Burmese words with vowel 'Un' or 'An'
The list of Burmese words with the vowel 'Un' or 'An' sounds are given below in Burmese alphabetical order in the same sequence as in Myanmar dictionary. Regardless of whether the word is romanized with 'un' or 'an', it should be pronounced with 'un' sound as in 'understanding'. Burmese language does not have 'an' sound as in "Danny".
Three common ways to spell words in this sound group are with the character or consonant modified character followed by either ံ | thay3-thay3-tin2 on top of the character, or with န် | na1 thut, or မ် | ma1 thut at the right. A few words are spelled with ဏ် | na1 ji3 thut. Those words will be in the second tone.
To change into the first tone from the second tone, add ့ | out myit. To change into the third tone from the second tone, add း | shay1 ga1 pout.
If you are looking for more complete entries, please refer to Myanmar English Dictionary.
Un1 - Un2 - Un3 (or) An1 - An2 - An3 | အံ့ - အန် - အမ်း
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ကံ | kun2
- (1) luck; fortune; fate. (2) [Buddhism] "Kamma" or "karma" which is not random luck but consequences of previous intentional acts.
ကံကောင်း | kun2 koun3 - be lucky; fortunate. E.g., ဒီလူကံကောင်းလိုက်တာ။ | de2 lu2 kun2 koun3 lite da2 - That man is so lucky.
ကံကြမ္မာ | kun2 kja1-ma2 - fate.
ကံခေ | kun2 khay2 - having a spell of bad luck.
ကံစမ်း | kun2 sun3 - try one's luck.
ကံစမ်းမဲ | kun2-zun3 meare3 - lucky draw.
ကံဆိုး | kun2 hso3 - have bad luck.
ကံဆိုးမိုးမှောင်ကျ | kun2-zo3 mo3-hmoun2 kja1 - run into extreme misfortune with misery and grief.
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ကံ့ | gun1
- as in
ကံ့ကော်ပန်း | gun1-gau2 pan3 - white colored and sweet-scented flower from a type of hardwood tree.
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ကဏ် | kun2
as in ကဏ္ဍ | kun2-da1 - section; chapter.
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ကန် | kun2
(1) kick.
(2) lake. E.g., အင်းလေးကန် | in3-lay3 kun2 - Inle Lake.
(3) Abbreviated form of American. E.g., ကန်ဒေါ်လာ | kun2 dau2-la2 - US Dollar.
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ကန့် | kun1
ကန့်ကွက် | kun1 gwet - object or oppose.
ကန့်သတ် | kun1 thut - set limitations.
ကန့်သတ်ချက်များ | kun1-thut-jet mya3 - restrictions.
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ကန်း | kun3
- be blind; be visually impaired.
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ကမ် | kun2
ကမ္ဘောဇဘဏ် | kun2-bau3-za1 bun2 - KBZ Bank.
ကမ္မ | kun2-ma1 - [Buddhism] Kamma; intentional act with consequences.
ကမ္မသကာ | kun2-ma1 tha1-ga2 - [Buddhism] according to the Law of Kamma.
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ကမ်း | kun3; kun3
(1) bank of the river; shore of lake or sea.
(2) make an offer for truce, negotiations, etc. as in ကမ်းလှမ်း | kun3 hlun3.
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ကျန် | kjan2
(1) remain.
(2) be left behind.
ကျန်ရစ်သူ | kjan2-yit-thu2 - person or persons, especially family members who are left behind.
ကျန်ရစ်သူ မိသားစု | kjan2-yit-thu2 mi1-tha3-zu1 - bereaved family.
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ကျန်း | kjan3
(1) be tough.
(2) be healthy as in ကျန်းမာ | kjan3 ma2.
ကျန်းတန်း | kjan3-tan3 - be robust.
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ကျမ်း | kjan3
- a book regarded as authoritative in its field; reference book; bible.
သမ္မာကျမ်းစာအုပ် | tha1-ma2 kjan3 sa2 oat - The Christian Bible.
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ကြံ | kjan2; kjan2
(1) devise a plan in the mind.
အကြံ | a-kjan2 - idea.
အကြံရပြီ။ | a-kjan2 ya1 byi2 - I've got an idea!
(2) sugarcane.
ကြံရည်ရမည်။ | kjan2-yay2 ya1 myi2 - sugarcane water is available.
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ကြံ့ | kjan1; kjan1
(1) rhinoceros; rhino.
(2) tough and strong as in ကြံ့ခိုင် | kjan1-khine2 - tough; with the ability to withstand weather and outside forces.
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ကြန့် | kjan1
ကြန့်ကြာ | kjan1-ja2 - be slow; be delayed.
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ကြမ်း | kjan3; kjan3
(1) floor.
(2) unrefined.
(3) poor (workmanship); poor (product quality characterized by lack of detailed styling.)
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ကျွမ်း | kjwun3
(1) intimate with; familiar with.
(2) skilled in something as in ကျွမ်းကျင် | kjwun3 kjin2.
လောင်ကျွမ်း | loun2 kjwun3 - be burned up.
(Note: the same word can also be pronounced joon3 with different meaning. See joon3.)
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ခံ | khan2
(1) collect water, food, donation, etc..
(2) be at the receiving end of assault, punishment, consequences, scolding, abuse, etc..
ခံစစ် |khan2 zit - defensive (play) as opposed to တိုက်စစ် | tite-sit - offensive (play); attacking game.
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ခံ့ | khan1
(1) grand; magnificent.
ထည်ဝါခံ့ညား | hteare2-wa2 khan1-nya3 - be grand.
(2) handsome; pleasing in appearance; description for good-looking male who appears to be educated, intelligent, respectable, and good-natured.
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ခန် | khan2
ခန္တီ | khan2-ti2 - [Pali] khanti - Patience.
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ခန့် | khan1
(1) appoint job; assign duty.
