"ၿမန္မာ စကားပံုမ်ား ႏွင့္ အဂၤလိပ္ျပန္"

Adjust burden to strength, like arrow to bow.
တန္ႏွင့္အားကို ေလးႏွင့္ျမွားကဲ့သုိ႔ ညီေအာင္လုပ္ပါ။
Although cowardly be slow to run.
မရဲေသာ္လည္း ေျပးခဲေစ။
The anger of the prudent never shows.
ပညာရွိအမ်က္ အျပင္မထြက္။
Arrows all gone before the battle begins.
စစ္မေရာက္ခင္ ျမွားကုန္။
As the doe gives birth to a fawn the tiger eats it.
သမင္ေမြးရင္း က်ားစားရင္း။
As to eating it, will it is covered with grit; but as to throwing it away, well, it is rich and luscious.
စားရမွာလည္း သဲတရွပ္ရွပ္၊ လႊင့္ပစ္ရမွာကလည္း အဆီနဲ႔ တ၀င္း၀င္း။
As you are fated to eat honey, bees swarm in your beard.
စားရကံၾကံဳေတာ့ မုတ္ဆိိတ္ပ်ားစြဲ။
Ask when you don't know, wash when you're dirty.
မသိလွ်င္ေမး၊ မစင္လွ်င္ေဆး။
At the sight of fresh fish away goes the roast.
ငါးစိမ္းျမင္၊ ငါးကင္ပစ္။
Bad children? Blame the parents.
သားသမီးမေကာင္း မိဘေခါင္း။
Being afraid of the tiger he takes refuge with the lork Spirit, but the lord Spirit is worse than the tiger.
က်ားေၾကာက္လို႔ ရုွင္ႀကီးကိုး၊ ရွင္ႀကီး က်ားထက္ဆိုး။
The bigger the tiger, the bigger the pug-marks.
က်ားႀကီးေတ့ာ ေျခရာႀကီး။
The black elephant dare not look at the royal white elephant's face.
ဆင္ျဖဴမ်က္ႏွာ ဆင္မည္း မၾကည့္၀ံ့။
A blind fowl came upon the rice-pot .
ၾကက္ကန္း ဆန္အိုးတိုး။
The blind man is not afraid of ghosts.
မ်က္ကန္းတစ္ေဆမေၾကာက္။
The care of one daughter equals that of a thousand cattle.
သမီးတစ္ေကာင္ ႏြားတစ္ေထာင္။
The cat jumps with joy when the forest is on fire.
ေတာမီးေလာင္ ေတာေၾကာင္ လက္ခေမာင္းခတ္။
Cheeks shinning because of gold earrings.
ေရႊနားကပ္ေရာင္ေၾကာင့္ ပါးေျပာင္။
Clear water cannot be obtained from a well that has just been dug.
ခု ေရတြင္းတူး၊ ခု ေရၾကည္ေသာက္၍ မရ။
Day will not break for a hen's cackle; it will break only for a cock's crow.
ၾကက္မတြန္၍ မိုးမလင္း၊ ၾကက္ဖတြန္မွ မိုးလင္းသည္။
Desire for haste is delay.
အရင္လို အေႏွးျဖစ္။
Discard only bad baskets and punnets, not bad sons and daughters.
ေတာင္းစုတ္ ပလံုးစုတ္သာ ပစ္႐ုိးထံုးစံ ရွိသည္။ သားဆိုးသမီးဆိုးကို ပစ္႐ုိးထံုးစံမရွိ။
Do not spare a bullock or a wife.
မယားနဲ႔ႏြား မသနားနဲ႔။
Do not tread on a heap of thorns because you have faith in you karma.
ကံယံုု၍ ဆူးပံုမနင္းနဲ႔။
Eat a section of garlic; you smell of garlic. Eat two sections; you smell the same.
တစ္တက္စားလည္း ၾကက္သြန္၊ ႏွစ္တက္စားလည္းၾကက္သြန္။
Eczema comes on the teprous place.
ႏူရာ ၀ဲစြဲ။
An ember about to blaze glows brightly.
ေတာက္မည့္မီးခဲ တရဲရဲ။
Empty pockets, empty promises.
ေငြမရွိ စကားမတည္။
An error may go on for ever, but it can be set right in a moment.
ပ်က္အစဥ္ ျပင္ခဏ။
Even if you do not love him (her), hold your breath and kiss him (her), even if yor do not kiss him (her), heave a sigh.
မခ်စ္ေသာ္လည္း ေအာင့္ကာနမ္း၊ နမ္းေသာ္လည္း ပင့္သက္႐ွဴ။
Falling face downwards in the front of the tiger.
က်ားေရွ႕ ေမွာက္ရက္လဲ။
Fetching water in an open wicker basket.
