speak for oneself

speak /spi:k/ v

(pt spoke /spǝƱk/; pp spoken /spǝƱkǝn/)
၁။ စကားပြောသည်။ He can't speak because of a throat infection. ❍ The noise was so loud I could hardly hear myself speak. ❍ speak into a microphone ❍ Please speak more slowly.
၂။ (က) ~ of/about sth ပြောသည်။ She spoke about her plans for the future. ❍ The witnesses spoke of a great ball of flame. ❍ The area has been spoken of as a possible site for the new factory. (ခ) ~ (to sb) ; (esp US ) ~ (with sb) စကားစမြည်ပြောသည်။ စကားပြောသည်။ ပြောသည်။ ခေါ်သည်။ I saw her in the street the other day but we didn't speak. ❍ Pay attention when I'm speaking to you! ❍ I was speaking to/with him only yesterday. ❍ The President refused to speak to/with the waiting journalists. ❍ ‘Do you know him?’ ‘Not to speak to. ’ (ဂ) ~ (to sb) ; (esp US ) ~ (with sb) (တယ်လီဖုန်း)ပြောသည်။ May I speak to Susan (ie at the beginning of a telephone conversation)? ❍ ‘Is that Susan?’ ‘Speaking (ie Yes, this is Susan speaking). ’
၃။ (က) (not in the continuous tenses)
(… လို)ပြောသည်၊ တတ်သည်။ He speaks several languages/a little Urdu/an unusual dialect. ❍ Do you speak English?
(ခ) (… လို) ပြောသည်။ What language are they speaking? ❍ I spoke (in) German at the meeting.
၄။ ~ (on/about sth) ; ~(against sth) မိန့်ကြားသည်။ ပြောသည်။ ဟောသည်။ speak in public ❍ She spoke for forty minutes at the conference. ❍ I told him to speak on any subject he wanted. ❍ speak in favour of/against the motion.
၅။ ပြောသည်။ ဆိုသည်။ speak the truth ❍ He spoke only two words the whole evening.
၆။ ~ (to sb) (usu in negative sentences) (infml ) ခေါ်သည်။ ပြောသည်။ They're not speaking (to each other) after their argument.
❏ be on speaking terms (with sb) [IDM ] အခေါ်အပြော လုပ်သည်။ ခေါ်သည်။ ပြောသည်။ She has not been on speaking terms with her parents for years.
❏ not to speak of ; no sth/nothing to speak of [IDM ] ပြောပလောက်အောင် မ(ရှိ၊ ဟုတ် စသည်)။ We haven't had any summer to speak of. ❍ We've eaten no food to speak of today. ❍ She has saved a little money, but nothing to speak of.
❏ roughly , generally , personally , etc speaking [IDM ] (အကြမ်းဖျင်း၊ ခြုံငုံ စသည်)ပြောရရင်။ Generally speaking, I don't like spicy food. ❍ Personally speaking, I prefer the second candidate. ❍ Napoleon was a giant among men, metaphorically speaking. ❍ Environmentally speaking, these products are quite harmful. See also STRICTLY SPEAKING
❏ so to speak [IDM ] ဆိုပါစို့။ Teachers need to learn from their students, so to speak.
❏ speaker n
၁။ (က) ဟောသူ။ ပြောသူ။ an interesting speaker ❍ The party leader is a very good/poor (public) speaker.
(ခ) ပြောသူ။ I looked round to see who the speaker was. ❍ The pronoun ‘I’ refers back to the speaker.
၂။ … ဘာသာစကားပြောသူ။ French speakers/speakers of French ❍ a fluent/native speaker of English.
၃။ = LOUDSPEAKER: Hi-fi systems generally have two speakers.
၄။ the Speaker လွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ။ the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
❏ speak for itself/themselves [IDM ] ထင်ရှားပြီးသား အထူးရှင်းပြစရာမလို။ Recent events speak for themselves.
❏ speak for oneself [IDM ] ဘယ်သူကမျှ ရှေ့နေလိုက်ပေး စရာ မလိုဘူး။ I'm quite capable of speaking for myself, thank you!
❏ speak for sb [PHRV ] (no passive) ကိုယ်စားပြောသည်။ ကိုယ်စားပြုသည်။ I can't speak for the others, but I'd love to come myself. ❍ Our party speaks for the poor and unemployed.
❏ speak for yourself [IDM ] (joc or derog catchphrase ) (အဲဒါ)မင်းအမြင်ကိုး။ ‘We all played very badly. ’ ‘Speak for yourself, I think I played quite well!’
❏ speaking as sth [IDM ] … အနေနင့်ပြောရလျှင်။ Speaking as a parent, I am very concerned about standards of education.
❏ -speaking ( forming compound adjs) …ဘာသာစကား ပြော။ …စကားပြော။ French-speaking Canada/Canadians.
❏ the speaking clock n [sing] (Brit ) (တယ်လီဖုန်းဖြင့်) စံတော်ချိန်ဖြေပေးခြင်း။
❏ speak one's mind [IDM ] ပွင့်ပွင့်လင်းလင်းပြောသည်။
❏ speak of sth [PHRV ] (fml ) … ကြောင်းပြလျက်ရှိသည်။ Her behaviour speaks of suffering bravely borne.
❏ speak out (against sth) [PHRV ] ပွင့်ပွင့်လင်းလင်း ပြော သည်။ ရဲရဲတင်းတင်း ပြောသည်။ He was the only one to speak out against the closure of the hospital. ❍ I will continue to speak out on matters of public concern.
❏ speak to sb (about sth) [PHRV ] (infml ) (… နှင့် ပတ်သက်၍) ပြောသည်၊ ဆိုသည်။ This is the third time I've had to speak to you about being late.
❏ speak up [PHRV ] ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြောသည်။ Please speak up—we can't hear you at the back.
❏ speak up (for sb/sth) [PHRV ] …ဘက်ကပြောသည်၊ ရပ်တည်သည်။ It's time someone spoke up for the less privileged in our society.
❏ speak volumes about/for sth [IDM ] ထင်ထင်ရှားရှား သက်သေခံလျက်ရှိသည်။ These statistics speak volumes about the country's economic decline. ❍ This letter speaks volumes for her honesty.
❏ speak well/ill of sb [IDM ] (fml ) (သူတစ်ပါးအကြောင်း) အကောင်းပြောသည်၊ မကောင်းပြောသည်။ Your teacher speaks well of you. ❍ Don't speak ill of the dead.

-speak /spi:k/ suff

(forming uncountable ns ) (infml often derog ) …စကား။
computerspeak.