“to harm” in Sgaw Karen
မၤအၢ
mā uh
to harm
“to harm” is written မၤအၢ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mā uh. 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
ဘၣ်တနၤ အဝဲမံမီၢ်ဝဲလၢတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဟဲအိၣ်ဝးတရံးအဃိာ်မဲး ဒီးမၤအၢမၤသီအနီၢ်ကစၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
One night, she has a dream. The germs are all around her castle, and are attacking her.
from “Bunty and Bubbly” →ပတိကီးညၢ်ကမီအဒံး၀ါတကူၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးဖဲအသူၣ် ဘူၣ် လိၤဖဲအခံကိၢ်န့ၣ်မၤအၢတၢ်တသ့အါဘၣ်အဃိပပီၢ်ထံလဲၤကွၢ်အီၤဘူၣ်ဘူၣ်လီၤ
We came across a couple of whitetip reef sharks resting near the bottom. They’re pretty harmless, so we swam in for a closer look.
from “Dive!” →