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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'U'

• ကု | ku1 give treatment to cure disease or illness; cure.
  
  ဆရာဝန်ခေါ်ပြီး ဆေးကုရတယ် | hsa1-ya2-woon2 khau2 pyi3 hsay3 ku1 ya1 deare2 - (we) had to call a doctor for treatment.
  
  ကုစား | ku1-za3
  ကုသ | ku1-tha1 - give medical treatment.
  
  ကုသ၍မရနိုင်သော | ku1-tha1 yway1 ma1-ya1 nine2 dthau3 - incurable.
  
  ကုထုံး | ku1-htone3
  ကုထုံးကုနည်း | ku1-htone3 ku1-ni3 - therapy; medical treatment.
  
  ကုထုံးပညာရှင် | ku1-htone3 pyin2-nya2-shin2 - therapist.
  
  
• ကုဋီ | ku1-de2 - water-closet (toilet) for monks.
  
  ကုဗ | ku1-ba1 - [English] cube; power of 3. ku1-ba1 - cubic.
  
  ကုမုဒြာ | ku1 mout da1-ra2 - white water-lily that blooms in moonlight.
  
  ကုလသမဂ္ဂ | ku1-la1 tha1 met-ga1 - United Nations.
  
  ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ပဋိညာဉ် | ku1-la1 tha1 met-ga1 ba1-dain2 nyin2 - United Nations Convention (pledge).
  
  ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှု အစီအစဉ် | ku1-la1 tha1 met-ga1 pfoon1-pfyo3-hmu1 a-si2 a-sin2 - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
  
  ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကြေငြာစာတမ်း | ku1-la1 tha1 met-ga1 lu1 a-khwin1 a-yay3 kjay2-nya2 sa2-dun3 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  
  ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အထူး ကိုယ်စားလှယ် | ku1-la1 tha1 met-ga1 a-htu3 ko2-za1-leare2 - UN Special Representative; UN Special Rapporteur.
  
  ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အထွေထွေ အတွင်းရေးမှုးချုပ် | ku1-la1 tha1 met-ga1 a-htway2-dway2 a-twin2-yay2-hmu3 joat - General Secretary of the United Nations.
  
  ကုသိုလ် | ku1-dtho2 - merit.
  
  ကုသိုလ်ကံ | ku1-dtho2 kun2 - luck not by chance but due to previous deeds.
  
  ကုသိုလ်ဖြစ်ဆေးခန်း | ku1-dtho2 pfyit hsay3-gun3 - charitable clinic.
  
  ကုသိုလ်ရှင် | ku1-dtho2 shin2 - donor.
  
  (Also see Sounds Like Ka1.)
  
  (Also see Sounds Like Ga1.)
  
  
• ကူ | ku2
  
  (1) to help; assist.
  
  ကူပါဦး | ku2 ba2 ome3
  
  ကူညီပေးပါဦး | ku2-nyi2 pay3 ba2 ome3 - Please help me!
  
  (2) coo; chirp; tweet or a call of the bird such as that of a cuckoo.
  
  ကူငွေ | ku2 ngway2 - donation; money contributed.
  
  ကူညီ | ku2-nyi2 - help; assist.
  
  ကူဖော်လောင်ဖက် | ku2-bau2 loun2-bet - companion and a help.
  
  ကူသယ်ခေါက်သယ် | ku2-dtheare2 khout-theare2 - back and forth (helping to move things.)
  
  ကူပွန် | ku2-poon2 - [English] coupon.
  
  ကူရွပ် | ku2-yoot - large waterboat used in ancient times.
  
  ကူရှင် | ku2-shin2 - [English] cushion.
  
  ကူလီ | ku2-li2 - [Hindi] coolie; porter.
  
  ကူဝိတ် | ku2-wate - Kuwait, an Arab country on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf.
  
  
• ကူး | ku3
  
  (1) cross the road.
  
  လမ်းကူးဖို့လိုတယ် | lun3 ku3 bo1 lo2 deare2 - You need to cross the road.
  
  (2) make a copy or photocopy as in မိတ္တူကူး | mate-tu2 ku3.
  
  ဒါကိုမိတ္တူကူးပေးပါ | da2 go2 mate-tu2 ku3 pay3 ba2 - Please photocopy this for me.
  
  (3) swim across a river, a lake or a swimming pool as in ရေကူး | yay2 ku3.
  
  ရေကူးတတ်သလား | yay2 ku3 tut dtha1-la3 - Do you know how to swim?
  
  (4) change or transform into something new as in နှစ်သစ်ကူး | hnit-thit ku3 - New Year.
  
  (5) fire or contagious disease to spread.
  
