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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'U'

• ဥ | u1; u1
  
  (1) egg; roe.
  
  (2) tuber or bulb (underground stem) as in မုန်လာဥ | mone2-la2 u1 - carrot.
  
  (3) lay egg.
  
  
• ဥချိုး | u1-jo3 - dove.
  
  
• ဥစိမ်း | u1-zain3 - undeveloped egg.
  
  
• ဥတု | u1-tu1 - season; weather; climate.
  
  ဥတဲ | u1 teare3 - [archaic] door.
  
  ဥတစ်လုံးတစ်ကောင်ကြွက် | u1 ta1-lone3 da1-goun2 jwet - (1) only child. (2) loner.
  
  
• ဥဒဟို | u1 da1-ho2 - as one wishes.
  
  ဥဒါရတာဂုဏ် | u1 da2 ra1-ta2 gome2 - eulogy.
  
  ဥဒါဟရုဏ် | u1 da2 ha1-rone2 - example.
  
  ဥဒေါင်း | u1-doun3 - peacock.
  
  ဥဒည်း | u1-de3 - the east where the sun rises.
  
  ဥဒါန်း | u1-dun3 - words of historical significance and remembrance handed down from one generation to the next.
  
  ဥဒါန်းကျူး | u1-dun3 kju3 - utter joy.
  
  ဥဒါန်းတွင် | u1-dun3 twin2 - become a historical significance.
  
  ဥဒါန်းမကျေ | u1-dun3 ma1-kjay2 - be forever remembered.
  
  
• ဥနှဲ | u1 hneare3 - streblus asper tree, the bark of which is used as an ingredient of cheroots.
  
  
• ဥပစာ | u1-ba1-za2 - metaphor; figure of speech.
  
  ဥပဒေ | u1-ba1-day2 - law.
  
  ဥပဒေကဲ့သို့ အာဏာတည်သောအမိန့် | u1-ba1-day2 keare1-dtho1 ah2-na2 ti2 dthau3 a-main1 - ordinance; statute, an act passed by a legislative body valid for a certain period of time.
  
  ဥပဒေကြမ်း | u1-ba1-day2 jan3 - bill in the parliament.
  
  ဥပဒေကြမ်းတင်သွင်းခြင်း | u1-ba1-day2 jan3 tin2-thwin3 jin3 - submission of bill in the parliament.
  
  ဥပဒေချုပ် | u1-ba1-day2 joat - Advocate General of state or province.
  
  ဥပဒေစနစ် | u1-ba1-day2 sa1-nit - legal system.
  
  ဥပဒေစည်းမျဉ်းလျစ်လျူရှုမှု | u1-ba1-day2 si3-myin3 lit-lyu2-shu1 hmu1 - infringement.
  
  ဥပဒေထိန်းသိမ်း | u1-ba1-day2 htain3-thain3 - enforce law.
  
  ဥပဒေထိန်းသိမ်းရေး | u1-ba1-day2 htain3-thain3 yay3 - law enforcement.
  
  ဥပဒေပညာရှင် | u1-ba1-day2 pyin2-nya2-shin2 - legal expert.
  
  ဥပဒေပြု | u1-ba1-day2 pyu1 - pass a law; enact; bill to become a law.
  
  ဥပဒေပြုခြင်း | u1-ba1-day2 pyu1 jin3 - enactment.
  
  ဥပဒေပြုရေး | u1-ba1-day2 pyu1 yay3 - legislative branch.
  
  ဥပဒေပြုရေးအာဏာ | u1-ba1-day2 pyu1 yay3 ah2-na2 - legislative power.
  
  ဥပဒေပြုလွှတ်တော် | u1-ba1-day2 pyu1 hloot-tau2 - legislature; House or Congress in the US.
  
  ဥပဒေဘောင် ကျော်လွန်သော | u1-ba1-day2 boun2 kjau2-loon2 dthau3 - extrajudicial; illegal.
  
  ဥပ​ဒေအကျိုးဆောင် | u1-ba1-day2 a-kjo3-zoun2 - legal counsel.
  
