Sgaw Karen word list

Each word in Sgaw Karen letters, with how to read it and what it means in English. Every word is checked in trusted dictionaries before we show it, and Karen speakers keep checking them. The list grows every week.

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Animals

ထွံၣ်hṭweèdogဆီhsawchickenထိၣ်ဒ့ၣ်htòh dàyduckကဆီka hsawelephantဒ့ၣ်daỳfrogသၣ်မံယီၤthà mee nyāwcatတၢၢ်tuẖantကပီၤga pāwspiderပတ့ၤချဲးmẹh tẹh klëhscorpionစီလီsaw lawcockroachယုၢ်yu̱rat

The body

စုsuhandခိၣ်khoh̀headကိာ်ပူၤgọh pūmouthစုနၢsu nuhfingerဖံးhpeëskinသးthäheartသွံၣ်thweèbloodခိၣ်သူkòh thoohairနါဒ့nah daynoseဘိးပၤböh pācheekပျုၤplūlipခၣ်khàchinခီၣ်လ့ၣ်ခိၣ်gàw lay kòhkneeဃံxeeboneသူၣ်thoòliverကလ့ၢ်ga laykidneyဂုာ်ဃံghụ hkeeribကဖုga hpustomachခိၣ်ဆါkòh hsahheadacheဆါhsahpainနၢnuhsmellအရီၢ်ta a rawtaste

Everyday words

ဒီးdaẅandဘၣ်ဆၣ်bà hsàbutနီၤnaw̄someအါတက့ၢ်ah ta gaymostlyတဘျီတခီၣ်ta blaw blawsometimesဝါwahwhiteဆံၣ်hseèsourပူpoostoryတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤta rèh ta glēhplanတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်ကီta gaw ta kehproblemတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်ta bwàwpeaceတၢ်အိၣ်ဆူၣ်အိၣ်ချ့hsòohealthစုာ်sụhammockလွးlwäsawသံးtheëalcohol

Drinks

စပံးထံwine

Family

မိၢ်moẖmotherဖံhpeegrandmotherဖုhpugrandfatherဝၤhusbandဖါတံၢ်hpah tee, teeuncleသကိးtha göhfriendလံၤleēgrandchild

Food & drink

ထံhṭeewaterမ့ၤmaȳrice (cooked)တကွံသၣ်ta gwee thàbananaဃီၤxaw̄coconutဒံdeecucumberအံသၣ်ee thàsaltကုၤmushroomပသၢဝါpa thuh wah thàgarlicပနွဲၢ်သၣ်pa nweh thàjackfruitညၣ်အုၣ်nyà ùfish pasteအၣ်လူpotatoထီပးbutterတၤသၣ်ဃ့ၣ်jam

Home

ဟံၣ်heèhouseပဲတြီpeh traw dòhdoorဒၢးduḧroomလီၢ်မံlaw meebedလံာ်leẹbookနၣ်ရံၣ်nà rèeclockမဲာ်ထံကလၤMẹh htee ga lāmirrorပနဲpa nehcandleထၢၣ်hṭuh̀bagနီၣ်တၢၤnàw tūhspoonချီၣ်khlaẁmatဃီxawladderချံkhleeboatလ့ၣ်laỳcartကဘီga bawshipလၢၢ်luẖstoneမံၤmeēnameနီၣ်ဂံၢ်naw gheenumberလံာ်ပရၢlẹe pa ruhletterတၢ်ကတိၤta ga tōhwordစ့saymoneyထူhṭoogoldကသံၣ်ga thèe ga thawmedicineကျိklohgun

Nature

မုၢ်mu̱sunဆၣ်hsàstarမူခိၣ်moo kòhskyထံကျိhtee glohriverကစၢၢ်ka suhmountainသ့ၣ်thaỳtreeမ့ၣ်အူmày oofireကလံၤga lēewindမဲးmeḧsandတၢ်လူၢ်ta lu pohhillပူၤpoōholeဝၣ်bambooလီၢ်law̱field

