time [taim] (n)
1. the hour of the day:
  အခ်ိန္နာရီ။
    What time is it?
  ဘယ္အခ်ိန္ရွိျပီလဲ။
    Can your child tell the time yet?
  မင့္ကေလး နာရီၾကည့္တတ္ျပီးလား။
2. the passage of days, years, events etc.
  အခ်ိန္။ ကာလ။
    Time will tell. အခ်ိန္က်ရင္   အေျဖေပၚပါလိမ့္မယ္။   (အခ်ိန္က ေျပာပါလိမ့္မယ္။)
3. a point at which, or period during which,
    something happens: တစ္စံုတစ္ခု   ျဖစ္ပြားသည္၊ ျဖစ္ပ်က္သည့္အခ်ိန္၊   ကာလ။
    at the time of his wedding.
  သူမဂၤလာေဆာင္စဥ္က။
    breakfast-time. နံနက္စာစားခ်ိန္။
4. the quantity of minutes, hours, days etc, eg
    spent in, or available for, a particular activity
    etc: တစ္စံုတစ္ရာျပဳလုပ္ရန္၊   ရေသာ၊ သံုးေသာ အခ်ိန္။
    I enjoyed the time spent in Paris.
  ပဲရစ္မွာ ေနခဲ့ရတဲ့ရက္ေတြကေတာ့   အလြန္ေပ်ာ္ဖို႕ ေကာင္းတယ္။
5. a suitable moment or period:
  သင့္ေတာ္ေသာအခ်ိန္ကာလ။
    Now is the time to ask him.
  သူ႕ကို ေမးျမန္းဖို႕အခ်ိန္တန္ျပီ။
6.one of a number of occasions:
  အၾကိမ္။ အခါ။ အေခါက္။
    He's been to France four times.
  သူ ျပင္သစ္ႏိုင္ငံကို ေလးေခါက္   ေရာက္ဖူးတယ္။
7. a period characterized by a particular quality
    in a person's life, experience etc.
  အခ်ိန္ကာလ။
    He went through an unhappy time when
    she died. အမ်ဳိးသမီး   ကြယ္လြန္သြားသည့္အခါ သူသည္   စိတ္မခ်မ္းေျမ့ဖြယ္ အခ်ိန္ကာလကို   ရင္ဆိုင္ ျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ရသည္။
    We had some good times together.
  ကၽြႏ္ုပ္တို႕ အတူတကြေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ေနခဲ့   ၾကရသည္။
8. the speed at which a piece of music should be
    played; tempo:
  စည္းအေႏွးအျမန္။ နရီ။
   in slow time. နရီက်ဲက်ဲ။
    -(v)
1. to measure the time taken by (a happening,
    event etc) or by (a person, in doing something):
  ျဖစ္ရပ္တစ္ခု ၾကာျမင့္ခ်ိန္ကို တိုင္းတာ   သည္၊ မွတ္သားသည္။
2. to choose a particular time for:
  အခ်ိန္ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္သည္။
    You timed your arrival beautifully!
  မင္းက အခ်ိန္ေကာင္းေရာက္ေအာင္   ေရြးျပီးလာတာပဲ။
    Note: All these expressions refer to the time
              1:15 am or pm:
       ေအာက္ေဖာ္ျပပါမ်ားသည္        နံနက္ (သို႕) ည ၁း၁၅        နာရီကို ရည္ညြန္းၾကသည္။
              a quarter past one
              * a quarter after one
              one fifteen
              fifteen minutes past one
              These are the expressions used for
              2:45 am or pm:
       ေအာက္ေဖာ္ျပပါမ်ားသည္        နံနက္ (သို႕) ည ၂း၄၅        နာရီကို ရည္ညြန္းၾကသည္။
              a quarter to three
              * a quarter of three
              two forty-five
              fifteen minutes to three
              For 3:30 am or pm; we say:
       နံနက္   (သို႕) ည ၃း၃၀        နာရီဆိုလွၽင္ ဤသုိ႕ျဖစ္သည္။
              three thirty
              half past three
              * These are American English
              terms and are not used in Britain.
       ခေရပြင့္ျပထားသည့္        အသံုးမ်ားသည္ အေမရိကန္        အသံုးမ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကသည္။
    'timeless (adj)
1. not belonging to, or typical of, any particular
    time: ကာလကန္႕သတ္ခ်က္မ႐ွိေသာ။
    timeless works of art.
  ေခတ္မတိမ္ေသာ   အႏုပညာလက္ရာမ်ား။
2. never-ending: အစဥ္။ ထာ၀ရ။
    the timeless beauty of Venice.
  ဗင္းနစ္ျမိဳ႕၏ ထာ၀ရအလွ။
    'timelessly (adv).
    'timelessness (n).
    'timely (adj)
    coming at the right moment:
  အခ်ိန္မီျဖစ္ေသာ။   အခ်ိန္ေတာ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။     Your arrival was most timely.
  မင္းေရာက္လာတာဟာ အခ်ိန္ေတာ္ပဲ။
    'timeliness (n).
    'timer (n)
1. a person who, or a device which, measures
    the time taken by anything.
  အခ်ိန္မွတ္သူ (သို႕)   အခ်ိန္မွတ္ကိရိယာ။ 2. a clock-like device which sets something off
    or switches something on or off at a given
    time. အခ်ိန္မွတ္နာရီ။
    times (n) (pl)
1. a period; အခ်ိန္ကာလ။
    an era: ေခတ္။ ကာလ။     We live in difficult times.