အလုပ်ခန့်စာ | a-loat khan1 za2 - job appointment letter from the employer.
(2) estimate as in ခန့်မှန်း | khan1-hmun3.
ခန့်မှန်းခြေ | khan1-hmun3 jay2 - estimation.
စီမံခန့်ခွဲ | si2-mun2 khan1-gweare3 - manage and assign duties.
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ခန်း | khan3; khan3
(1) evaporate; dry up.
(2) room as in အခန်း | a-khan3.
အိပ်ခန်း | ate khan3 - bedroom.
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ခမ်း | khan3
ထည်ဝါခမ်းနား | hteare2-wa2 khan3-na3 - be grand; beimpressively large; be magnificent.
အခမ်းအနား | a-khan3 a-na3 - social function; ceremony.
မင်္ဂလာအခမ်းအနားမှုး | min2-ga1-la2 a-khan3 a-na3 hmu3 - Master of Wedding Ceremonies.
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ချမ်း | chan3
- feel cold (chilly).
ချမ်းမြေ့သာယာ | chan3-myay1 tha2-ya2 - peaceful ; serene.
ချမ်းသာ | chan3-dtha2 - be rich; be wealthy.
ချမ်းသာပေး | chan3-dtha2 pay3 - show compassion; have mercy.
ချမ်းသာပေးပါ။ | chan3-dtha2 pay3 ba2 - Have mercy on us!
လွတ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာခွင့် | loot-nyain3-chan3-dtha2 gwin1 - clemency.
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ခြံ | chan2
- fence; garden; farm.
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ဂန်ဒူး | gun2-du3
- gay; male transvestite.
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ငံ | ngan2
ငံပြာရည် | ngan2-bya2 yay2 - salty fish or squid sauce. (Thai: numbplah + Burmese: yay2 meaning liquid.)
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ငန် | ngan2
- salty.
အငန်ပေါ့ရင် ဆားထပ်ထည့်ပါ။ | a-ngan2 pau1 yin2 hsa3 htut hteare1 ba2 - If the taste is too bland and not salty enough, put some more salt.
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ငန်း | ngan3
(1) goose.
(2) a type of snake with alternating yellow and black stripes as in ငန်းတော်ကျား | ngan3-dau2 ja3. Another dangerous type that attacks humans is called ငန်းမြွေ | ngan3 mway2.
(3) assigned duty; designated work area.
လုပ်ငန်း | loat-ngan3 - business; type of industry.
ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်း | kha1-yi3-thwa3 loat-ngan3 - Travel Agency (business in travel-related industry).
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ငြမ်း | nyan3
- scaffold.
မှီငြမ်းကိုးကား | hmi2-nyan3 ko3-ka3 - make reference.
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စံ | sun2
(1) standard measurement, time, or quality.
စံချိန်စံညွှန်း | sun2-jain2 sun2-hnyoon3 - industry or international quality standard.
စံချိန်စံညွှန်း မမီသေးဘူး။ | sun2-jain2 sun2-hnyoon3 ma1-hmi2 thay3 bu3 - It's still not up to the industry standard.
စံတော်ချိန် | sun2-dau2-jain2 - standard time.
မြန်မာစံတော်ချိန် ၈ နာရီခွဲ ရှိပါပြီ။ | myan2-ma2 sun2-dau2-jain2 shit na2-yi2 khweare3 shi1 ba2 byi2 - It's 8:30 Myanmar Standard Time.
(2) the best performance as in စံချိန် | sun2-jain2.
ကမ္ဘာ့စံချိန်ကျိုးသွားတယ်။ | ga1-ba1 sun2-jain2 kjo3 thwa3 deare2 - (He) broke the World record.
(3) [sarcastic] to describe bad behavior, laziness, etc. of a person as the best performance in a negative sense.
စံပဲ။ | sun2 beare3 - This must be the World record for laziness, stupidity, incompetence, etc..
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စန် | sun2
စန္ဒကုမာရဇာတ် | sun2-da1 ku1-ma2-ra1 zut - [Pali] Canda-Kumera - one of ten Great Jataka Tales.
စန္ဒကူး | sun2-da1-gu3 - sandalwood tree.
စန္ဒာ | sun2-da2 - poetic word for the moon; female Burmese name.
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စန့် | sun1
(1) straighten; stretch out; smooth out; lie flat.
အညောင်းစန့် | a-nyoun3 sun1 - stretch muscles and do light exercises.
အညောင်းစန့် လိုက်ဦးမယ်။ | a-nyoun3 sun1 lite ome3 meare2 - I am going to stretch muscles.
ဆွဲစန့်လိုက်။ | hsweare3 sun1 lite - pull and stretch it out.
(2) [slang] die. E.g., စန့်သွားပြီ။ | sun1 thwa3 byi2 - He's dead.
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စန်း | sun3
(1) [astrology] moon, also refer to as တနင်္လာဂြိုဟ် | ta1-nin2-la2 jo2.
(2) good luck.
(3) part of some Burmese names.
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စန်း | sun3
စန္ဒရား | sun3-da1-ya3 - piano.
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စမ်း | sun3; sun3
(1) natural hot spring water from underground as in စမ်းရေ | sun3 yay2.
စမ်းစလုတ် | sun3 za1-loat - natural hot spring water pool.
စမ်းချောင်းလမ်း | sun3-joun3 lun3 - Sanchaung Street.
(2) run the test; try something out; make an experiment.
စမ်းကြည့်ပါလား။ | sun3 kji1 ba2 la3 - Why don't you test it out and see what happens.
စမ်းတဝါးဝါး | sun3 ta1-wa3-wa3 - vaguely; in a fumbling manner under poor lighting or uncertain conditions.
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ဆံ | hsun2
- hair; filament.
ဆံပင် | za1-bin2 - hair on the head.
