long¹ [loN] (adj)
1. measuring a great distance from one end to
    the other: ရွည္ေသာ။
    a long journey; ခရီးရွည္။
    a long road; ရွည္လ်ားသည့္လမ္း။
    long legs. ေျခတံရွည္။
2. having a great period of time from the first
    moment to the last: ၾကာေသာ။
    The book took a long time to read.
  ဒီစာအုပ္ကို အၾကာၾကီးဖတ္ယူရတယ္။
    a long conversation.
  စကားမျပတ္ႏိုင္သည့္စကား၀ိုင္း။
    a long delay.
  ရွည္ၾကာသည့္ ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးမႈ။
3. measuring a certain amount in distance or time:
  ရွည္ေသာ။ ၾကာေသာ။
    The wire is two centimetres long.
  ၀ါယာၾကိဳးသည္ ႏွစ္စင္တီမီတာ   ရွည္သည္။
    The television programme was just
    over an hour long.
  ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားအစီအစဥ္သည္   တစ္နာရီသာသာၾကာသည္။
4. away, doing or using something etc for
    a great period of time: ၾကာျမင့္ေသာ။
    Will you be long? မင္းၾကာမွာလား။
5. reaching to a great distance in space or time:
  ရွည္ၾကာေသာ။
    She has a long memory. ဟိုတုန္းက   အေၾကာင္းေတြကို အခုအထိ   သူေကာင္းေကာင္းမွတ္မိတုန္းပဲ။
    -(adv)
1. great period of time;
  အလြန္ရွည္ၾကာသည့္ အခ်ိန္ကာလ၌။
    This happened long before you were born.
  ဒါကမင္းမေမြးခင္ ပေ၀သဏီ   ကတည္းကျဖစ္တာ။
2. for a great period of time:
  ၾကာျမင့္စြာ။
    Have you been waiting long?
  ေစာင့္ရတာ ၾကာျပီလား။
    long-ways (adv)
     in the direction of the length:
  အလ်ားလိုက္။ အရွည္လိုက္။
    The planks had to go into the lorry longways.
  ပ်ဥ္ခ်ပ္မ်ားကို ကုန္တင္ကားေပၚသို႕   အရွည္လိုက္တင္ရသည္။
    long-distance (adj):
  တာေ၀း။ ခရီးေ၀း။
    long-distance races.
  တာေ၀းအေျပးျပိဳင္ပဲြမ်ား။
    a long-distance lorry-driver.
  အေ၀းေျပးကုန္တင္ယာဥ္ေမာင္း။
    long-drawn-out (adj)
    taking a needlessly long time:
  မလိုအပ္ဘဲ အခ်ိန္မ်ားစြာ ယူေသာ။
    long-drawn-out discussions.
  ေလရွည္ေနေသာေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ။
    longhand (n)
    ordinary writing as opposed to shorthand:
  (လက္ေရးတိုမဟုတ္သည့္)   သမား႐ိုးက်အေရးစနစ္။
    long house in tribal societies, a long rectangular
    dwelling shared by several families, esp
    in south-east Asia and amongst North
    American Indians:
  အခ်ိဳ႕ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ေဆြမ်ိဳးမိသားစုမ်ား   စု႐ံုးေနထိုင္သည့္ အိမ္ရွည္တန္းလ်ား။
    long jump a sports contest in which people jump
    as far as possible. အလ်ားခုန္ျပိဳင္ပဲြ။
    long-playing record (usu abbrev LP)
    a gramophone record which plays for a long time:
  သီခ်င္းပုဒ္ေရမ်ားမ်ားပါေသာ ဓာတ္ျပား။
    ,long-range (adj)
1. able to reach a great distance:
  တာေ၀း။
    long-range rockets.
  တာေ၀းပစ္ဒံုးက်ည္မ်ား။
2. taking into consideration a long period of time:
  ေရရွည္။
    a long-range weather forecast.
  မိုးေလ၀သေရရွည္ခန္႕မွန္းခ်က္။
    ,long-sighted (adj)
    having difficulty in seeing close objects clearly:
  အနီးမႈန္ေသာ။
    ,long-sightedness (n).
  အနီးမႈန္။
    long-suffering (adj)
    patiently enduring a great deal of trouble:
  ဒုကၡကို သည္းခံေနေသာ။
    ,long-winded (adj)
    (of a speaker or his speech) tiresomely long:
  ေလရွည္ေသာ။ လိုရင္းသို႕မေရာက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။
    as long as/so long as
1. provided only that:
  ေနသမွၽ။ မည္ဆိုလွၽင္။
    As/So long as you're happy, it doesn't matter
    what you do.
  မင္းစိတ္ခ်မ္းသာမယ္ဆိုရင္   ဘာပဲလုပ္လုပ္ ကိစၥမရွိဘူး။
2. while; during the time that:
  စဥ္။ အခိုက္။ အခ်ိန္တြင္။
    As long as he's here I'll have more work to do.
  သူဒီမွာရွိေနခိုက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္   အလုပ္ပိုလုပ္ရမွာပဲ။
    before (very) long soon:
  မၾကာမီ။
    Come in and wait-he'll be here before long!
  အထဲ၀င္ျပီးေစာင့္ေလ၊ သူမၾကာခင္   ေရာက္လာမွာပါ။
    in the long run in the end:
  အဆံုးတြင္။ ေရရွည္တြင္။
    We thought we would save money, but in
    the long run our spending was about the same
    as usual.
  ေငြစုႏိုင္မလားလို႕ ထင္မိပါတယ္၊   အဆံုးက်ေတာ့လည္း ဒံုရင္းအတိုင္းပါပဲ။
    the long and the short of it the whole story
    in a few words: အက်ဥ္း။ အခ်ဳပ္။
    no longer not now as in the past:
  ယခင္ကဲ့သို႕ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ေသာ။
    This cinema is no longer used.
  ဒီ႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ံုကို အခုမသံုးေတာ့ဘူး။
    so long! ႏႈတ္ဆက္စကား။
    goodbye! ကဲ၊ သြားလိုက္ပါဦးမယ္/   သြားေပဦးေတာ့။   

long² [loN] (v)
    (often with for) to wish very much:
  ေတာင့္တသည္။ တမ္းတသည္။
    He longed to go home.
  သူအိမ္ကိုတမ္းတသည္။
    I am longing for a drink.
  ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အရက္ေသာက္ရန္   ေတာင့္တသည္။
    longing (n)
    a great desire or wish for something:
  အာသာျပင္းျပျခင္း။
    She looked at the cakes with longing.
  သူသည္ အာသာျပင္းျပင္းျဖင့္   ကိတ္မုန္႕မ်ားကို ၾကည့္သည္။
    longingly (adv):
  ဆႏၵျပင္းစြာ။
    She looked longingly at the chocolate.
  သူသည္ ေခ်ာကလက္ကို   အာသာျပင္းစြာၾကည့္သည္။