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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'Eare'

• ခဲ | kheare3; kheare3; kheare3
  
  (1) freeze; be frozen.
  
  ရေခဲ | yay2 geare3 - ice (water + frozen)
  
  (2) suffix word to show solidity of the object.
  
  ကျောက်ခဲ | kjout kheare3 - stone.
  
  ခဲတစ်ပစ် | geare3 da1-byit - stone's throw distance.
  
  (3) congeal; coagulate; blood to clot.
  
  (4) be crowded; be swarming with.
  
  (5) bite; clamp a cigar, bone, etc. between the teeth; clench the jaws; grip between teeth similar to a predatory feline holding its prey with a bite for a kill, but does not chew.
  
  ဆေးပြင်းလိပ်ကြီး ခဲထားတယ် | say3-byin3-late ji3 kheare3 hta3 deare2 - He has a cigar in his mouth.
  
  (6) seldom; infrequent.
  
  မြို့ထဲသွားခဲတယ် | myo1-hteare3 thwa3 kheare3 deare2 - I seldom go to downtown.
  
  (7) not easy; difficult; hard to do as in ခဲယဉ်း | kheare3-yin3 - be difficult; hard; tough to do.
  
  လွယ်လွယ်ကူကူ အလုပ်ကို ခဲယဉ်းစွာ လုပ်နေကြတယ် | lweare2-lweare2-ku2-ku2 a-loat go2 kheare3-yin3-zwa2 loat nay2 ja1 deare2 - They are doing such an easy job with great difficulties.
  
  ခဲရာခဲဆစ် | kheare3-ya2 kheare3-zit - difficult matter. kheare3-ya2 kheare3-zit - with difficulty.
  
  ခဲလှော် | kheare3 hlau2 - [archaic] hard; tough to do.
  
  ခက်ခဲ | khet-kheare3 - difficult.
  
  (8) lead (metal); graphite used in lead pencils.
  
  ခဲခြစ် | kheare3 chit - scratch off silver color coating to read the printing underneath such as pin number of mobile phone top-up card or lucky draw reward.
  
  ခဲစာလုံး | kheare3 sa1-lone3 - type used in printing.
  
  ခဲဆံ | kheare3-zun2 - pencil lead.
  
  ခဲတံ | kheare3-dun2 - pencil.
  
  ခဲတံ တစ်ချောင်း | kheare3-dun2 ta1-choun3 - a pencil.
  
  ခဲထိုး | kheare3 hto3 - touch up a photograph with pencil in the old days before digital software such as Photoshop became available.
  
  ခဲဖျက် | kheare3-byet - eraser made of rubber.
  
  ခဲမနက် | kheare3 ma1-net - lead.
  
  ခဲမပုပ် | kheare3 ma1-boat - galena; lead sulfide; soft blue-grey mineral.
  
  ခဲမဖြူ | kheare3 ma1-pfyu2 - tin.
  
  ခဲယမ်းမီးကျောက် | kheare3-yan3 mi3-jout - ammunition.
  
  ခဲဖွယ် | kheare3 bweare2 - food other than rice, barley, cereals, fish and meat.
  
  ခဲဖွယ်ဘောဇဉ် | kheare3-bweare2 bau3-zin2 - food offered to monks.
  
  ခဲလံကျည်တောက် | kheare3-lun2 kji2-dout - glutinous rice cooked inside bamboo stalk.
  
  ခဲအို | kheare3-o2 - brother-in-law; husband of elder sister of a woman; elder brother of husband.
  
  
• ခဲ့ | kheare1
  
  (1) equivalent to 'had'; verb suffix indication of activity in the past.
  
  သွားခဲ့တဲ့ နေရာတွေ မနည်းဘူး | thwa3-kheare1-deare1 nay2-ya2 dway2 ma1-neare3 bu3 - The number of places that I had been were not just a few.
  
  (2) verb suffix used to indicate definiteness.
  
  လာခဲ့မယ် | la2 kheare1 meare2 - I will sure to come.
  
  
• ခယ် | kheare2
  
  ခယ်မ | kheare2-ma1 - sister-in-law; younger sister of wife; wife of younger brother.
  
  
• ချဲ | cheare3 - make less dense; increase the space in between; spread out; space out.
  
  ကျဲအောင် ချဲပစ်လိုက် | kjeare3 oun2 cheare3 pyit lite - Widen the gap.
  
