Dictionary entry

Penal code

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) ပြစ်မှုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ။

Definition

penal /'pi:nl/ adj ၁။ ျပစ္မႈဆိုင္ရာ။ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ေပးျခင္းဆိုင္ရာ။ penal laws/reforms ❍ the penal system ❍ a penal colony/settlement (ie a place where criminals are sent as a punishment) ❍ Criminals could at one time be sentenced to penal servitude (ie prison with hard physical work). ၂။ ျပစ္ဒဏ္တမွ် ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ penal taxation (ie so heavy that it seems like a punishment). ၃။ ျပစ္မႈ ဥပေဒအရ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ေပးႏိုင္ေသာ။ (ေရွး) ရာဇဝတ္သင့္ေသာ။ a penal offence. ❏ penal code n ျပစ္မႈဆိုင္ရာဥပေဒ။

Examples

  1. The penal system
  2. Penal reform/laws
  3. A penal colony/institution