  ရောဂါကူးလိမ့်မယ် | yau3-ga2 ku3 lain1 meare2 - You will get the disease. (Be careful with unhygienic food, etc..)
  
  ကူးစက် | ku3 set - contigious disease to be transmitted by physical contact.
  
  ကူးစက် | ku3 set
  ကူးစက်တတ်သော | ku3-set tut dthau3 - contagious.
  
  ကူးစက်ရောဂါ | ku3-set yau3-ga2 - contagious disease.
  
  ကူးစက်ရောဂါများ ကာကွယ်နှိမ်နင်း‌ရေး ဥပဒေ | ku3-set-yau3-ga2 mya3 ka2-gweare2 hnain2-nin3-yay3 u1-ba1-day2 - Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law.
  
  ကူးနာယဉ်းနာ | ku3-na2 yin3-na2 - virulent, contagious disease.
  
  ကူးပြောင်း | ku3 pyoun3 - transform; change; move or shift.
  
  ကူးပြောင်းဆဲကာလ | ku3-pyoun3-zeare3 ka2-la1 - period of transition.
  
  ကူးပြောင်းရေးကာလပြဋ္ဌာန်းချက်များ | ku3-pyoun3-yay3 ka2-la1 pya1-htan3-jet mya3 - transitory provisions.
  
  ကူးလူးဆက်ဆံမှု | ku3-lu3 hset-hsun2 hmu1 - inter-relations.
  
  ကူးသန်း | ku3 thun3 - (1) travel. (2) trade. (3) go across.
  
  ကူးသန်းရောင်းဝယ်ရေး | ku3-thun3 youn3-weare2-yay3 - commerce.
  
  (Also see Sounds Like Ga1.)
  
  
• ကျူ | kju2; kju2
  
  (1) A type of reed (Arundo donax).
  
  (2) produce a flute-like melodious note.
  
  (3) pigeons to coo.
  
  ကျူတံ | kju2 dun2 - [English] cue used in billiards.
  
  ကျူထရံ | kju2 hta1-yan2 - wall of a hut made of reed matting.
  
  ကျူကျူပါအောင် | kju2-kju2 pa2 oun2 - emotionally cry out loud.
  
  
  
• ကျူး | kju3; kju3
  
  (1) go beyond.
  
  (2) pass; overtake.
  
  (3) trespass; transgress as in ကျူးကျော် | kju3 kjau2.
  
  ကျူးကျော်စစ် | kju3-kjau2 sit - war of aggression.
  
  ကျူးကျော်တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း | kju3-kjau2 tite-khite jin3 - invasion; raid.
  
  ကျူးကျော်နေထိုင်သူ | kju3-kjau2 nay2-htine2-dthu2 - squatters.
  
  ကျူးကျော်မြေ | kju3-kjau2 myay2 - illegal land without title of ownership.
  
  ကျူးကျော်ရပ်ကွက် | kju3-kjau2 yut-kwet - area occupied by squatters.
  
  ကျူးကျော်ဝင်ရောက်ခြင်း | kju3-kjau2 win2-yout jin3 - incursion; infiltration.
  
  (4) break the law; violate as in ကျူးလွန် | kju3 loon2.
  
  ကျူးလွန်သူ | kju3-loon2 dthu2
  ပြစ်မှုကျူးလွန်သူ | pyit-hmu1 kju3-loon2 dthu2 - perpetrator; culprit; wrongdoer.
  
  (5) utter joy or produce melodious note.
  
  တွန်ကြူး | toon2 kju3 - birds to sing a pleasant tune.
  
  ဖော်ကျူး | pfau2 kju3 - eulogize; praise; extol.
  
  ရင့်ကျူး | yin1 kju3 - talk sweetly; sing melodiously.
  
  သီကျူး | thi2 kju3 - sing.
  
  ဥဒါန်းကျူး | u1-dun3 kju3 - utter joy.
  
  (6) domino with nine pips (nine white or five white and four red.)
  
  ကျူးဘား | kju3-ba3 - Cuba, an island country in the Caribbean.
  
  
• ကြူ | kju2; kju2
  
  (1) be fragrant as in သင်းကြူ | thin3 kju2.
  
  ရနံ့သင်းကြူသော နှင်းဆီးပန်း | ya1-nun1 thin3-kju2 dthau3 hnin3-zi2 bun3 - sweet-scented rose.
  
  (2) part of female Burmese names as in ကြူကြူခိုင် | kju2 kju2 khine2 - Kyu Kyu Khine.
  
  
• ကြူး | kju3 - unrestrained.
  
  ဒီလူအစားကြူးတယ် | de2 lu2 a-sa3 kju3 deare2 - This man is unrestrained in taking food. This man is a compulsive eater.
  