  
• ချဲ့ | cheare1
  
  (1) amplify; increase the volume (loudness).
  
  ရေဒီယိုအသံ နည်းနည်းချဲ့လိုက် | ray2-de2-yo2 a-thun2 neare3-neare3 cheare1 lite - Increase the volume of the radio a bit.
  
  (2) make wider; increase coverage; expand.
  
  ဝန်ဆောင်မှုများ တဖြည်းဖြည်း တိုးချဲ့လာသည် | woon2-zoun2-hmu1 mya3 ta1-pfyay3-byay3 toe3-cheare1 la2 dthi2 - Service coverage has gradually widened.
  
  (3) exaggerate.
  
  ချဲ့ပြီးမပြောနဲ့ | cheare1 pyi3 ma1-pyau3 neare1 - Don't exaggerate.
  
  (4) enlarge; magnify.
  
  ဒီဓါတ်ပုံကို ကြီးအောင် ချဲ့ပေးပါ | de2 dut-pone2 go2 kji3 oun2 cheare1 pay3 ba2 - Please enlarge this photo.
  
  ချဲ့ကားပြော | cheare1-ka3 pyau3 - exaggerate; make a mountain out of mole-hill.
  
  ချဲ့ထွင် | cheare1 htwin2 - expand territory; exaggerate; extend business.
  
  
• ချယ် | cheare2
  
  ချယ်ဂါရီ | cheare2-ga2-ri2 - [Hindi] push-cart .
  
  ချယ်ရီ | cheare2-ri2 - [English] cherry.
  
  
• ခြယ် | cheare2
  
  (1) use a brush, coloring pencils, etc. to beautify.
  
  (2) paint.
  
  ခြယ်မှုန်း | cheare2 hmone3 - embellish.
  
  ခြယ်လှယ် | cheare2-hleare2 - manipulate.
  
  သူ့ခမျာ သူ့မိန်းမ ခြယ်လှယ်သမျှကို ခေါင်းငုံ့ ခံနေရရှာတယ် | thu1-kha1-mya2 thu1 main3-ma1 cheare2-hleare2 dtha1-hmya1 go2 goun3 ngome1 khan2 nay2 ya1 sha2 deare2
  
  - Poor man has to endure the total dominance of his manipulative wife by bowing his head and obey.
  
  
• ခွဲ | khweare3; khweare3
  
  (1) differentiate; discriminate.
  
  (2) break something up; split up; cut open; make an incision; sunder; fragmentize; separate.
  
  ဒူးရင်းသီးခွဲလိုက် | du3-yin3 dthi3 khweare3 lite - Cut open the durian.
  
  ဗိုက်ခွဲပြီးကလေးမွေးတယ် | bite khweare3 pyi3 kha1-lay3 mway3 deare2 - gave birth by cesarean section. (cut open stomach + give birth to a child).
  
  ဆန္ဒပြနေသော လူအုပ်ကို ခွဲရန်ကြိုးစား | hsan2-da1 pya1 nay2 dthau3 lu2-oat go2 khweare3 yan2 kjo2-za2 - Attempt was made to break up the demonstrating crowd.
  
  (3) half. E.g., (၆) နာရီခွဲ | chout na2-yi2 khweare3 - half past six.
  
  (4) divide and share.
  
  ခွဲခြား | khweare3 ja3 - differentiate; segregate.
  
  ခွဲခြားမှု | khweare3-ja3 hmu1 - segregation.
  
  ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံခြင်း | khweare3-ja3 hset-hsun2 jin3 - discrimination.
  
  ခွဲခြားသိမြင်ခြင်း | khweare3-ja3 thi1 myin2 jin3 - discernment.
  
  ခွဲခြားသိမြင်တတ်သော | khweare3-ja3 thi1 myin2 tut dthau3 - discerning.
  
  ခွဲခြမ်း | khweare3 jan3 - divide into portions. khweare3-jan3 - piece of chopped firewood.
  
  ခွဲခြမ်းခွဲခြမ်းလုပ် | khweare3-jan3 khweare3-jan3 loat - act selfishly.
  
  ခွဲခွာ | khweare3 khwa2 - (1) part with someone. (2) die.
  
  ခွဲစိတ် | khweare3 sate - operate surgically; dissect.
  
  ခွဲစိတ်ကုဆရာဝန် | khweare3-sate ku1 hsa1-ya2-woon2 - surgeon.
  