  ဥပဓိရုပ် | u1-ba1-de1 yoat - facial features of a man judged by people as to whether he is educated and respectable.
  
  ဥပပတ် | u1 ba1-but - coming into existence spontaneously.
  
  ဥပမာ | u1 pa1-ma2 - example.
  
  ဥပမာဇောတက | u1-pa1-ma2 zau3 ta1-ka1 - particle after a noun to show similarity equivalent to "as if", "like", etc..
  
  ဥပမာန | u1 pa1-ma2 na1 - object of comparison.
  
  ဥပမာအလင်္ကာ | u1 pa1-ma2 a-lin2-ga2 - simile.
  
  ဥပမေယျ | u1 pa1-may2 ya1
  ဥပမည်း | u1 pa1-myi3 - subject of comparison.
  
  ဥပရာဇာ | u1 pa1-ra2 za2 - crown prince.
  
  ဥပါ | u1 pa2 - giant; ogre.
  
  ဥပါကြယ် | u1-pa2 kjeare2 - meteor.
  
  ဥပါပျံ | u1-pa2 pyan2 - occurence of prophetic and ominous events such as earthquakes, passing of comets, falling of meteorites; lightning strikes, etc..
  
  ဥပါဒါန် | u1-pa2 dun2 - attachment; clinging to existence; obsession.
  
  ဥပါသကာ | u1-pa2 tha1-ka2 - male Buddhist devotee.
  
  ဥပါသိကာ | u1-pa2 thi1-ka2 - female Buddhist devotee.
  
  ဥပေက္ခာ | u1-pyit-kha2 - equanimity; detachment; indifference.
  
  ဥပေက္ခာပြု | u1-pyit-kha2 pyu1 - mind to remain tranquil, serene and undisturbed regardless of circumstances good or bad; ignore and be indifferent.
  
  ဥပစ္ဆေဒကကံ | u1-pyit-hsay2 da1-ka1 kun2 - [Buddhism] Karma that results in violent death.
  
  ဥပဇ္ဈာယ်ဆရာ | u1-pyit-zeare2 hsa1-ya2 - (1) chief monk who performs ordination ceremony. (2) mentor.
  
  ဥပဋ္ဌာက | u1-pup hta2 ka1 - attendant who waits upon someone.
  
  ဥပတ္ထမ္ဘက | u1 pup htan2 ba1-ka1 - support group; a person who gives emotional support.
  
  ဥပဒ် | u1-but - harm.
  
  ဥပဒ်ပေးနိုင်တယ် | u1-but pay3 nine2 deare2 - It can be harmful.
  
  ဥပဒ္ဒဝေါ | u1-but da1-wau3 - physical torture; harm.
  
  ဥပါဒ် | u1-but - (1) [Buddhism] genesis; birth. u1-but - come into existence.
  
  ဥပန်း | u1-pan3 - (1) white or yellow feathered fowl with a tinge of black color. (2) snakebird; darter.
  
  ဥပါယ်တံမျဉ် | u1-peare2 ta1-myin2 - strategy to fulfil one's purpose.
  
  ဥပုသ် | u1-boat - Sabbath; eight Buddhist precepts.
  
  ဥပုသ်ကျိုး | u1-boat kjo3 - break precepts during sabbath.
  
  ဥပုသ်ကြီးဝင် | u1-boat-ji3 win2 - begin long period of sabbath.
  
  ဥပုသ်စောင့် | u1-boat soun1 - observe the Buddhist precepts during sabbath day.
  
  ဥပုသ်ထွက် | u1-boat htwet - terminate the observance of precepts during Sabbath day.
  
  ဥပုသ်နေ့ | u1-boat nay1 - sabbath day.
  
  ဥပုသ်ပြု | u1-boat pyu1 - monks to recite Vinaya scripture on fullmoon and newmoon day.
  
  ဥပုသ်သည် | u1-boat theare2 - someone observing precepts on the sabbath day.
  
  ဥပြုံး | u1 byone3 - [archaic] hitching post.
  
  
• ဥဖေါက်ခြင်း | u1-pfout jin3 - incubation.
  
