folk
/fəʊk/
US pronunciation
American sound/fəʊk/
folk
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folk /fǝƱk / n
၁။ (also esp US folks [pl v ])
(က) လူစု။ လူတို့။ Some old folk(s) have peculiar tastes. ❍ Well, folks, what are we going to do today? (ခ) လူထု။ လူ။ country folk ❍ townsfolk ❍ farming folk.
၂။ folks [pl] (infml ) (က) မိသားစု။ How are your folks?
(ခ) (esp US ) မိဘ။ Have you ever met my folks?
၃။ [U] ရိုးရာ။ a folk concert.
adj ရိုးရာ။ folk music ❍ folk beliefs ❍ a folk museum.
❏ folk-dance n ကျေးလက်ရိုးရာအက၊ ဂီတ။
❏ folk memory n ရှေးဖြစ်ဟောင်းအောက်မေ့ဖွယ်။
❏ folk music n ကျေးလက်ရိုးရာတေး။ ကျေးလက် ရိုးရာဂီတ။
❏ folk-singer n ကျေးလက်ရိုးရာတေးဆိုသူ။
❏ folk-song n ရှေးကျေးလက်ရိုးရာ တေးသီချင်း။
❏ folk-tale n ရှေးရိုးပုံပြင်။
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acquaintances, body politic, clan, common, community, confederation, conventional, culture group, ethnic group, everyone, family, folks, general, general public, group, house, household, informal, inhabitants, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, menage, most people, ménage, nation, nationality, people, person's relations, popular, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, the people, the population, the silent majority, traditional, tribe, unofficial, vernacular, widespread
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