  ခွဲစိတ်ကုပညာ | khweare3-sate-ku1 pyin2-nya2
  ခွဲစိတ်ကုသခြင်း | khweare3-sate ku1-tha1 jin3 - surgery.
  
  ခွဲစိတ်ခန်း | khweare3-sate khan3 - operation room; surgery room.
  
  ခွဲစိတ်ဓါး | khweare3-sate da3 - scalpel; surgical knife.
  
  ခွဲတမ်း | khweare3-dun3 - (1) allotment; share; quota. (2) system to make quota and allotments.
  
  ခွဲထား | khweare3 hta3 - keep apart. khweare3 da3 - Myanmar poem arrangement of similar sounding words with different spellings in rhymes.
  
  ခွဲထားနိုင်သော | khweare3-hta3 nine2-dthau3 - separable.
  
  ခွဲထွက် | khweare3 htwet - secede; break up from union; branch out.
  
  ခွဲထွက်ခြင်း | khweare3-htwet jin3 - secession; separation; breaking up.
  
  ခွဲထွက်လိုသူ | khweare3-htwet lo2 dthu2 - separatist; secessionist.
  
  ခွဲဝေ | khweare3 way2 - distribute.
  
  ခွဲဝေအပ်နှင်း | khweare3-way2 ut-hnin3 - bestow allotted portion.
  
  
• ချွဲ | chweare3; chweare3; chweare3
  
  (1) slimy and slippery.
  
  (2) make flatteries to get what one wants.
  
  (3) violin, fiddle, etc. to produce pleasant sound.
  
  (4) phlegm; mucus.
  
  ချွဲကျိ | chweare3-kji1
  ချွဲကျိကျိ | chweare3 kji1-kji1 - slimy.
  
  ချွဲကျပ် | chweare3 kjut - have congestion in the passageway to the lung.
  
  ချွဲခန်း | chweare3 gun3 - thick phlegm.
  
  ချွဲချွဲပျစ်ပျစ်ပြော | chweare3-jweare3 pyit-pyit pyau3 - speak in a flattering manner.
  
  ချွဲပူထ | chweare3-bu2 hta1 - have fever with excessive phlegm in respiratory passages.
  
  ချွဲပျစ် | chweare3 pyit - become viscous.
  
  ချွဲယိုင်ဆေး | chweare3 yine2 hsay3 - remedy for excessive phlegm.
  
  ချွဲဟက် | chweare3 het - cough up mucus.
  
  
• ငဲ့ | ngeare1; ngeare1
  
  (1) tilt the head slightly as in ငဲ့ကြည့် | ngeare1 kji1.
  
  ခေါင်းနည်းနည်းငဲ့ကြည့် | goun3 neare3-neare3 ngeare1 kji1 - Turn your head slightly.
  
  (2) be considerate and lenient as in
  
  ငဲ့ကွက် | ngeare1 kwet
  ငဲ့ညှာ | ngeare1 hnya2.
  
  (3) [poetic] possessive word equivalent to ('s) and similar to ရဲ့ | yeare1.
  
  
• ငယ် | ngeare2; ngeare2; ngeare2
  
  (1) small; little.
  
  အငယ် | a-ngeare2 - 'something of small size' is similar to အသေး | a-thay3, and more appropriate word than အသေး | a-thay3 when finding a fit such as clothing or screw of the right size.
  
  ဒီထက်ပိုငယ်တဲ့အင်္ကျီ | de2-htet po2 ngeare2 deare1 ain3-ji2 - a shirt smaller in size than this.
  
  ငယ်တယ် | ngeare2 deare2 - It's small.
  
  (2) young.
  
  ငယ်ငယ်ရွယ်ရွယ်နဲ့ | ngeare2-ngeare2 yweare2-yweare2 neare1 - at such a tender young age.
  
  အငယ်မလေး | a-ngeare2 ma1 lay3 - the younger one of two or more girls.
  
  (3) chevrotain, small hornless dear-like animal; mouse dear.
  
  (4) [archaic] emphatic word used in classical songs similar to ရယ် | yeare2.
  
  ငယ်ကျိုးငယ်နာ | ngeare2-jo3 ngeare2-na2 - psychological wounds of one's past.
  
  ငယ်ကျိုးငယ်နာဖော် | ngeare2-jo3 ngeare2-na2 pfau2 - reopen the old wounds.
  
  ငယ်ကြောက် | ngeare2 jout - the person whom one is afraid of since young.
  
