Dictionary entry

Calamity

Pronunciation: /kəˈlamɪti/

Pronunciation

/kəˈlamɪti/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ဘေးဒုက္ခ။ ကပ်ဘေး။

Definition

calamity /kǝl'æmǝti/ n ေဘးဒုကၡ။ ကပ္ေဘး။ The earthquake was the worst calamity in the country's history. ❍ ( joc ) There are worse calamities than failing your driving test. ❏ calamitous /kǝ'læmÇtǝs/ adj ~ (to sb/sth) ေဘးဒုကၡ ဆိုက္ေသာ။ ကံဆိုးမိုးေမွာင္က်ေသာ။

Examples

  1. calamity /kǝl'æmǝti/ n ေဘးဒုကၡ။ ကပ္ေဘး။ The earthquake was the worst calamity in the country's history.
  2. ( joc ) There are worse calamities than failing your driving test. ❏ calamitous /kǝ'læmÇtǝs/ adj ~ (to sb/sth) ေဘးဒုကၡ ဆိုက္ေသာ။ ကံဆိုးမိုးေမွာင္က်ေသာ။