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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'Eare'

• 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).
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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 dthi3 Persimmon.
  
  (Also see တည် | ti2.)
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.)
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• တွဲ့ | tweare1
  
  (1) sing or speak at slow tempo.
  
  (2) mist to cling.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.