A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick — Page 2

Vocabulary

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; used to introduce a contrasting statement.

ကျွန်ုပ်၏

kyun noe ei — My; first-person singular possessive pronoun (formal).

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်မှာ

yay ywel chet hma — The intention or purpose is; regarding one's aim.

တောင်းစားများ၏

taung za mya ei — Of the beggars; possessive form referring to beggars.

သားသမီးများအတွက်သာ

tha tha mi mya ah twet tha — Only for the children; exclusively benefiting one's offspring.

စီမံပေးရန်

si man pey yan — To arrange or manage for someone; to provide for.

ကန့်သတ်ထားခြင်း

kan thet hta jing — The act of restricting or limiting something.

မဟုတ်ပေ။

ma hout pay — It is not so; a firm negation or denial.

၎င်းသည်

de thit — It is; he/she/it is; third-person pronoun with verb.

ပို၍

poe yway — More; additionally; to a greater degree.

ကျယ်ပြန့်သော

kjel pyan thaw — Wide; broad; expansive in scope or area.

အကျယ်အဝန်းရှိပြီး

ah kjel ah wan shi pyi — Having breadth and scope; being wide in extent.

သေချာသော

thay cha thaw — Certain; definite; sure about something.

အသက်အရွယ်တွင်

ah thet ah ywel twin — At a certain age; within a particular age range.

လမ်းပေါ်တွင်

lan paw twin — On the street; in a public road setting.

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏

kyun noe doe ei — Our; first-person plural possessive pronoun (formal).

ကရုဏာကို

ka ru na go — Compassion; mercy; object marker on compassion.

တောင်းဆိုသူများကဲ့သို့ပင်

taung hsoe thu mya ke thoe ping — Just like those who beg or make requests.

၎င်းတို့ကို

de doe go — Them; object marker applied to third-person plural.

မွေးမြူနိုင်စွမ်း

mway myu naing swan — The ability or capacity to raise and nurture.

အနည်းငယ်မျှသာရှိသော

ah nay ngel hmya tha shi thaw — Having only a very small amount of something.

မိဘများ၏

mi ba mya ei — Of the parents; possessive form referring to parents.

သားသမီးများ

tha tha mi mya — Children; sons and daughters; one's offspring.

ဖြစ်သည့်

phyit thit — Who/which is; relative clause marker meaning 'being'.

ကလေးငယ်များ

ka lay ngel mya — Young children; small kids; infants and toddlers.

အားလုံးကို

ah lone go — All; everyone; object marker on 'all of them'.

ထည့်သွင်းစဉ်းစားမည်

hteh thwin sin sa myi — Will include and consider; will take into account.

ဖြစ်သည်။

phyit thit — It is; affirmative sentence-final copula marker.

ဤအရေးကြီးသော

di ah yay kji thaw — This important; referring to a significant matter.

ကိစ္စအပေါ်

kite sa ah paw — On this matter; regarding this issue or affair.

နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာ

hnit paung mya zwa — Many years; over a long span of years.

စဉ်းစားဆင်ခြင်ပြီး

sin sa sin jing pyi — Having thought carefully and reflected thoroughly.

အစီအစဉ်အမျိုးမျိုးကို

ah si ah sin ah myo myo go — Various plans and arrangements; different types of schemes.

သေချာစွာ

thay cha zwa — Carefully; thoroughly; with certainty and precision.

၎င်းတို့သည်

de doe thit — They are; third-person plural subject marker.

၎င်းတို့၏

de doe ei — Their; possessive of the third-person plural pronoun.

တွက်ချက်မှုများတွင်

twet chek hmu mya twin — In their calculations; within their computations.

အကြီးအကျယ်

ah kji ah kjel — Greatly; seriously; to a large and significant degree.

မှားယွင်းနေကြောင်း

hma ywin nay kjawng — That they are wrong; being in error or mistaken.

အမြဲတစေ

ah mjel ta say — Always; constantly; without exception at all times.

တွေ့ရှိခဲ့သည်။

tweh shi kheh thit — Has found; has discovered; past tense of finding.

မှန်သည်မှာ

hman thit hma — What is true is; it is indeed the case that.

မိခင်ထံမှ

mi khin htan hma — From the mother; originating from a mother's care.