People

ပှၤphgāpersonသုးဖိthü pohsoldierဒုၣ်ဒါdù dahenemyဘူးတံၢ်bü teerelativeယွၤywāGodကီၢ်ပဒိၣ်pa dòhgovernmentကီၢ်ပယီၤgaw pa yāwBurma

Places

ကၠိkyohschoolသရိာ်tha rọhchurchတၢ်ဆါဟံၣ်ta hsah hèehospitalသဝီtha wawvillageထံကီၢ်gawcountryတိၤtōhbridgeပီၣ်လဲၣ်pàw lèhseaနိၣ်noh̀lakeဃိာ်xoḥprison

Time

နံၤneēdayနၤnightဂီၤghaw̄morningနံၣ်neèyearလါlahmonthတနံၤအံၤta nēe ēetodayမဟါကၢာ်ma hah gụhyesterdayခဲအံၤkeh ēenow

Action words

အီၣ်ʼaẁto eatအီʼawto drinkဟဲhehto comeလဲၤleh̄to goထံၣ်hṭeèto seeမံmeeto sleepဟးto walkဟ့ၣ်haỳto giveဖးhpäto readကွဲးkweḧto writeမၤလိmā lohto learnသိၣ်လိthòh lohto teachကနၣ်ga nàto listenသ့ၣ်ညါthày nyahto knowဆိကမိၣ်hsoh ga mòhto thinkမၤစၢၤmā sūhto helpပှ့ၤphgaȳto buyဖီhpawto cookဆ့ၣ်နီၤhsày nāwto sitလိာ်ကွဲlōh gwehto playအိၣ်ခိးòh köhto waitအိးထီၣ်öh htàwto openပတုာ်pa tụto stopကိးkoḧto callမ့ၢ်may̱to beက့ၤkaȳto returnဝံၤweēto finishစးထီၣ်säh htàwto startအိၣ်ဘှံးòh bwëeto restပာ်pạto putပိာ်poḥto followဃုထၢhkoo htuhto chooseနာ်nạto believeနၢ်ပၢၢ်na puhto understandနၢ်ဟူna hooto hearသးဟ့thä hayto hateဘါထုကဖၣ်bah ywāto prayထိၣ်သတြီၤhtòh tha trāwto compareယံာ်yeẹto lastမၤto causeအ့ၣ်ʼaỳto biteခူၣ်khoòto digလူၤloōto chaseဝံweeto carryဆီၣ်hsaẁto pushကွံာ်kweẹto throwစၢsuhto tieပီၢ်paw̱to swimကူးkoöto coughဘှိးbhgoḧto vomitယူၢ်လီၤyu lāwto swallowသ့thayto washဝၢ်wa̱to rowခးkhäto shootဟုၣ်to stealစူၤsoōto rainလီၤlaw̄to go downလဲlehto exchangeအါထီၣ်htàwto increaseဘၣ်to hitမၢmuhto sendဒိdohto take a photoကွၢ်kwa̱to lookသးပ့ၤနီၣ်thä pāy nàwto forget

