Dictionary entry

Sham

Pronunciation: /ʃam/

Pronunciation

/ʃam/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) အတု။အတုအယောင်။ဟန်ဆောင်လှည့်စားခြင်း။

Definition

sham /ʃæm/ v ( -mm- ) ဟန္ေဆာင္သည္။ …ခ်င္ေယာင္ ေဆာင္ သည္။ sham illness/death/sleep ❍ He's only shamming. n ( usu derog ) ၁။ [C] (က) အေယာင္ေဆာင္။ ေယာင္ေျခာက္ ဆယ္။ She claims to know all about computers but really she's a sham. (ခ) (usu sing ) အတုအေယာင္။ အလိမ္။ ဟန္ျပ။ His love was a sham—he only wanted her money. ❍ Their marriage had become a complete sham. ၂။ [U] အေရၿခံဳ။ အေယာင္ေဆာင္။ They have intellectual pretentions but it is all sham. adj ( usu derog ) အေယာင္ေဆာင္။ အတု။ a sham marriage ❍ sham jewellery.

Examples

  1. sham /ʃæm/ v ( -mm- ) ဟန္ေဆာင္သည္။ …ခ်င္ေယာင္ ေဆာင္ သည္။ sham illness/death/sleep
  2. Their marriage had become a complete sham. ၂။ [U] အေရၿခံဳ။ အေယာင္ေဆာင္။ They have intellectual pretentions but it is all sham. adj ( usu derog ) အေယာင္ေဆာင္။ အတု။ a sham marriage