ျခင္းၾကားနဲ႔ ေရသယ္။
Flipping sesamum seeds into an elephant's mouth.
ဆင္ပါးစပ္ ႏွမ္းပက္။
A floor which has no binding is in disorder.
အကြပ္မရွိၾကမ္း ပရမ္းပတာ။
Fondle a dog and it will lick your face.
ေခြးကေလး အေရာ၀င္ေတာ့ ပါးလ်က္ နားလ်က္။
The future price will be fixed in the future; sell it at the current price.
ေနာင္ခါလာ ေနာင္ခါေစ်း။
Going to plough and forgetting the catte.
လယ္ထြန္သြား ႏြားေမ့။
A good beginning ensures a satisfactory ending.
အစေကာင္းမွ အေႏွာင္းေသခ်ာ။
A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds.
သစ္တစ္ပင္ေကာင္း ငွက္တစ္ေသာင္းနားႏိုင္။
Grass depends on the island, the island on the grass.
ကြၽန္းကိုင္းမွီ ကိုင္းကြၽန္းမွီ။
Great desire obtains little.
အလိုႀကီးက အရနည္း။
Guests only come to a happy house.
အိမ္သာလုိ႔ ဧည့္လာ။
He asked for bones because he wants flesh.
အသားလုိလို႔ အ႐ုိးေတာင္း။
He breathes through someone else's nose.
သူမ်ားႏွာေခါင္းေပါက္နဲ႔ အသက္႐ႈ။
He calls her aunt only when her cucumber fruits.
ဘူးသီးသီးလို႔ အရီးေတာ္။
He climbs up the pole of the morquee to show his alms-giving.
အလွဴ႕ရွင္မွန္းသိေအာင္ မ႑ပ္တိုင္တက္ျပ။
He does not catch the monitor lizard and he has lost his chopper.
ဖြတ္မရ ဓားမဆုံး။
He dropped a fish-hook whenever the fish sent up bubbles (expecting to catch it).
ငါးပြက္ရာ ငါးစာခ်။
He leans on a white elephant and sucks sugar-cane.
ဆင္ျဖဴေတာ္မွီ၍ ၾကံစုပ္။
He lives in the bushes but his spirits is in the heavens.
လူေနခ်ဳံၾကား စိတ္ေနဘံုဖ်ား။
He may be poor, however intelligent he may be, if he has no karma.
ကံမရွိ ဥာဏ္ရွိတိုင္းမြဲ။
He praises the pickling of his own fish.
ကိုယ့္ငါးခ်ဥ္ ကိုယ္ခ်ဥ္။
He rides without knowing whether it's a stallion or mare.
ကိုယ္စီးတဲ့ျမင္း အထီးမွန္းအမမွန္း မသိ။
He tries to establish relationship with a person only when the person has gold.
ေရႊရွိမွ အမ်ဳိးေတာ္။
He was all right when he was sitting; only when he got up did I realize he was lame.
ထိုင္ေနေတာ့ အေကာင္းသား၊ ထသြားမွ အကိ်ဳးမွန္းသိ။
He who talks isn't strong; he who's strong doesn't talk.
လူေျပာမသန္၊ လူသန္မေျပာ။
He would like to ride a difficult buffalo but hasn't enough courage.
မရဲဘဲ ကြၽဲျပဲစီးခ်င္။
His mouth say; "Buddha Buddha, " but his hand acts contrariwise.
ပါးစပ္က ဘုရား ဘုရား၊ လက္က ကားယား ကားယား။
Husband and wife are like tongue and teeth.
လင္နဲ႔မယား လွ်ာနဲ႔သြား။
I have no money to pay the debt and no land abscond to.
ေပးစရာ ေငြမရွိ၊ ေျပးစရာ ေျမမရွိ။
If a needle can pierce it don't chop with an axe.
အပ္ျဖင့္ ထြင္း၍ရလွ်င္၊ ပုဆိန္ျဖင့္ မခုတ္ရ။
If the beginning is good, the end must be perfect.
အစေကာင္းလွ်င္ အေႏွာင္းေသခ်ာမည္။
If the cattle are scattered the tiger seizes him.
ႏြားကြဲလွ်င္ က်ားဆြဲမည္။
If the fire is greater the fire wins; if the water is greater the water wins.
မီးမ်ား မီးႏိုင္၊ ေရမ်ား ေရႏိုင္။
If the thorn falls the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced.
ဆူးေပၚဖက္က်လွ်င္ ဖက္ေပါက္သည္။ ဖက္ေပၚဆူးက်လွ်င္ ဖက္ေပါက္သည္။
If there is a question, there is also an answer.
အေမးရွိလွ်င္ အေျဖရွိသည္။
If you carry the world" No" with you, you will never be poor even in old age.
ဘူးတစ္လံုးေဆာင္ အိုေတာင္မဆင္းရဲ။
If you do not know, ask; if it not clean, wash.
