Burmese Vocabulary

Welcome to the 9th lesson about the Burmese vocabulary. We're dedicating this page to the most important and most used words in Burmese. For example: clothes, languages, countries, travel, survival words, class, and house components.

shirt shirt in gyi

sweater sweater in gyi

jacket jacket

coat coat in gyi

socks chay ait

shoes shoe panut

trousers baung bi shay

pajamas nya ait in gyi

belt kha but

underwear a twin khan

hat oat htoat

skirt sa kut

The following words are related to languages and countries.

Language - Burmese - Country - Burmese
Arabic ar rub bar that sagar
Morocco maw ro ko naing ngan
Chinese ta yoak lu myo/ sagar
China ta yoak naing ngan
English ingalait lu myo/ sagar
England ingalait naing ngan
French pyin thit lu myo/ sagar
France pyin thit naing ngan
German german lu myo/ sagar
Germany germany naing ngan
Greek greek lu myo/ sagar
Greece greece naing ngan
Portuguese portuguese lu myo/ sagar
Portugal portugal naing ngan
Hindi hini du lu myo/ sagar
India india daning ngan
Italian italy lu myo/ sagar
Italy italy naing ngan
Japanese japan lu myo/ sagar
Japan japan naing ngan
Russian russia lu myo/ sagar
Russia russia naing ngan
Spanish spain lu myo/ sagar
Spain spain naing ngan
Swedish sweden lu myo/ sagar
Sweden sweden naing ngan

The following vocabulary is related to travel and survival.

Travel - Burmese
airport lay sait
doctor sa ya wun
airplane lay yin pyan
medicines say myar
train ya htar
pharmacy say sai
taxi a hngar car
hospital say yon
bus bus car
ambulance a yay baw car
car car
poison a sait
ticket let hmat
help me kyun note ko ku nyi ba
hotel hotel
danger an da ye
reservation kyo tin ne yar yu htar thie
accident ma taw ta sa
passport naing ngan ku let hmat
police ye that
luggage kha yee saung ait
headache khaung kait thie
tourism kha yee thwar lar ye
stomach ache baik nar thie

The following list of words is related to a class environment and the components of a house.

Class - Burmese
books sar oat myar
toilet ain thar
pen ball pen
bed ait yar
dictionary a bait dan
bedroom ait khan
library sar kyi daik
furniture pari bawga
desk sar kyi sa bwe
house ain
student kyaung thar
kitchen mee pho khan
teacher sa ya
plate a pyar ba gan byarr
chair htai khon
refrigerator ye khe thit tar
paper set ku/sar ywet
room a khan
page sar myat hnar
table sa bwe
pencil khe dan
window da khar bauk (pya dinn pauk)
question may khun
television television

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