Dictionary entry

The evil eye

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) [sing] ယုတ်မာသောအကြည့်။ ဒုစရိုက်မျက်စိ။

Definition

evil /'i:vl, 'i:vÇl/ adj ၁။ ယုတ္မာေသာ။ ယုတ္ညံ့ေသာ။ ဆိုးယုတ္ေသာ။ evil thoughts/deeds ❍ evil spirits. ၂။ မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕ဖြယ္ေသာ။ ဆိုးေသာ။ an evil smell ❍ He has an evil temper. n ( fml ) ၁။ [U] ဆိုးယုတ္ျခင္း။ အဆိုး။ မေကာင္းမႈ။ the eternal struggle between good and evil ❍ the forces of evil ❍ You cannot pretend there's no evil in the world. ၂။ [C usu pl ] အနိ႒ာ႐ံု။ the evils of drink/slavery ❍ social evils. ❏ the evil day, hour, etc [ IDM ] ရင္မဆိုင္ခ်င္ေသာ အခ်ိန္ ကာလ။ I know I need to go to the dentist but I've been putting off the evil day as long as possible. ❏ the evil eye n [sing] ယုတ္မာေသာအၾကည့္။ ဒုစ႐ိုက္မ်က္စိ။ protection against the evil eye ❍ an incantation to ward off the evil eye ❍ give sb the evil eye. ❏ evilly /'i:vǝli/ adv မေကာင္းစိတ္ျဖင့္။ ယုတ္မာစြာ။ He eyed her evilly.

Examples

  1. A dangerous and evil dictator
  2. Their evil deeds
  3. An evil grin
  4. Evil spirits
  5. Evil drug-pushers
  6. Evil racist propaganda
  7. An evil-smelling chemical