မသိလွ်င္ေမး၊ မစင္လွ်င္ေဆး။
If you don't believe me , ask my wife.
မယံုရင္ ငါ့မယားကိုေမး။
If you want to go fast, go the old road.
အလ်င္လို လမ္းအိုလိုက္။
If you desire is great you obtain little.
အလိုႀကီးက အရနည္းသည္။
Ignorance is more troubles me than poverty.
မရွိတာထက္ မသိထာခက္သည္။
In a basket it is the binding, in a man it is his clothes.
ေတာင္းမွာအကြပ္၊ လူမွာအ၀တ္။
In a forest where there is no heart-wood the castor-oil plant rules.
အႏွစ္မရွိတဲ့ေတာ ၾကက္ဆူပင္ မင္းမူ။
In another's eyes, but in his own eyes he sees no dirt.
အျခားလူမ်ား၏ မ်က္ေခ်းကိုျမင္၍ ကိုယ့္မ်က္ေခ်းကိုယ္မျမင္။
In journeying at improper time, one step; in eating improper food, one mouthful is sufficient to course mishap.
အစားမေတာ္ တစ္လုပ္၊ အသြားမေတာ္ တစ္လွမ္း။
It is for bird to fly and die; it is for man t5o scheme and die.
ငွက္သည္ ပ်ံရင္းေသသည္။ လူသည္ ၾကံရင္းေသသည္။
It's like threading a dog's crooked tail through a joint of bamboo.
ေခြးၿမီးေကာက္ က်ည္ေတာက္စြပ္သလို။
Just as the breeze carries the flower's fragrance, so do men carry men's news.
ပန္းသတင္း ေလညွင္းေဆာင္ လူသတင္း လူခ်င္းေဆာင္။
Just when he wants to cry you touch him.
ငိုခ်င္လ်က္ လက္တို႔။
Karma is the mother and karma is the father.
ကံသာလွ်င္ အမိ၊ ကံသာလွ်င္ အဖ။
Karma watches over your property; your intellig- ence watches over your life.
ဥစၥာကံေစာင့္၊ အသက္ဥာဏ္ေစာင့္။
A lazy man lies flat on his back, a lazy woman stretches out her legs.
ေယာက္်ားပ်င္းေတာ့ ေက်ာခင္း၊ မိန္းမပ်င္းေတာ့ ေျခဆင္း။
Let enmity stops short, but love lingers on.
ခ်စ္စကို ရွည္ေစ၊ မုန္းစကို တိုေစ။
Let them know about it but not see it.
သိတာသိေစ မျမင္ေစနဲ႔။
Like father and grandfather alike.
ဘမ်ဳိးဘိုးတုူ။
Loss of good is one day spoiled; loss of a hrsband is a ruined life.
ကုန္႐ႈံးေတာ့ တစ္ရက္၊ လင္႐ႈံးေတာ့ တစ္သက္။
A man does not lose his life if the time at which he is fated to die is not arrived.
ေသေန႔မေစ့ေသးလွ်င္ မေသ။
The man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
ငရဲကလူ ျပာပူမေၾကာက္။
Mice cease to fear the cat when she is too old.
ေၾကာင္အို ၾကြက္မေလး။
Minds together, bodies apart.
စိတ္ေပါင္းကုိယ္ခြာ။
Moderation is medicine, excess is peril.
လြန္ရင္ေဘး၊ တန္ရင္ေဆး။
The moon shinning in the hollow of the bamboo.
၀ါးလံုးေခါင္းထဲ လသာ။
More money always wins the cause.
ေငြမ်ား စကားႏိုင္။
A motherless son is a fish in low water.
အမိမဲ႔သား ေရနည္းငါး။
Near a fisherman one is a fisherman; near a hunter a hunter.
တံငါနားနီး တံငါ၊ မုဆိုးနားနီး မုဆိုး။
No lawyer is infallible, nor a doctor immortal.
မမွားေသာ ေရွ႕ေန၊ မေသေသာ ေဆးသမား။
The oar broke while the boat was going.
ေလွေလွာ္ရင္း တက္က်ိဳး။
Offering a sword-hilt to a thief.
သူခိုး အ႐ုိးကမ္း။
Old bullocks are partial to tender grass.
ႏြားအို ျမက္ႏုႀကိဳက္။
Once you have died you know how to lay out the corpse.
တစ္ခါေသဖူး ပ်ဥ္ဖိုးနားလည္။
One can but fall to earth or rise to the golden umbrella.
ေသေျမႀကီး ရွင္ေရႊထီး။
One capable many and a force of ten thousand was crushed.
တစ္ေယာက္ေကာင္းက တစ္ေသာင္းဗိုလ္ေျခ ညက္ညက္ေၾက။
One day, six feet, where will Bagan move to ?
