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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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penal

/ˈpiːn(ə)l/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈpiːn(ə)l/
penal
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

pe - nal -> penal

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ပြစ်မှုဆိုင်ရာ။ ပြစ်ဒဏ်ပေးခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ။ ပြစ်ဒဏ်တမျှပြင်းထန်သော။ ပြစ်မှုဥပဒေအရပြစ်ဒဏ်ပေးနိုင်သော။ ရှေးရာဇဝတ်သင့်သော။ (n) ပြစ်ဒဏ်စီရင်သော ရာဇဝတ်သင့်

Full entry

penal /'pi:nl/ adj

၁။ ပြစ်မှုဆိုင်ရာ။ ပြစ်ဒဏ်ပေးခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ။ penal laws/reforms ❍ the penal system ❍ a penal colony/settlement (ie a place where criminals are sent as a punishment) ❍ Criminals could at one time be sentenced to penal servitude (ie prison with hard physical work).
၂။ ပြစ်ဒဏ်တမျှ ပြင်းထန်သော။ penal taxation (ie so heavy that it seems like a punishment).
၃။ ပြစ်မှု ဥပဒေအရ ပြစ်ဒဏ်ပေးနိုင်သော။ (ရှေး) ရာဇဝတ်သင့်သော။ a penal offence.
❏ penal code n ပြစ်မှုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ။

More examples
  • The penal system
  • Penal reform/laws
  • A penal colony/institution
Synonyms
punitive, punishing, severe, strict, chastening, corrective, disciplinary, penalizing, punitory, reformatory, retributive
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punitivepunishingseverestrictchasteningcorrectivedisciplinarypenalizingpunitoryreformatoryretributivecodecouldoffenceoneservitudesettlementtaxationtime
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