  ဥဖေါက်စက် | u1-pfout set - incubator.
  
  ဥဖောင်း | u1-pfoun3 - bulge.
  
  
• ဥဗျိုင်း | u1-byine3 - the little egret.
  
  ဥဗျိုင်းတာရာ | u1-byine3 ta2-ya2 - W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia.
  
  
• ဥဘတောဗျည်း | u1 ba1-tau3 byi3 - hermaphrodite (one having both male and female sexual organs.)
  
  
• ဥမကွဲသိုက်မပျက် | u1 ma1-kweare3 thite ma1-pyet - stay as a group; in unity.
  
  ဥမမည်စာမမြောက် | u1 ma1-myi2 sa2 ma1-myout - tender young age.
  
  ဥမင် | u1-min2
  ဥမင်လိုဏ်ခေါင်း | u1-min2 hline2-goun3 - (1) tunnel. (2) cave.
  
  
• ဥယျောဇဉ် | u1-yau3-zin2 - foreword; preface.
  
  ဥယျာဉ် | u1-yin2 - garden.
  
  ဥယျာဉ်စိုက်ပျိုးရေး | u1-yin2 site-pyo3-yay3 - horticulture; gardening.
  
  ဥယျာဉ်မှူး | u1-yin2 hmu3 - gardener.
  
  
• ဥရူတိုင် | u3 u2 dine2 - house post in the south east corner.
  
  ဥရုဂွေး | u1-ru1-guay3 - Uruguay, a republic on the southeast coast of South America.
  
  ဥရောပ | u1-yau3-pa1 - Europe.
  
  
• ဥသေးပေါက်ကင်း | u1 dthay3 pout kin3 - newly hatched chicken; new born infant.
  
  ဥသေးဥမွှား | u1-dthay3 u1-hmwa3 - kids; children.
  
  ဥသိမ် | u1-dthain2 - unlaid egg.
  
  ဥသျှစ် | oat-shit - bael fruit.
  
  
• ဥဩ | oat-au3 - (1) koel bird. (2) siren.
  
  ဥဩဆွဲသံ | oat-au3 hsweare3 dthun2 - sound of sirens.
  
  
• အူ | u2; u2
  
  (1) intestine.
  
  (2) howl.
  
  ခွေးတွေ အူနေကြတယ် | khway3 dway2 u2 nay2 ja1 deare2 - The dogs are howling.
  
  (3) have ringing in the ears.
  
  နားအူနေတယ် | na3 u2 nay2 deare2 - I have ringing in the ears.
  
  (4) be stupid; not smart.
  
  အူကြောင်ကြောင်ကောင်ပဲ | u2-kjoun2-joun2 koun2 beare3 - What an idiot!
  
  အူကျရောဂါ | u2-kja1 yau3-ga2 - hernia.
  
  အူကြောင်ကြောင်ဖြစ် | u2-kjoun2-joun2 pfyit - cause bewilderment.
  
  အူကြောင်ကြောင်လူ | u2-kjoun2-joun2 lu2 - eccentric; oddball; nut case; wacko; whacko.
  
  အူကြောင်း | u2-joun3 - (1) alignment of road. (2) core. (3) center line in Myanmar ထုပ်ဆီးတိုး | htoat-hsi3-toe3 game.
  
  အူကြမ်း | u2-jan3 - tripe.
  
  အူချာပေါက် | u2-cha2 pout - be confused.
  
  အူချာလိုက် | u2-cha2 lite
  အူချာလည် | u2-cha2 leare2 - be confused and run around in circle.
  
  အူချဉ် | u2-jin2 - part of small intestine of a pig.
  
  အူစုံသည်းစုံ | u2-zone2 theare3-zone2 - viscera.
  
  အူတကြုတ်ကြုတ်ဖြစ် | u2 da1-joat-joat pfyit - be starving.
  
  အူတို | u2 toh2 - be jealous.
  
  အူတက် | u2 tet - be convulsed with laughter.
  
  အူတိုင် | u2-dine2 - core; pith; soft spongelike stem (of a banana plant).
  
