way [wei] (n)
1. an opening or passageway:
  လမ္း။ အေပါက္။
    This is the way in/out.
  ဒါ၀င္/ထြက္ ေပါက္ပါ။
    There's no way through.
  ဒီကျဖတ္သြားလို႕မရဘူး။
2. a route, direction etc.
  လမ္းေၾကာင္း၊ အရပ္   မ်က္ႏွာစသည္။
    Which way shall we go?
  ဘယ္လမ္းက သြားရမွာလဲ။
    Which is the way to Market Street?
  ေစ်းလမ္းကို ဘယ္ကသြားရ   ပါသလဲ။
    His house is on the way from here to
    the school. ဒီကေန   ေက်ာင္းကို သြားတဲ့လမ္းမွာ   သူ႕အိမ္႐ွိတယ္။
    Will you be able to find your/the way to
    my house?
  ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အိမ္ကို လာတတ္ပါ့   မလား။
    Your house is on my way home?
  ခင္ဗ်ားအိမ္က ကၽြန္ေတာ့္   အိမ္သြားတဲ့ လမ္းေပၚမွာတင္ပဲ။
    a motorway.
  အျမန္ေမာင္းကားလမ္းမၾကီး။
    a railway. ရထားလမ္း။
3. used in the names of roads:
  လမ္းအမည္မ်ားႏွင့္   တဲြသံုးေသာစကား။
    His address is 21 Melville Way.
  သူ႕ေနရပ္လိပ္စာက အမွတ္ ၂၁၊   မယ္လ္ဗြီးလမ္း ျဖစ္သည္။
4. a distance: အကြာအေ၀း။
    It's a long way to the school.
  ေက်ာင္းသု႕ိသြားရန္   အေတာ္အလွမ္းေ၀းသည္။
    The nearest shops are only a short way
    away. အနီးဆံုး   ေစ်းဆိုင္နဲ႕ မလွမ္းပါဘူး။
5. a method or manner:
  နည္းလမ္း (သို႕) အမူအရာ။
    What is the easiest way to write a book?
  စာတစ္အုပ္ျပဳစုဖို႕ အလြယ္ဆံုး   နည္းက ဘာလဲ။
    I know a good way of doing it.   ဒါမ်ဳိးလုပ္ဖို႕ နည္းေကာင္း   တစ္ခုကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရထားတယ္။
    He's got a funny way of talking.
  သူစကားေျပာပံုက ရယ္ဖို႕   ေကာင္းတယ္။
    This is the quickest way to chop onions.
  ဒါ ၾကက္သြန္နီ အျမန္ဆံုး   လီွးတဲ့နည္းပဲ။
6. an aspect or side of something:
  မ်က္ႏွာစာ။ ႐ႈေထာင့္။   ဘက္။
    In some ways this job is quite difficult.
  ႐ႈေထာင့္အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးမွ ၾကည့္လွၽင္   ဤလုပ္ငန္းသည္အေတာ္ပင္   ခက္ခဲေသာ ကိစၥျဖစ္သည္။
    In a way I feel sorry for him.
  တစ္ဖက္ကၾကည့္မယ္   ဆိုရင္ေတာ့လဲ သူ႕အတြက္   စိတ္မေကာင္းပါဘူး။
7. a characteristic of behaviour; a habit:
  အမူအက်င့္။
    He has some rather unpleasant ways.
  မႏွစ္ျမိဳ႕စရာ အမူအက်င့္ေတြ   သူ လုပ္တတ္တယ္။
8. used with many verbs to give the idea
    of progressing or moving:   ၾကိယာႏွင့္တဲြဖက္၍လႈပ္႐ွားမႈ၊   တိုးတက္မႈသေဘာကို ျပေသာ   စကား။     He pushed his way through the crowd.
  လူအုပ္အတြင္းမွ တိုးေ၀ွ႕ထြက္သည္။
    They soon ate their way through the food.
  သူတို႕စားၾကသည္ႏွင့္ မၾကာမီမွာပင္   ႐ွိသမွၽစားစရာကုန္ေတာ့သည္။
    -(adv)
    (esp Amer) by a long distance or time; far:
  အျပတ္အသတ္။ အလြန္။
    The winner finished the race way ahead
    of the other competitors.
  ပထမရသူသည္ အျခား   ျပိဳင္ပြဲ၀င္ အေျပးသမားမ်ားကို   အျပတ္အသတ္ ျဖတ္ထားခဲ့ျပီး   ပန္း၀င္လာသည္။
    It's way past your bedtime.
  မင္းအိပ္ရမဲ့အခ်ိန္အေတာ္   လြန္ေနျပီ။
    'wayfarer (n)
    a traveller, esp on foot:
  ေျခလ်င္ခရီးသည္။
    'wayside (n)
    the side of a road, path etc.
  လမ္းေဘး။
    We can stop by the wayside and have
    a picnic. လမ္းေဘးမွာ   ရပ္နားျပီး ေပ်ာ္ပြဲစား   ထြက္ႏိုင္တယ္။
    (also adj)
    a wayside inn.
