Dictionary entry

Praying mantis

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) ရှိခိုးကောင်

Definition

pray /preÇ/ v ၁။ ~ (to sb) (for sb/ sth) ဆုေတာင္းသည္။ They knelt down and prayed. ❍ The priest prayed for the dying man. ❍ They prayed (to God) for an end to their sufferings/ for their sufferings to end. ❍ They prayed that she would recover. ❍ She prayed to be forgiven. ၂။ ~ (for sth) အထူးေမွ်ာ္ကိုးသည္။ Our holiday starts tomorrow and we're praying for good weather. ❍ I was praying that nobody would notice my mistake. ၃။ (dated or fml) ေက်းဇူးျပဳ၍။ And what, pray, would be the point of doing that? ❏ praying mantis n ရိွခိုးေကာင္။ ဓားခုတ္ေကာင္။

Examples

  1. pray /preÇ/ v ၁။ ~ (to sb) (for sb/ sth) ဆုေတာင္းသည္။ They knelt down and prayed.
  2. The priest prayed for the dying man.
  3. They prayed (to God) for an end to their sufferings/ for their sufferings to end.
  4. They prayed that she would recover.
  5. She prayed to be forgiven. ၂။ ~ (for sth) အထူးေမွ်ာ္ကိုးသည္။ Our holiday starts tomorrow and we're praying for good weather.
  6. I was praying that nobody would notice my mistake. ၃။ (dated or fml) ေက်းဇူးျပဳ၍။ And what, pray, would be the point of doing that? ❏ praying mantis n ရိွခိုးေကာင္။ ဓားခုတ္ေကာင္။