Dictionary entry

Boat

Pronunciation: /bəʊt/

Pronunciation

/bəʊt/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) လှေ

Definition

boat /bǝƱt/ n ၁။ ေလွ။ a rowing-/sailing-boat ❍ take a boat trip ❍ The motor/fishing boat chugged along. ❍ We acrossed the river in a boat/by boat. ❍ Boats for hire—£10 an hour. ❍ the Oxford and Cambridge boat race. See also CANAL BOAT, LIFEBOAT, PLEASURE-BOAT ၂။ ( infml ) သေဘၤာ။ ‘How are you going to France?’ ‘I'm going by/taking the boat (eg the FERRY). ’ See also GRAVY-BOAT, SAUCE-BOAT ❏ boat-hook n ေလွကိုတြန္းရန္၊ ဆြဲရန္ အဖ်ား၌ ခ်ိတ္တပ္ထား သည့္ ဝါးလံုး၊ တုတ္။ ❏ boat-house n ျမစ္နံေဘး၊ ကန္နံေဘး၌ ေလွထားသည့္ ႐ံု။ ေလွ႐ံု။ ❏ boating n [U] ေလွအေပ်ာ္စီးသည္။ We go boating on the lake every weekend. ❍ a boating lake/holiday. ❏ boat people n [pl] ေလွ၊ သေဘၤာျဖင့္ တိုင္းျပည္ကို စြန္႔ခြာ ထြက္ေျပးသည့္ ဒုကၡသည္။ Vietnamese boat people.

Examples

  1. [by boat] : The only way to get there was by boat.
  2. A pleasure boat
  3. A boat trip on the river