ပေါင်းသင်းဆက်ဆံရေး | poun3-thin3 hset-hsun2-yay3 - social relations.
ပေါင်းသင်းဆက်ဆံရေး မကောင်းဘူး။ | poun3-thin3 hset-hsun2-yay3 ma1-koun3 bu3 - He is poor in social and communication skills.
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ဆန် | hsun2; hsun2
- (1) uncooked rice.
(Note: Use ထမင်း | hta1-min3 - "cooked rice" in phrases like "Have you eaten (rice)?", and "I need to cook rice.")
(2) resemble; behave like.
ကလေးဆန်တယ်။ | kha1-lay3 hsun2 deare2 - She's childish. (child + behave like).
(3) go against the current. E.g., ရေစုန် ရေဆန် | yay2-zone2 yay2-zun2 - downstream and upstream.
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ဆန် | hsun2
ဆန္ဒ | hsun2-da1 - wish.
မဲဆန္ဒ | meare3 hsun2-da1 - 'vote' in general elections.
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ဆန့် | hsun1
- stretch out.
ဆန့်ကျင် | hsun1-kjin2 - oppose.
ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက် | hsun1-kjin2 bet - opposite.
ဆန့်ငင်ဆန့်ငင် | hsun1-ngin2 hsun1-ngin2 - with epileptic seizure; painful death with seizure.
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ဆန်း | hsun3; hsun3
(1) be unusual; be strange; be of something new and refreshing.
ဒီအိမ်ပုံလေးက ဆန်းတယ်။ | de2 ain2 pone2 lay3 ga1 hsun3 deare2 - The shape of this house is unlike any other we have seen before.
ထူးဆန်းတယ်။ | htu3 zun3 deare2 - So strange!
(2) word to indicate renewal of the cycle. E.g., လဆန်း | la1 zun3 - beginning of the month.
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ဇန် | zun2
ဇန်နဝါရီ | zun2-na1-wa2-yi2 - [English] January.
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ဇမ် | zun2
ဇမ်ဘီယာ | zun2-be2-ya2 - Zambia.
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ဈာန် | zun2
- deep mental absorption during meditation.
ဈာန်ဝင်နေတယ်။ | zun2 win2 nay2 deare2 - (Someone) is in the state of deep mental concentration.
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ဉာဏ် | nyan2
(1) intellect; knowledge and insight attained during Vipassana meditation.
ဒီကောင် ဉာဏ်မရှိဘူး။ | de2 koun2 nyan2 ma1-shi1 bu3 - This fellow is dumb.(intellect + lacking.)
ဉာဏ်ပူဇော်ခ | nyan2 pu2-zau2 ga1 - consultation fee.
ဉာဏ်နီဉာဏ်နက် | nyan2-ni2 nyan2-net - wicked, cunning, and deceptive mind.
(2) part of some male Burmese names.
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ညံ | nyan2
- be noisy as in ဆူညံ | hsu2 nyan2.
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ညံ့ | nyan1
- inferior; weak (performance).
ညံ့တယ်။ | nyan1 deare2 - Lousy!
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တံ | tan2
- rod or shaped like a rod.
တံချူ | da1-ju2 - pole to twist off fruits and flowers.
တံကောက်ကွေး | da1-gout-kway3 - back part of the knee joint.
တံစို့ | da1-zo1 - skewer to make roast and barbecue.
တံစဉ် | da1-zin2 - sickle.
တံစဉ်း | da1-zin3 - file, a hand tool for smoothing wood or metal.
တံတောင်ဆစ် | ta1-doun2-zit - elbow joint.
တံမြက်စည်း | da1-byet-si3 - broom.
Other usages:
တံခါး | da1-ga3 - door.
တံဆိပ် | da1-zate - medal; stamp; seal; badge.
တံငါ | ta1-nga2 - fisherman.
တံတား | da1-da3 - bridge.
တံတွေး | za1-dway3 - saliva; spittle.
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တန် | tan2
(1) be worth; be valued at some amount as in တန်ဖိုး | tan2 bo3.
ဒီအိမ် ဘယ်လောက်တန်လဲ။ | de2 ain2 beare2-lout tan2 leare3 - How much is this house worth?
(2) deserve as in ထိုက်တန် | htite-tan2.
နောက်ဆုံးကြတော့ ဘဝမှာ ထိုက်ထိုက်တန်တန် ဖြစ်လာတာပဲ။ | nout-hsone3 kja1 dau1, ba1-wa1 hma2 htite-htite-tan2-tan2 pfyit la2 da2 beare3 - In the end, you get exactly what you deserve in life.
Other Usage:
တန်ဇန်းနီးယား | tan2-zun3-ni3-ya3 - Tanzania.
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တန်း | tan3; tan3
or dun3
(1) be straight; direct.
ဒီဘတ်စကား မြို့ထဲ တန်းရောက်တယ်။ | de2 but-sa1-ka3 myo1-hteare3 tan3 yout deare2 - This bus goes straight to downtown.
(2) something that is stretched out straight or arranged in a straight line as in အဝတ်ကြိုးတန်း | a-woot kjo3-dun3 - clothesline.
ကြိုးတန်းပေါ်မှာ အဝတ်လှန်း။ | kjo3-dun3 pau2 hma2 a-woot hlan3 - Hang your clothes on the clothesline.
တန်းလျား | tan3-ya3 - rectangular shaped building or group of buildings used as workers' quarters or military barracks.
(3) grade; standard; classification as in အဆင့်အတန်း | a-hsin1 a-tan3.
လူနေမှု အဆင့်အတန်း | lu2-nay2-hmu1 a-hsin1 a-tan3 - living standard.
တန်းတူ | dan3 du2 - be in the same or similar class.
ကျွန်တော် ၁၀တန်း အောင်သွားပြီ။ | kja1-nau2 hseare2-dun3 oun2 thwa3 byi2 - [spoken by male] I passed the 10th grade.