  
• ခု | khu1; khu1; khu1
  
  (1) single digit number as in ခု၊ ဆယ်၊ ရာ၊ ထောင် | khu1, hseare2, ya2, htoun2 - 1X, 10X, 100X, 1,000X.
  
  (2) numerical classifier (measure word) used for objects.
  
  ဘယ်နှခုရှိလဲ | beare2 hna1-khu1 shi1 leare3 - How many units are there?
  
  (3) secure, raise, prop up, or support with something.
  
  ကားဘီးကို အုတ်ခဲနဲ့ခုထား | ka3-bain3 go2 oat-kheare3 neare1 khu1 hta3 - Block the wheel of the car with the brick.
  
  (4) be offended; resent.
  
  စိတ်ခု | sate khu1 - resent; harbor resentment.
  
  သူစိတ်ခုသွားတယ် | thu2 sate khu1 thwa3 deare2 - He was offended.
  
  (5) resist; defend as in ခုခံ | khu1 gun2.
  
  ခုခံချေပချက် | khu1-gun2 chay2-pa1 jet - rebuttal.
  
  ခုခံချေပခွင့် | khu1-gun2 chay2-pa1 gwin1 - right of defense.
  
  (6) mid-way as in ခုလတ် | khu1 lut.
  
  လမ်းခုလတ် | lun3 khu1-lut - in the middle of the journey.
  
  (7) [colloquial] now; at the present time as in အခု | a-khu1 - right now.
  
  အခု လာခဲ့မယ် | a-khu1 la2 kheare1 meare2 - I will come over now.
  
  ခုနတုန်းက | khu1-na1 dome3 ga1 - not long ago.
  
  ခုလေးတင် | khu1-lay3-din2 - just now.
  
  ခုထက်ထိ | khu1-det-hti1 - till now.
  
  အခုတလော | a-khu1 ta1-lau3 - nowadays; these days.
  
  (Also: ခု | khoon2 - as in ခုနစ် | khoon2-nit - seven.)
  
  
• ခူ | khu2
  
  (1) caterpillar (larva of butterfly; moth.)
  
  (2) jelly-fish.
  
  (3) transverse brace in the frame of a loom.
  
  ခူနာ | khu2-na2 - whitlow; infection at the finger or toe in the area of the nail.
  
  ခူဆံ | khu2-zun2 - a type of softwood tree (Hymeno-dictyon excelsum).
  
  
• ခူး | khu3
  
  (1) pluck fruits, flowers or leaves from a tree.
  
  (2) scoop cooked rice into individual plates.
  
  ထမင်းခူးထားတယ် | hta1-min3 khu3 hta3 deare2 - The meal is ready!
  
  
• ချူ | chu2; chu2
  
  (1) pluck fruits or flowers using တံချူ | da1-ju2 - a long bamboo pole with its tip cut into a slot for twisting branches.
  
  (2) swindle money from someone for ongoing basis.
  
  ဒီကောင် အဘွားကြီးဆီက ပိုက်ဆံချူစားနေကြပဲ | de2 koun2 a-pfwa3-ji3 hsi2 ga1 pike-hsun2 chu2 sa3 nay2 ja1 beare3 - That fellow is swindling money from the old woman as usual.
  
  (3) jingle bell made of bamboo for bulls and horses; small round metal bell.
  
  ချူသံပါအောင်ညည်း | chu2-thun2 pa2 oun2 nyi3 - irritatingly complain.
  
  (4) be frequently ill as in ချူချာ | chu2 cha2.
  
  ချူနာသည် | chu2-na2 dtheare2 - a person who is frequently sick and in ill health.
  
  (5) use enema as in ဝမ်းချူ | woon3 chu2.
  
  
• ဂူ | gu2
  
  (1) cave; cavern.
  
  (2) tomb.
  
  ဂူဂယ်လ် | gu2-geare2-(l) - Google.
  
  ဂူဘုရား | gu2 pfa1-ya3 - temple with hollow vaulted base.
  
  ဂူလီ | gu2-li2 - polo ball; polo.
  
  ဂူသွင်း | gu2 thwin3 - entomb.
  
  
• ဂျူ | ju2
  
  ဂျူဒို | ju2-doe2 - Judo.
  
  ဂျူရီ | ju2-ri2 - [English] jury.
  
  ဂျူရီလူကြီး | ju2-ri2 lu2-ji3 - juror.
  
  
• ဂျူး | ju3 - Jewish people and religion also known as ယဟူဒီ | ya1-hu2-de2.
  
  ဂျူးဘုရားရှိခိုးကျောင်း ju3 pfa1-ya3 shit-kho3 joun3 - synagogue, the place of worship for a Jewish congregation.
  
  ဂျူးမြစ် ju3 myit - a type of edible root (Allium tuberosum).