Proverbs (စကားပုံမ်ား) (Part - 1)

The following are extracted from the-Sayings-and-Proverbs Section of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 7th edition. They give advice or say something that is generally true. Sometimes a speaker will leave out part of the sentence because it is so well known. That part that is often missed out is shown in brackets.

I put them under the proverb section on my blog even though in the Oxford Dictionary they are included in the-Sayings-and-Proverbs Section.

1. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
To say that when you are away from sb that you love, you love them even more
-ေဝးကြာေနမႈက ႏွလုံးသားကုိ ပုိ၍ တသသ ျဖစ္ေစတယ္။ (ေဝး တသက္သက္။)
-Make+Obj+V1=......ေစတယ္။


2. There’s no accounting for taste.
Used to say how difficult it is to understand why sb likes sb/sth that you do not like at all
-လူတစ္ကုိယ္ အႀကိဳက္တစ္မ်ဳိး။


3. Actions speak louder than words.
What a person actually does means more than what they say they will do.
-အလုပ္က အေျပာထက္ ပိုထိေရာက္သည္။ (လူေျပာမသန္၊ လူသန္မေျပာ)။


4. It’ll be all right on the night.
Used to say that a performance, an event, etc. will be successful even if the preparations for it have not gone well
-အခ်ိန္တန္ ႏြားပိန္ကန္မွာပါ။
-All right=OK
-At night နဲ႔ by night က ပို၍ အသုံးက်ယ္ျပန္႔ေပမဲ႔ on the night ကိုလည္း တစ္ခါတရံ သုံးၾကသည္။ Eg. On the night of May 10 စသည္ျဖင္႔ေပါ႔။


5. The apple doesn’t fall/never falls far from the tree.
A child usually behaves in a similar way to his or her parent(s).
-အတုျမင္ အတတ္သင္။
-Far from (adv)=A long distance away=ေဝးေဝးသုိ႔/မွာ/အထိ


6. If you cannot beat them, join them. If you cannot defeat sb or be as successful as they are, then it is more sensible to join them in what they are doing and perhaps get some advantage for yourself by doing so.
-လုိအပ္ရင္ ရန္သူကိုလည္း မိတ္ေဆြဖြဲ႔ပါ။


7. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People all have different ideas about what is beautiful.
-အလွဆုိတာ ၾကည္႔သူရဲ႕မ်က္လုံးမွာ။


8. Beauty is only skin-deep. How a person looks is less important than their character.
-အလွဆုိတာ အေရျပား တစ္ေထာက္စာ။(လူလွဖုိ႔ထက္ စိတ္လွဖုိ႔က ပိုအေရး ႀကီးတယ္။)


9. You’ve made your bed and you must lie in / on it. You must accept the results of your actions.
-စိ္ိုက္ခဲ႔သမွ် ရိတ္သိမ္းၾကရ။ (ဘယ္သူမျပဳ မိမိမႈ။)


10. Beggars can’t be choosers. People say beggars can’t be choosers when there is no choice and sb must be satisfied with what is available.
-အရက္ျပတ္ ခြက္ကပ္ေလာက္နဲ႔ မူးလုိက္ေပါ႔။ “သႏၱဳ႒ီစ= မရွိလုိ႔ၿခိဳးၿခံရတာလည္း မဂၤလာတစ္ပါး”လုိ႔ သေဘာထားလုိက္ေပါ႔။