“to deny, refuse” in Sgaw Karen
သမၢ်
tha ma
to deny, refuse
“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 နကဃုထံၣ်ညၢ်တူသမၢ်မဲတၢ်မုၢ်ဃၢ်သ့ဧါ
The octopus won the game. They’re masters of disguise. Pipefish are great at disguise too. Can you spot the two ghost pipefish in this picture?
from “Dive!” →ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ကၠီး၀ာ်ဃးကူာ်တၢ်သ့စံးဘၣ်အီၤ “ဖဲာ်ပိာ်ယခံလၢထံကျိ ဒီးနကထံဘၣ် သမၢ်အီၣ်မနုၤလဲၢ်လၢဟါခီတၢ်အီၣ်”
from “Curious Baby Elephant” →