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 6

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — First person pronoun; I, me (male speaker)

တွက်ဆထားသည်မှာ

twet-hsa-hta-thì-hma — It is estimated or calculated that

ယခုတင်

ya-khu-tin — Even now; right at this moment

မွေးဖွားလာသော

mwè-phwà-la-thaw — That which has been born; newly born

ကလေး

ka-lé — Child; baby; young one

သည်

thì — Grammatical particle marking subject or verb

ပေါင်

paung — Pound (unit of weight)

ချိန်နာ

chein-na — Unit of weight; also means to weigh

မည်

myì — Future tense marker; will, shall

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pyi — Having become; being the case and then

တစ်နှစ်တာ

tit-hnit-ta — One year's duration; spanning one year

ကာလ

ka-la — Period of time; era; duration

အတွင်း

a-twín — Within; inside; during a period

သင့်တင့်

thín-tín — Appropriate; reasonable; suitable

မျှတ

myat-ta — Balanced; fair; proportionate

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

နို့တိုက်

nó-daik — To breastfeed; to nurse with milk

မွေးမြူ

mwè-myù — To raise; to rear; to nurture

ပါက

pa-ka — If; conditional particle meaning if one does

အထိ

a-hti — Up to; until; as far as

ကြီးထွား

ji-thwà — To grow; to develop in size

လာမည်

la-myì — Will come; future marker with motion toward

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thì — Is; to be; it is the case

ဤ

i — This; demonstrative pronoun for nearby referent

အစားအစာ

a-sà-a-sa — Food; foodstuffs; things to eat

အနည်းငယ်

a-hnì-ngè — A little; a small amount; slightly

စျေးကြီး

zé-ji — Expensive; high-priced; costly

ဆိုသည်ကို

hsò-thì-go — The fact that it is said; acknowledging that

လက်ခံ

let-khan — To accept; to receive; to acknowledge

သို့ဖြစ်ရာ

thó-phyit-ya — Therefore; thus being the case; consequently

မိဘများ

mi-ba-myà — Parents; fathers and mothers

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; toward

အများစု

a-myà-zu — The majority; most; the greater part

ယခုအချိန်ထိ

ya-khu-a-chein-hti — Until now; up to the present time

မျိုချ

myò-cha — To swallow; to gulp down

ပြီးသော

pyí-thaw — That which is finished; completed; past

မြေရှင်များ

myè-shín-myà — Landowners; landlords; those who own land

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; regarding

အလွန်

a-lwùn — Very; extremely; exceedingly

သင့်လျော်

thín-lyaw — Appropriate; fitting; suitable for purpose

ထိုသူတို့

htò-thu-dó — Those people; they; those individuals

ကလေးများ

ka-lé-myà — Children; kids; young ones (plural)

အပေါ်

a-paw — On; above; upon; regarding

အကောင်းဆုံး

a-kaun-zoun — The best; most excellent; highest quality

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that which is; -ing

ပိုင်ခွင့်

pyin-khwín — Right of ownership; entitlement to possess

ရှိသည်

shì-thì — There is; to exist; to have

ဟုပင်

hu-bin — Even saying that; indeed saying so

ဆို

hsò — To say; to call; quotative particle

နိုင်သည်

naín-thì — Can; is able to; capable of

ကလေးငယ်

ka-lé-ngè — Young child; infant; small baby

၏

é — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

အသား

a-thà — Meat; flesh; animal protein food

တစ်နှစ်

tit-hnit — One year; a single year

ပတ်လုံး

pat-loun — Throughout; all around; the whole period

ရာသီ

ya-thì — Season; period; menstrual cycle

ရောက်

yauk — To arrive; to reach a place

ဖြစ်သော်လည်း

phyit-thaw-lè — Although it is; even though it may be

မတ်လ

mat-la — March; the month of March

တွင်

twín — In; at; within (location/time particle)

ပိုမို

pò-mò — More; even more; to a greater degree

ပေါများ

paw-myà — To be plentiful; abundant; numerous

ထိုလ

htò-la — That month; the said month

မတိုင်မီ

ma-táin-mi — Before; prior to; not yet reaching

နှင့်

hnín — And; with; together with

ပြီးဆုံး

pyí-zoun — To conclude; to finish completely; end

ပြီးနောက်

pyí-nout — After; afterward; following completion

လည်း

lè — Also; too; as well; even

ပို

pò — More; additionally; to a greater extent

များ

myà — Plural marker; many; a lot of

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a-bè-jawn — Why; for what reason; because of what

