A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...

Left hand, the; စူၪစ့ ၪလခီၫ
Left leg, the; ခၪ့စ့ ၪလခီၫ
Leg, the; (also means 'a foot'); ခၪ့
Leisure, not at; ချုၭဝါအ့ ၬ
Leisure, to be at; ချုၭ
Lend, to; To hire; အၪ့လံၩ့
Leopard, a; ခ့ ၫ -- ခ့ ၫကဒု ၩ
Leprosy; ဆၧခံ ၫထူၬ
Letter, a; ဆၧပရၧၫ့ -- ဆၧပရၧၫ့ကဘံ ၪ့
Lift up, to; ဆိၬထၪ့
Light; ဆၧဖၩ့
Light (in weight); ဎွ ံ ၫ
Light a fire, to; မၩထၪ့မ့ ၪ
Light a lantern, to; ထိၭထၪ့မ့ ၪဒိၩ့ -- ဎီၩ့ထၪ့မ့ ၪဒိၩ့
Lightning; လၫ့ဖိၪကွ ့ၩ -- လၫ့ဝဲအဒံၭ
Like this; ဘဲၫယီၩအၥိၭ
Lime; စၩ့ြပၩၥၪ A lime tree; စၩ့ြပၩထံၭ
Lion, a; ဆၬလၥၧၫ့ -- ဆၬလၥၧၫ့ကဒု ၩ
Liquor; ဂၬထံၫ -- ၥံ ၭထံၫဂၬထံ ၫ
List, a; ဆၧရၫ့ -- ဆၧရၫ့ကဘံ ၪ့
Listen to, to; To obey; ခိၭနၪ
Litter, a; A stretcher; ဆိၭ -- ဆိၭကဘံ ၪ့
Little a; ကဆံ ၭ -- လဆံ ၭလခ့ Little things; ဆၧဆံၭလဖၪ
Little by little; ကဆံ ၭဘၪကဆံ ၭ -- ကဆံ ၭဆံ ၭ
Little earlier, a; ဆိၫကဆံၭ
Little easier, a; ယီၫကဆံၭ
Little finger, the; စူၪဒ့ ၭ
Little here and a little there, a; လၧအံ ၩလဆံ ၭ လၧအိၩလဆံ ၭ
Little toe, the; ခၪ့ဒ့ ၭ
Live long, to; အီၪမၧၫ့ယံ ၬယံ ၬ -- အီၪကိၪ့ယံ ၬယံ ၬ -- အီၪကီၪ့ယံ ၬယံ ၬ
Load a gun, to; ဆူၫထၪ့ကျီၩ့
Lobster, a; ၥဒၪ့ခီၩ့ -- ၥဒၪ့ခီၩ့ကဘံ ၪ့
Locust, a; A grasshopper; ထွ ့ -- ထွ ့ကဘံ ၪ့
Long; ထီၫ
Long ago; ယံ ၬယံ ၬလ့ ၬ
Long for, to; ဆၧယူဘၪအၥၭ
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Long time, a; ယံ ၬနး -- ယံ ၬ.
Look after, to; To take care of; ယိထဲၩ့ခွါထဲၩ့
Look at carefully, to; ယိထံၫယိဆၭ
Look back, to; ထဲၩ့ယိ
Look back & consider, to; ဆီၫ့မီၪ့ကၠၪထဲၩ့ခွါ
Look for a missing article, to; လီၩ့ယိဎွါ -- လီၩ့အၪ့ဎၬ
Look for first, to; အၪ့ဎၬဆိၫ
Look forward & consider, to; ဆီၫ့မီၪ့ယိခွါ -- ယိဆီၫ့မီၪ့
Look happy, to; မ့ ၬဎွ ံ ၪ
Looking glass, a; နွၩ -- နွၩကဘံ ၪ့ -- ယွၩ -- ယွၩကဘံ ၪ့
Look over, to; To review (a paper or writing); ယိထဲၩ့