  A unique Burmese sentence with 20 တ | ta1 characters in a roll and use of dway2. Tatay and friends claimed to have seen birds called tit-ti2-du3 (red-wattled lap-wing of vanellus indicus species) and gecko, a type of lizard that lives in trees.
  
  တွေတွေ | tway2-dway2 - (liquid to flow) continuously.
  
  တွေဝေ | tway2 way2 - be in dilemma; baffle; vex; bewilder; stupefy; not mentally alert and productive.
  
  တွေဝေနေတယ် | tway2 way2 nay2 deare2 - (someone is) day-dreaming.
  
  တွေဝေနေသော | tway2-way2 nay2 dthau3 - pensive; thinking quietly and lost in thought.
  
  
• တွေ့ | tway1
  
  (1) seen; find; sight; spot; discover; detect; notice. (The verb may be followed by one of suffix particles: လိုက်၊ မိ၊ သွား to give a slightly different meaning.)
  
  ရှာတွေ့သွားပြီလား | sha2 tway1 thwa3 byi2 la3 - Did you find what you were looking for?
  
  (2) meet; come across.
  
  တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးပွဲ | tway1-hsone2 hsway3-nway3 bweare3 - conference.
  
  (3) experience; feel as in အတွေ့အကြုံ | a-tway1 a-kjone2 - what one has seen and encountered.
  
  (4) have to reckon with; get the punishment.
  
  တွေ့ကရာ | tway1 ga1-ya2
  တွေ့ကရာရှစ်သောင်း | tway1 ga1-ya2 shit-thoun3 - anything; any place; anyone; rubbish; nonsense (used in a sense of anyhow do or say.)
  
  တွေ့ကြုံ | tway1 kjone2 - experience; come across; encounter with.
  
  တွေ့ခွင့် | tway1 gwin1 - visitation (to see a prisoner by a family member); visitation rights (by a divorced person to spend time with the child or children that he or she no longer lives with.)
  
  တွေ့ခွင့်အချိန် | tway1-gwin1 a-chain2 - visiting hours (to spend time with someone in prison or hospital, etc..)
  
  တွေ့ဆုံ | tway1 hsone2 - meet (a person).
  
  တွေ့ဆုံချိန် | tway1 hsone2 jain2 - session.
  
  တွေ့ထိ | tway1 hti1 - come into contact with (something).
  
  တွေ့မေးခြင်း | tway1 may3 jin3 - interview.
  
  တွေ့မြင် | tway1 myin2 - observe and notice.
  
  တွေ့မြင်နေကျဖြစ်သော | tway1 myin2 nay2-ja1 pfyit-dthau3 - familiar.
  
  တွေ့မြင်နေကျမဟုတ်သော | tway1 myin2 nay2-ja1 ma1-hote-dthau3 - unfamiliar.
  
  တွေ့ရှိချက် | tway1 shi1 jet - finding.
  
  
• တွေး | tway3
  
  (1) think over; ponder; imagine.
  
  ဘာတွေတွေးနေတာလဲ | ba2 dway2 tway3 nay2 da2 leare3 - What are you thinking? What are you day-dreaming about?
  
  အတွေးအခေါ် | a-tway3 a-khau2 - one's philosophical concept and point of view.
  
  တွေးခေါ် | tway3 khau2 - reason based on logic or one's philosophical concept and point of view.
  
  တွေးဆ | tway3 hsa1 - weigh in mind; make deliberation.
  
  တွေးတော | tway3-tau3 - imagine and ponder.
  
  တွေးတောမှန်းဆ | tway3-tau3 hmun3-hsa1 - envisage; conceive of; foresee.
  
  တွေးထင် | tway3 htin2 - assume; speculate.
  
  တွေးမြော် | tway3 hmyau2 - anticipate; premeditate.
  
  တွေးရှု | tway3 shu1 - ponder; reflect.
  
  တွေးလုံး | tway3-lone3 - thought; idea.
  
  
• ထေ | htay2
  
  (1) substitute; recover one's loss.
  
  (2) play a card down from hand.
  
  ထေမိ | htay2 mi1 - be able to make up for one's loss.
  
  ထေရဝါဒဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ | htay2-ra1 wa2-da1 boat-da1 ba2-dtha2 - Tharavada Buddhism.
  
  ထေရီ | htay2-ri2 - Buddhist nun.
  
  ထေရုပတ္တိ | htay2 roat pup-ti1 - biography of a monk.
  
  
  
• ထေ့ | htay1 - be sarcastic.
  
  ထေ့လုံး | htay1-lone3 - sarcasm.
  
  
• ထေး | htay3 - caulk; make water proof or seal with caulking
  
  ထေးဆံ | htay3-zun2 - fiber material used in caulking boats.
  
