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Myanmar English Dictionary
Vowel 'Eare'
တဲ တဲ့ တည် တည့် တည်း တယ် တွဲ တွဲ့ တွယ် ထဲ ထည် ထည့် ထယ် ဒယ် Back to Dictionary Main Menu-
တဲ | teare3
- hut; shed; tent; booth.
တဲကုပ် | teare3-goat - small hut.
တဲထိုး | teare3 hto3 - build a hut; put up a tent.
တဲပုတ် | teare3-boat - hut.
တဲပုတ်ထိုး နေလို့ရတယ် | teare3-boat hto3 nay2 lo1 ya1 deare2 - We can put up a small hut to stay.
တဲရှင် | teare3 shin2 - stretcher; make-shift covered litter.
တဲအုံ | teare3 ome2 - temporary hut.
တဲတဲ | teare3-deare3 - nearly; on the brink of; on the verge of.
တဲသလိပ်ဆွယ် | teare3 dtha1-late hsweare2 - species of thrush (song bird); shama (Copsychus malabaricus).
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တဲ့ | deare1
(1) [colloquial] verb suffix particle 'that which is', 'he who is'.
ပြောတဲ့အချိန်မလာဘူး | pyau3 deare1 a-chain2 ma1-la2 bu3 - He did not come at the time he said he would come.
(2) [colloquial] ending word to relay the message.
ပြန်ခေါ်မယ်တဲ့ | pyan2 khau2 meare2 deare1 - He said he will return the call.
တဲ့တိုး | deare1-doe3 - directly; forthrightly; squarely; tactlessly.
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တည် | teare2
(1) construct, especially temples and pagodas.
ဘုရားတည် | pfa1-ya3 teare2 - build a pagoda.
(2) put the pot on the fire place for cooking or boiling water; turn on electric kettle, stove, etc. for cooking or boiling water.
ရေနွေးအိုးတည်လိုက် | yay2-nway3-o3 teare2 lite - Turn on the kettle.
(3) form pus as in အနာပြည်တည် | a-na2 pyi2-teare2.
(4) make pickled vegetables.
(5) make a trap or snare.
တည်သီး | teare2 dthi3Persimmon.
(Also see တည် | ti2.)
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တည့် | teare1
(1) be straight.
တည့်တည့် | teare1-deare1 - without deviation; straight.
တည့်တည့်သွား | teare1-deare1 thwa3 - Go straight.
တည့်မတ် | teare mut - be straight forward; be honest.
(2) be compatible in personal relations; be in good terms.
သူတို့နှစ်ယောက် မတည့်ကြဘူး | thu2-doh1 hna1-yout ma1-teare1 ja1 bu3 - Those two are not in good terms
(3) healthful and suitable for consumption.
ဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက်က လူနဲ့တည့်တယ် | hin3-dthi3 hin3-ywet ga1 lu2 neare1 teare1 deare2 - Fruits and vegetables are good for human (your) health.
ဝက်ဆီက လူနဲ့မတည့်ဘူး | wet-hsi2 ga1 lu2 neare1 ma1-teare1 bu3 - Lard is not suitable for human consumption. Lard is bad for you.
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တည်း | teare3; hteare3
(1) lodge; stay; put up for the night as in တည်းခို | teare3 kho2.
ဘယ်မှာတည်းလဲ | beare2 hma2 teare3 leare3 - Where do you stay?
တည်းခိုခန်း | teare3-kho2 gun3- guest house.
(2) tack or tie things together.
တည်းလည်း | teare3-leare3 - with something hanging or attached to.
တည်းအပ် | teare3 ut - pin.
(3) suffix particle 'only one', 'alone' as in တစ်ယောက်တည်း | ta1-yout hteare3 - Just by himself; just by yourself; just by myself.
(Also see တည်း | de3.)
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တယ် | teare2; teare2;
deare2
(1) interjection to express frustration.
(2) very; extremely.
(3) [colloquial] affirmative ending word.
ရပါတယ် | ya1 ba2 deare2 - That's OK; No problem.
တယ်လီဖုန်း | teare2-li2-pfone3 - [English] telephone.
တယ်လီဖုန်းလမ်းညွှန် | teare2-li2-pfone3 lun3-hnyoon2 - telephone directory.
တယ်လီဗီးရှင်း | teare2-li2 ve3-shin3 - [English] television.
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တွဲ | tweare3; tweare3; tweare3
; dweare3
(1) attach; pair or group together.
ဖိုင်ထဲမှာ ကလစ်နဲ့ အတူတူ တွဲထား | pfine2 hteare3 hma2 ka1-lit neare1 a-tu2-du2 tweare3 hta3 - Put everything together in the file with a paper clip.
(2) a unit of railway carriage (coach) as in အတွဲ | a-tweare3.
ခေါင်းတွဲ | goun3-dweare3 - locomotive engine.
ခေါင်းတွဲနံပါတ် (၉) | goun3-dweare3 nun2-but ko3 - Locomotive Engine Number 9.
(3) 7 in baccarat (a casino card game.)
(4) hold hands; be hand in hand.
လက်တွဲပြီးလျှောက်ကြမယ် | let tweare3 pyi3 shout ja1 meare2 - Let's hold hands and walk.
(5) numerical classifier (measure word) for bunch of fruits, number of keychains, number of files or groups of similar items.
(6) a pair of boyfriend and girlfriend seen together as in အတွဲ | a-tweare3 or စုံတွဲ | zone2 dweare3.
တွဲခုတ် | tweare3 khoat - boyfriend and girlfriend to go out on a date.