Other

ဖဲအံၤhereအသီnewမူခိၣ်ဖီsnowခီၣ်ညါသးsoleဖျၢhpluhwaspသဒီၣ်tha dàwprawnကိၣ်breadကျံfleaယီၢ်ဒ့waistမါwifeထိၣ်birdတၢ်အၢၣ်cloudမဲာ်ချံeyeစုနၢၣ်ခံelbowညၣ်fishကသ့ၣ်horseစီၤပၤkingဟဲက့ၤheh kāy ka dah kāyto come backသတိၢ်silkမၤသံmāh theeto killဒ့dayto play (an instrument)တပိၢ်reedတမၣ်crocodileမဲာ်တူၢ်eyebrowမုၢ်ဂၢ်auntတခွါcousinခံးkheëdarkဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဟူးearthquakeဃိးxoḧeightနၢ်na̱earညၣ်ကိၣ်catfishမူးmoöceremonyခွံၣ်khweèchameleonဃံလၤbeautifulပယိၤdragonတၢ်ဃံboneစ့ၢ်ကီးalsoမုၢ်နံၤdayကီkawdifficultနီၣ်naẁdriveချၢၣ်khluh̀banyan treeကစၢ်lordကညီၤgrowlကတိၤတၢ်talkကတီၤshieldကပၢၤsweatကပၢၤထီၣ်sweatကျိိtubeကျဲwayကျဲဖိlaneကလုၢ်ံးhoarseကလုၢ်ဒၢmicrophoneကလံၤစိးnorthကလံၤထံးga lēe htëesouthကလံၤဖိနဲbreezeကွါaxeကွၢ်ဟုၣ်ခူသူၣ်တၢ်peekကသ့ၣ်မိၢ်mareကဟံthatchကဟးphlegmကအုကစွါgroanကိးပသူပသီyellကိာ်neckကိာ်ယူၢ်throatကိၣ်ကမူၣ်flourကိၣ်ဆီဒံၣ်cakeကိၣ်မံၣ်yeastကီးislandကီယၢ်ထူၣ်mastကုၢ်slaveကုၤပီၣ်လဲၣ်spongeကၢ်rakeကံၣ်ဒုၣ်thighခံtwoချံးtortoiseချိၣ်ပလ့ၤsnailချၢၣ်ဒၢသၣ်figခွံkhweenineခွဲးခွးstirခါဆူညါfutureခိၣ်ဆူၣ်hairခိၣ်နွူာ်kòh nọobrainခိၣ်ဖးprizeခီပညီkaw pa nyawmeaningခီၣ်legခီၣ်မုၢ်toeခီၣ်မ့ၣ်hoofခီၣ်လ့ၢ်ခိၣ်kneeခၣ်ဆူၣ်beardဂုၢ်snakeဂ့ၤgoodဃုsixစးခီsä kohpaperစံာ်paddy fieldစိးဝၣ်ဃးcrowစီၢ်လီၤperchစီၤသီmonkစံၣ်jumpစံၣ်ပီၤpounceဆးတၢ်sewဆးပၠၣ်soapဆွဲၣ်crabဆိၣ်လီၤအသးswearဆီမိၢ်henပျံၤropeကစၢ်ယွၤGodဆီၣ်ထီၣ်အခံboostဆဲးsneezeၡဲပၠးteh na puhto explainညၣ်ကမီsharkတခိးသၣ်mangoတဆံtenတဆံခံtwelveတဆံယဲၢ်fifteenတဆံလွံၢ်fourteenတနၢ်harpတမှံၤpwā ta mwēea guestတမၢၣ်damတလးမူးပိာ်မုၣ်brideတံာ်ကွံာ်clipတိၢ်ီbrassတီၤဖုၣ်ကၠိprimary schoolတၢၢ်ကွဲၤrainbowတၢ်ကစီၣ်newsတၢ်ကံးညာ်clothတၢ်ကပီၤအယဲၤrayတၢ်ကမၣ်guiltတၢ်ခိၣ်စိးpeakတၢ်ဂီၤဖိdollတၢ်ဃဲၤtaleတၢ်စံၣ်စိၤတဲစိၤhistoryတၢ်တဃၣ်ghostတၢ်ထူးတၢ်တီၤwealthတၢ်ဒုးတၢ်ယၤwarတၢ်နွုၢ်ထံလီၤသကၤcheeseတၢ်နာ်faithတၢ်ပနီၣ်badgeတၢ်ပၢၢ်ဆၢrevolutionတၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤjobတၢ်သံစိၣ်corpseတၢ်သးဝံၣ်songတၢ်သွၣ်ခိၣ်tombတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်သးကညီၤတၢ်almsတၢ်အကနွူၤချံးအသးhemတၢ်အချံseedတၢ်အိၣ်ဆူၣ်အိၣ်ခ့healthတၢ်အိၣ်ဖျဲၣ်ta