Dictionary entry

Penance

Pronunciation: /ˈpɛnəns/

Pronunciation

/ˈpɛnəns/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) မိုက်မှားမိခြင်းအတွက်ဒဏ်ခတ်ခြင်း။ ဘရင်ဂျီနှင့်ရှေးခရစ်ယာန်ဂိုဏ်းများတွင်အာပတ်ဖြေခြင်း။

Definition

penance /'penǝns/ n ၁။ [C, U] ~ (for sth) (မိုက္မွားမိျခင္း အတြက္) ဒဏ္ခတ္ျခင္း။ an act of penance ❍ do penance (ie perform an act that shows one is sorry) for one's sins ❍ ( joc ) She made him cook the dinner as (a) penance for forgetting her birthday. ၂။ [U] (ဘရင္ဂ်ီႏွင့္ ေရွးခရစ္ယာန္ ဂိုဏ္းမ်ားတြင္) အာပတ္ေျဖျခင္း။

Examples

  1. [penance for] : He believed the death of his child was penance for his sins.
  2. [do penance] : He did penance for the wrongs he had committed.