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Burmese Vocabulary - Health

Hi Burmese learners! 😊
In this lesson, we will learn some important Burmese words related to health. Knowing these words will help you understand and communicate better when talking about health-related topics.

With the completion of this lesson, consider investigating these related pages: Modes of Transportation & Days of the Week.

Words

Burmese	Pronunciation	English Translation
ကိုးကား	ko:ka:	doctor
ဆေးရုံ	sai:ywam	hospital
ဆေးခြင်း	sai:kriŋ	medicine
ဆေးသည်	sai:ti	nurse
ဆေးသား	sai:tha:	patient
ဆေးသန့်	sai:taṅ	prescription
ဆေးသမား	sai:tma:	doctor's assistant
ဆေးသုံး	sai:tum	treatment
ဆေးသောင်း	sai:thaun	diagnosis
ဆေးသောင်းခြင်း	sai:thaunkriŋ	diagnosis procedure
ဆေးသောင်းခြင်းပြီး	sai:thaunkriŋpyi:	after diagnosis

Example Sentences

Burmese	English Translation
ကိုးကားသည် ဆေးရုံတွင် ဆေးသောင်းခြင်းပြီး ဆေးသန့်တွေ့ရှိပါသည်	The doctor has prescribed medicines after diagnosing the patient in the hospital.
ဆေးသည် ဆေးသုံးတွေ့ရှိပါသည်	The nurse is giving treatments.
ဆေးသမားသည် ဆေးသန့်တွေ့ရှိပါသည်	The doctor's assistant is giving out prescriptions.

Quiz

Test your knowledge of Burmese health vocabulary with the following quiz:

Question	Answer
What is the Burmese word for "doctor"?	ကိုးကား
What is the Burmese word for "hospital"?	ဆေးရုံ
What is the Burmese word for "medicine"?	ဆေးခြင်း
What is the Burmese word for "nurse"?	ဆေးသည်
What is the Burmese word for "patient"?	ဆေးသား
What is the Burmese word for "prescription"?	ဆေးသန့်
What is the Burmese word for "doctor's assistant"?	ဆေးသမား
What is the Burmese word for "treatment"?	ဆေးသုံး
What is the Burmese word for "diagnosis"?	ဆေးသောင်း
What is the Burmese word for "diagnosis procedure"?	ဆေးသောင်းခြင်း
What is the Burmese phrase for "after diagnosis"?	ဆေးသောင်းခြင်းပြီး

To improve your Burmese Vocabulary, you can also use the Polyglot Club website. Find native speakers and ask them any questions!

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Other Lessons

• Months of the Year
• How to say Good Bye?
• Feelings and Emotions
• Clothes
• Count to 10
• Food
• Family
• Drinks
• Days of the Week

Sources

• English-Burmese vocabulary - Trees | Learn thai language ...
• Challenges in health-care service use among Burmese refugees: A ...