òh plèhbirthတၢ်အီၣ်ta àwfoodတၤယုၢ်ဖိfawnတံၤသကိးfriendထးကျီၤစုhandcuffsထးကွီၤဃာ်တၢ်hoopထံဒိၣ်နိယွၤhtee dòha floodထးနါmagnetထးပျံာ်htä plẹedrillထံပူၤwellထံလီၤသကၤiceထံလူၤသၣ်gourdထွါကွံာ်wipeထွံၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်foxထိးhogထိးညၣ်porkထိၣ်တၤgooseထိၣ်ဒီၣ်kingfisherထိၣ်ပဝံquailထိၣ်လွံၢ်doveထဲonlyဒွဲၣ်dweh̀grasshopperဒိးrideဒိကအိowlဒီknifeဒီတခွါdaw ta kwaha cousin (men)ဒီသဒၢdaw tha duhto protectဒဲtentဒ့ၣ်ကမၢ်debtဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်toadနးswordနါစ့ၤnoseနီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်queenနီၣ်ခွဲသိၣ်broomနီၣ်တယၢ်flagနီၣ်တံာ်tongsနၢ်တအၢ နၢ်ဃၢdeafပစီၤထံdewပျၤplāto chiselထးလူိawlတၢ်ျၣ်thiefပျံၤတၢ်ဖုးတၢ်dreadပရၢta ga sàwnewsပလဲpearlပအူးtermiteပိာ်မုၣ်ပိာ်မၢၤpọ mùwomanပီၢ်ထံswimပီၢ်ရီlawyerပီၣ်လဲၣ်က့ၣ်ကျီၤဖိcoveပူၤကွံာ်agoပၢ်pa̱fatherပံၢ်လီၤthawပၤစီဆံsaintပၤဒီဖုgangပၤယူဒၤဖိjewဖ့ဂုၤsieveဖံဝါnunဖိခွါsonဖိဒိၣ်မုၣ်nieceဖီတၤဆၣ်roseဖီသ့ၣ်ခံorchidဖဲnecklaceဖဲလဲၣ်whereမိၢ်ပၢ်parentsမုၢ်ထူၣ်mu tòonoonမုၢ်နွုာ်westမုၢ်နၤခီnightမူကပိာ်လိၤskyမဲာ်တဲးလဲးgoatမ့ၣ်ခုၣ်oh mọhsmokeမ့ၣ်အူဒၢmày u duhlampယီၢ်တဲာ်ခိၣ်hipယဲၢ်yeẖfiveယၤmeျါblandလွံၢ်fourလါကပီၤmoonlightလီတာ်vultureလီလ့ၣ်tramလီၤဂာ်seemလီၤစီၤdripလီၤအုးသံdrownလုၢ်ထံlù hteeto batheလၢအမူၤသံးdrunkလၢၢ်မ့ၣ်flintလၢၢ်သ့ၣ်ၣ်slateလၢၣ်maggotလံၤမုၣ်granddaughterသံတယူာ်faintသပၢၤpotသပၢၤံၣ်သလၣ်panသဘျုၣ်thëh thàbetel (piper betle)သးသမူအတၢ်မၤဒီစိၤcareerသအ့gingerသိsheepသိဆူၣ်woolသိဖိlambသၢthuhthreeသ့ၣ်ဆိpineသ့ၣ်ပဟံၣ်teakသၣ်ုလါflyသ့ၣ်ၣ်plankဟးဝ့ၤဝီၤroamဟီၣ်ခိၣ်earthဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဝါhàw kòh wahchalkဟံၣ်ခိၣ်hèe kòh dü, ta kòh düa roofအဂီၤghāwredအဒ့အတၢ်branchအဝဲသ့ၣ်theyအသူthooblackအိၣ်ဟိတစဲးajarုလီၢ်strawမဲာ်တဲးလဲးဖိkidလဲၤက့ၤlēh kāy ka dah kāyto go backပၤပိာ်ခွါလိၣ်ိဖိladဲတီforbidူးnear