Dictionary entry
Pearl
Pronunciation: /pəːl/
Pronunciation
/pəːl/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) ပုလဲ
Definition
pearl /pɜ:l/ n ၁။ (က) ပုလဲ။ a string of pearls ❍ a pearl necklace. (ခ) ေမြးပုလဲ။ See also MOTHER-OF- PEARL, SEED-PEARL ၂။ ပုလဲႏွင့္တူေသာအရာ။ ပုလဲဥ။ pearls of dew on the grass. ၃။ ရတနာ။ pearls of wisdom. ပညာ ပုလဲသြယ္။ ❏ pearl barley n [U] ကုလားဆပ္။ ❏ pearls before swine [ IDM ] ေမ်ာက္အုန္းသီးရသလို။ ❏ pearly adj ပုလဲ၏။ ပုလဲကဲ့သို႔။ ပုလဲလို။ pearly white teeth. ❏ the Pearly Gates n [pl] ( joc ) ေကာင္းကင္ဘံုမုခ္ဝ။
Examples
- A string of pearls
- A pearl necklace
- Pearl buttons
- Singapore is sometimes described as the pearl of the Orient.