တန်းစီ | tan3 si2 - line up; queue up.
ဟိုမှာတန်းသွားစီ။ | ho2-hma2 tan3 thwa3 si2 - line up over there.
တန်းလန်း | tan3 lun3 - with something dragged along or hanging down; in the middle of doing something.
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တမ်း | tan3
မှတ်တမ်း | hmut-tan3 - a record.
တမ်းတ | tan3-ta1 - long for; yearn.
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ထန် | htan2
(1) be powerful; be forceful as in ပြင်းထန် | pyin3 htan2.
ပြင်းထန်သော လေမုန်တိုင်း | pyin3-htan2 dthau3 lay2-mone2-dine3 - a powerful storm.
(2) tough and rough in speech and manner as in ခက်ထန်မာကျော | khet-htan2 ma2-kjau3.
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ထန်း | htan3
- toddy-palm as in ထန်းပင် | htan3 bin2 - toddy-palm tree.
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ထမ်း | htan3
- carry on the shoulder.
ဦးလေး၊ ဘာထမ်းလာလဲ။ | u3-lay3 ba2 htan3 la2 leare3 - What are you carrying on your shoulder, Uncle?
ဝန်ထမ်း | woon2-dun3 - employee.
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ဒံ | dun2
ဒံပေါက်ထမင်း | dun2-bout hta1-min3 - Biryani rice.
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ဒဏ် | dun2
(1) punishment ranging from fine to jail term.
ဒဏ်ငွေ (၅)ထောင် | dun2-ngway2 nga3 doun2 - five thousand kyat in fine.
ထောင်ဒဏ် (၄)နှစ် | htoun2-dun2 lay3 hnit - four years in jail.
(2) wound; injury as in ဒဏ်ရာ | dun2-ya2.
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ဒဏ် | dun2
ဒဏ္ဍာရီ | dun2-da2 yi2 - fable.
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ဒန့် | dun1
ဒန့်သလွန်သီး | dun1-dtha1-loon2 dthi3 - moringa oleifera; drum-stick (vegetable longer than lady's fingers with hard outer skin.)
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ဒန် | dun2
- aluminum.
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ဒန်း | dun3
- a set of swings.
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ဒါန်း | dun3
ဥဒါန်း | u1-dun3 - words of historical significance and remembrance handed down from generation to generation.
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နံ | nun2; nun2
(1) gives off bad, offensive smell.
နံစော်နေတာပဲ။ | nun2-sau2 nay2 da2 beare3 - (Something or someone) stinks.
(2) astrological sign under which a person is born.
(3) ribs as in နံရိုး | nun2 yo3.
Other usages:
နံကထိုင် | nun2-ka1-htine2 - sweet pastry made from flour, butter, and sugar.
နံနက် | nun2-net - morning [literary].
နံပါတ် | nun2-but - number
နံပြား | nun2-bya3 - breakfast item made of dough and shaped like a pancake.
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နန် | nun2
- Burmese names as in နန္ဒာ | nun2-da2 - Nanda.
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နန့် | nun1
(1) wag the tail as in အမြီးနန့် | a-myi3 nun1.
(2) wiggle or jiggle the knee as in ဒူးနန့် | du3 nun1.
(3) flirt (by female).
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နန်း | nun3
(1) root word for royalty.
နန်းတော် | nun3 dau2 - Royal Palace.
(2) thread of gold or thread-like object. E.g., နန်းကြီး | nun3 ji3 - thick noodle.
(3) part of some female Myanmar ethnic (Shan) names as in နန်းခင်ဇေယျာ | nun3 khin2 zay2 ya2 - Nang Khin Zay Yar (or) Nan Khin Zayar - Miss Myanmar 2012.
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နမ်း | nun3
- smell; caress with the nose and inhale to show affection.
(Note: not exactly "kiss" with the mouth as in the western culture. The word "kiss" is translated as နမ်းရှုပ် | nun3 shoat, and the phrase မွှေးမွှေးပေး | hmway3-hmway3 pay3 is used for a light smack on the cheek.)
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နှံ | hnun2; hnun2
(1) grasshopper as in နှံကောင် | hnun2 goun2.
(2) ear or spike of grain as in အနှံ | a-hnun2.
အသီးအနှံ | a-thi3 a-hnun2 - fruits and crops.
(3) entrust someone to keep something as in အပ်နှံ | ut hnun2.
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နှမ်း | hnun3
- sesame.
နှမ်းဆီ | hnun3 zi2 - sesame oil.
နှမ်းထောင်း | hnun3 htoun3. roasted sesame powder.
နှမ်းပျစ် | hnun3 byit - sesame brittle.
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ပန် | pan2
(1) wear a flower on the head.
ပန်းပန်ထားတဲ့ အမျိုးသမီး | pan3 pan2 hta3 deare1 a-myo3-dtha1-mi3 - The lady with the flower on the head.
(2) make a polite request as in ပန်ကြား | pan2 kja3.
ပန်ကြားအပ်ပါတယ်။ | pan2 kja3 ut ba2 deare2
မေတ္တာရပ်ခံအပ်ပါတယ်။ | myit-ta2 yut-khan2 ut ba2 deare2 - We make a solemn request.
Other Usages:
ပန်ပရိယ | pun2-ka1-ri1-ya1 - [English] pancreas.
ပန်ကာ | pan2-ka2 - fan.
ပန်ကာဖွင့် | pan2-ka2 pfwin1 - turn on the fan.
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ပန်း | pan3
- flower.
ပန်းကုံး | pan3 gome3 - garland.
ပန်းခြံ | pan3 jan2 - public park with flower garden.
ပန်းခွေ | pan3 gway2 - wreath.
ပန်းဂေါ်ဖီ | pan3 gau2-be2 - cauliflower (flower + cabbage).
