safe

/seɪf/

US pronunciation

American sound/seɪf/

safe

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> safe

Myanmar meaning

(adj) လုံခွုံသော။ အန်တရာယျမှကာကှယျထားသော။ မထိမခိုကျ။ ဘေးမသီရနျမခ။ ဘေးကငျးသော။ အန်တရာယျကငျးသော။ ကာကှယျထားသော။ လုံခွုံသော။ ဘေးကငျးသော။ အာမခံသတေ်တာ။ မီးခံသတေ်တာ။ စိတျခရြသညျ။ လုံခွုံစရေနျ။ စိတျခလြကျခအြပျနံှလကြျ။ စိတျခရြအောငျ။ စိတျခရြသော။ သခြောပေါကျမမှားနိုငျတာက။ အနှောင့ျအယှကျမဲ့သှားပိုငျခှင့ျ။ အနှောင့ျအယှကျမဲ့သှားပိုငျခှင့ျအမိန့ျ။ အာမခံသတေ်တာမြားထားရာအဆောကျအအုံ။ တဈဦးဆိုငျအာမခံသတေ်တာ။ ရနျသူ၊အာဏာပိုငျတို့၏ဖမျးဆီးခွငျးမှလုံခွုံစှာခိုအောငျးနိုငျသောအိမျ။ (က) ဘေးမသီရနျမခ။ (ခ) ဘေးကငျးအောငျ။ (ဂ) လုံလုံခွုံခွုံ။ သခြောပေါကျ။ သံသယရှငျးရှငျးနှင့ျ။ အသအေခြာ။ သန်ဓမေတညျနိုငျသောကာလ။ သခြောပေါကျအရှေးခံရမည့ျမဲဆန်ဒနယျ။ လိငျဆကျဆံခွငျးဖွင့ျကူးစကျနိုငျသောရောဂါမှကာကှယျရနျလိငျတံစှပျသုံး၍ဆကျဆံခွငျး။

Full entry

safe /seÇf/ adj (-r , -st )

၁။ ~ (from sth/ sb) လုံခြုံသော။ အန္တရာယ်မှ ကာကွယ်ထားသော။ be safe-from attack/ attackers ❍ You'll be safe here. ❍ Will the car be safe outside? ❍ Your secret is safe with me. ❍ They enjoyed their vacation, safe in the knowledge that friends were looking after the house.
၂။ မထိမခိုက်။ ဘေးမသီရန်မခ။ The missing child was found safe and well/ safe and sound. ❍ She got back safe from her adventure. ❍ The plane crashed but the crew are safe.
၃။ ဘေးကင်းသော။ အန္တရာယ်ကင်းသော။ a safe car/speed/ road ❍ safer methods of testing drugs ❍ Is that ladder safe? ❍ It's not safe to go out alone at night. ❍ Are the toys safe for small children? ❍ a safe investment (ie one that will not lose money).
၄။ ကာကွယ်ထားသော။ လုံခြုံသော။ a safe haven for threatened species ❍ Put the key in a safe place (ie where it will not be lost or stolen).
၅။ (က) စိတ်ချရသော။ a safe driver/ worker. (ခ) (often derog ) စိတ်ချရသော။ ဘေးကင်းသော။ a safe choice ❍ They appointed a safe person as the new manager (eg one unlikely to make changes, offend people, etc). ❍ It would be safer to allow an extra £20.
၆။ စိတ်ချရသော။ ဘေးကင်းသော။ It's safe to assume that there will always be a demand for new software. ❍ a safe verdict.
n အာမခံသေတ္တာ။ မီးခံသေတ္တာ။
❏ be in safe hands [IDM ] စိတ်ချရသည်။
I believed he was in safe hands — I wouldn't have left him otherwise.
❏ for safe keeping [IDM ] လုံခြုံစေရန်။ Before the game I gave my watch to my wife for safe keeping.
❏ in (sb's) safe keeping [IDM ] (စိတ်ချလက်ချ)အပ်နှံလျက်။ Can I leave the children in your safe keeping?
❏ on the safe side [IDM ] စိတ်ချရအောင်။ Although the sun was shining, I took an umbrella (just) to be on the safe side.
❏ play (it) safe [IDM ] စိတ်ချရအောင်။ The roads might be busy, so we'd better play safe and catch the earlier bus.
❏ (as) safe as houses [IDM ] စိတ်ချရသော။ Don't worry, their jobs are safe as houses.
❏ a safe bet [IDM ] သေချာပေါက် မမှားနိုင်တာ(က)။ A black dress is always a safe bet. ❍ It's a safe bet that the problem will get worse.
❏ safe conduct n (က) [U] အနှောင့်အယှက်မဲ့ သွားပိုင်ခွင့်။ The robbers wanted safe conduct to the air port for themselves and their hostages. (ခ) [C] အနှောင့်အယှက်မဲ့ သွားပိုင်ခွင့်အမိန့်။
❏ safe deposit n အာမခံသေတ္တာများထားရာ အဆောက်အအုံ။
❏ safe-deposit box n (တစ်ဦးဆိုင်) အာမခံသေတ္တာ။
❏ safe house n (ရန်သူ၊ အာဏာပိုင်တို့၏ ဖမ်းဆီးခြင်းမှ) လုံခြုံစွာ ခိုအောင်းနိုင်သော အိမ်။
❏ safely adv
၁။ (က) ဘေးမသီရန်မခ။ They arrived home safely. (ခ) ဘေးကင်းအောင်။ Drive safely! ❍ Broken bottles should be safely disposed of.
(ဂ) လုံလုံ ခြုံခြုံ။ The original disks are locked away safely.
၂။ သေချာပေါက်။ We can safely say/ assume that he will accept the job.
၃။ သံသယရှင်းရှင်းနှင့်။ These recommendations can safely be ignored.
၄။ အသေအချာ။ He's now safely dead and buried. ❍ The exams are safely over.
❏ the safe period n [sing] သန္ဓေမတည်နိုင်သော ကာလ။
❏ safe seat n (Brit ) သေချာပေါက် အရွေးခံရမည့်မဲဆန္ဒနယ်။
❏ safe sex n [U] (လိင်ဆက်ဆံခြင်းဖြင့် ကူးစက်နိုင်သော ရောဂါမှ ကာကွယ်ရန်) လိင်တံစွပ်သုံး၍ ဆက်ဆံခြင်း။