စုံတွဲခုတ်ကြတယ် | zone2 dweare3 khoat ja1 deare2 - [slang] boyfriend and girlfriend on a date going out together. tweare3 and khoat are the same sense as in the railway trains where ခုတ်မောင်း | khoat moun3 means to operate the train.
တွဲချိတ် | tweare3 chate - attach rolling-stock to a train.
တွဲစပ် | tweare3 sut - attach together to form a bigger item.
တွဲထိုး | tweare3 hto3 - shunt trains to a track.
တွဲဖက် | tweare3 pfet - do things together. tweare3-bet - partner; associate.
တွဲဖက်ပါမောက္ခ | tweare3-bet pa2-mout-kha1- associate professor.
တွဲလုံး | tweare3-lone3 - (1) a style of play in ခြင်းလုံး | chin3-lone3 game. (2) musical performance with harmony.
တွဲသမ္ဗန် | tweare3 thun2-bun2 - barge attached to the side of a large vessel.
တွဲလဲ | tweare3-leare3 - in a dangling position as in တွဲလဲခို | tweare3-leare3 kho2. (2) in tow as in သားတွဲလဲ မယားတွဲလဲ | tha3 tweare3-leare3 ma1-ya3 tweare3-leare3 - with family in tow.
တွဲလောင်း | tweare3-loun3
တွဲလျား | tweare3-lya3 - in a dangling position.
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တွဲ့ | tweare1
(1) sing or speak at slow tempo.
(2) mist to cling.
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တွယ် | tweare2
(1) tag; attach or hold together as with a safety pin.
တွယ်အပ်နဲ့ တွယ်ထား | tweare2-ut neare1 tweare2 hta3 - Tag it with a safety pin.
(2) leech to attach on the body to suck blood.
ခြေထောက် ကျွတ်တွယ်နေတယ် | chay2-dout kjoot-tweare2 nay2 deare2 - There is a blood sucking leech on your foot.
(3) [slang] assail; assault; attack; hit.
အတွယ်ခံလိုက်ရတယ် | a-tweare2 khan2 lite ya1 deare2 - I was assaulted.
(4) [slang] eat immodestly; gorge food.
(5) psychological attachment.
တွယ်တာ | tweare2-ta2 - have strong emotional attachment.
တွယ်တာစိတ် | tweare2-ta2 zate - mind with attachment; emotional ties.
တွယ်ကပ် | tweare2 kut - cling; stick to; hang on.
တွယ်ကြိုး | tweare2 jo3 - luggage tag; identification tag.
တွယ်ချိတ် | tweare2 jate - safety pin.
တွယ်နှဲ | tweare2 hneare3 - second oboe in Myanmar orchestra.
တွယ်အပ် | tweare2 ut - pin; safety pin.
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ထဲ | hteare3
- postpositional marker equivalent to 'inside' or 'in'.
ကားထဲမှာ | ka3 hteare3 hma2 - inside the car.
ထဲက | hteare3 ga1
ထဲမှ | hteare3 hma1 - from; from inside (substract from a bigger number, pull out an item, etc..)
အထဲ | a-hteare3 - inside.
အထဲထည့် | a-hteare3 hteare1 - Put it inside.
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ထည် | hteare2; hteare2; hteare2
(1) fabric as in အထည် | a-hteare2.
အထည်အလိပ် | a-hteare2 a-late - textile.
အထည်စက်ရုံ | a-hteare2 set-yone2 - garment factory.
အထည်အလိပ် ထုတ်လုပ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်း | a-hteare2 a-late htoat-loat-yay3 loat-ngan3 - textile industry.
အဝတ်အထည် | a-woot a-hteare2 - clothing.
ထည်စွပ်ထည်လဲ | hteare2-zoot hteare2-leare3 - spare clothes.
ထည်လဲ | hteare2-leare3 - change of clothing. hteare2-leare3 - with frequent changes; for multiple purposes.
(2) material form; material; article as in | ko2-deare2 - body.
(3) be grand; be magnificent as in ထည်ဝါခံ့ညား | hteare2-wa2 khan1-nya3.
ထည်ထည်ဝါဝါ | hteare2-deare2 wa2-wa2
ထည်ဝါစွာ | hteare2-wa2 zwa2 - grandly; in style; with pride.
(4) numerical classifier (measure word) for number of clothing.
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ထည့် | hteare1
(1) put in; insert.
(2) take along someone or something.
ထည့်သွင်း | hteare1 thwin3 - include; embed; include for consideration.
ထည့်သွင့်းရေတွက် | hteare1-thwin3 yi2-twet - the number to be taken into consideration and count in.
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ထယ် | hteare2
- plough; a farm tool to break the soil.
ထယ်စာ | hteare2 za2 - soil turned up by a plough.
ထယ်တုံး | hteare2 dome3 - stock of a plough.
ထယ်ထိုး | hteare2 hto3 - plough the earth.
ထယ်ဒူး | hteare2 du3 - stock of a plough.
ထယ်ရေး | hteare2 yay3 - furrow (a long shallow trench in the ground) made by a plough.
ထယ်သန် | hteare2 dthun2 - connecting rod of a plough for pushing or pulling.
ထယ်သွား | hteare2 dthwa3 - ploughshare; metal blade part of a plough that loosens the top layer of soil.
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ဒယ် | deare2
- frying pan.
ဒယ်စောက် | deare2 zout - deep frying pan; wok.
ဒယ်ပိုင်း | deare2 bine3 - frying pan.
ဒယ်ပြား | deare2 bya3 - griddle; flat pan.
ဒယ်အိုး | deare2 o3 - frying pan.
ဒယ်အိုးကင်း | deare2-o3 ghin3 - small frying pan used for frying egg.