Burmese

The Burmese word for baby is ကလေး. ကလေး refers to a very young human being.

In Burmese, “sorry” can be expressed as ဝမ်းနည်းပါတယ်။ or ဆောရီးနော်။

တွေ့ရတာဝမ်းသာပါတယ် is the Burmese way to say ‘nice to meet you’. This phrase is used to express pleasure upon meeting someone for the first time.

ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ is the Burmese way to say Merry Christmas. This phrase is used to express good wishes to others during the Christmas season.

The Burmese word for tiger is ကျား. The word ကျား refers to the mammal Panthera tigris.

The English phrase “shut up” is translated into Burmese as ပါးစပ်ပိတ်. This phrase is used to tell someone to stop talking. It is blunt.

To say “will you marry me?” in Burmese, use ကိုယ်နဲ့ လက်ထပ်မလား. This phrase is a question used when asking someone to become one’s spouse.

Cassava in Burmese is ပီလောပီနံ. ပီလောပီနံ is a noun used to refer to the cassava root vegetable.

The Burmese word for teacher is ဆရာ. ဆရာ refers to a person who teaches and can be used to mean ‘teacher’ or ‘sir’ when addressing a male teacher directly.

Spinach in Burmese is ဟင်းနုနွယ်. The term refers to the particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea.