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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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pray

/preɪ/

US pronunciation
American sound/preɪ/
pray
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

US voice -> pray

Myanmar meaning

pace pray [prei] (v) 1. to speak reverently to God or a god in order to express thanks, make a request etc: ဆုတောင်းသည်။ She prayed to God to help her. သူ့ကိုကူညီမစရန် ဘုရားသခင်ထံ သူဆုတောင်းသည်။ 2. to hope earnestly: အားကိုးတကြီး မျှော်လင့်သည်။ Everybody is praying for rain. လူတိုင်းမိုးကို အားကိုးတကြီး မျှော်ကိုးနေကြသည်။ prayer (n) (an) act of praying: ဆုတောင်းခြင်း။ a book of prayer. ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာကျမ်းစာအုပ်။ Note: pray and prey are homonyms. They sound the same but have different meanings. pray နှင့် prey မှာသံတူကြောင်းကွဲဖြစ်သည်။ to pray is to express praise or thanks to God or seek requests from God. to prey on is to hunt and catch living things for food. pray is spelt with -a-. prey is spelt with -e-. pray = ဆုတောင်းသည်။ prey = စားရန်အလို့ငှာ ဖမ်းဆီးသတ်ညှစ်သည်။ဒ္ဓ၊စစ္ဆ

Full entry

pray /preÇ/ v

၁။ ~ (to sb) (for sb/ sth) ဆုတောင်းသည်။ They knelt down and prayed. ❍ The priest prayed for the dying man. ❍ They prayed (to God) for an end to their sufferings/ for their sufferings to end. ❍ They prayed that she would recover. ❍ She prayed to be forgiven.
၂။ ~ (for sth) အထူးမျှော်ကိုးသည်။ Our holiday starts tomorrow and we're praying for good weather. ❍ I was praying that nobody would notice my mistake.
၃။ (dated or fml) ကျေးဇူးပြု၍။ And what, pray, would be the point of doing that?
❏ praying mantis n ရှိခိုးကောင်။ ဓားခုတ်ကောင်။

More examples
  • pray /preÇ/ v ၁။ ~ (to sb) (for sb/ sth) ဆုတောင်းသည်။ They knelt down and prayed.
  • The priest prayed for the dying man.
  • They prayed (to God) for an end to their sufferings/ for their sufferings to end.
  • They prayed that she would recover.
  • She prayed to be forgiven. ၂။ ~ (for sth) အထူးမျှော်ကိုးသည်။ Our holiday starts tomorrow and we're praying for good weather.
  • I was praying that nobody would notice my mistake. ၃။ (dated or fml) ကျေးဇူးပြု၍။ And what, pray, would be the point of doing that? ❏ praying mantis n ရှိခိုးကောင်။ ဓားခုတ်ကောင်။
Synonyms
implore, plead, beg, ask, entreat, request, urge, call upon, ache, adjure, answer, appeal, beseech, brace, call up, commune with, contemplate, crave, cross your fingers, cry for, deliberate, hope, hope against hope, importune, invocate, invoke, long, meditate, petition, recite, say, say your prayers, solicit, sue, summon, supplicate, wish, yearn, yen
Antonyms
answer, refuse
Cross references
implorepleadbegaskentreatrequesturgecall uponacheadjureanswerappealbeseechbracecall upcommune withcontemplatecravecross your fingerscry fordeliberatehopehope against hopeimportuneinvocateinvokelongmeditate
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