  
• ထေရ် | htay2 - senior Buddhist monk.
  
  ထေရ်ကြီးဝါကြီး | htay2-ji3 wa2-ji3 - senior Buddhist monk who is in monkhood for many years.
  
  
• ထွေ | htway2; htway2; htway2
  
  (1) occur in various ways.
  
  (2) be confused.
  
  (3) be a little drunk.
  
  (4) numerical classifier (measure word) to count items of different types.
  
  (5) a piece of item such as marble for throwing game.
  
  ထွေခင်း | htway2 khin3
  ထွေပစ် | htway2 pyit - throw a marble to hit a target.
  
  ထွေထွေထူးထူး | htway2-dway2 htu3-du3 - especially; significantly.
  
  ထွေထွေရာရာ | htway2-dway2 ya2-ya2 - various kinds.
  
  ထွေထွေလည်လည် | htway2-dway2 leare2-leare2 - in a variety of ways.
  
  ထွေပြား | htway2 pya3 - be complex; be complicated.
  
  ထွေရာလေးပါး | htway2-ya2 lay3-ba3 - variety of things.
  
  ထွေလာ | htway2-la2 - diverse.
  
  ထွေလီကာလီ | htway2-li2 ka2-li2 - all sorts of things.
  
  ထွေအုပ် | htway2 oat - General Administration Department (GAD).
  
  
• ထွေး | htway3; htway3 dway3
  
  (1) spit out.
  
  ထွေးပစ်လိုက် | htway3 pyit lite - Spit it out!
  
  ကွမ်းမထွေးရ | koon3 ma1-htway3 ya1 - Spitting of betel spittle not allowed.
  
  (2) wrap; swathe; swaddle.
  
  ကလေးကို အနှီးနဲ့ထွေးထား | kha1-lay3 go2 a-hni3 neare1 htway3 hta3 - wrap, swathe, or swaddle the infant with a swaddling blanket.
  
  (3) be tangled and mixed up as in လုံးထွေး | lone3 htway3.
  
  ကြိုးတွေ လုံးထွေးနေတာပဲ | kjo3 dway2 lone3 htway3 nay2 da2 beare3 - Threads are all tangled up!
  
  (4) youngest of the siblings.
  
  (5) part of both male and female Burmese names. E.g., သန်းထွေး | thun3 htway3 - Than Htway.
  
  ထွေးခံ | htway3-gun2
  ထွေးအင် | htway3-in2 - spitoon.
  
  ထွေးယှက် | htway3 shet - be tangled up.
  
  ထွေးရောယှက်တင် | htway3-yau3 shet-tin2 - (1) in a messy tangled state. (2) promiscuously. (3) associated in many ways.
  
  ထွေးလားလုံးလား | htway3-la3 lone3-la3 - in a huddled up manner of two wrestlers in headlock.
  
  ထွေးလုံးရစ်ပတ် | htway3-lone3 yit-pup - (tangled up) in a messy way.
  
  ထွေးတော် | dway3-dau2 - aunt.
  
  ထွေးလေး | dway3-lay3 - mother's younger sister.
  
  
• ဒေ | day2
  
  ဒေစီ | day2-si2 - [English] daisy (flower).
  
  ဒေလီယာ | day2-li2-ya2 - [English] dahlia (flower).
  
  ဒေဝ | day2-wa1 - deva "nat" spirit.
  
  ဒေသ | day2-tha1 - region.
  
  ဒေသခံ | day2-tha1 gun2 - local resident.
  
  ဒေသနာ | day2 tha1-na2 - teaching of the Buddha.
  
  ဒေသန္တရ | day2 thun2-da1-ra1 - regional.
  
  ဒေသန္တရကပ်ရောဂါ | day2 thun2-da1-ra1 kut yau3-ga2 - endemic disease that occurs in certain regions.
  
  ဒေသန္တရစကား | day2 thun2-da1-ra1 za1-ga3 - lingo; jargon.
  
  ဒေသန္တရ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ | day2 thun2-da1-ra1 yway3-kout pweare3 - regional election.
  
  ဒေသန္တရ ဗဟုသုတ | day2 thun2-da1-ra1 ba1-hu1 thu1-ta1 - knowledge gained from travels.
  
  
• ဒွေး | dway3
  
  ဒွေးချိုး | dway3-jo3 - Myanmar poem consisting of two stanzas.
  
  ဒွေးဘော် | dway3-bau2 - (1) couple; pair. (2) double-stacked consonant.
  
  ဒွေးရောဥပဒ်ရော | dway3-yau3 u1-but yau3 - troubles.
  
  ဒွေးလမ်း | dway3 lun3 - railtracks; dual carriageway.