မာန်

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Burmese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Pali māna (pride; conceit; arrogance). Doublet of မာန (mana., arrogance).

Noun

မာန် (man)

  1. conceit, vanity, arrogance, pride
  2. force of personality
Derived terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not listed in MED. Is this an actual word and sense? If so, semantic extension of Etymology 1?”)

Verb

မာန် (man)

  1. to scold, berate

Further reading

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali māna, Cognate with Thai มัน (man).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /man/

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Verb

မာန် (mān)

  1. win conquer prevail domineer overpower overcome part particle suffixed to verbs to denote capability probability or possibility. (Usually expressed in English with the auxiliary verbs “can” “may” “be able to” “be likely to” etc.).
    Mon ဇၞး (jnaḥ)

Noun

မာန် (mān)

  1. pride arrogance force of personality.

Verb

မာန် (mān)

  1. to win to beat.
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    ညးဂှ်မာန်ရော။
    ñaḥgh mānro.
    Who won?
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    ညးမွဲဟွံမာန်ဍေံ။
    ñaḥmwoa hwaṃmān ḍeṃh.
    No one could beat her.
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    ဟွံမာန်ဇြဟတ်ကၠဂှ်။
    hwaṃmān jrahat klaghh.
    His strength was no match for that of the tiger.
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    အဲမိက်ဂွံဟီုအရေဝ်ကဵုသၟိၚ်ဇၞော်မွဲစုတ် ကဵုအခေါၚ်ကဵုအဲမာန်ဟာ။
    oa mikgwaṃ hiuṃ ʼarew keusmiṅjnok mwoacut keuʼakhoṅ keuʼoa mānhā.
    May I have Your Honor's permission to speak to you for a moment?
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    တ္ၚဲဏံဗှ်ေမိက်ဂွံကၠောန်မ္ဂးကၠောန်မာန်ရ။
    tṅoaṇaṃ bhe mikgwaṃ klonmgaḥ klon mānra.
    If you want to do it today you can.
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    ဓဝ်ဒေါသဂှ်ပလေဝ်ဍေံမာန်မ္ဂးဟွံဒှ်သေက်ဇဵုညးသ္ကံရ။
    dhaw dosagh palew ḍeṃ mānmgaḥ hwaṃdh sekjeu ñaḥskaṃra.
    If anger could be abolished there would be no strife.
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    ဗှ်ေအာအတေံမာန်ဟာ။
    bheʼā ʼateṃ mānhā.
    Are you free to go there?
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    ရံၚ်တ္ၚဲတုဲတီအခိၚ်မာန်ဟာ။
    raṃṅ tṅoa tuy tiṃ ʼakhiṅ mānhā.
    Can you tell the time by sun?
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    လ္ပကွာ်ပြဟ်အဲဗက်ဟွံမာန်။
    lpa kwāk prah ʼoa bak hwaṃmān.
    Do not work so fast I can't keep up with you.
    ရန်ကဵုဒ္ဂေတ်ဍေံပရေံတုဲဍေံမၞိဟ်ခိုဟ်မွဲဟွံသေၚ်ဂှ်တီမာန်ရ။
    rankeu dget ḍeṃ pareṃtuy ḍeṃ mnihkhiuh mwoa hwaṃseṅgh tiṃmānra.
    If you consider the defects of his conduct you can see he is not a good person.
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    ၜိုတ်ဗှ်ေစမာန်ဂှ်စညိ။
    ṗiut bhe camāngh cañi.
    Eat as much as you can.

Verb

မာန် (mān)

  1. to work {clay} to work clay with the hands in making pottery.