Dictionary entry
Mate
Pronunciation: /meɪt/
Pronunciation
/meɪt/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) အိမ်ထောင်ဖက်
Definition
mate 1 /meÇt/ n ၁။ (က) ( Brit infml ) သူငယ္ခ်င္း။ အေပါင္းအသင္း။ အေဖာ္။ He's an old mate of mine. ❍ I'm off for a drink with my mates. (ခ) ( Brit sl ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ ေယာက်္ားခ်င္း ေျပာေသာ အာလုပ္စကား)။ Sorry, mate, I can't help you. (ဂ) (in compounds) လုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဖက္။ အေဖာ္အဖက္။ her team-mates/ class-mates/playmates ❍ my room-mate/flat-mate. ၂။ ကြၽမ္းက်င္အလုပ္သမား၏အကူ။ a plumber's mate. ၃။ သေဘၤာမာလိန္။ the chief mate (ie ranking just below the captain). ၄။ (က) ငွက္ (သို႔) တိရစၧာန္၏ၾကင္ေဖာ္။ The bird seems to have lost its mate. (ခ) ( infml ) ခင္ပြန္း (သို႔) ဇနီး။ ၾကင္ေဖာ္ၾကင္ဖက္။ See also RUNNING MATE, SOUL MATE v (က) ~ (with sth) မိတ္လိုက္သည္။ the mating season ❍ Pandas rarely mate (with each other) in captivity. (ခ) ~ sth (with/to sth) ဇီးတင္သည္။ We mated the grey mare (with a champion stallion). mate 2 /meÇt/ n = CHECKMATE
Examples
- He’s over there
- talking to his mates.
- Thanks
- mate.
- Do you tell your mate everything?
- A plumber’s mate