  အူတုန်သည်းတုန်ဖြစ် | u2-dome2 theare3-dome2 pfyit - tremble with fear.
  
  အူနာ | u2 na2 - go into convulsions.
  
  အူနီ | u2-ni2 - (1) red rot (colletotrichuna falcatums).(2) red pulp of guava.
  
  အူနု | u2-nu1 - small intestine of cattle, goat or pig.
  
  အူနှိပ် | u2 hnate - press one's belly and convulsed with laughter.
  
  အူပေါက် | u2 pout - stray from the main subject; ramble.
  
  အူမကြီး | u2-ma1 ji3 - large intestine.
  
  အူမတောင့် | u2-ma1 toun1 - be well-fed.
  
  အူမအောက်ပိုင်း | u2-ma1 out pine3 - colon.
  
  အူမြူး | u2 myu3 - be merry.
  
  အူယား | u2 ya3 - be itching to do something.
  
  အူယားဖားယား | u2-ya3 pfa3-ya3 - in a hurry.
  
  အူရောင်ငန်းဖျား | u2-youn2 ngan3-pfya3 - typhoid.
  
  အူရိုင်း | u2 yine3 - inexperience person.
  
  အူရွှင် | u2 shwin2 - be amused.
  
  အူလည်လည်ဖြစ် | u2-leare2-leare2 pfyit - be confused and bewildered.
  
  အူလန်သည်းလန် | u2-lun2 theare3-lun2 - hilariously.
  
  အူလှိုက်သည်းလှိုက် | u2-hlite theare3-hlite - whole-heartedly.
  
  အူလျှောက်နာ | u2-shout-na2 - (1) intestine related disease. (2) disease of the plant tissue at the pith.
  
  အူလျှောက်ပိုး | u2 shout po3 - rice stem borer.
  
  အူဝဲ | u2 weare3 - (1) the cry of a new-born baby. (2) plant disease affecting the pith of stem.
  
  အူသိမ် | u2-dthain2 - small intestine.
  
  အူသိမ်အူမ | u2-dthain2 u2-ma1 - small and large intestines.
  
  အူဟောင်းလောင်းဖြစ် | u2 houn3-loun3 pfyit - have an empty stomach.
  
  အူအတက် | u2 a-tet - appendix (at the tip of large intestine.)
  
  အူအတက်ပေါက် | u2-a-tet pout - have appendicitis.
  
  အူအူသဲသဲ | u2-u2 theare3-dtheare3
  အူအူသောင်းသောင်း | u2-u2 thoun3-dthoun3 - hilariously.
  
  Other Usage:
  
  အူရီဒူး | u2-yi2-du3 - Ooredoo, the third telecommunication company from Qatar offering mobile phone and Internet services in Myanmar.
  
  အူရောင်ရောဂါ | u2-youn2 yau3-ga2 - enteritis; inflammation of the intestine which causes diarrhea.
  
  
• ဦး | u3; u3; u3 u3
  
  (1) be ahead of others.
  
  အရင်ဦးအောင် လုပ်ထား | a-yin2 u3 oun2 loat hta3 - Do it in order to be ahead of others.
  
  (2) beginning of period or season; first in activity or sequence; foremost.
  
  မိုးဦး | mo3-u3 - beginning of the rainy season.
  
  (3) front part of the house; bow part of the vessel; head of the body.
  
  (4) particle suffix for an activity that is a good idea to do and should be done, which is either suggested, stated, or promised to do.
  
  သွားတွေ့လိုက်ဦး | thwa3 tway1 lite ome3 - It would be good if you go see him.
  
  သွားပါဦးမယ် | thwa3 ba2 ome3 meare2 - I have to go now. Please excuse me.
  
  (5) Title "Mr" to a man or a monk. E.g., ဦးသန့် | u3 thun1 - U Thant of Burma who served as the third Secretary General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971.
  
  (6) numerical classifier (measure word) for the number of people.
  
  (7) part of male or female Burmese names especially for the first-born.
  
  တင်မောင်ဦး | tin2 moun2 u3 - Tin Maung U (male).
  