တစ္ေန႔တစ္လံ ပုဂံဘယ္ေရြ႕။
One day to die, and one day to born.
ေသတစ္ေန႔ ေမြးတစ္ေန႔။
One in a thousand mothers bears such sons.
မတစ္ေထာင္ တစ္ေကာင္ဘြား။
One mouthful of unsuitable food, one imprudent step may lead to peril.
အစားမေတာ္တစ္လုပ္၊ အသြားမေတာ္ တစ္လွမ္း။
One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts.
အူမေတာင့္မွ သီလေစာင့္ႏိုင္မည္။
One seasum seed will not make oil.
ႏွမ္းတစ္ေစ့ႏွင့္ ဆီမျဖစ္ႏိုင္။
One should not open the mouth for a presentation cow and look at the teeth.
အလကားရသည့္ႏြားကို သြားၿဖဲမၾကည့္သင့္။
One's bed is a throne if one thinks to be so.
ကုိယ္ထင္လွ်င္ ခုတင္ေရႊနန္း။
Only the sufferer knows how his belly aches.
ကိုယ္၀မ္းနာ ကိုယ္သာသိ။
Only when the thief has run away do the tatto spots show their power.
သူခိုးေျပးမွ ထိုးကြင္းထ။
Picking up frogs with a perforated bag.
ပလိုင္းေပါက္ႏွင့္ ဖားေကာက္။
Pinning for the aunt rather than the mother.
အေမေက်ာ္ ေတြးေတာ္လြမ္း။
Playing a harp before a buffalo.
ကြၽဲပါးေစာင္းတီး။
Pot against pot, the pots will touch; ropes together, the ropes will tangle.
ႀကိဳးခ်င္းထား ႀကိဳးခ်င္းထိ၊ အိုးခ်င္းထား အိုးခ်င္းထိ။
The price of the hook(goad) is greater than the prick of the elephant.
ဆင္ဖိုးထက္ ခြၽန္းဖိုးကႀကီး။
Property is guarded by luck.
ဥစၥာကံေစာင့္။
Rain water leaks through the roof-top.
ေခါင္က မိုးယို။
Riding on the same boat, going on the same journey.
တစ္ေလွတည္းစီး တစ္ခရီးတည္းသြား။
Rubbing liniment on the unaffected spot.
မေရာင္ရာ ဆီလူး။
Said to be marrying a captain, she married a sailor.
ေက်ာ္ေတာ့ေလွသူႀကီး ညားေတာ့ ေလွထိုးသား။
Searching for a lime before he gets the hare.
ယုန္မရခင္ သံပရာရွာ။
Seeing the bark you know the tree; seeing his expression you know his character.
အေပြးျမင္ အပင္သိ၊ အေသြးျမင္ အသြင္သိ။
Setting fire to the grannary because one cannot beat the mice.
ၾကြက္မႏိုင္ က်ီမီးနဲ႔႐ႈိ႕။
She wears the flower when it has a sweet scent, but disards it when it has lost its scent.
ေမႊးလွ်င္ပန္၊ နံလွ်င္ပစ္။
Silence is worth a thousand pieces of silver.
ဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေန ေထာင္တန္။
The snare was set to catch a hare but the cat was caught.
ယုန္ေထာင္ ေၾကာင္မိ။
The son is one month older than his father.
အေဖထက္ သားတစ္လႀကီး။
The stick falls on the sore.
အနာေပၚ တုတ္က်။
Store up the water while it rains.
The strongest young bullock is only as strong as an old bullock with a broken leg.
ႏြားပ်ဳိသန္လွ ႏြားအိုေပါင္က်ဳိးသေလာက္ပဲ ျဖစ္သည္။
Sugar-cane is sweet always, man only sometimes.
ၾကံသည္ အစဥ္ခ်ဳိေသာ္လည္း လူသည္ အစဥ္ မခ်ဳိ။
Taking shelter in the shade of a tree and breaking off the branches.
အရိပ္ေနေန၊ အခက္ခ်ဳိးခ်ဳိး။
Teaching a monk to read; showing an alligator king the water business.
ဘုန္းႀကီးစာခ်၊ မိေက်ာင္းမင္း ေရခင္းျပ။
Teasing eventually turns to quarrel.
အက်ီစားသန္လွ်င္ ရန္ျဖစ္သည္။
Teeth that are going to chew for a long time must aviod bones.
ၾကာၾကာ၀ါးမယ့္သြား အ႐ုိးၾကည့္ေရွာင္။
A thing floats when it gets rotten; the news, if not true will not spread.
ပုပ္လွ်င္ေပၚ၊ ဟုတ္လွ်င္ေက်ာ္။
Those who are unaware walt over it, those who are aware unearth it and eat it.
မသိသူေက်ာ္သြား သိသူေဖာ္စား။
Throwing sand at the meat he cannot eat.