ယခုတင်

ya khu ting — Just now; very recently; at this very moment.

အခြားအာဟာရ

ah cha ah ha ya — Other nutrition; additional food or nourishment sources.

သိပ်မလိုဘဲ

thate ma lo beh — Without needing much; hardly requiring anything else.

မိခင်၏

mi khin ei — Of the mother; mother's possessive form.

နို့ဖြင့်

no phying — With milk; by means of breastmilk or milk.

မွေးမြူနိုင်သည်။

mway myu naing thit — Is able to raise and nurture; can sustain a child.

အများဆုံးဆိုလျှင်

ah mya zone hso hlyin — At most; if we say the maximum amount possible.

မိခင်သည်

mi khin thit — The mother is; subject marker following 'mother'.

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma hout — Or; alternatively; used to present another option.

၎င်း၏

de ei — Its; his/her/its possessive; third-person singular possessive.

တရားဝင်အလုပ်ဖြစ်သည့်

ta ya wing ah lout phyit thit — Which is a legitimate or lawful occupation or work.

တောင်းစားခြင်းဖြင့်

taung za jing phying — Through begging; by means of asking for alms.

ရရှိနိုင်သည်။

ya shi naing thit — Can obtain; is able to receive or acquire something.

ကလေးသက်တမ်း

ka lay thet tan — The child's lifespan or age period; duration of infancy.

မိဘများ

mi ba mya — Parents; both father and mother together.

ရပ်ကျေးအပေါ်

yat kjay ah paw — Upon the community; regarding the village or neighborhood.

ဝန်ထုပ်ဝန်ပိုး

wun htout wun po — Burden; a heavy load placed on others.

မဖြစ်ဘဲ

ma phyit beh — Without becoming; not being; avoiding a certain state.

ကျန်ရှိသောဘဝတွင်

kjan shi thaw ba wa twin — In the remaining life; throughout the rest of one's life.

အစားအစာနှင့်

ah za ah sa hnin — And food; together with food and sustenance.

အဝတ်အစားကို

ah wout ah za go — Clothing; garments; object marker on clothes.

မတောင့်တဘဲ

ma taung ta beh — Without lacking or wanting; not being in need.

အပြန်အလှန်အားဖြင့်

ah pyan ah hlan ah phying — In return; reciprocally; by way of exchange.

၎င်းတို့အတွက်

de doe ah twet — For them; on their behalf; for the purpose of them.

စီမံဆောင်ရွက်ပေးရန်

si man hsaung ywet pey yan — To manage and carry out; to arrange and provide for.

ကျွန်ုပ်

kyun noe — I; me; formal first-person singular pronoun.

အဆိုပြုသည်။

ah hso pyu thit — Proposes; puts forward a suggestion or recommendation.

ထို့အပြင်

doe ah pyin — Furthermore; in addition; beyond that point.

အစီအစဉ်တွင်

ah si ah sin twin — In the plan; within this arrangement or scheme.

နောက်ထပ်

nout htap — Additionally; another; one more thing beyond this.

အကျိုးကျေးဇူးကြီးတစ်ခုလည်း

ah kjo kjay zu kji tit khu leh — Also one great benefit or advantage; another major gain.

ရှိသေးသည်၊

shi thay thit — There still is; it still exists or remains.

၎င်းမှာ

de hma — That is; it is; introducing an explanation or identification.

ဆန္ဒအလျောက်

san da ah lyaut — Voluntarily; according to one's own will or desire.

မိန်းမများ၏

main ma mya ei — Of women; possessive form referring to women.

ကလေးများကို

ka lay mya go — Children; object marker applied to 'children'.

သတ်ဖြတ်သည့်

thet phyat thit — That kills; which involves killing or slaying.

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

kjaut met phwel kaung thaw — Terrifying; horrifying; worthy of great fear and dread.

အလေ့အကျင့်ကို

ah leh ah kjin go — The habit or practice; object marker on custom.

တားဆီးနိုင်မည်

ta hsi naing myi — Will be able to prevent or stop; can deter.

ဖြစ်သည်၊

phyit thit — It is; affirmative copula with continuing punctuation.

ကြာသနာပေတော့၊

kja tha na pay daw — What a pity; expressing sympathy or lamentation.