ပန်းဂေါ်ဖီစိမ်း | pan3 gau2-be2 zain3 - Broccoli (flower + cabbage + green).
ပန်းရောင် | pan3 youn2 - pink (flower + color).
ပန်းဝတ်ရည် | pan3 woot-yay2 - flower nectar.
ပန်းသီး | pan3 dthi3 - apple (flower + fruit).
ပန်းသီးတစ်လုံး | pan3-dthi3 ta1-lone3 - an apple.
ပန်းအိုး | pan3 o3 - flower pot.
Other usages:
ပန်းကန် | ba1-gun2 - dinner plate.
ပန်းတိုင် | pan3 dine2 - finish line in the race.
ပန်းနာရင်ကျပ်ရောဂါ | pan3-na2 yin2-kjut yau3-ga2 - asthma.
ပန်းသေရောဂါ | pan3-thay2 yau3-ga2 - impotency.
ပန်းသေး | pan3-dthay3 - Chinese Muslim.
ပန်းသေးခေါက်ဆွဲ | pan3-dthay3 khout-hsweare3 - Chinese Muslim style spicy fried noodle. (Mee Goreng in Malaysia and Singapore.)
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ပန်း | pan3
- be exhausting; be tiring as in မောပန်း | mau3 pan3.
ခရီးပန်းလာခဲ့တယ်။ | kha1-yi3 pan3 la3 kheare1 deare2 - We had gone through the tiring journey.
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ပန်း | pan3
- fluid to gush out.
အရည်ပန်းထွက်လာတယ်။ | a-yay2 pan3 htwet la2 deare2. The liquid has gushed out.
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ပန်း | pan3
- The ten Burmese traditional arts and crafts:
ပန်းချီ | ba1-ji2 - painting.
ပန်းပု | ba1-bu1 - sculpturing by curving wood or ivory.
ပန်းပဲ | ba1-beare3 - blacksmith.
ပန်းထိန် | ba1-dain2 - goldsmith; silversmith.
ပန်းပွတ် | ba1-boot - making pots by turning.
ပန်းယွန်း | pa1-yoon3 - making lacquerware.
ပန်းရန် | pa1-yan2 - masonry.
ပန်းတဉ်း | ba1-din3 - casting bronze.
ပန်းတော့ | ba1-dau1 - decorative work with stucco.
ပန်းရွဲ | pa1-yweare3 - art of lapidary with precious stones.
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ပျံ | pyan2
- (1) to fly. (2) Buddhist monks to pass away.
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ပျံ့ | pyan1
- diffuse such as the scent of the flower.
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ပျမ်း | pyan3
- distribute.
ပျမ်းမျှ | pyan3 hmya1 - on the average.
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ပြန် | pyan2
(1) return.
သူပြန်လာပြီ။ | thu2 pyan2 la2 byi2 - He has returned.
အိမ်ပြန် | ain2 pyan2 - go back home.
(2) translate as in ဘာသာပြန် | ba2-dtha2 pyan2.
(3) reply letter as in စာပြန် | sa2 pyan2.
(4) reflect light as in အလင်းပြန် | a-lin3 pyan2.
(5) repeat doing something. E.g., လုပ်ပြန်ပြီ။ | loat pyan2 byi2 - Not again!
ပြန်လုပ် | pyan2 loat - repeat work, for example, to correct a mistake.
ပြန်ပြော | pyan2 pyau3 - repeat what one has just said, for example, to clarify it.
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ပြန့် | pyan1
(1) flat and even as in မြေပြန့် | myay2 byan1 - flat land; the plains.
(2) spread of news and diseases.
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ဖန် | pfun2
(1) slightly bitter and sour taste.
(2) glass as in ဖန်ခွက် | pfun2 gwet.
(3) create; make.
ဖန်တီး | pfun2-ti3 - create (by human.)
ဖန်ဆင်း | pfun2-zin3 - create (by supernatural power.)
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ဖန့် | pfun1
- tinged; pale and subdued color.
စိန်းဖန့်ဖန့် | sain3 pfun1-bun1 - a tinge of green.
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ဖမ်း | pfun3
- catch a person; arrest a person; seize illegal goods.
(Note: cannot be used in other sense like "catch a cold".)
အဖမ်းခံရတယ်။ | a-pfun3 khan2 ya1 deare2 - (The person in the conversation) was arrested.
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ဖျံ | pfyan2
- otter.
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ဖျန် | pfyan2
- mediate for reconciliation as in ဖျန်ဖြေ | pfyan2 byay2.
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ဖျန်း | pfyan3
- sprinkle water or spray compressed liquid.
ခြင်ဆေးဖျန်း | chin2-zay3 pfyan3 - spray mosquito repellent.
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ဖြန့် | pfyan1
(1) spread or spread out wings, table cloth, news, etc..
(2) distribute goods and publications as in ဖြန့်ချိ | pfyan1 chi1.
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ဗန် | bun2
ဗန်တို | bun2 toh2 - martial art; unarmed self-defence.
ဗန်နော့တူ | bun2-nau1-tu2 - Vanuatu.
ဗန်နီဇွဲလား | bun2-ni2-zweare3-la3 - Venezuela.
ဗန်ရှည် | bun2 shay2 - armed self-defence (with swords, sticks, etc..)
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ဗန်း | bun3
- (1) tray. (2) slang as in ဗန်းစကား | bun3 za1-ga3.
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ဘဏ် | bun2
- bank; the banking institution.
ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှစ် | bun2-da2-yay3 hnit - fiscal year.
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ဘန် | bun2
ဘန်ကောက် | bun3 gout - Bangkok.
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ဘန်း | bun3
- [English] bun as in ဘန်းမုန့် | bun3 mone1 - sweet small bun.
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မံ | mun2
- coat over with pasty material.
စီမံ | si2-mun2 - organize.