  ငယ်ကြိုက် | ngeare2 jite - childhood lover.
  
  ငယ်ကျွန် | ngeare2 joon2 - old and faithful servant.
  
  ငယ်ကျွမ်း | ngeare2 jwun3 - childhood friend or lover.
  
  ငယ်ချေး | ngeare2 chi3 - (1) the first faeces excreted by child. (2) faeces excreted by the dying person just before death.
  
  ငယ်ချစ် | ngeare2 jit - (1) childhood lover. (2) hobby since childhood.
  
  ငယ်ခြေ | ngeare2 jay2 - (1) character and traits of one's youth. (2) skills and abilities of one's youth.
  
  ငယ်စာရင်း | ngeare2 sa1-yin3 - destiny's lists that one is connected to since childhood.
  
  ငယ်စဉ်ကြီးလိုက် | ngeare2-zin2 kji3 lite - in ascending order.
  
  ငယ်စဉ်တောင်ကျေး | ngeare2-zin2 toun2-jay3 - childhood days.
  
  ငယ်စိတ် | ngeare2 zate - psychological states during one's childhood.
  
  ငယ်ဆရာ | ngeare2 hsa1-ya2 - teacher during one's childhood.
  
  ငယ်ထိပ် | ngeare2 date - soft spot in skull of an infant.
  
  ငယ်နာမည် | ngeare2 na2-meare2 - childhood name; nickname.
  
  ငယ်နိုင် | ngeare2 nine2 - person that one has been bullying since childhood.
  
  ငယ်ပါ | ngeare2 ba2 - male genital.
  
  ငယ်ပေါင်း | ngeare2 boun3 - (1) childhood friend. (2) spouse and life partner since youth.
  
  ငယ်ပေါင်းကြီးဖော် | ngeare2-boun3 kji3-bau2 - one's friend since childhood.
  
  ငယ်ဖြူ | ngeare2 byu2 - (1) person who has become a monk in his prime of life. (2) comfirmed bachelor.
  
  ငယ်မူ | ngeare2 mu2
  ငယ်မူငယ်ရာ | ngeare2-mu2 ngeare2-ya2 - one's manner and behavior in childhood days.
  
  ငယ်မူငယ်သွေး | ngeare2-mu2 ngeare2-dthway3 - youthful appearance and stamina.
  
  ငယ်မူပြန် | ngeare2-mu2 pyan2 - have Alzheimer's disease & dementia resulting in deterioration of memory, thinking and reasoning skills.
  
  ငယ်မူပြန်ခြင်း | ngeare2-mu2 pyan2 jin3 - dotage; senility; Alzheimer's disease; regression (a psychological defense mechanism.)
  
  ငယ်မည် | ngeare2 myi2 - childhood name; nickname.
  
  ငယ်မွေးခြံပေါက် | ngeare2-mway3 chan2-bout - (1) animal or person born and raised in one's backyard. (2) a person one has looked after since young.
  
  ငယ်ရည်းစား | ngeare2 yi3-za3 - childhood sweetheart; old flame.
  
  ငယ်ရုပ် | ngeare2 yoat - the look in the younger days.
  
  ငယ်ရွယ် | ngeare2 yweare2 - young.
  
  ငယ်လင် | ngeare2 lin2 - husband that a woman has married to since her younger days.
  
  ငယ်လင်ငယ်မယား | ngeare2 lin2 ngeare2 ma1-ya3 - husband and wife who have been married to each other since their youth.
  
  ငယ်သား | ngeare2 dhta3 - follower; subordinate.
  
  ငယ်သံပါ | ngeare2-dthun3 pa2 - shriek a cry like a child.
  
  ငယ်သွား | ngeare2 dthwa3 - milk tooth.
  
  
• ငှဲ့ | hngeare1 - pour out liquid from pot, kettle or container; tilt the pot with its cover slightly ajar to drain extra water during cooking, especially rice.
  
  ထမင်းအိုးငှဲ့လိုက်ဦး | hta1-min3-o3 hngeare1 lite ome3 - Drain extra water from the rice pot.
  
  Note: A strainer is not used. This half-cooked rice water has nutrition values, and can be consumed separately. This traditional Burmese way of cooking rice is still practiced today. Cooking rice by electric rice-cooker, or allowing water to evaporate by heat during cooking is called ရေခန်းချက် | yay2-gun3 chet.