မစားရတဲ့အမဲ သဲႏွင့္ပက္။
The tiger who courts death moves to another jungle.
ေသခ်င္တဲ့က်ား ေတာေျပာင္း။
Timidity relieves one of responsibitity.
ေၾကာက္တတ္လွ်င္ ၀န္ကင္းသည္။
To be ignorant is worse than being poor.
မရွိတာထက္ မသိတာခက္။
To dig one's grave with one's own hands.
ကိုယ့္ေသတြင္း ကိုယ္တူး။
Too many doctors and the son dies.
ဆရာမ်ား သားေသ။
Too much carp makes the curry in stupid.
ငါးသိုင္းမ်ား ဟင္းဟံု။
Too much talk will include errors.
စကားမ်ားလွ်င္ အမွားပါမည္။
The top of a pinnade now, firewood soon.
မွန္ကင္းတစ္လွည့္ ထင္းတစ္လွည္။
Travelling by raft and yet thirsty.
ေဖာင္ဆီးရင္း ေရငတ္။
Trust a slave you lose an eye; trust your childrin you lose both.
ကြၽန္ယံုေတာ့ တစ္လံုးကန္း၊ သားသမီးယံုေတာ့ စံုလံုးကန္း။
Unitl timber is available, use bamboo as a girder.
သစ္မရခင္ ၀ါးကူ။
A village ox does not feed on village grass.
ရြာနားကျမက္ ရြာႏြားမစား။
Water falling into sand.
သဲထဲ ေရသြန္။
Wax will show the quality of gold.
ေရႊအေၾကာင္း ဖေယာင္းသက္ေသတည္။
When an elephant shrinks it's still a buffalo.
ဆင္ပိန္ေတာ့ ကြၽဲ။
When diamonds are being sold, the tobacco-stalk verchant is in the way.
စိန္ေကာင္းေက်ာက္ေကာင္း ေရာင္းေနသည့္ အခါ၌ ေဆး႐ုိးသည္က ကန့္လန့္ကန့္လန့္။
When I work for my living the rains are sconty, when I sted for my living the dogs bark.
လုပ္စားေတာ့ မိုးေခါင္၊ ခိုးစားေတာ့ ေခြးေဟာင္။
When in agony a mother will even deny being related to her son.
ကိုယ္မခ်ိ အမိေသာ္လည္း သားေတာ္ခဲ။
When the disease is not known there is no remedy.
အနာမသိ ေဆးမရွိ။
When your strength is not sufficient, humble yourself.
အားမတန္ မာန္ေလွ်ာ့။
Where there is a question, there must be an answer.
အေမးရွိလွ်င္ အေျဖရွိရမည္။
While being troubled by snakes, he is harassed by centipedes.
ေျမြပူရာ ကင္းေမွာင့္။
The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp.
ငါးခံုးမတစ္ေကာင္ေၾကာင့္ တစ္ေလွလံုးပုပ္။
A woman's modesty cannot be bought with gold.
မိန္းမတို႔အိျႏၵ ေရႊေပး၍မရ။
You will face a hundred peoblems in your lifetime though you may not live that long.
အသက္တစ္ရာမေနရေသာ္လည္း အမႈတစ္ရာေတြ႕ရ။


အကမတက္ေတာ့ ဖ်ာအၿပစ္တင္ = A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
ေဟာင္လြန္းေသာေခြး လူမေလး = A barking dog seldom bites.
လက္ထဲတြင္ရွိေသာငွက္တစ္ေကာင္သည္ခ်ံဳထဲတြင္ရွိေေသာငွက္ႏွစ္ေကာင္ထက္ပို၍တန္ဖိုးရွိသည္။
= A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
စာအုပ္ဆိုတာအိတ္ကပ္ထဲယူသြားႏိုင္တဲ့ ဥယ်ာဥ္တစ္ခုပါ = A book is like a garden
in the pocket.
မီးေလာင္ခံရေသာကေလးသည္ မီးကိုေၾကာက္သည္ = A burnt child dreads fire.
ေရနစ္ေနေသာသူသည္ ေကာက္ရိုးမွ်င္ကိုပင္ဆြဲလိမ့္မည္ = A drowning man will catch
at a straw.
ထန္းရည္မူး ကၽႊဲခိုးေပၚ = A drunkard can never keep secrets.
၀န္ခံသည္. အၿပစ္တစ္ခုသည္ တ၀က္ၿပုၿပင္ၿပီးၿဖစ္လိမ္.မည္ = A fault confessed is
half redressed.
လူမိုက္ႏွင့္ေငြအတူမေန = A fool and his money are soon departed.
လူရူးလူမိုက္ တစ္ဦးသည္ ဥာဏ္ပညာရွိသူအား အၾကံေပးေကာင္းေပးလိမ္.မည္ = A fool may
give a wise man counsel.
