about [c'baut] (prep)
    on the subject of :
  အေၾကာင္းအရာတစ္ခုႏွင့္   စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍၊ ပတ္သက္၍။
    We talked about our plans;
  မိမိတို႕ၾကံစည္ထားေသာ   အစီအစဥ္မ်ားႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍   ေဆြးေႏြးၾကသည္။
    What's the book about?
  ဒီစာအုပ္က ဘာအေၾကာင္း   ေရးထားတဲ့ စာအုပ္လဲ။
    (prep), (adv)
1. (sometimes round about) near
    (in place, time, size etc):   ခန္႕။ နီးပါး။ တစ္၀ိုက္။ ၀န္းက်င္။
    about five miles away;
  ငါးမိုင္ခန္႕အကြာ။
    (round) about six o'clock;
  ေျခာက္နာရီခန္႕တြင္။
    just about big enough:
  အလံုးအ၀န္း၊ အ႐ြယ္အစား၊   အသက္အ႐ြယ္သင့္႐ံုမွၽ။
2. in different directions; here and there: 
  ေနရာအႏံွ႕။ ဟိုဟိုဒီဒီ။   ထိုထိုဤဤ။
    The children ran about (the garden).
  (ပန္းျခံအတြင္း) ကေလးတို႕   ဟိုဟိုဒီဒီ ေျပးလႊားၾကသည္။
3. in or on some part (of a place etc): 
  (ေနရာဌာနအတြင္း)   တစ္ေနရာရာတြင္။
    You'll find him somewhere about
    (the office).
  (႐ံုးတြင္း) တစ္ေနရာရာတြင္   သူရွိေနလိမ့္မည္။
4. around or surrounding:
  ပတ္လည္တြင္။ ၀န္းက်င္တြင္။
    He lay with his clothes scattered about.
  သူ႕ေဘးပတ္လည္တြင္ အ၀တ္   အစားမ်ား ျပန္႕က်ဲလ်က္   လဲေနသည္။
    He wore a silk longyi about his waist.
  သူ႕ခါးထက္တြင္ပိုးပုဆိုးကို   ဆင္ျမန္းထားသည္။
    (adv) (in military commands etc)
    in the opposite direction;   (စစ္မိန္႕သံစသည္တြင္) မ်က္ႏွာမူရာ   အရပ္ႏွင့္ ဆန္႕က်င္လ်က္။ ေနာက္သို႕။
    About turn!  ေနာက္လွည့္။
    Note: about and around can often be
              used interchangeably, especially in
              informal speech and writing:
       ႏႈတ္ေျပာႏွင့္သာမန္အားျဖင့္        စာေရးရာတြင္
              about ႏွင့္
              around ကိုအလဲအလွယ္        သံုးေလ့ရွိသည္။
              There were books lying about
              (or around) the room;
              He travelled around (or about)
              the country looking for her. 
    be about to to be going to (perform an
    action, happen):   (တစ္ခုခုလုပ္၊ ျဖစ္) မည့္ဆဲဆဲ။
    I am about to leave the office.
  ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ႐ံုးဆင္းမည့္ဆဲဆဲ   ျဖစ္ပါသည္။