wait

wait /weÇt/ v

၁။ ~ (for sb/sth) စောင့်သည်။ စောင့်ဆိုင်းသည်။ စောင့်စားသည်။ ‘Have you been waiting long?’ ❍ ‘I've been waiting (for) twenty minutes. ’ ❍ Tell him I can't see him now, he'll have to wait. ❍ The President agreed to speak to the waiting journalists. ❍ The chairman is waiting to begin the meeting. ❍ Wait for me! ❍ Wait for a bus/at a bus-stop. ❍ We are waiting for the rain to stop. ❍ You'll have to wait until the end of the month before I can pay you. ❍ This is just the opportunity I've been waiting for. ❍ (infml ironic ) I was just waiting for (ie expecting) that to happen.
၂။ စောင့်မျှော်သည်။ You will just have to wait your turn (ie wait until your turn comes). Compare await
၃။ ဆိုင်း(နိုင်)သည်။ It can wait (until tomorrow); it's not urgent.
၄။ ယာဉ်ခေတ္တရပ် သည်။ No Waiting (ie on a notice to indicate that vehicles must not stop at the side of the road even for a short time). ❍ The train was waiting at the signal for 20 minutes.
n [sing] ~ (for sth/sb) စောင့်ဆိုင်းခြင်း။ စောင့်ဆိုင်းချိန်။ We had a long wait for the bus.
❏ I, they, etc can't wait for sth/to do sth [IDM ] မစောင့်နိုင်၊ မအောင့်နိုင်ဖြစ်သည်။ The children can't wait for Christmas. ❍ I can't wait to read his latest novel.
❏ keep sb waiting [IDM ] စောင့်ခိုင်းထားသည်။ I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.
❏ wait about/around [PHRV ] ယောင်ပေပေနှင့် စောင့်နေရ သည်။ The building was locked, so we had to wait around in the car park.
❏ wait and see [IDM ] စောင့်ကြည့်သည်။ ထိုင်ကြည့်သည်။ We'll just have to wait and see — there's nothing we can do at the moment. ❍ a wait-and-see attitude.
❏ wait at table ; (US ) wait on table ; wait tables [IDM ] စားပွဲထိုးသည်။ စားပွဲသိမ်းသည်။
❏ wait behind [PHRV ] နောက်ချန်နေသည်။ Please wait behind after class today.
❏ waiter n
(fem waitress /'weÇtrǝs/) စားပွဲထိုး။ ask the waitress for the bill ❍ I tried to catch the waiter's attention. See also DUMB WAITER
❏ wait for it [IDM ] (infml ) (သတင်းပလင်းနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ တအံ့တဩဖြစ်သွားစေရန်သုံးသောစကား)။ When he leaves school he wants to be — wait for it — an astronaut! ကျောင်းကထွက်ရင် သူလုပ်ချင်တာက ဘာလဲသိလား။ အာကာသ ယာဉ်မှူးတဲ့။
❏ wait in [PHRV ] (Brit ) အိမ်ကထိုင်မျှော်နေရသည်။ I waited in all day but the plumber never came.
❏ waiting game n [sing] ကြိုးရှည်ရှည်နှင့် လံထားခြင်း။ The police are playing a waiting game outside the house where the armed man is hiding.
❏ waiting-list n ~ (for sth/ to do sth) တန်းစီစာရင်း။ put sb on a waiting-list ❍ a hospital waiting-list (eg for operations) ❍ There's a long waiting-list for tickets/to join the golf club.
❏ waiting-room n
(က) (ဘူတာရုံ) ခရီးသည်နားနေခန်း။
(ခ) ဆရာဝန်နှင့်တွေ့ရန် စောင့်ဆိုင်းခန်း။
❏ wait a minute/second [IDM ] ခဏစောင့်ပါဦး။ ခဏ ကလေး။ Wait a minute,this isn't the right key.
❏ wait on sb [PHRV ] လိုလေသေးမရှိ ပြုစုပေးသည်။ ထမင်းပွဲရှေ့ရောက် ပြုစုသည်။ See also LADY-IN-WAITING
❏ wait on sb hand and foot [IDM ] လိုလေသေးမရှိ ပြုစုသည်။ He seemed to expect to be waited on hand and foot.
❏ wait up [PHRV ] (US ) (esp imperative) စောင့်ပါဦး။ Wait up — you're walking too fast for me.
❏ wait up (for sb) [PHRV ] မအိပ်သေးဘဲ စောင့်နေသည်။ I'll be back very late tonight, so don't wait up (for me).
❏ what are we waiting for? [IDM ] (infml ) ဘာ စောင့်နေကြတာလဲ။ လုပ်စရာရှိတာ စကြစို့။
❏ what are you waiting for? [IDM ] (infml ironic ) ဘာစောင့်နေတာတုံး။ စလို့ရပြီ။ Your dinner's on the table — what are you waiting for?
❏ (just) you wait [IDM ] စောင့်သာကြည့်နေ။ I'll be famous one day, just you wait!