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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'E'

• သိ | thi1
  
  (1) know; recognize.
  
  ဒီလူကိုသိလား | de2 lu2 go2 thi1 la3 - Do you know him?
  
  (2) understand.
  
  ဪ.. သိပြီ | au2.. thi1 byi2 - Oh, I know now! Got it!
  
  (3) perceptive of the social responsibilities and duties as in သိတတ် | thi1 dut.
  
  ဒီကောင် မသိတတ်ဘူး | de2 koun2 ma1-thi1-dut bu3 - That fellow is irresponsible.
  
  (4) be obvious as in သိသာ | thi1-dtha2.
  
  သိသာပါတယ် | thi1-dtha2 ba2 deare2 - It's obvious.
  
  သိကျွမ်း | thi1-kjoon3 - know someone well.
  
  သိစိတ် | thi1 zate - consciousness; awareness.
  
  သိထိလအက္ခရာ | thi1 hti1 la1 et-kha1-ya2 - unaspirated consonants such as က၊ ဂ၊ စ၊ ဇ.
  
  သိမြင် | thi1 myin2 - understand; see clearly.
  
  သိရှိ | thi1 shi1 - come to know.
  
  သိဝ | thi1 wa1 - Siva (Hindu God).
  
  သိသိကြေ | thi1-thi1 kjay2 - be shattered.
  
  သိသိညက်ညက် | thi1-thi1 nyet-nyet - into pieces (smashed).
  
  
• သီ | thi2
  
  (1) temporarily hold and secure with safety pin; temporarily stitch by using thread and needle before sewing.
  
  တွယ်အပ်နဲ့ ခဏသီထားလိုက် | tweare2 ut neare1 kha1-na1 thi2 hta3 lite - Use safety pin to hold it for a while.
  
  (2) string together items such as Jasmine flowers into a garland.
  
  (3) compose.
  
  (4) weaken; vision to dim.
  
  (5) come near.
  
  (6) be far in the distance.
  
  သီကာရီကာ | thi2-ga2 yi2-ga2
  သီသီကလေး | thi2-thi2 ga1-lay3 - slightly; almost; by hairbreadth distance.
  
  သီကာရီကာလွဲ | thi2-ga2 yi2-ga2 lweare3
  သီသီကလးလွဲ | thi2-thi2 ga1-lay3 lweare3 - missed by the hairbreadth; slightly missed the target; almost hit.
  
  သီကုံး | thi2-gome3 - (1) string flowers into a garland. (2) compose a verse.
  
  သီချင်း | tha1-chin3 - (See Sounds like tha1.)
  
  သီချုပ် | thi2 joat - running stitch.
  
  သီဆိုသူ | thi2 hso2 dthu2 - sung by; vocalist; singer.
  
  သီတ | thi2-ta1 - cold.
  
  သီတဂူ | thi2 da1-gu2 - moon.
  
  သီတတေဇော | thi2-ta1 tay2-zau3 - low degree of heat.
  
  သီတာ | thi2-da2 - Thida; female Burmese name.
  
  သီတံ | thi2 dun2 - skewer.
  
  သီတင်း | dtha1-din3 - (See Sounds like tha1.)
  
  သီဒါခုနစ်တန် | thi2-da2 khoon2-hna1-tan2 - [Budhism] seven rivers which flow around Mount Meru.
  
  သီရိ | thi2-ri1 - glory.
  
  သီရိလင်္ကာ | thi2-ri1 lin2-ga2 - Sri Lanka, a republic on the island of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India.
  
  သီရီ | thi2 yi2 - be unable to cope.
  
  သီလ | thi2-la1 - morals; precepts.
  
  သီလကောင်း | thi2-la1 koun3 - enjoy good health from good deeds of past and present.
  
  သီလကြောင် | thi2 la1-joun2 - hypocrite.
  
  သီလခံ | thi2-la1 khan2 - vow to keep precepts.
  
  သီလစောင့် | thi2-la1 soun1 - keep the precepts.
  
  သီလစမ်း | thi2-la1 sun3 - tempt someone.
  
