အရုပ်ဆိုးသော
arupt hcoin thaw
The Burmese word for "ugly" is အရုပ်ဆိုးသော (arupt hcoin thaw).
The term is used to describe things that are not aesthetically pleasing. This includes physical appearance, such as people or objects, but it can also be applied to abstract concepts like an "ugly" or bad situation and behavior.
Meaning: displeasing to the eye, not aesthetically pleasing (adj)
How do you pronounce it?
arupt hcoin thaw
Did you know?
- In Burmese culture, describing a small baby as အရုပ်ဆိုးသော can sometimes be a superstitious way to ward off evil spirits who are thought to be attracted to overly beautiful children.
- The word အရုပ် in အရုပ်ဆိုးသော means 'doll' or 'image'. To call someone 'ugly' in Burmese is literally to say they have a 'bad doll' or 'bad image'.
- The word အရုပ် can refer to an idol or a statue of the Buddha, making the use of အရုပ်ဆိုးသော potentially offensive if applied to sacred imagery.
Examples in context
- အရုပ်ဆိုးသော အဝတ်အစားတွေကို မဝတ်ပါနဲ့။ayoke so thaw a wut a sar tway ko ma wut par ne.Please do not wear ugly clothes.
Example conversation
Kyaw Kyaw and Su Su are looking at a piece of art.
- ကျော်ကျော် Kyaw Kyawဒီပန်းချီကားက အရမ်းအရုပ်ဆိုးသော ပုံစံပဲ။di pan chi kar ka ayan ayoke soe thaw pone san pal.This painting looks very ugly.
- စုစု Su Suကျွန်မတော့ သဘောကျပါတယ်။kyun ma taw tha baw kya par tal.I actually like it.
- ကျော်ကျော် Kyaw Kyawတကယ်ပဲလား။takae pal lar.Really?
- စုစု Su Suဟုတ်တယ်၊ ထူးခြားလို့ပါ။hote tal, htoo char lo par.Yes, because it is unique.
