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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'O'

• ဖို | pfo2; pfo2
  
  (1) particle suffixed to the noun to denote male as in အဖို | a-pfo2. The word has a wider application than အထီး | a-hti3 - male animal.
  
  အဖို | a-pfo2 can be staminate plants, male animal, human male, or positive element, such as the positive terminal of the battery.
  
  (2) bellows used by alchemists and blacksmiths.
  
  (3) bakery as in ပေါင်မုန့်ဖို | poun2-mone1 pfo2.
  
  (4) smithy as in ပန်းပဲဖို | ba1-beare3 bo2.
  
  (5) furnace for making bricks as in အုတ်ဖို | oat pfo2 - kiln.
  
  ဖိုကျင် | pfo2 kjin2 - a type of bellows made with giant bamboo cylinders.
  
  ဖိုခုံလောက် | pfo2 ga1-nout - tripod stand for cooking; trivet.
  
  ဖိုခုံလောက်ဆိုင် | pfo2 ga1-nout hsine2 - sit or place things in a triangular form.
  
  ဖိုထိုး | pfo2 hto3 - (1) work with bellow. (2) practice alchemy.
  
  ဖိုထိုးသူ | pfo2 hto3 dthu2 - alchemist.
  
  ဖိုလင်ကဲ | pfo2 lin2 keare3 - [archaic] be overfull.
  
  ဖိုသီဖတ်သီ | pfo2-dthi2 pfut-thi2 - untidily; in a dishevelled manner; in disarray; extremely disorderly.
  
  ဖိုတိုစတက် | pfo2-toh2 sa1-tet - [English] photostat; photo copy.
  
  ဖို၊ မ | pfo2 ma1 - sexual.
  
  ဖို၊ မ ဆက်ဆံ | pfo2 ma1 hset-hsun2 - have sex.
  
  ဖို၊ မ ဆက်ဆံခြင်း | pfo2 ma1 hset-hsun2 jin3 - sexual reproduction.
  
  ဖို၊ မ ဆက်ဆံသူ | pfo2 ma1 hset-hsun2 dthu2 - heterosexual.
  
  ဖို၊ မ ရှုပ်ထွေးသော | pfo2 ma1 shoat-htway3 dthau3 - promiscuous; wanton; loose.
  
  ဖိုမင် | pfo2-min2 - [English] foreman.
  
  
• ဖိုလ် | pfo2 - [Buddhism] fruition of the path leading to Nibbana (Nirvana).
  
  ဖိုလ်တရား | pfo2 ta1-ya3 - reaching the door of Nibbana (Nirvana) after following the final stage of the path called မဂ် | met.
  
  
• ဖို့ | pfo1; bo1; bo1
  
  (1) fill cavity; fill up the depression in the ground with earth to make even as in မြေကြီးဖို့ | myay2-ji3 pfo1.
  
  (2) pile on earth to build dyke, embankment, dam, etc..
  
  (3) heap all the blames on someone as in အပြစ်ဖို့ | a-pyit pfo1.
  
  (4) postpositional marker "for".
  
  ဒါငါ့ဖို့ | da2 nga1 bo1 - That's for me.
  
  (5) conjunction "in order to".
  
  ဥပုသ်စောင့်တာ ဘာကြောင့်လဲ၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်ရဖို့ပဲ | u1-boat-soun1 da2 ba2 joun1 leare3, nate-bun2 ya1 bo1 beare3 - Why observe the eight Buddhist precepts? — in order to reach Nibbana.
  
  ဖို့မြေ | pfo1 myay2 - landfill.
  
  
• ဖိုး | pfo3
  
  (1) affectionate term in front of Burmese male names.
  
  (2) cost; price; value; worth as in တန်ဖိုး | tan2-bo3.
  
  ဖိုးခေါင် | pfo3 goun2 - lineated barbet bird (Megalaima lineata.)
  
  ဖိုးဖိုး | pfo3-pfo3 - spoken and informal word for grandfather. (See ဘိုးဘိုး | pfo3-pfo3.)
  
  ဖိုးရိုးဖားရား | pfo3-yo3 pfa3-ya3 - with hair and clothes flopping and flapping around.
  
  ဖိုးလမင်း | pfo3 la1 min3
  ဖိုးလမင်းကောင် | pfo3 la1 min3 goun2 - (1) affectionate term for the moon. (2) cockchafer beetle (Anomala variens.).
  