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မန် | mun2
- flower on vine as in the Burmese proverb: သစ်သီးဝလံ ပန်းနှင့်မန် | thit-thi3 wa1-lun2, pan3 hnin1 mun2.
Other usages:
မန်ဒါလီ | mun2-da2-li2 - a type of duck which is like a cross between a duck and a goose; muscovy duck.
မန်နေဂျာ | mun2-nay2-ja2 - [English] manager.
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မန်း | mun3
(1) mantra to ward off evil spirits and misfortunes.
(2) inflammation.
(3) title "Mr" in front of ethnic Pwo Kayin names.
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မန်း | mun3
မန္တလေး | mun3-da1-lay3 - Mandalay.
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မဏ်း | mun3
မဏ္ဍပ် | mun3-dut A pavilion; temporary housing and stage used during celebrations such as in Burmese Water Festival shown in the video clip below.
PavilionWhat is a မဏ္ဍပ် | MUN3-dut? A pavilion; temporary housing and stage used during celebrations such as in Burmese Water Festival shown in the video clip below. [29 second]
Posted by Naing Tinnyuntpu on Sunday, May 8, 2016
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မာန် | mun2
- pride as in မာန်မာန | mun2 ma2-na1.
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မြန် | myan2
- fast.
မြန်မြန်လုပ် | myan2-myan2 loat - Do it fast!
မြန်မာပြည် | myan2-ma2 pyi2 - Myanmar (The land of the fast and the strong.)
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မြန်း | myan3; myan3
(1) [infrequent usage] engage; go.
(2) verb suffixed particle used for emphasis.
စုံစမ်းမေးမြန်း | sone2-zun3 may3-myan3 - make inquires.
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မှန် | hmun2; hmun2; hmun2
(1) mirror.
(2) correct; true; reflection of true picture.
အချိန်မှန် | a-chain2 hmun2 - be correct time; be on time as scheduled.
ရထားအချိန်မှန်တယ်။ | ya1-hta3 a-chain2 hmun2 deare2 - The train arrives on time.
မှန်တင်ခုံ | hmun2-tin2-gome2 - dresser with drawers.
မှန်ပြောင်း | hmun2-byoun3 - binoculars.
မှန်ဘီလူး | hmun2 ba1-lu3 - magnifying glass.
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မှန်း | hmun3
- estimate; do guesswork.
ခန့်မှန်းခြေ | khan1-hmun3-jay2 - a rough approximate.
မှန်းခြေကိုက် | hmun3-jay2 kite - meet the expectations. (Note: This word is used in business with regard to profits.)
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ယန်း | yan3
ယန္တရား | yan3-da1-ya3 - mechanism.
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ယွမ် | ywan2
- Chinese currency Yuan.
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ရံ | yan2
- surround.
ကိုယ်ရံတော် | ko2-yan2-dau2 - bodyguard.
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ရန် | yan2; yan2
(1) danger; hostilities; quarrel.
ရန်ငြိုးထား | yan2-hnyo3 hta3 - harbor a grudge.
ရန်စ | yan2 sa1 - provoke a fight.
ရန်တိုက် | yan2 tite - instigate with the intent of creating fights among others.
ရန်တွေ့ | yan2 tway1 - provoke and start a quarrel where the other party has not responded yet.
ရန်ဖြစ် | yan2 pfyit - fight; quarrel.
နှစ်ယောက် ရန်ဖြစ်နေကြတယ်။ | hna1-yout yan2 pfyit nay2 ja1 deare2 - Those two are quarrelling and fighting.
ရန်သူ | yan2-dthu2 - enemy.
ရန်သူမျိုးငါးပါး | yan2-dthu2 myo3 nga3 ba3 - The five enemies that Burmese Buddhist people wish and pray to avoid, namely: flood, fire, tyrant, thief, and unpleasant people | ရေ၊ မီး၊ မင်း၊ ခိုးသူ၊ မချစ်မနှစ်သက်သောသူ | yay2, mi3, min3, kho3 dthu2, ma1-chit ma1-hnit-thet-dthau3 thu2.
ရန်ကုန် | yan2-gome2 - Yangon - end of strife.
(2) [literary] 'in order to'; conjunction with reference to the future where an action is needed in order for something to happen.
ဆရာဝန်ဖြစ်ရန် ကြိုးစားနေသည်။ | hsa1-ya2-woon2 pfyit yan2 kjo3-za3 nay2 dthi2 - (He is) trying to become a doctor.
(3) particle that modifies a verb to a verbal noun.
သူ့အားမေးရန်လိုသည်။ | thu1 ah3 may3 yan2 lo2 dthi2 - (You) need to ask him. [to him + the need to ask + need + ending PPM.]
(4) measure word for number of pairs of slippers, shoes, etc..
ဖိနပ်တစ်ရန် | pfa1-nut ta1-yan2 - a pair of sandals.
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ရမ် | ran2
- [English] - Rum (liquor).
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ရမ်း | yan3
- be reckless and without consideration for others; thoughtlessness; without thinking over.
ဒီကောင်ရမ်းတယ်။ | de2 koun2 yan3 deare2 - This guy is reckless.
အရမ်း အရမ်း မလုပ်နဲ့။ | a-yan3 a-yan3 ma1-loat neare1 - Don't do it mindlessly. Think it over first.
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ရှမ် | shan2
ရှမ်ပိန် | shan2-pain2 - [French] Champagne.
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ရှမ်း | shan3
- ethnic Shan people of eastern Myanmar highland region.
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လံ | lun2
- [archaic] two yards in length.
Other usages:
လံဗား | lun2-ba3 - [Hindi] tall man. လံဗားကြီး | lun2-ba3-ji3 - tall and big man.
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လန် | lun2
- be turned up or upside down.
ပက်လက် လန်သွားတယ်။ | pet-let lun2 thwa3 deare2 - He fell on his back.