ဆိုသော်

hsò-thaw — If one says; speaking of; because it is said

ထင်ရှားသော

htin-shà-thaw — Famous; notable; prominent; well-known

ပြင်သစ်

pyin-thit — France; French (referring to the country)

ဆရာဝန်

hsaya-wun — Medical doctor; physician; medical professional

တစ်ဦး

tit-ù — One person; a single individual

ဖြစ်သည့်

phyit-thín — Who is; that is; being (relative clause)

ဂုဏ်ကြီးမားသော

gon-ji-mà-thaw — Highly distinguished; renowned; of great prestige

စာရေးဆရာ

sa-yé-hsaya — Writer; author; literary person

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from; by

ပြောသည်မှာ

pyaw-thì-hma — What is said; speaking of; the statement is

ငါး

ngà — Fish; five (number)

ပြုစုပျိုးထောင်မှု

pyu-zu-pyó-htaung-hmu — Nurturing; caring upbringing; child-rearing effort

ကောင်းသော

kaun-thaw — Good; that which is good or fine

ဖြစ်သောကြောင့်

phyit-thaw-jawn — Because it is; since it is the case

ကိုးလ

kò-la — Nine months; the ninth month

ခန့်

kʰan — Approximately; about; roughly

ကြာပြီးနောက်

ja-pyí-nout — After a duration passes; after some time

ရောမ

yaw-ma — Rome; the city of Rome

ကက်သလစ်

ket-tha-lit — Catholic; of the Roman Catholic faith

နိုင်ငံများ

naín-ngàn-myà — Countries; nations; multiple states

မွေးဖွား

mwè-phwà — To give birth; to be born

လာသည်

la-thì — Comes; has come; motion toward speaker

ဆိုသည့်

hsò-thín — Which is called; that says; known as

အချက်

a-chet — Point; fact; reason; detail

ကြောင့်

jawn — Because of; due to; owing to

ထို့ကြောင့်

htó-jawn — Therefore; for that reason; thus

ဥပုသ်

u-boat — Religious fast day; Buddhist sabbath observance

ပြီးဆုံးပြီး

pyí-zoun-pyí — Having completely finished; after concluding entirely

ကြာသောအခါ

ja-thaw-a-kha — When time has passed; after a while

ဈေးကွက်

zé-gwet — Market; marketplace; commercial market

ပစ္စည်း

pyit-si — Item; goods; material; thing

အပြည့်

a-pyí — Full; completely; to the fullest extent

ဖြည့်

phyí — To fill; to complete; to supplement

နိုင်ငံ

naín-ngàn — Country; nation; state

ပုပ်ဘုရား

poke-phaya — The Pope; head of the Catholic Church

ဘာသာဝင်

ba-tha-win — Religious adherent; member of a faith

အရေအတွက်

a-yè-a-twet — Number; quantity; count of items

အနည်းဆုံး

a-hnì-zoun — At least; the minimum amount

သုံးဆ

thoun-hsa — Three times; triple the amount

တစ်ဆ

tit-hsa — One time; once; single portion

နှုန်း

hnoun — Rate; ratio; proportion; unit measure

ရှိပြီး

shì-pyí — There is/are and also; having and then

ထိုသို့

htò-thó — In that way; like that; thus

ပြုခြင်း

pyu-chín — The act of doing; action; performing

ဖြင့်

phyín — With; by means of; through; using

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kyun-nó-dó — We; us; our group (formal first person plural)

အကြား

a-já — Between; among; in the middle of

ရှိ

shì — To be; to exist; there is/are

ပုပ်

poke — Pope; also means rotten or decayed

ဘာသာဝင်များ

ba-tha-win-myà — Religious followers; members of a religion (plural)

လျော့ကျ

lyaw-kya — To decrease; to decline; to fall

စေမည်

sé-myì — Will cause; will make something happen

ဟူသော

hu-thaw — Called; known as; referred to as

နောက်ထပ်

nout-htat — Another; additional; one more; furthermore

သွယ်ဝိုက်သော

thwè-waik-thaw — Indirect; roundabout; oblique

အကျိုးကျေးဇူး

a-kyò-jé-zù — Benefit; advantage; reward; useful outcome

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing; a single item

ရရှိ

ya-shì — To obtain; to receive; to gain

ဆွဲတောင်းသော

swè-daun-thaw — Begging; soliciting; demanding persistently

စာရင်း

sa-yín — List; account; record; register

ကုဋေသူများ

ku-tè-thu-myà — Wealthy people; millionaires; the very rich

အလုပ်သမားများ

a-loke-tha-mà-myà — Workers; laborers; working-class people (plural)