  သီတာဦး | thi2 da2 u3 - Thida Oo (female).
  
  ဦးကျိုး | u3 kjo3 - be subdued; be humbled.
  
  ဦးကြီး | u3-ji3 - mother's elder brother. u3-ji3 - respectful term 'uncle' to a farmer.
  
  ဦးခက် | u3-khet - head-piece of horse.
  
  ဦးခိုက် | u3 khite - do obeisance by bending the head down while kneeling.
  
  ဦးခေါင်း | u3-goun3 - head.
  
  ဦးခန်း | u3-gun3 - front part of the ship's cabin.
  
  ဦးချ | u3 cha1 - (1) do obeisance. (2) serve food to the elders first.
  
  ဦးချို | u3-jo2 - horn (of animals.)
  
  ဦးခွံ | u3-goon2 - skull.
  
  ဦးစားပေး | u3-za3 pay3 - give priority; take precedence.
  
  ဦးစီး | u3-zi3 - head of a group, department, organization, etc..
  
  အိမ်ထောင်ဦးစီး | ain2-doun2 u3-zi3 - head of the household.
  
  ဦးစီးဌာန | u3-zi3 hta2-na1 - government department under a ministry.
  
  ဦးစီးနာယက | u3-zi3 na2-ya1-ka1 - head monk.
  
  ဦးစီးဦးကိုင် | u3-zi3 u3-ghine2 - person in charge.
  
  ဦးစောက် | u3-zout - upside-down.
  
  ဦးစောက်ကျ | u3-zout kja1 - fall headlong.
  
  ဦးစောက်ကျွမ်းပြန် | u3-zout joon3-byan2 - head over heels; headlong.
  
  ဦးစောက်ပြောင်းပြန် | u3-zout byoun3-byan2 - upside-down.
  
  ဦးစွာ | u3-zwa2 - firstly.
  
  ဦးစွန်း | u3-zoon3 - (1) pinnacle. (2) foremost part of the head.
  
  ဦးစွန်းဖုတ် | u3-zoon3 pfoat - forelock; a type of hairstyle for young boys with a tuft of hair in front and nothing all around.
  
  ဦးဆံဖားလျား | u3-hsun2 pfa3-lya3 - hair in a dishevelled state.
  
  ဦးဆက် | u3-hset - base of the skull.
  
  ဦးဆောက်ပန်း | u3-hsout pan3 - floral design on Myanmar throne.
  
  ဦးဆောင် | u3-hsoun2 - lead.
  
  ဦးဆောင်ခေါင်းရွက် | u3-hsoun2 goun3-ywet - take the leadership role.
  
  ဦးဆောင်ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူ; | u3-hsoun2 hnyoon2-kja3-yay3-hmu3 - Managing director (MD).
  
  ဦးဆောင်း | u3-zoun3 - headgear.
  
  ဦးဆုံး | u3-zone3 - first and foremost.
  
  ဦးဆွေးဆံမြည့် | u3-hsway3 hsun2-myay1 - dutifully (serve till one is old and retired.)
  
  ဦးညွှတ် | u3 hnyoot - bow one's head down to pay respect.
  
  ဦးတော်တင် | u3-dau2 tin2
  ဦးတင် | u3 tin2 - pay obeisance with one's clasped hands on forehead.
  
  ဦးတိုက် | u3 tite - (1) pay respect by touching the feet of the revered person with one's head. (2) head to head encounter.
  
  ဦးတိုက်စပ် | u3-dite sut - rhyming scheme in which the last syllable of the first part rhymes with the first syllable of the second part.
  
  ဦးတိုက်လျှောက် | u3-dite shout - make a petition in court.
  
  ဦးတည် | u3-ti2 - face towards a direction.
  
  ဦးတည်ချက် | u3-ti2 jet - objective; aim; goal.
  
  ဦးတည်ရာ | u3-ti2 ya2 - direction that one is heading.
  
  ဦးတည့်ရာ | u3 teare1 ya2 - (1) whatever direction one is facing. (2) whatever it leads to.
  
