How to Say “Merry Christmas” in Burmese

ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ
hkəyit-səmat ne-hma pyaw-shwin ba-se
ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ (hkəyit-səmat ne-hma pyaw-shwin ba-se) is the Burmese way to say Merry Christmas.
This phrase is used to express good wishes to others during the Christmas season.
Meaning: good wishes at Christmas time (phrase)

What does it mean word for word?

The phrase is composed of ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့ (Christmas day), the locative particle မှာ (on/at), ပျော်ရွှင် (happy) and the optative particle ပါစေ (may/let it be), which translates literally to "May [you] be happy on Christmas day".

How do you pronounce it?

hkəyit-səmat ne-hma pyaw-shwin ba-se

Did you know?

  • Because Myanmar has a significant Buddhist majority, you will often see 'Merry Christmas' greetings paired with Buddhist wishes for peace and loving-kindness.
  • While ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ is the formal phrase, many Burmese speakers simply use the English 'Merry Christmas' in casual conversation and urban settings.
  • In much of Myanmar, Christmas is celebrated more as a festive cultural event in urban centers than as a major public holiday.

Examples in context

  • အားလုံး ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ။
    arr lone khay riss ma nay hma pyaw shwin par say.
    Merry Christmas to everyone.

Example conversation

Two friends meet during the holiday season.

  1. မြတ်နိုး Myat Noe

    မင်းကို ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေလို့ ဆုတောင်းပေးပါတယ်။
    min ko khay riss ma nay hma pyaw shwin par say lo su taung pay par tal.
    I wish you a Merry Christmas.
  2. မင်းမင်း Min Min

    ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်၊ မြတ်နိုးလည်း ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ။
    kyay zu tin par tal, Myat Noe lae khay riss ma nay hma pyaw shwin par say.
    Thank you, Merry Christmas to you too, Myat Noe.
  3. မြတ်နိုး Myat Noe

    ကျေးဇူးပါ၊ ပျော်ရွှင်စရာကောင်းတဲ့ အားလပ်ရက်ဖြစ်ပါစေ။
    kyay zu par, pyaw shwin saryar kaung tae arr lat yat phit par say.
    Thanks, have a wonderful holiday.
  4. မင်းမင်း Min Min

    မင်းလည်း အားလပ်ရက်မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ။
    min lae arr lat yat hma pyaw shwin par say.
    You have a wonderful holiday too.
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