အရသာရှိသော
a-ra-tha-shi-thaw
The Burmese word for delicious is အရသာရှိသော (a-ra-tha-shi-thaw).
The term အရသာရှိသော means delicious and describes something that is pleasing to the taste. However, in daily spoken Burmese, the phrase စားလို့ကောင်းတယ် is much more commonly used to express that food tastes good.
Meaning: pleasing to taste (adj)
What does it mean word for word?
The word အရသာရှိသော is composed of အရသာ (a-ra-tha), meaning 'taste' or 'flavor' and ရှိ (shi), meaning 'to have', followed by the adjective marker သော (thaw).
How do you pronounce it?
a-ra-tha-shi-thaw
Did you know?
- To describe a meal as truly exceptional, Burmese speakers may use the word ရှယ် (pronounced 'shell'), a loanword from the English word 'special'.
- The word for taste အရသာ is derived from the Pali word rasa, which also means 'essence' or 'juice' in ancient Indian languages.
- In Burmese culture, it is common to express that food is 'not too salty' or 'not too spicy' as a way of praising a balanced and delicious meal.
Examples in context
- အရသာရှိသော အစားအစာကို ကျွန်တော်ကြိုက်တယ်။aya thar shi thaw a sar a sar ko kyun taw kyite tal.I like delicious food.
- အရသာရှိသော မုန့်လေးပါ။aya thar shi thaw mone lay bar.It is a delicious snack.
Example conversation
Myat Noe and Aung Aung are eating lunch together.
- မြတ်နိုး Myat Noeဒီဟင်းက တကယ် အရသာရှိသော ဟင်းပဲနော်။di hinn ga tagal ayathar shi thaw hinn pal naw.This curry is really a delicious dish, isn't it?
- အောင်အောင် Aung Aungဟုတ်တယ်၊ အရမ်းစားလို့ကောင်းတယ်။hote tal, ayan sar lo kaung tal.Yes, it tastes very good.
- မြတ်နိုး Myat Noeအောင်အောင် နောက်ထပ် စားဦးမလား။Aung Aung nauk htat sar oo ma lar.Aung Aung, would you like some more?
- အောင်အောင် Aung Aungဟုတ်ကဲ့၊ ထပ်ယူပါမယ်။hote kae, htat yu par mal.Yes, I will take more.