အေရးၾကံုက မိတ္ေကာင္းပ = A friend in need is a friend indeed.
မိတ္ေဆြတစ္ဦးကို ရရွိရန္ထက္ ဆံုးရွုံးရန္က ပို၍လြယ္၏ = A friend is easier
lose than found.
အမွီေကာင္းလွ်င္တစ္ခ်က္ အေနေကာင္းလွ်င္တစ္သက္ = A good aim means a sure short,
and wise dealings mean perpetual success.
ေခြးလိမၼာတစ္ေကာင္သည္ အရိုးေကာင္းတစ္ေခ်ာင္းႏွင္ထိုက္တန္သည္ = A good dog
deserves a good bone.
အေၿခေကာင္းမွ အေနေကာင္းမည္ = A good foundation ensures a good status.
လင္ေယာက္်ားေကာင္းတစ္ဦးသည္ ဇနီးေကာင္းတစ္ဦးကိုေမြးထုတ္ေပးႏိုင္သည္ =
A good husband makes a good wife.
နာမည္ေကာင္းတစ္ခုရွိၿခင္းသည္ ခ်မ္းသာၾကြယ္၀ၿခင္းထက္ပို၍ေကာင္းသည္ = A good name
is better than riches.
အၿပစ္ရွိေနသၿဖင့္ လိပ္ၿပာမသန္.ရွင္းသည္ ၊ စြပ္စြဲမည့္သူမလို = A guilty
conscience needs no accuser.
ေလးလံေနသည့္ ပိုက္ဆံအိတ္တစ္လံုးသည္ စိတ္ႏွလံုးကိုေပါ့ပါးေစသည္ = A heavy purse
makes a light heart.
ဆာေလာင္မြတ္သိပ္ေနသူတစ္ဦးသည္ ေဒါသၿဖစ္ေနသူတစ္ဦးၿဖစ္သည္ = A hungry man is an
angry man.
ဆင္ပိန္လွ်င္ ကၽႊဲေလာက္ရွိေသး၏ = A lean elephant is still as stout as a
sturdy buffalo.
ပညာရဲရင့္ ပြဲလယ္တင့္ = A learned man is honored by others.
ၿခိမ္းေၿခာက္မွုမ်ားေၾကာင့္ လူတစ္ေယာက္မေသ = A man does not die of threats.
ေၾကြးတင္ေနသူတစ္ဦးသည္ ပိုက္ကြန္တစ္ခုထဲတြင္မိေနသည္ = A man in debt is caught
in a net.
ေသးငယ္သည့္ အခက္အခဲမ်ားကိုသည္းမခံႏိုင္သူသည္ ၾကီးမားသည့္အရာမ်ားကို
မည္သည့္အခါမွၿပီးစီးေအာင္လုပ္ႏိုင္မည္မဟုတ္ = A man who cannot tolerate small
ills can never accomplish great things.
လူတစ္ေယာက္၏ေနအိမ္သည္ သူ၏ရဲတိုက္ၿဖစ္သည္ = A man’s house is his castle.
စုေဆာင္းသည့္တစ္ပဲနိသည္ရရွိသည့္တစ္ပဲနိၿဖစ္သည္ = A penny saved is a penny
gained.
သတိရွိၿခင္းတစ္ေပါင္သည္ေၾကြးတစ္ေအာင္စကိုမဆပ္နိုင္ = A pound of care won’t pay
and ounce of debt.
အနာမွေသြးမ်ားထြက္ၿပီးေၿခာက္ခဲေနသည့္ေခါင္းသည္ဘီးကိုေၾကာက္သည္ = A scabby head
fears the comb.
ၿဖတ္လမ္းတခုသည္တစ္ခါတရံ၌မွားသည့္လမ္းတလမ္းၿဖစ္တတ္သည္ = A short way is often a
wrong way.
အမိွုက္ကစၿပႆဒ္မီးေလာင္ = A small rubbish dump can burn down a tower.
ပ်က္လ်င္အစဥ္ၿပင္လ်င္ခဏ = It is never too late to mend.
အလုပ္တခုကိုစၿခင္းသည္တ၀က္လုပ္ၿပီးၿဖစ္သည္ = A thing begun is half done.
ပ်ားတစက္ေၾကာင့္ၿပည္ပ်က္၏ = A trills can lead to a catastrophe.
အကူအညီကိုလိုလိုလားလားေပးလိုသူသည္အေခၚကိုမေစာင့္ = A willing helper does not
wait to be called.
ေၿမြမေသတုတ္မက်ိဳး = A wise course of action whereby neither party suffers.
ဥာဏ္ပညာရွိသူတစ္ဦးသည္သူ၏စိတ္ကိုတစ္ခါတရံ၌ေၿပာင္းလဲသည္။လူရူးလူမိုက္တစ္ဦးသည္မည္သည့္အခါမွ်မေၿပာင္း
= A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.