  ဖိုးဝရုပ် | pfo3 wa1 yoat - papier-mache (made of paper pulp) doll in the form of plump boy.
  
  ဖိုးသုည | pfo3 thone2-nya1 - illiterate; uneducated person.
  
  ဖိုးသူတော် | pfo3 thu2-dau2 - white-robed holy man.
  
  
• ဖျိုး | pfyo3
  
  ဖျိုးဖျိုးဖျတ်ဖျတ် | pfyo3-byo3 pfyut-pfyut - briskly; smartly.
  
  
• ဖြို | pfyo2 - demolish; destroy; scatter.
  
  ဖြိုချ | pfyo2 cha1 - tear down; dismantle; topple.
  
  ဖြိုခွဲ | pfyo2 khweare3 - (1) demolish buildings and structures. (2) scatter; destroy.
  
  ဖြိုခွင်း | pfyo2 khwin3 - annihilate the enemy.
  
  ဖြိုဖျက် | pfyo2 pfyet - destroy; raze; bulldoze..
  
  
• ဖြိုး | pfyo3 - abundant; bountiful; profuse; full; over-flowing.
  
  ဖွံ့ဖြိုး | pfoon1-pfyo3 - developed.
  
  ပြည်ထောင်စု ကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ | pyi2-doun2-zu1 kjan1-khine2-yay3 hnin1 pfoon1-pfyo3-yay3 pa2-ti2 - Union Solidarity and Development Party - a major political party in Myanmar.
  
  ဖြိုးမောက် | pfyo3 mout - (1) plump; buxom; full. (2) abundant; luxuriant; profuse.
  
  ဖြိုးဝေ | pfyo3 way2 - abundant; over-flowing.
  
  ဖြိုးဖြိုးဖြောက်ဖြောက် | pfyo3-byo3 pfyout-pfyout - intermittently; sparsely.
  
  
• ဗို့ | bo1 - [English] volt.
  
  ဗို့အား | bo1 ah3 - voltage.
  
  
• ဗိုလ် | bo2
  
  (1) lieutenant in the army or air-force; lieutenant junior in navy.
  
  (2) prefix or suffix for different ranks of officers in the armed forces.
  
  စစ်ဗိုလ် | sit bo2 - general term for the officer in the armed forces.
  
  (3) leader.
  
  (4) champion.
  
  ဗိုလ်ကေ | bo2 kay2 - cropped hair.
  
  ဗိုလ်ကိတ်ပဲ | bo2-kate peare3 - cow pea; black-eyed pea (Vigna catjang.)
  
  ဗိုလ်ကျ | bo2 kja1 - behave like a bully.
  
  ဗိုလ်ကြီး | bo2 ji3 - captain.
  
  ဗိုလ်ချုပ် | bo2 joat - major general (army); rear admiral (navy).
  
  ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | bo2 joat ji3 - general (army); admiral (navy).
  
  ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှုးကြီး | bo2 joat hmu3 ji3- senior general.
  
  ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်း | bo2-joat oun2-hsun3 - Aung San, the founder of the Myanmar Armed Forces, and considered the Father of the Nation of Myanmar today.
  
  ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်းဈေး | bo2-joat oun2-hsun3 zay3 - Bogyoke Market, also called ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ဈေး | bo2-joat zay3, formerly known as Scott's Market, is a major bazaar in downtown Yangon.
  
  ဗိုလ်ခြေ | bo2 jay2 - armed forces.
  
  ဗိုလ်စားငှက် | bo2 za3 hnget - snipe (straight-billed game bird.)
  
  ဗိုလ်စားပဲ | bo2 za3 peare3 - snowpea.
  
  ဗိုလ်စွဲ | bo2 hsweare3 - become a champion.
  
  ဗိုလ်တထောင်ဘုရား | bo2 ta1-htoun2 pfa1-ya3 - Botataung Pagoda, a pagoda located in downtown Yangon, believed to house a sacred hair of Gautama Buddha, built by the Mon around the same time as Shwedagon Pagoda.
  
  ဗိုလ်တဲ | bo2 teare3 - circuit house, guest house for VIP and visiting government officials during colonial days.
  
  ဗိုလ်ထု | bo2 du1 - armed forces.
  