  သီလတောင်း | thi2-la1 toun3 - request a monk to lead the recitation.
  
  သီလပေး | thi2-la1 pay3 - monk to lead the recitation.
  
  သီလယူ | thi2-la1 yu2 - repeat after the monk.
  
  သီလရှင် | thi2-la1 shin2 - nun.
  
  သီလရှင်ကျောင်း | thi2-la1 shin2 kjoun3 - convent school; school runs by nuns.
  
  သီလဝ | thi2-la1-wa1 - a dignified and reticent person.
  
  သီသီကလေး | thi2-dthi2 ga1-lay3 - (missed) by a narrow margin.
  
  သီဟရာဇာ | thi2-ha1 ya2-za2 - Japanese pepper.
  
  သီဟိုဠ်သရက် | thi2-ho2 tha1-yet - cashew.
  
  သီဟိုဠ်စေ့ | thi2-ho2 zi1 - cashew nut.
  
  သီအိုရီ | the2-o2-ri2 - [English] theory.
  
  သီအိုရီကြမ်း | the-o2-ri2 jan3 - hypothesis.
  
  
• သီး | thi3; thi3; thi3 ; dthi3
  
  (1) fruit as in သီးစုံဖျော်ရည် | thi3-zone2 pfyau2-yay2 - fruit juice.
  
  (2) suffix used after names of fruits.
  
  
  1. ကျွဲကောသီး | kjweare3-gau3 dthi3 - Grapefruit / Pomelo.
  2. ကြက်မောက်သီး | kjet-mout thi3 - Rambutan.
  3. ငှက်ပျောသီး | nga1-pyau3 thi3 - Banana.
  4. စပျစ်သီး | za1-byit thi3 - Grapes.
  5. တည်သီး | teare2 dthi3 - Persimmon.
  6. ထောပတ်သီး | htau3-but dthi3 - Avocado.
  7. ဒူးရင်းသီး | du3-yin3 dthi3 - Durian.
  8. နာနတ်သီး | na2-nut thi3 - Pineapple.
  9. ပန်းသီး | pan3 dthi3 - Apple.
  10. ဖရဲသီး | pfa1-yeare3 dthi3 - Watermelon.
  11. မင်းကွတ်သီး | min3-goot dthi3 - Mangosteen.
  12. လိမ္မော်သီး | lain2-mau2 dthi3 - Orange.
  13. သင်္ဘောသီး | thin3-bau3 dthi3 - Papaya.
  14. သစ်တော်သီး | thit-tau2 dthi3 - Asian Pear.
  15. သရက်သီး | tha1-yet thi3 - Mango.
  16. အုန်းသီး | ome3 dthi3 - Coconut.
  17. ဩဇာသီး | au3-za2 dthi3 - Custard Apple.
      
      
  သီးကင်း | thi3-ghin3 - young fruit.
  
  သီးစား | thi3-za3 - tenant farmer.
  
  သီးစားခ | thi3-za3 ga1 - rent for farmland.
  
  သီးစားခံ | thi3-za3 khan2 - rent a plot of farmland.
  
  သီးစားချ | thi3-za3 cha1 - rent one's land for farming.
  
  သီးစားပင် | thi3-za3 bin2 - fruit tree.
  
  သီးစုံယို | thi3-zone2 yo2 - confiture.
  
  သီးတံ | thi3-dun2 - stalk of fruit.
  
  သီးတောင့် | thi3-doun1 - pod.
  
  သီးထပ် | thi3-dut - extra crop.
  
  သီးထွက်သကြား | thi3 htwet dtha1-ja3 - fructose.
  
  သီးနု | thi3 nu1 - young fruit.
  
  သီးနှံ | thi3-hnun2 - (1) crop. (2) cereals.
  
  သီးမွှေးငှက်ပျော | thi3-hmway3 hnga1-pyau3 - variety of fragrant banana.
  
  (3) choke while drinking as in သီးသွားတယ် | thi3 thwa3 deare2.
  
  (4) separate; discrete.
  
  သီးခြား | thi3-ja3 - separate; individual.
  