More examples

Will my car be safe if I park it in the street?
[safe from] : It’s difficult to make airports safe from terrorist attacks.
[keep something safe] : Make sure to keep your credit card safe.
We live in a very safe neighbourhood.
A safe environment for children
[a safe distance] : We admired the bear and her cub from a safe distance.
Travelling by plane is much safer than driving your own car.
The area behind the fence is not considered to be safe.
Is the ride safe enough for a 5-year-old?
Rescuers found the children safe but scared inside the house.
[safe and sound] : Everyone arrived safe and sound.
[safe return/arrival] : They are demanding the release and safe return of the hostages.
Government bonds are a very safe investment.
Don’t mention the election to him; it’s not a safe subject.
Your shoes are so safe.

Synonyms

secure, protected, in safe hands, out of harm's way, safe and sound, Fort Knox, French letter, alive and well, all right, ambry, anodyne, bank, bank vault, benign, bursary, buttoned up, caddy, calculating, canister, careful, case, cash drawer, cautious, certain, chary, checked, cherished, circumspect, clear, closet, clothes room, coffer, competent, condom, conservative, considerate, countinghouse, crating, decontaminated, dependable, depository, discreet, drawer, exchequer, free from danger, gingerly, guarded, harmless, healthy, home-free, impervious, impregnable, in safety, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, intact, investment firm, inviolable, invulnerable, johnny, maintained, money box, neutralized, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, nonviolent, not dangerous, okay, on safe side, out of danger, personal vault, preserved, prudent, pure, realistic, reliable, repository, risk-free, riskless, safe-deposit box, safe-deposit vault, safeguarded, safety-deposit box, scabbard, sheltered, shielded, silo, sitting pretty, snug, sound, stockroom, storage place, store room, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, sure, tame, tended, till, treasury, tried and true, trust company, trustworthy, unadventurous, unassailable, undamaged, under lock and key, under one's wing, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, uninjurious, unmolested, unpolluted, unscathed, unthreatened, untouched, vault, vindicated, walk in, walk-in, wary, watched, wholesome

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