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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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martyr

/ˈmɑːtə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈmɑːtə/

martyr

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Open ah vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

mar - tyr -> martyr

Myanmar meaning

(n) အာဇာနည်။ ကိုယ်ကျိုးစွန့်သည့်လူစွမ်းကောင်းပုံဖမ်းနေသူ။ တရှောင်ရှောင်ခံစားနေရသူ။ (v) ယုံကြည်ချက်ပြင်းထန်သူကိုညှဉ်းဆဲသတ်ဖြတ်သည်။

Full entry

martyr /'mɑ:tǝ(r)/ n

၁။ အာဇာနည်။ the early Christian martyrs.
၂။ (usu derog ) ကိုယ်ကျိုးစွန့်သည့် လူစွမ်းကောင်းပုံ ဖမ်းနေသူ။ He always acts the martyr when he has to do the housework.
၃။ ~ (to sth ) (infml ) တရှောင်ရှောင် ခံစားနေရသူ။ She's a martyr to rheumatism.
v (usu passive) ယုံကြည်ချက် ပြင်းထန်သူကို ညှဉ်းဆဲ သတ်ဖြတ် သည်။ He was martyred by the Romans.
❏ martyrdom /'mɑ:tǝdǝm/ n [U, C] အာဇာနည်အဖြစ်။ အာဇာနည်ဘဝ။ Joan of Arc suffered martyrdom at the stake (ie by being burnt).
❏ martyred adj (derog ) ကိုယ်ကျိုးစွန့် အနစ်နာခံဟန် ဆောင်သော။ She does everything with a martyred air.

More examples

He died a martyr for his cause.
She was a martyr to migraines.

Synonyms

sufferer for a cause, willing victim, sacrificial victim, sacrifice, afflict, agonize, be on one's case, believer, crucify, cut to the quick, deal a blow, dragoon, dragoons, drive up the wall, eat heart out, fall upon, give no quarter, go for jugular, hit where one lives, hurt, idealist, illtreat, invalid, lay a bad trip on, lean on, leaning on, martyrize, nail to cross, offering, patient, persecute, rack, ransom, sacrificing person, saint, scapegoat, set upon, sing the blues, singing the blues, stew over, strike, sufferer, supporter, take it badly, thumb nose at, torture, try, victim, witness, work over, working over

Cross references

sufferer for a cause willing victim sacrificial victim sacrifice afflict agonize be on one's case believer crucify cut to the quick deal a blow dragoon dragoons drive up the wall eat heart out fall upon give no quarter go for jugular hit where one lives hurt idealist illtreat invalid lay a bad trip on lean on leaning on martyrize nail to cross

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