“to deny, refuse” in Sgaw Karen
သမၢ်
tha ma
to deny, refuse
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to deny, refuse” is written သမၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as tha ma. Knyaw helps you read and understand words, not say them out loud. Karen is a tone language, so the English-letter sounds are only a rough help.
This word in a story
ပျၤမုာ်ဒီးသကးမ့ၢ်ပှၤမၤနၢၤတၢ်လိၢ်ကွဲ၀ဲန့ၣ် အ၀ဲမ့ၢ်တၢ်ပာ်ခူသူၣ်သးကစၢ် ညၢ်တူသမၢ်မဲမ့ၢ်စ့ၢ်ကီးညၢ်လၢပာ်ခူသူၣ်အသးသ့ နကဃုထံၣ်ညၢ်တူသမၢ်မဲတၢ်မုၢ်ဃၢ်သ့ဧါဘၣ်ဆၣ်ကၠီး၀ာ်ဃးကူာ်တၢ်သ့စံးဘၣ်အီၤ “ဖဲာ်ပိာ်ယခံလၢထံကျိ ဒီးနကထံဘၣ် သမၢ်အီၣ်မနုၤလဲၢ်လၢဟါခီတၢ်အီၣ်”from “Curious Baby Elephant”