prayer
/prɛː/
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Long vowel
- Ending
- Final r is pronounced in US English
US voice -> prayer
(n) ဆုတောင်းခြင်း
၁။ (က) [C] ~ (for sth) ဆုတောင်းခြင်း။ say one's prayers ❍ a prayer for forgiveness/ rain/ success ❍ He arrived, as if in answer to her prayers.
(ခ) [C] ဘုရားရှိခိုး။ prayers he had learnt as a child. See also THE LORD'S PRAYER
(ဂ) [U] ရှိခိုးခြင်း။ They knelt in prayer. ❍ She believed in the power of prayer.
၂။ prayers [pl] (ပတ္ထနာ) စည်းဝေး။ have family/ morning/ evening/ daily prayers.
၃။ [C usu sing ] မျှော်ကိုးချက်။ ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာ။ My one prayer is that he will walk again.
❏ not to have a prayer (of doing sth) [IDM ] (infml ) မျှော်လင့်ချက်မရှိ။ They haven't got a prayer of winning.
❏ prayer-book n (က) ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာကျမ်း။ (ခ) the Prayer Book (also the Book of Common Prayer ) အင်္ဂလန် ခရစ်ယာန်အသင်းတော်၏ ဆုတောင်းပတ္ထနာကျမ်း။
❏ prayer- mat n အစ္စလာမ်ဘာသာဝင်တို့ ဘုရား ရှိခိုးရာ၌ သုံးသော ကော်ဇောငယ်။
- [prayer for] : A prayer for peace
- [say a prayer] : He said a prayer for their safety.
- [say your prayers] : I go to Chapel every Sunday and I say my prayers.
- He was a firm believer in the power of prayer.
- [in prayer] : A group of Christians knelt in prayer.
- [daily/morning/evening prayers] : He reads the Koran and attends daily prayers.
- [an answer to someone’s prayer] : The job seemed like the answer to her prayers.
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