  ဗိုလ်ပါ | bo2 pa2 - (1) troops. (2) multitude; populace.
  
  ဗိုလ်ပုံ | bo2 bone2 - public gathering.
  
  ဗိုလ်မထား | bo2 ma1-hta3 - accept no one to be in a superior position.
  
  V ဗိုလ်မှုး | bo2 hmu3 - major; lieutenant commander.
  
  ဗိုလ်မှုးကြီး | bo2 hmu3 ji3 - colonel (army); captain (navy).
  
  ဗိုလ်မှုးချုပ် | bo2 hmu3 joat - brigadier general.
  
  ဗိုလ်ရှုခံ | bo2-shu1 gun2 - military parade.
  
  ဗိုလ်လုပွဲ | bo2-lu1 bweare3 - final in the match.
  
  ဗိုလ်လောင်း | bo2 loun3 - cadet at a military academy or officer training school.
  
  ဗိုလ်လုပ် | bo2 loat - boss around.
  
  ဗိုလ်ဝင်ခံ | bo2 win2 khan2 - officer to recruit troops under his command.
  
  ဗိုလ်သင်တန်း | bo2 thin2-dun3 - officer training.
  
  ဗိုလ်သင်တန်းကျောင်း | bo2 thin2-dun3 kjoun3 - officer training school.
  
  
• ဗိုဟ် | bo2 - [archaic] ten ticals (ကျပ်သား | kjut tha3.)
  
  
• ဗျို | byo2 - a response by a man when someone calls his name.
  
  
• ဗျို့ | byo1
  
  (1) [colloquial] response to the call by male.
  
  မောင်ဘရေ ... (ဗျို့) | maun2-ba1 yay2 ... (byo1) - Maung Ba, where are you? (I am here.)
  
  (2) [colloquial] ending word voice out to be heard, or to stress the feeling tone.
  
  သွားပြီဗျို့ | thwa3 byi2 byo1 - I am leaving now (Where are you? Do you hear me?)
  
  
• ဗြို့ | byo1 - title of an ancient book on astrology.
  
  
• ဗျိုး | byo3 - call of a public announcer in the neighborhood.
  
  ဗျိုးထိုး | byo2 hto3
  ဗျိုးဟစ် | byo2 hit - public announcer in the neighborhood to proclaim or make announcements.
  
  
• ဘို | bo2 - [slang] white man or woman; Westerner.
  
  ဘိုမ | bo2 ma1 - white woman.
  
  ဘိုလစ်ဗီးယား | bo2-lit-be3-ya3 - Bolivia, a country in Central South America bordering Peru, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay..
  
  
• ဘို့ | bo1
  
  (1) hump of bull or camel.
  
  (2) handle of a bow.
  
  
• ဘိုး | bo3 or pfo3
  
  (1) grandfather, or someone who is old enough to be a grandfather.
  
  (2) bore of a gun-barrel.
  
  ဘိုးစဉ်ဘောင်ဆက် | bo3-zin2 boun2-zet - for generations (through the lineage of grandfathers.)
  
  ဘိုးတော်ဘုရား | bo3-dau2 pfa1-ya3 - Bodawpaya (1745 – 1819), the 6^th king of the Konbaung Dynasty of Myanmar, best known for annexation of Arakan by the army led by his son Thado Minsaw, and construction of Mingun Bell as well as unfinished Mingun Pahtodawgyi stupa. He fathered 70 sons and 67 daughters by about 54 consorts.
  
  ဘိုးတံ | bo3-dun2 - bow of a violin.
  
  ဘိုးဘပိုင်ပစ္စည်း | bo3 ba1 pine2 pyit-si3 - heirloom; ancestral property.
  
  ဘိုးဘပိုင်မြေ | bo3 ba1 pine2 myay2 - freehold land.
  
  ဘိုးဘိုး | pfo3-pfo3 - [colloquial] - grandpa.
  
  ဘိုးဘွား | bo3 bwa3
  ဘိုးဘွားမျိုးနွယ် | bo3 bwa3 myo3 nweare2 - ancestor; progenitor.
  
  ဘိုးလင်း | bo3-lin3 - [Sports] bowling.
  
  ဘိုးအေ | bo3-ay2 - grandfather.
  
  အဘိုးအို | a-pfo3 o2 - old man.