  ဦးတန်ခူး | u3 da1-gu3 - the first month following Myanmar New Year.
  
  ဦးထိပ် | u3-htate - top of the head.
  
  ဦးထိပ်ထား | u3-htate hta3 - treat with great respect.
  
  ဦးထုပ် | oat-htoat - hat.
  
  ဦးထုပ်ဆောင်း | oat-htoat hsoun3 - put on a hat.
  
  ဦးထမ်းပဲ့ထမ်း | u3-htan3 peare1-htan3 - in teamwork.
  
  ဦးနင်းပဲ့ထောင် | u3-nin3 peare1-htoun2 - unmanageably (lit: step on the bow side of the boat and stern or tail side goes up).
  
  ဦးနှောက် | ome3-hnout - brain.
  
  ဦးနှောက်ခြောက် | ome3-hnout chout - run out of idea.
  
  ဦးနှောက်ဆေး | ome3-hnout hsay3 - brainwash.
  
  ဦးနှောက်ပျက် | ome3-hnout pyet - be mentally unsound.
  
  ဦးနှောက်ရှင်း | ome3-hnout shin3 - clear one's mind.
  
  ဦးနှောက်ရှုပ် | ome3-hnout shoat - be confused.
  
  ဦးနှိမ် | u3 hnain2
  ဦးနှိမ်ချ | u3 hnain2-cha1 - bow one's head.
  
  ဦးပဲ့ထမ်း | u3 peare1-htan3 - be in teamwork; equally share responsibility.
  
  ဦးပေါင်း | u3-boun3
  ဦးပေါင်းထုပ် | u3 boun3-doat - turban; traditional head band.
  
  ဦးပိုင်း | u3-bine3 - (1) bow part of the vessel. (2) earlier period in time.
  
  ဦးပဉ္စင်း | u3 ba1-zin3 - Buddhist monk. (Note: the subscripted character is စ.)
  
  ဦးပြည်း | u3-byi3 - clean shaven head.
  
  ဦးပွတ် | u3-boot - intersection of two shafts of a bullock cart.
  
  ဦးမလေး | u3 ma1-lay3 - act or respond with agility and eagerness.
  
  ဦးမော့ | u3 mau1 - look up; the trend to improve.
  
  ဦးမင်း | u3-min3 - polite term of address to an elderly man.
  
  ဦးယဉ်းခေါင်းခဲနာ | u3-yin3 goun3-kheare3 na2
  ဦးယဉ်းနာ | u3-yin3 na2 - headache.
  
  ဦးရာလူ | u3-ya2 lu2 - whoever comes first.
  
  ဦးရီး | u3-yi3 - mother's elder brother.
  
  ဦးရေ | u3-yay2 - (1) scalp. (2) population; number of inhabitants.
  
  ဦးရေပြား | u3 yay2 bya3 - scalp.
  
  ဦးရင် | u3-yin2 - affectionate term to address a man.
  
  ဦးရစ် | u3-yit - turban.
  
  ဦးရည် | u3-yay2 - (1) first distillate of alchohol. (2) the first drop of milk issuing from coconut.
  
  ဦးရွှေရိုးအက | u3-shway2-yo3 a-ka1 - Myanmar humorous dance performed by a male dancer with Pathein umbrella.
  
  ဦးလေး | u3-lay3; u3-lay3 - mother's younger brother; uncle. u3 lay3 - be hesitant.
  
  ဦးလည်မသုန် | u3-leare2 ma1-thone2 - without hesitation.
  
  ဦးလုံး | oat-lone3 - hair-do worn by adolescent Myanmar girls.
  
  ဦးသစ်စ | u3 thit sa1 - refined gold.
  
  ဦးသျှောင် | u3-shoun2 - (1) hair-khot. (2) headgear. (3) supreme leader; head of state.
  
  ဦးဦးဖျားဖျား | u3-u3 pfya3-bya3 - before others.
  
  
• ဥဇ်ဘက်ကစ္စတန် | u1 (z) bet kit sa1-tan2 - Uzbekistan, a landlocked republic in west central Asia.