တောင်သူများ

taun-thu-myà — Farmers; peasants; agricultural workers (plural)

လေးပုံ

lé-pon — Four parts; four portions of a whole

ငါးပုံ

ngà-pon — Five parts; five portions of a whole

တို့

dó — Plural marker; we; they; those (group)

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To be included; to participate; to contain

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that; as stated

ယူဆ

yu-hsa — To assume; to consider; to believe

မွေးမြူရသော

mwè-myù-ya-thaw — That which must be raised; to be nurtured

ကုန်ကျစရိတ်

koun-kya-za-yeit — Cost; expense; expenditure; outlay

နှစ်စဉ်

hnit-sín — Annual; yearly; every year

ရှိလင်

shì-lin — Shilling (unit of currency)

ခြောက်

chout — Six; the number six

မျှ

myar — Only; just; as much as; equal to

ခန့်မှန်း

kʰan-hmàn — To estimate; to approximate; to reckon

ပြီး

pyí — Already; finished; and then; completion marker

ပျက်စီးယိုယွင်းသော

pyet-sí-yò-ywín-thaw — Worn out; deteriorated; decayed and damaged

အဝတ်

a-wot — Clothing; clothes; garments; fabric

တန်ဆာများ

tan-hsa-myà — Equipment; accessories; tools; ornaments (plural)

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; included; please

ထည့်တွက်

htè-twet — To include in calculation; to factor in

ထားသည်

hta-thì — Has placed; has kept; resultant state marker

ကောင်းမွန်သော

kaun-mun-thaw — Good; excellent; of fine quality

ဝဆေးကောင်းသော

wa-zé-kaun-thaw — Fattening and nutritious; good fattening remedy

အသေကောင်

a-thé-kaun — Carcass; dead animal body

ဆယ်

hsè — Ten; the number ten

ပေးရမည်

pé-ya-myì — Must give; will have to provide

မည်သည့်

myì-thín — Whatever; whichever; any kind of

ဘုရားကျောင်းသား

phaya-jàun-thà — Monastery student; novice monk student

မ

ma — Negative prefix; not; no

တုတ်မြတ်

tote-myat — Sturdy; robust; strong and healthy

ရမည်

ya-myì — Must get; will receive; have to obtain

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not; not so; negative copula

ယုံကြည်

youn-ji — To believe; to trust; to have faith

ဆိုလျှင်

hsò-lyin — If one says; if that is so; supposing

ကဲ့သို့

kè-thó — Like; similar to; in the manner of

ထို

htò — That; those; the said (demonstrative)

အာဟာရ

a-ha-ya — Nutrition; nourishment; nutritional value

ပြည့်ဝသော

pyí-wa-thaw — Full of; rich in; plentiful and complete

ဟင်းလျာ

hín-lya — Dish; curry; cooked side dish

လေးပွဲ

lé-bwè — Four courses; four servings of dishes

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-loke — To do; to make; to perform; to create

နိုင်ပြီး

naín-pyí — Can and also; able to and furthermore

၎င်း

da-jin — It; that; the aforementioned (formal pronoun)

အတူ

a-tu — Together; jointly; at the same time

ထမင်းစားရန်

hta-mín-sà-yan — For the purpose of eating a meal

ရည်မှန်းသောသူ

yì-hmàn-thaw-thu — Person who aspires; one who aims toward

မိတ်ဆွေ

myit-swé — Friend; companion; acquaintance

နည်းနည်း

hnì-hnì — A little; a small bit; slightly

ဆိုင်

hsaín — Shop; store; restaurant; related to

သို့မဟုတ်

thó-ma-hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; one's own; reflexive pronoun

မိသားစု

mi-thà-zu — Family; household; family unit

သာ

tha — Only; merely; just; restrictive particle

စားသောက်သော

sà-thouk-thaw — Eating and drinking; of food and drink

အခါ

a-kha — Time; occasion; when; at the time of

လုံလောက်

loun-lout — Sufficient; enough; adequate amount