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Myanmar English Dictionary
Vowel 'Ay'
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ဇေ | zay2
ဇေတဝန်ကျောင်းတော် | zay-ta1-woon2 kjoun3 dau2 - Anathapindika monastery in Jeta's Groves near a place called Savatthi. Anathapindika was a wealthy supporter of the Buddha.
ဇေယျ | zay2-ya1 - success; victory.
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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.
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 - fall in prices.
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.
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.
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.
ဈေးလှန့် | zay3 hlun1 - manipulate prices to create market instability.
ဈေးဝယ် | zay3 weare2- go shopping in the market. zay3-weare2 - customer; buyer.
ဈေးဝယ်စင်တာ | zay3-weare2 sin2-ta2 - shopping center.
ဈေးဝယ်သူ | zay3-weare2 dthu2 - shoppers.
ဈေးသည် | zay3-dtheare2- seller in the market.
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.
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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.
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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, One of the Ten Great Jataka Tales.
တေသံ | tay2 dthun2 - (1) wrought iron. (2) one of the seven basic Myanmar musical notes.
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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.
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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.
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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; not mentally alert and productive.
တွေဝေနေတယ် | tway2 way2 nay2 deare2 - (someone is) day-dreaming.
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တွေ့ | tway1
(1) be seen; found.
ရှာတွေ့သွားပြီလား | sha2 tway1 thwa3 byi2 la3 - Did you find what you have been 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.
တွေ့ဆုံ | tway1 hsone2 - meet (with a person).
တွေ့ထိ | tway1 hti1 - come into contact with (something).
တွေ့မေးခြင်း | tway1 may3 jin3 - interview.
တွေ့မြင် | tway1 myin2 - observe and notice.
တွေ့ရှိချက် | tway1 shi1 jet - finding.
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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.
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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.
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ထေ့ | htay1
- be sarcastic.
ထေ့လုံး | htay1-lone3 - sarcasm.
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ထေး | htay3
- caulk; make water proof or seal with caulking
ထေးဆံ | htay3-zun2 - fiber material used in caulking boats.
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ထေရ် | htay2
- senior Buddhist monk.
ထေရ်ကြီးဝါကြီး | htay2-ji3 wa2-ji3 - senior Buddhist monk who is in monkhood for many years.
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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.
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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; swaddle.
ကလေးကို အနှီးနဲ့ထွေးထား | kha1-lay3 go2 a-hni3 neare1 htway3 hta3 - Wrap the infant with 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.
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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.
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.
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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.