Dictionary entry

Gulf

Pronunciation: /ɡʌlf/

Pronunciation

/ɡʌlf/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ပင်လယ်ကွေ့။ပါရှန်ပင်လယ်ကွေ့။ သဘောထားကွာဟချက်။ ပပ်ကြားအက်ကွကြောင်း။

Definition

gulf / gʌlf / n ၁။ (က) [C] ပင္လယ္ေကြ႕။ the Gulf of Mexico. (ခ) the Gulf [sing] ပါရွန္ပင္လယ္ေကြ႕။ the Gulf War (ie the one fought by the USA and other countries against Iraq in 1991) ❍ the Gulf states (ie the countries with coasts on the Gulf). ၂။ ~ (between A and B) သေဘာထား ကြာဟခ်က္။ The gulf between the two sides in the dispute is enormous. ၃။ ပပ္ၾကားအက္ကြဲေၾကာင္း။ a yawning gulf opened up by an earth-quake. ❏ the Gulf Stream n [sing] မကၠစီကို ပင္လယ္ေကြ႕မွ အတၱလန္တိတ္ သမုဒၵရာကိုျဖတ္၍ ဥေရာပသို႔ စီးသြားေသာ ေရပူစီးေၾကာင္း။

Examples

  1. Trying to close the widening gulf between the rich and the poor
  2. The Persian Gulf
  3. The warm waters of the Gulf of Thailand