ပညာရွိအမ်က္အၿပင္မထြက္ = A wise man does not reveal anger.
မိန္းမတို့အိေၿႏၵေရႊေပးလို့မရ = A woman’s modesty cannot be bought with gold.
အ့ံၾသစရာသည္ကိုးရက္သာခံသည္ = A wonder lasts nine days.
ပညာရွိတစ္ဦးအတြက္စကားတစ္လံုးၿဖင့္ပင္လံုေလာက္သည္ = A word to the wise is
enough.
ခြဲခြာေနၿခင္းသည္ခ်စ္ၿခင္းကိုတိုးပြားေစသည္ = Absence makes the heart grow
fonder.
လုပ္ရပ္သည္စကားလံုးမ်ားထက္ပို၍က်ယ္ေလာင္စြာစကားေၿပာသည္ = Action speaks louder
than words.
မုန္တိုင္းက်ၿပီးေနာက္ၿငိမ္သက္မွုၿဖစ္သည္ = After a storm comes a calm.
ဒီပုတ္ထဲမွာဒီပဲပါပဲ = After the manner of its kind, or a chip of the old
block.
အလိုၾကီးကအရနည္းသည္ = All covet , all lose.
အေရာင္ေၿပာင္းတိုင္းေရႊမဟုတ္ = All is not gold that glitters.
၀ါ၀ါၿမင္တိုင္းေရႊမဟုတ္ = All that glitters is not gold.
အခ်စ္နွင့္စစ္တြင္ဘာလုပ္လုပ္တရားသည္ = All’s fair in love and war.
ေကာင္းစြာၿပီးစီးသည့္အရာမွန္သမွ်သည္အကုန္ေကာင္းသည္ = All’s well that ends
well.
မ်က္မၿမင္သူမ်ားၾကားမ်က္လံုးတစ္လံုးရွိသူသည္ဘုရင္္ၿဖစ္သည္ = Among the blind
the one – eyed man is king.
စစ္တပ္တစ္တပ္သည္၄င္း၏အစာလမ္းေၾကာင္းေပၚ၌ခ်ီတက္သည္ = An army marches on its
stomach.
ဘာမွမရွိသည့္အိတ္သည္မတ္ေထာင္မေန = An empty bag will not stand upright.
အားလပ္ေနသည့္ဦးေနွာက္သည္မာရ္နတ္မင္း၏အလုပ္ရံုၿဖစ္သည္ = An idle brain is the
devil’s workshop.
ငွက္အိုတစ္ေကာင္ကိုေထာင္ေခ်ာက္္ၿဖင့္ဖမ္း၍မရ = An old bird is not to be caught
with chaff.
သက္ၾကီးရြယ္အိုတစ္ဦး၏စကားသည္မွားခဲသည္ = An old man’s saying is rarely
untrue.
သည္းခံၿခင္းတစ္ေအာင္စသည္ဦးေနွာက္တစ္ေပါင္ထက္ပိုေကာင္းသည္ = An ounce of
patience is worth a pound of brains.
ကာကြယ္မွုတစ္ေအာင္စသည္ကုသၿခင္းတစ္ေပါင္ထက္ပိုေကာင္းသည္ = An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.
ၿမိန္ရာဟင္းေကာင္းခင္ရာေဆြမ်ိဳး = Appetite is the best sauce and sincere
friends the nearest kith and kin.
ဥမကြဲသိုက္မပ်က္ = As long as the eggs are not broken ; the nest will be
alright.
သိုးငယ္တစ္ေကာင္အတြက္အၿပစ္ခံရၿခင္းထက္သိုးၾကီးတစ္ေကာင္အတြက္အၿပစ္ခံရၿခင္းကပိုေကာင္းသည္
= As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
အိပ္ရာခင္းသၿဖင့္ သင္သည္အိပ္ရလိမ့္မည္ = As you make your bed, so you must lie
on it.
စိုက္ပ်ိဴးေသာေၾကာင့္ သင္သည္ရိတ္သိမ္းရလိမ့္မည္ = As you sow , so you shall
reap.
နည္းနည္းရရန္အတြက္ မ်ားမ်ားေတာင္းပါ = Ask much to get little.
ဖြတ္မိေက်ာင္းၿဖစ္၊ၿမစ္မခ်မ္းသာ = Authority in the hands of the fool will
make him a tyrant.
မေကာင္းမုုုုုုုုုုုုွကိုသင္ေရွာင္ၾကဥ္ပါ။
မေကာင္းမွုကသင့္ကိုေရွာင္ၾကဥ္လိမ့္မည္ = Avoid evil and it will avoid thee.