  သီးခြားစောင့်ကြည့် | thi3-ja3 soun1-kji1 - quarantined.
  
  သီးခြားစောင့်ကြည့် စစ်ဆေးခံ | thi3-ja3 soun1-kji1 sit-hsay3 gun2 - be quarantined.
  
  သီးခြားစောင့်ကြည့်လူနာ | thi3-ja3 soun1-kji1 lu2-na2 - quarantined patient.
  
  သီးခြားဖော်ပြချက် | thi3-ja3 pfau2-pya1 jet - separate announcement; footnote.
  
  သီးသန့် | thi3-dthun1 - separately. thi3-dthun1 - special.
  
  
• သည် | dthi2; dthi2; dthi2
  
  (1) [literary] equivalent to English verb "to be", "is", "am" to clarify the subject in the sentence.
  
  (2) [literary] equivalence of colloquial တယ် | deare2 used at the end of the sentence as an affirmation word.
  
  (3) [literary] "this" equivalent to colloquial ဒီ | de2.
  
  သည်ပစ္စည်းသည် ရှားကုန်ပစ္စည်း ဖြစ်သည် | dthi2 pyit-si3 dthi2 sha3 gome2 pyit-si3 pfyit dthi2 - This product is a rare commodity.
  
  သည်နှင့် | dthi2 hnin1 - as soon as.
  
  သည်မှာ | dthi2 hma2 - here.
  
  သည်လို | dthi2 lo2
  သည်သို့ | dthi2 dtho1 - like this; thus.
  
  [Also see သည် | dtheare2.]
  
  
• သည့် | dthi1 - [literary] 'that which is'; similar to သော | dthau3.
  
  မကောင်းသည့် စကား | ma1-koun3 dthi1 za1-ga3 - the speech that is bad.
  
  သည့်နောက် | dthi1-nout - then; after that.
  
  သည့်ပြင် | dthi1-pyin2 - in addition. dthi1-pyin2 - other; other than that.
  
  သည့်အတွက် | dthi1 a-twet - for that reason; since.
  
  
• သည်း | thi3
  
  (1) be violent; be strong.
  
  (2) be severe.
  
  သည်းထန် | thi3-htun2 - be severe.
  
  မိုးသည်းထန်စွာရွာသည် | mo3 thi3-htan2 zwa2 ywa2 dthi2 - Rain falls heavily. There is a heavy rain fall.
  
  သည်းခံ | thi3-khan2 - tolerate; endure; bear; put up with.
  
  (Also see သည်း | theare3.)
  
  
• သျှိ | shi1
  
  သျှိသျှား | shi1 sha3 - (1) Eastern gooseberry, plum-like fruit also called ဆီးဖြူ. (2) gooseberry-like tree (Phyllanthus simplex.)
  
  
• သျှီ | shi2
  
  သျှီလင် | shi2 lin2 - [English] shilling (coin worth one twentieth of a pound).
  
  
• ဟိ | he1
  
  ဟိမဝန္တာ | he1 ma1 woon2-ta2 - Himalayas.
  
  
• ဟီ | he2
  
  (1) horse to neigh, whinny.
  
  (2) donkey or ass to bray.
  
  ဟီနယာနဂိုဏ်း | he2 na1 ya2 na1 ghine3 - Hinayana Buddhist sect.
  
  ဟီမိုဂလိုဗင် | he2-mo2-ga1-lo2-bin2 - [English] hemoglobin; haemoglobin, oxygen carrier in the red blood cell.
  
  ဟီရိဩတ္တပ္ပ | he2 ri1 oot tut pa1 - (1) shame of wrongdoing and fear of consequences. (2) modesty.
  
  ဟီလာတိုက် | he2-la2 tite - uncontrollably laugh.
  
  ဟီလယံ | he2-la1-yan2 - [English] helium.
  
  
• ဟီး | he3 - be huge and imposing.
  
  ဟီးနိုး | he3-no3 - Hino [a Japanese auto brand].
  
  ဟီလေးခို | he3 lay3 kho2 - hang and dangle from a vehicle.
  
  
• ဟည်း | he3 - earthquake to rumble and roar; drum to reverberate.
  