Other Usage:
လန်ဒန် | lun2-dun2 - London.
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လန့် | lun1
- be startled; be afraid.
ကြောက်လန့်နေကြတယ်။ | kjout-lun1 nay2 ja1 deare2 - They are scared.
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လန်း | lun3
- be refreshed; be radiant.
စိတ်ထဲမှာ လန်းဆန်းသွားတယ်။ | sate hteare3 hma2 lun3-hsun3 thwa3 deare2 - It was a refreshing experience.
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လမ်း | lun3
- street; road. E.g., ကမ္ဘာအေးဘုရားလမ်း |
ka1-ba2-ay3 pfa1-ya3 lun3 - Kabar Aye Pagoda Road.
လမ်းကြား | lun3 ja3 - alley.
လမ်းခုလတ် | lun3 khu1-lut - mid-way; on the way.
လမ်းဆုံ | lun3 zone2 - junction.
လမ်းဆုံး | lun3 zone3 - terminal station.
လမ်းညွှန် | lun3 hnyoon2 - guide; show the way.
လမ်းပြ | lun3 pya1 - give direction.
လမ်းမ | lun3 ma1 - main road.
လမ်းမကြီး | lun3 ma1 ji3 - highway.
လမ်းသရဲ | lun3 tha1-yeare3 - hooligan.
လမ်းသွယ် | lun3 dthweare2 - branch road.
လမ်းလျှောက်ထွက် | lun3-shout htwet - go out for a walk.
ဧည့်လမ်းညွှန် | eare1 lun3 hnyoon2 - tourist guide.
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လှံ | hlun2
- spear; lance.
လှံစွပ် | hlun2-zoot - bayonet.
လှံတံပစ် | hlun2-dun2 pyit - javelin throw.
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လှန် | hlun2
(1) lift up the clothing and expose the body.
အင်္ကျီလှန် | ain3-ji2 hlun2 - lift up the shirt.
(2) turn over.
ပက်လက်လှန် | pet-let hlun2 - turn the body and lie on one's back in reclining position.
စာရွက်လှန် | sa2-ywet hlun2 - turn the pages; flip the page.
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လှန့် | hlun1
- scare or frighten someone as in ခြောက်လှန့် | chout-hlun1.
ကြောက်အောင် ခြောက်လှန့်ပေးလိုက်။ | kjout oun2 chout hlun1 pay3 lite - Give (him) a scare so that (he) is frightened.
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လှန်း | hlun3
- dry things like clothes in the sun or in the air by hanging down or laying flat.
အဝတ်လှန်း | a-woot-hlun3 - let the clothes dry by hanging on the clothesline.
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လှမ်း | hlun3; hlun3
- step; pace.
ခြေတစ်လှမ်း | chay2 ta1-hlun3 - one foot step.
(2) hand something to someone.
ရော့၊ ဒါလှမ်းပေးလိုက်။ | yau1, da2 hlun3 pay3 lite - Here, take this and give it to him (by reaching out the hand.)
(3) from nearby distance where one can call out to someone by shouting.
လိုတာရှိရင် လှမ်းခေါ်လိုက်။ | lo2 da2 shi1 yin2 hlun3 khau2 lite - Call me if you need anything.
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လျှံ | shun2
- overflow from the glass, tank, container, river, etc..
ရေလျှံနေပြီ။ | yay2 shun2 nay2 byi2 - Water is overflowing.
(for example, when filling up the water tank by electric pump.)
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လျှမ်း | shun3
- glow as in လရောင်လျှမ်း | la1 youn2 shun3 - radiance of the moonlight.
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လွှမ်း | hlwun3
(1) overwhelm, e.g., by disease.
(2) spread all over.
လွှမ်းခြုံ | hlwun3 chone2 - wrap, e.g., by a blanket.
လွှမ်းမိုး | hlwun3 mo3 - dominate.
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ဝမ်း | wun3,
also pronounced woon3 - stomach.
ဝမ်းကွဲ | woon3 gweare3 - cousin.
ဝမ်းချုပ် | woon3 choat - be constipated.
ဝမ်းချုပ်နေတယ်။ | woon3-choat nay2 deare2 - (I am) constipated.
ဝမ်းနှတ်ဆေး | woon3-hnoat zay3 - laxative.
ဝမ်းရောဂါ | woon3 yau3-ga2 - cholera.
ဝမ်းလျှော | woon3 shau3 - diarrhea.
ဝမ်းသာ | woon3 tha2 or wun3 tha2 - be glad; be happy.
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ဝှမ်း | whun3
- concave. E.g., ချိုင့်ဝှမ်း | jine1-whun3 - large crater.
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သံ | thun2
- iron; iron nail.
သံခမောက် | thun2 kha1-mout - helmet.
သံချေး | thun2-ji3 - to rust.
သံချေးတက်နေတယ်။ | thun2-ji3 tet nay2 deare2 - It's rusty.
သံဆူးကြိုး | thun2 hsu3 jo3 - barbed wire.
သံဖြူ | thun2 byu2 - tin.
သံမဏိ | thun2-ma1-ni1 - steel.
သံလိုက် | thun2 lite - magnet.
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သံ | thun2
- embassy; diplomat; envoy.
သံတမန် | thun2 ta1-mun2 - diplomat.
သံရုံး | thun2 yone3 - embassy.
သံအမတ် | thun2 a-mut - ambassador.
သံအမတ်ကြီး | thun2 a-mut-ji3 - [polite] ambassador.
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သံ | thun2
- sound or voice as in အသံ | a-thun2.
သံချပ်ထိုး | thun2-jut hto3 - a type of traditional chorus and chants mixed with rap-style song accompanied by the beats of drums performed during Thingyan Water Festival.
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သန် | thun2; thun2
(1) be strong as in သန်မာ | thun2 ma2.