ပို၍ဆိုးရြားမွုမၿဖစ္မခ်င္းအဆိုးသည္အေကာင္းဘယ္ေတာ့မွၿဖစ္မလာ = Bad never
becomes good till something worse happens.
ေဟာင္ေသာေခြးမ်ားသည္တစ္ခါတရံမွသာကိုက္သည္ = Barking dogs seldom bite.
သံပူေနတုန္းထုရိုက္ပါ = Beat out the iron while it is hot.
ငါးကိုၿမင္ေသာ္လည္းေက်ာ့ကြင္းကိုမၿမင္ = Before you bit look for the snare.
သူေတာင္းစားမ်ားသည္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ရမည့္သူမ်ားမဟုတ္ = Beggars must not be choosers.
လူေတာ္တစ္ေယာက္၏ေနာက္၌အၿခားလူေတာ္မ်ားစြာရွိသည္ = Behind an able man there are
always other able man.
ဥာဏ္ပညာရွိၿခင္းထက္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ၿခင္းကပို၍ေကာင္းသည္ = Better be happy than wise.
လံုး၀ေရာက္မလာသည္ထက္စာလွ်င္ေနာက္က်ေရာက္လာသည္ကပို၍ေကာင္းေသးသည္ = Better late
than never.
မရွိတာထက္မသိတာခက္ = Better not to have, than not to know.
ေရစပ္နံေဘး၌ငါးရရန္ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနၿခင္းထက္အိမ္ၿပန္၍ကြန္ယက္သည္ကပိို၍
ေကာင္းေသးသည္ = Better return home and make a net than long for fish by the
waterside.
လိမ္ညာမွုၿဖင့္ၾကီးပြားၿခင္းထက္အမွန္တရားအတြက္ခံစားရၿခင္းကပို၍ေကာင္းသည္ =
Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood.
လူၾကီးတစ္ဦးငိုေၾကြးၿခင္းထက္ကေလးငယ္တစ္ဦးငိုေၾကြးၿခင္းကပို၍ေကာင္းသည္ =
Better the child cry than the old man.
မိခင္သက္ၿပင္းခ်မည္ထက္ကေလးငယ္ငိုသည္ကပို၍ေကာင္းေသးသည္ = Better the child
should cry than the mother sigh.
သင့္အားသဘာ၀မက်စြာေၿမွာက္ပင့္ေၿပာဆိုသူကိုသတိထားပါ။သူသည္မတရားစြာအၿပစ္တင္လိမ့္မည္
= Beware of one who flatters unduly ; he will also censure unjustly.
ခဲေလသမွ်သဲေရက်ပမာ = Big attempts which end in failure. Vain efforts.
ေကာင္းမြန္မွုမ်ားသည္ဘယ္ေသာအခါမွအစုလိုက္အၿပံဳလိုက္မလာ။ကံဆိုးမွုမ်ားသည္ဘယ္ေသာအခါမွတစ္ခုတည္းမလာ
= Blessing never come in pairs: misfortunes never come alone.
ေသြးသည္ေရထက္ၿပစ္သည္ = Blood is thicker than water.
ကမာၻမီးေလာင္သားေကာင္ခ်နင္း = Blood may be thicker than water, but life is
sweeter than blood.
စာအုပ္မ်ားနွင့္သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ားသည္နည္းနည္းနွင့္ေကာင္းေကာင္းၿဖစ္သင့္သည္ = Books
and friends should be few and good.
စာအုပ္နွင့္မိတ္ေဆြကိုနည္းနည္းပဲထားသင့္သည္ ၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ေကာင္းရမည္ = Books and
friends should be few but good.
စာအုပ္စာေပလူ့မိတ္ေဆြ = Books are our friends.
သစ္ခက္မ်ားကိုေၿဖာင့္ေအာင္လုပ္၍ရေကာင္းရမည္ၿဖစ္ေသာ္လည္းၾကာၿမင့္ေနၿပီၿူဖစ္သည့္္
ပင္စည္မ်ားကိုမူလုပ္၍မရ = Branches may be made straight, but not an old
trunk.
အနိုင္က်င့္သူမ်ားသည္သူရဲေဘာေၾကာင္သူမ်ားၿဖစ္သည္ = Bullers are generally
cowards.
အၿခားလူမ်ား၏အားနည္းခ်က္မ်ားၿဖင့္ပညာရွိသူမ်ားသည္မိမိတို့၏အားနည္းခ်က္မ်ားကိုၿပဳၿပင္သည္
= By others faults wise men correct their own.
အေမေက်ာ္ေဒြးေတာ္လြမ္း = Care more for your mother than for your aunt. (
Gratitude should not be misplaced )
ဒါနၿပဳၿခင္းသည္အိမ္၌စၿပီးအိမ္၌မၿပီးဆံုးသင့္ေပ = Charity begins at home but
should not end there.
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