  ကၽြႏ္ုပ္တို႕သည္ ေခတ္က်ပ္ၾကီးတြင္   လူ လာျဖစ္ၾကသည္။
2. in mathematics, used to mean multiplied by:
  (သခ်ၤာ) (အ) လီ။
    Four times two is eight.
  ႏွစ္ေလးလီ႐ွစ္။
    'timing (n)
1. the measuring of the amount of time taken:
  ၾကာျမင့္ခ်ိန္။
2. the regulating of speech or actions to
    achieve the best effect:   အခ်ိန္ႏွင့္ကြက္တိ၀င္ရန္ ခ်ိန္၍   ေျပာျခင္း၊ လုပ္ျခင္း။
    All comedians should have a good sense
    of timing. လူ႐ႊင္ေတာ္မ်ားသည္   ျပက္လံုးကို ျပက္ခ်လိုက္ရန္   အသင့္ေတာ္ဆံုးအခ်ိန္ကို   ေရြးတတ္ရသည္။
    time bomb a bomb that has been set to explode
    at a particular time: ခ်ိန္ကိုက္ဗံုး။
    time limit a fixed length of time during which
    something must be done and finished:
  အခ်ိန္ကန္႕သတ္ခ်က္။
    The examination has a time limit of three
    hours. စာေမးပြဲေျဖရန္   အခ်ိန္ကန္႕သတ္ခ်က္မွာ သံုးနာရီ   ျဖစ္သည္။
    'timetable (n)
    a list of the times of trains, school classes etc:
  အခ်ိန္စာရင္း။ အခ်ိန္ဇယား။
    all in good time soon enough:
  အခ်ိန္တန္သည့္အခါ။
    all the time continually:
  တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုး။
    at times occasionally; sometimes:
  ရံဖန္ရံခါ။ တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ။
    be behind time to be late.   ေနာက္က်သည္။
    for the time being meanwhile:
  ေလာေလာဆယ္၌။ အေတာအတြင္း။
    I am staying at home for the time being.
  အခု အေတာအတြင္းမွာ   ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အိမ္မွာပဲေနတယ္။
    from time to time occasionally; sometimes:
  အခါအားေလ်ာ္စြာ။ တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ။
    From time to time he brings me a present.
  အခါအားေလ်ာ္စြာ သူကၽြန္မအတြက္   လက္ေဆာင္ယူလာတတ္သည္။
    in good time early enough; before a set time
    (for an appointment etc):
  ၾကိဳၾကိဳတင္တင္။
    We arrived in good time for the concert.
  ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ ပဲြစခ်ိန္မတိုင္မီ   ၾကိဳၾကိဳတင္တင္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။     in time
1. early enough: အခ်ိန္မီ။
    He arrived in time for dinner.
  ညစာစားပြဲအတြက္ အခ်ိန္မီ   ေရာက္လာသည္။
    Are we in time to catch the train?
  တို႕ ရထားခ်ိန္မီရဲ႕လား။
2. (with with) at the same speed or rhythm:
  (အေႏွးအျမန္) တစ္ညီတည္း။   ျပိဳင္တူ။
    They marched in time with the music.
  ေတးသံ၏ စည္းခ်က္၀ါးခ်က္ႏွင့္   အညီ ခ်ီတက္ၾကသည္။
    no time (at all) a very short time indeed:
  အခ်ိန္ဘယ္ေလာက္မွၽ မၾကာလို္က္ဘဲ။
    The journey took no time (at all).
  ခရီးမွာ အခ်ိန္ဘယ္ေလာက္မွၽ   မၾကာလိုက္ေပ။
    one, two etc at a time singly, or in groups
    of two etc. တစ္ၾကိမ္လွၽင္   တစ္ေယာက္က်စီ၊ ႏွစ္ေယာက္က်စီစသည္။
    They came into the room three at a time.
  အခန္းထဲသုိ႕ တစ္ခါ၀င္လွၽင္   သံုးေယာက္က်စီ ၀င္လာၾကသည္။
    on time at the right time:
  အခ်ိန္မွန္။
    The train left on time.
  ရထားသည္ အခ်ိန္မွန္ထြက္သြားသည္။
    save, waste time to avoid spending time;
    to spend time unnecessarily:
  အခ်ိန္ေခၽြတာသည္။ အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္းသည္။
    Take my car instead of walking, if you want
    to save time.   အခ်ိန္မကုန္ေစခ်င္ရင္ လမ္းေလွၽာက္မဲ့အစား   ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ကားကို ယူသြားပါလား။
    We mustn't waste time discussing unimportant
    matters. အရည္မရ   အဖတ္မရစကားေတြေျပာျပီး   အခ်ိန္မျဖဳန္းၾကပါစို႕နဲ႕လား။
    take one's time to do something as slowly
    as one wishes: အခ်ိန္ယူလုပ္သည္။
    time and (time) again again and again;
    repeatedly: ခဏခဏ။ ထပ္တလဲလဲ။
    I asked her time and (time) again not to do
    that. အဲဒါမလုပ္ဖို႕ သူ႕ကို   ထပ္တလဲလဲ ေျပာခဲ့တယ္။