(2) tapeworm as in သန်ကောင် | thun2 goun2.
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သန်ဘက်ခါ | dtha1-bet-kha2
- the day after tomorrow.
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သန် | thun2
သန္တာန် | thun2-dun2 - [Buddihism] - life continuum of mind and body.
သန္ဓေ | thun2-day2 - pregnancy; conception.
သန္နိဋ္ဌာန် | thun2-nate-htan2 - resolution; determination.
သန္နိဋ္ဌာန် ချလိုက်တယ်။ | thun2-nate-htan2 cha1 lite deare2 - I have decided. I made a resolution.
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သန့် | thun1
(1) clean.
(2) pure (food item). E.g., ပဲဆီသန့် | peare3 zi2 thun1 - pure peanut oil.
(3) part of some Burmese names. E.g., ဦးသန့် | u3 thun1 - U Thant who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971.
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သန်း | thun3; thun3
(1) cross over; hover from the above.
ကူးသန်းရောင်းဝယ်ရေး | ku3-thun3 youn3-weare2 yay3 - commerce.
(2) be tinted with color as in အရောင်သန်း | a-youn2 thun3.
(3) head louse.
(4) million.
(5) part of some male and female Burmese names as in သန်းတိုးအောင် | thun3 toh3 oun2 - Than Toe Aung.
Other usage:
သန်းကောင် | dtha1-goun2 - midnight.
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သမ် | thun2
ဒု-သမ္မတ | du1 tha1-ma1-da1 - vice president.
သမ္ဗန် | thun2-bun2 - sampan; Asian canoe; canoe propelled by two oars or an onboard motor.
သမ္ဗန္ဓ | thun2-bun2-da1 - conjunction.
သမ္မတ | tha1-ma1-da1 - President.
သမ္မာ | tha1-ma2 - [Pali] "correct way". E.g., [Buddhism] Noble Eightfold path:
သမ္မာဒိဋ္ဌိ | tha1-ma2 date-hti1 - [Pali] sammaditthi; Right View.
သမ္မာသင်္ကပ္ပ | tha1-ma2 thin2-ka1-pa1 - [Pali] sammasankappa; Right Thinking.
သမ္မာဝါစာ | tha1-ma2 wa2-sa2 - [Pali] sammavaca; Right Speech.
သမ္မာကမ္မန္တ | tha1-ma2 kun2-mun2-ta1 - [Pali] sammakammanta; Right Action.
သမ္မာအာဇီဝ | tha1-ma2 ah2-zi2-wa1 - [Pali] sammaajiva; Right Livelihood.
သမ္မာဝါယာမ | tha1-ma2 wa2-ya2-ma1 - [Pali] sammavayama; Right Effort.
သမ္မာသတိ | tha1-ma2 dtha1-de1 - [Pali] sammasati; Right Mindfulness.
သမ္မာသမာဓိ | tha1-ma2 tha1-ma2-de1 - [Pali] sammasamadhi; Right Concentration.
သမ္မာကျမ်းစာအုပ် | tha1-ma2 kjan3-za2-oat - Holy Bible.
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သမ်း | thun3
- yawn.
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ဟန် | hun2; hun2
(1) be lucky as in ဟန်ကျ | hun2 kja1 - fortunate in a sense that situation turns out to fit the need.
ဟန်ကျတာပဲ။ | hun2 kja1 da2 beare3 -We are in luck! That's exactly what we need.
(2) gesture as in ခြေဟန်လက်ဟန် | chay2-hun2 let-hun2.
ဟန်ကြီးပန်ကြီး | hun2-ji3, pan2-ji3 - arrogance; haughtiness. hun2-ji3, pan2-ji3 - arrogantly.
ဟန်ဆောင် | hun2-hsoun2 - to pretend.
ဟန်မဆောင်နေနဲ့။ | hun2 ma1-hsoun2 nay2 neare1 - Stop pretending.
ဟန်လုပ် | hun2 loat - affect modesty.
ဟန်မလုပ်နေနဲ့၊ စါးသာစါး | hun2 ma1-loat nay2 neare1, sa3 dtha2 sa3 - Don't be so modest. Just eat as much as you want.
Other Usages:
ဟန်ဂေရီ | hun2-gay2-ri2 - Hungary.
ဟန်ဆိုလို | hun2 hso2-lo2 - Han Solo (Star Wars movie character.)
ဟန်ဘာဂါ | hun2 ba2-ga2 - [American] hamburger.
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ဟန့် | hun1
- prevent someone from doing something as in ဟန့်တား | hun1 ta3.
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အံ | un2
- molar as in အံသွား | un2 dthwa3.
အံကိုက် | un2 kite - be exact fit.
အံဆွဲ | un2-zweare3 - dresser drawer.
အံဝင်ခွင်ကျ | un2-win2 gwin2-kja1 - fit exactly.
အံတို | un2 toh2 - be experienced and used to the situation.
ယီးတီးယားတား မလုပ်နဲ့၊ အံတိုနေပြီ။ | yi3-ti3 ya3-ta3 ma1-loat neare1, un2 toh2 nay2 byi2 - Don't try to be funny with me. I wasn't born yesterday.
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အံ့ | un1; un1
(1) be amazed as in အံ့ဩ | un1-au3.
(2) literary counterpart of colloquial မယ် | meare2 to indicate the intention of the action in the future or near future.
သွားအံ့။ | thwa3 un1 - I will go now.
(Note: The writing style with this word is not very common in the present day. Use မည် | myi2 instead.)
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အန် | un2
- (1) vomit. (2) spill over.
Other usages:
အန်စာတုံး | un2-za2 dome3 - dice.
အန်တု | un2 tu1 - to challenge.
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အန်း | un3
- [infrequent use] - injury to swell slightly.
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အမ်း | un3
(1) refund.
(2) return change as in အကြွေအမ်း | a-kjway2 un3.