Dictionary entry

Jewellery

Pronunciation: /ˈdʒuːəlri/

Pronunciation

/ˈdʒuːəlri/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) လက်ဝတ်ရတနာ

Definition

jewel / 'dʒu:ǝl / n ၁။ (က) ေက်ာက္မ်က္။ အမ်က္ေက်ာက္။ ရတနာ။ (ခ) (esp pl ) လက္ဝတ္ရတနာ။ wear the family jewels ❍ a jewel box/ case (ie for keeping jewels in). See also CROWN JEWELS ၂။ (သံပတ္ေပး လက္ပတ္နာရီ စက္၌ ပါေသာ) ေက်ာက္ေသး။ a watch with 17 jewels. ၃။ အဖိုးထိုက္အဖိုးတန္ ရတနာ။ a jewel of an idea ❍ the brightest jewel in the company's overseas operations. Compare GEM ၂ ❏ the jewel in the crown [ IDM ] အထြတ္အထိပ္။ မွန္ကူ။ The Knightsbridge branch is the jewel in the crown of a 500-strong chain of shops. ❏ jewelled ( US jeweled ) adj ေက်ာက္မ်က္တို႔ျဖင့္ တန္ဆာဆင္ထားေသာ။ a jewelled comb/ dagger. ❏ jeweller ( US jeweler ) n စိန္ေရႊရတနာဆိုင္ရွင္ (သို႔) လက္ဝတ္ရတနာ၊ နာရီစသည္ ဆိုင္ရွင္။ ❏ jewellery (also jewelry ) / 'dʒu:ǝlri / n [U] လက္ဝတ္ လက္စား။ လက္ဝတ္ရတနာ။ See also COSTUME JEWELLERY

Examples

  1. Precious jewels
  2. Thieves stole gold and jewels worth millions of pounds.
  3. A jewel of a city