  ဟည်းချ | he3 cha1 - heave a sigh of relief.
  
  ဟည်းတိုက် | he3 tite - oarsmen to sing in unison as they row the boat.
  
  
• အိ | e1; e1; e1
  
  (1) soft and tender (flesh or meat).
  
  ဝက်သားဟင်းက အဆီနဲ့အိနေတာပဲ | wet-tha3-hin3 ga1 a-hsi2 neare1 e1 nay2 da2 beare3 - The pork with the layer of fat is so tender!
  
  (2) structure to yield; sag.
  
  (3) part of female Burmese names as in အိအိမွန် | e1 e1 moon2 - E E Moon.
  
  အိတွဲကျနေသော | e1-tweare3 kja1 nay2 dthau3 - flabby.
  
  
• ဣ | e1 - one of Myanmar vowels.
  
  ဣရိယာပုတ် | e1-ri1-ya2 poat - the four body positions: reclining, sitting, standing, walking.
  
  
• ၏ | e1
  
  (1) [literary] ending word of the sentence "to be" similar to သည် | dthi2.
  
  ခွေးဟောင်နေ၏ | khway3 houn2 nay2 e1 - The dog is barking.
  
  (2) [literary] word indicating possession.
  
  သူ၏စာအုပ် | thu2 e1 sa2-oat - his book.
  
  
• အီ | e2 - be satiated and no longer want to eat something.
  
  တော်ပြီ၊ အီသွားပြီ | tau2 byi2... e2 thwa3 byi2 - I have enough of this.
  
  အီကြာကွေး | e2-kja2-kway3 - deep-fried dough sticks for breakfast.
  
  အီကွေဒေါ | e2-kway2-dau3 - Ecuador, a republic in northwestern south America.
  
  အီကွေတာ | e2-kway2-ta2 - [English] equator.
  
  အီကွေတာ ဂီနီ | e2-kway2-ta2 ge2 ni2 - Equatorial Guinea, a country in west central Africa including islands in the Gulf of Guinea.
  
  အီဂျစ် | e2-jit - Egypt, a republic in northeastern Africa.
  
  အီစတာပွဲတော် | e2-sa1-ta2 pweare3 dau2 - Easter Sunday, a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ.
  
  အီတလီ | e2-ta1-li2 - Italy, a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
  
  အီရီထရီးယား | e2-ri2 hta1-ri3-ya3 - Eritrea, country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
  
  အီရတ် | e2-rut - Iraq, a republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
  
  အီရန် | e2-run2 - Iran, an Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
  
  အီလေးဆွဲ | e2-lay3 hsweare3 - do things tardily.
  
  အီလေးအာလေး | e2-lay3 ah2-lay3 - tardily.
  
  အီလက်ထရွန် | e2-let hta1-roon2 - [English] electron.
  
  အီလက်ထရွန်နစ် | e2-let hta1-roon2-nit - [English] electronics.
  
  အီလည်လည် | e2-leare2-leare2 - (1) uncomfortably with indgestion. (2) indecisively.
  
  အီသီယိုးပီးယား | e2 thi2-yo3 pe3-ya3 - Ethiopia, a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea.
  
  
• ဤ | e2; e2; e2
  
  (1) [literary] one of Myanmar vowels.
  
  (2) [literary] this.
  
  ဤအရာဝတ္ထု | e2 a-ya2 woot-htu1 - this object.
  
  
• အီး | e3 - intestinal gas that is expelled through the anus.
  
  အီးပါ | e2 pa2 - defecate.
  
  အီးပေါက် | e2 pout - impolite word for လေလည် | lay2 leare2 - to break wind.
  
  အီးပေါက်တာ ဘယ်သူလဲဟေ့ | e2 pout da2 beare2 dthu2 leare3 hay1 - Hey, who farted?
  
  အီးမေးလ် | e3 may3 (l) - [English] e-mail.
  
  အီးယူ | e3 yu2 - European Union (EU), an organization of European countries.
  
  အီးရောအီးရော | e3-yau3 e3-yau3 - in a slothful manner; lazily.