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waif

/weɪf/

US pronunciation
American sound/weɪf/
waif
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

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Myanmar meaning

(n) ပိန်ပိန်ပါးပါးကလေး။ ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့ကလေးသို့ပိုင်ရှင်မဲ့တိရစ္ဆာန်။

Full entry

waif /weÇf/ n

(က) ပိန်ပိန်ပါးပါးကလေး။ She's such a poor little waif — I don't think she eats enough.
(ခ) ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့ ကလေး (သို့) ပိုင်ရှင်မဲ့ တိရစ္ဆာန်။ a kindly old lady who takes in waifs and strays.
❏ waiflike adj ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့။ ပါးလှပ်လှပ်။ a small waiflike figure.
❏ waifs and strays n လေလွင့်ကလေးသူငယ်။

Synonyms
stray, soul, thing, urchin, orphan, waifs and strays, castaway, dogie, drop, fetch, flotsam, foundling, homeless one, jetsam, ragamuffin
Cross references
straysoulthingurchinorphanwaifs and strayscastawaydogiedropfetchflotsamfoundlinghomeless onejetsamragamuffinanddon'tenoughfigureladylittleoldpoorsheshe'ssmallsuchthink
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