Thingyan/Water Festival Quiz သင်္ကြန် ပဟေဠိ​​ ​

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Do you know the following? These are the clues for “သင်္ကြန် words” which are well-used and well-loved along with the special New Year festival of Myanmar.

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1. This fresh shower usually comes around the period of Thingyan
2. The water station where the hosts throw water at the people or cars passing by
3. How you say “it’s the time of Thingyan!”
4. How you refer to the action of “passing over into the new year”
5. A famous Thingyan snack which is named after the floating rice balls/dumplings
6. A maiden who performs on a Thingyan stage or who actively participates in the festival
7. The decorated float usually with the musical performance on it
8. The Celestial King believed to descend to the earth during Thingyan to document good deeds or wrong deeds of people
9. The ritual pot to welcome Thingyan with seven types of flowers that denote the seven days of the week
10. It is specially prepared with the fragrance of beeswax as a special meal for Thingyan
11. The bulletin of the transition period (Thingyan) predicting the events of the next year
12. You see this yellow flower with very sweet fragrance in the hair of Myanmar girls/ladies during Thingyan
13. A choral dance performed along the drum beats of the special Thingyan music
14. Thingyan fever; usually the word for ‘germs’, to refer to someone's zest for Thingyan
15. It is fired to signal the beginning of Thingyan, which figuratively means “empty boast”
16.  A group performance with satirical lyrics that criticize the wrong deeds of the society

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Find the words here. Good luck!
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သင်္ကြန်ကျ /thin: (dha) gjan kja/. /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ ʧa̰/

သင်္ကြန်မယ် /thin: (dha) gjan me/ /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ mἑ/

မုန့်လုံးရေပေါ် /moun. loun: jei bo/ /mo̰ʊ̃ lóʊ̃ yèi bɔ̀/

သင်္ကြန် လက်ဆေးမိုး/thin: (dha) gjan le' hsei: mou:/ /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ leʔ sʰé mó/

အလှပြကား /ahla. pja. Ka:/ /ə əl̥a̰ pya̰ ká/

သင်္ကြန် သံချပ် /thin: (dha) gjan than gja'/      /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ θà̃ ʤaʔ/

သိကြားမင်း /dha gja: min:/ /ðə ʤá mí̃/

သင်္ကြန်စာ /thin: (dha) gjan za/ /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ zà/

သင်္ကြန်ထမင်း /thin: (dha) gjan hta min:/    /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ tʰəmí̃/

သင်္ကြန်ယိမ်း /thin: (dha) gjan jein:/ /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ yéἶ/

အတာအိုး /a ta ou:/ /ətà ó/

ရေပက် မဏ္ဍပ် /jei pe’ man: da'/ /yè peʔ má̃ daʔ/

သင်္ကြန်ပိုး /thin: (dha) gjan pou:/ /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ pó/

သင်္ကြန်အမြောက် /thin: (dha) gjan amjau’/  /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃ əmyaʊʔ/

ပိတောက်ပန်း /badau' pan:/ /bədaʊʔ pá̃/
အတာကူး /a ta ku:/ /ətà kú/

**The key word > သင်္ကြန် /thin: (dha) gjan/ /θí̃ (ðə) ʤà̃/

Here is the Key :-)