  လမ္းေဘးစားေသာက္ဆိုင္။
    be/get on one's way to start or continue a
    walk, journey etc.
  ခရီးဆက္သည္။
    Well, thanks for the cup of tea, but I
    must be on my way now.
  ကဲလက္ဖက္ရည္တိုက္တာ   ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္၊ ကၽြန္ေတာ္   သြားလိုက္ပါဦးမယ္။
    by the way incidentally, in passing, while
    I remember etc.
  စကားမစပ္။
    By the way, did you know he was getting
    married? စကားမစပ္၊   သူလက္ထပ္မယ္ဆိုတာ   သိျပီးျပီလား။
    fall by the wayside (of projects, ideas etc)
    to be abandoned; to fail:
  လ်စ္လ်ဴျပဳျခင္း ခံရသည္။   ေဘးခ်ိတ္ထားလိုက္သည္။
    get/have one's own way to do, get etc what
    one wants:
  စိတ္တိုင္းက် လုပ္ခြင့္ရသည္၊   လုပ္သည္။     You can't always have your own way.
  အျမဲတမ္း မင္းသေဘာခ်ည္း   လုပ္လို႕မရဘူး။
    get into/out of the way of (doing)
    something to become accustomed to (not)
    doing; to get into/out of the habit of doing:   အက်င့္ျဖစ္သည္/အက်င့္ပ်က္သည္။
    They got into the way of waking up late
    when they were on holiday.
  အားလပ္ရက္ကာလအတြင္း   သူတို႕ေနာက္က်မွ အိပ္ရာထသည့္   အက်င့္ ျဖစ္လာၾကသည္။     go out of one's way to do more than is
    really necessary:
  တကူးတကလုပ္ေပးသည္။
    He went out of his way to help us. ဒၶ၊နာစၦ   ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ကို သူတတန္တက   လိုက္လုပ္ေပး႐ွာသည္။
    have a way with to be good at dealing
    with or managing:
  အထာသိသည္။
    She has a way with children.
  ဒီမိန္းကေလးက ကေလး   ေတြရဲ႕အထာသိတယ္။
    have it one's own way to get one's own
    way: စိတ္တိုင္းက်လုပ္သည္။
    Oh, have it your own way -I'm tired of
    arguing. ကဲသေဘာ႐ွိပဲ၊   မင္းနဲ႕ ျငင္းေနရတာ   ငါစိတ္ကုန္တယ္။
    in a bad way unwell; in poor condition:
  အေျခအေနမေကာင္းေသာ။
    The patient is in a bad way.
  လူနာအေျခအေနမေကာင္းဘူး။
    in, out of the/someone's way (not) blocking
    someone's progress, or occupying space
    that is needed by someone:   မလြတ္မကင္း/လြတ္လြတ္ကင္းကင္း။
    Don't leave your bicycle where it will get in
    the way of pedestrians.
  လမ္းသြားလမ္းလာေတြအတြက္   မလြတ္မကင္းျဖစ္မဲ့ေနရာမွာ မင္းရဲ႕   စက္ဘီးကို မရပ္ပါနဲ႕။
    Will I be in the /your way if I work at this table?
  ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဒီစားပြဲမွာ အလုပ္လုပ္ရင္   ခင္ဗ်ားအတြက္ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္   အဟန္႕အတားမ်ားျဖစ္ေနမလား။
    'Get out of my way! he said rudely.
  လမ္းဖယ္စမ္းဟု သူ႐ိုင္းပ်စြာ   ေျပာသည္။
    lose one's way to stop knowing where one is,
    or in which direction one ought to be going:
  လမ္းစေပ်ာက္သည္။
    I lost my way through the city.
  ျမိဳ႕ထဲသြားရင္း ကၽြန္ေတာ္   လမ္းစေပ်ာက္သြားသည္။
    make one's way
1. to go: သြားသည္။
    They made their way towards the centre
    of the town.   သူတို႕ ျမိဳ႕လယ္သုိ႕ သြားၾကသည္။
2. to get on in the world:
  ေပါက္ေျမာက္သည္။
    make way (for) to stand aside and leave room
    (for): လမ္းဖယ္ေပးသည္။
    The crowd parted to make way for the
    ambulance. လူနာတင္   ယာဥ္အတြက္ လူအုပ္က   လမ္းဖယ္ေပးသည္။
    under way moving, in progress etc.
  ခရီးစဥ္၊ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္စသည္။
    Her plans are under way.
  သူလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ စေနျပီ။
    way of life a manner of spending one's life:
  ဘ၀။
    I enjoy farming -it's a pleasant way of life.
  ကၽြန္ေတာ္ လယ္ယာလုပ္ငန္းမွာ   ေပ်ာ္ေမြ႕တယ္၊ လယ္သမားဘ၀ဟာ   ေအးခ်မ္းသာယာတဲ့ ဘ၀မ်ဳိးပါပဲ။
    ways and means methods, esp of providing
    money. ေငြ၀င္ရန္၊ ေငြရရန္   အခြင့္အလမ္း။ နည္းလမ္း။