ျမန္မာစကားပုံမ်ား

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။

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