A Study in Scarlet — Page 1

Vocabulary

မစ္စတာ

mis-sa-ta — Mister; formal title of address for men

။

(pause) — Full stop punctuation mark ending a sentence

ခုနှစ်တွင်

khu-hnit-twing — In the year; temporal marker for a specific year

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kyun-daw-dhì — I; first-person formal male subject pronoun

ဆေးပညာဒေါက်တာဘွဲ့ကို

hsay-pyin-nya dauk-ta bwè-go — Medical doctorate degree; object of receiving

ရရှိခဲ့ပြီး

ya-shi-khè-byi — Having obtained or received something previously

၊

(pause) — Comma-like pause mark in Burmese punctuation

တပ်မတော်ရှိ

tat-ma-daw-shi — Existing within the military or armed forces

စစ်ဆေးဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ

sit-hsay-bèt-hsine-ya — Relating to military medicine or medical inspection

ဝါးဆရာဝန်များအတွက်

wa-hsaya-wun-mya-a-twet — For military surgeons or army medical officers

သတ်မှတ်ထားသော

that-hmat-hta-dhaw — Designated, specified, or set aside for a purpose

သင်တန်းကို

thin-dan-go — Training course; object marker attached

တက်ရောက်ရန်

tat-yout-yan — In order to attend or participate in something

ထွက်ခွာသွားခဲ့သည်

thwet-khwa-thwa-khè-dhì — Departed and went away from a place

ထိုနေရာတွင်

tho-ne-ya-twing — At that place; in that location

ကျွန်တော်၏

kyun-daw-ì — My; possessive form of first-person male pronoun

ပညာသင်ကြားမှုကို

pyin-nya-thin-kya-hmu-go — Education or academic training; object marker attached

ပြီးစီးအောင်မြင်ပြီးနောက်

pyi-si-aung-myin-pyi-nout — After successfully completing something

ငါးခုမြောက်

nga-khu-myout — The fifth; ordinal number fifth

အကူဆရာဝန်အဖြစ်

a-ku-hsaya-wun-a-hpyit — As an assistant surgeon; in the role of

တရားဝင်

ta-ya-wing — Official, legitimate, formally recognized

တာဝန်ချထားခံခဲ့ရသည်

ta-wun-cha-hta-khan-khè-ya-dhì — Was officially assigned or commissioned to a post

ထိုစဉ်က

tho-zin-ga — At that time; referring to a past moment

တပ်ရင်းသည်

tat-yin-dhì — The regiment; subject marker for military unit

အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံတွင်

in-di-ya-nite-ngan-twing — In the country of India

တပ်စချထားပြီး

tat-si-cha-hta-byi — Already stationed or encamped at a location

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I; first-person formal pronoun used by males

ထိုတပ်ရင်းနှင့်

tho-tat-yin-hnin — With that regiment; connective with military unit

ပူးပေါင်းနိုင်မီ

pu-paung-nite-mi — Before being able to join or unite with

ဒုတိယ

du-ti-ya — Second; ordinal number or second occurrence

အာဖဂန်စစ်ပွဲ

a-pha-gan-sit-bwè — The Afghan War; armed conflict in Afghanistan

ပေါ်ပေါက်လာခဲ့သည်

paw-pout-la-khè-dhì — Emerged, broke out, or came into existence

ဆိုက်ကပ်သောအခါ

hsite-kat-dhaw-a-kha — When arriving or docking at a port

တပ်ဖွဲ့သည်

tat-hpwè-dhì — The troops or military force; subject marker

တောင်ကြားလမ်းများကို

taung-kya-lan-mya-go — Mountain passes; plural object of traversing

ဖြတ်ကျော်ကာ

hpyat-kyaw-ka — Having crossed over or passed through

ရန်သူ၏

yan-dhu-ì — Of the enemy; possessive marker on enemy

နယ်မြေထဲသို့

ne-mye-htè-dho — Into the territory or land of the enemy

နက်ရှိုင်းစွာ

net-shine-zwa — Deeply; to a great depth or extent

ဝင်ရောက်သွားကြောင်း

win-yout-thwa-kyaung — That they had entered and advanced into

သိရှိခဲ့သည်

thi-shi-khè-dhì — Came to know or learned about something

သို့သော်

dho-dhaw — However, but; conjunction showing contrast

ကျွန်တော်နှင့်

kyun-daw-hnin — With me; first-person male pronoun with connective

အတူတူပင်

a-tu-tu-bin — Just the same; in exactly the same situation

အခြေအနေတူ

a-che-a-ne-tu — Same circumstances or conditions; similar situation

ရောက်နေသော

yout-ne-dhaw — Who were present or situated at that place

အခြား

a-cha — Other, another; different from the one mentioned

အရာရှိများစွာနှင့်

a-ya-shi-mya-zwa-hnin — With many officers; plural noun with connective

အတူ

a-tu — Together; alongside with others

လိုက်ပါသွားကာ

lite-pa-thwa-ka — Having gone along with or accompanied others

ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံစွာ

bé-kin-lone-chon-zwa — Safely, securely; in a safe manner

ရောက်ရှိနိုင်ခဲ့ပြီး

yout-shi-nite-khè-byi — Was able to arrive and reach a destination

မိမိ၏

mi-mi-ì — One's own; possessive reflexive pronoun

တပ်ရင်းကို

tat-yin-go — The regiment; object marker attached to unit

တွေ့ကာ

twè-ka — Having met or found; connective participle

ချက်ချင်းပင်

chet-chin-bin — Immediately, right away, at once

တာဝန်သစ်ကို

ta-wun-thit-go — New duty or responsibility; object marker attached

စတင်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သည်

sa-tin-htan-hsaung-khè-dhì — Began to carry out or perform duties

ထိုစစ်ပွဲသည်

tho-sit-bwè-dhì — That war or battle; subject marker attached

အများအပြားအတွက်

a-mya-a-pya-a-twet — For many people; for the majority

ဂုဏ်သရေနှင့်

gon-tha-yè-hnin — With honor and prestige; glory and reputation

တိုးတက်မှုများကို

to-tet-hmu-mya-go — Advancements or promotions; plural object

ဆောင်ကြဉ်းပေးခဲ့သော်လည်း

hsaung-kyin-pay-khè-dhaw-lè — Although it brought or provided to others

ကျွန်တော့်အတွက်မူ

kyun-daw-a-twet-mu — As for me; contrasting topic marker for speaker

ကံဆိုးမှုနှင့်

kan-zo-hmu-hnin — With misfortune or bad luck; connective

ဘေးအန္တရာယ်များသာ

bé-an-ta-yè-mya-dha — Only dangers and perils; nothing but harm

ကျန်ခဲ့သည်

kyan-khè-dhì — Remained, was left behind; stayed as a result

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun for self-reference

တပ်ရင်းစုမှ

tat-yin-su-hma — From the regimental brigade or group

ခွဲထုတ်ကာ

khwè-htat-ka — Having been separated or detached from a unit

တာဝန်ချသတ်မှတ်ခြင်းခံရပြီး

ta-wun-cha-that-hmat-chin-khan-ya-byi — Having been assigned and designated to new duty

ကြေမြတ်သော

kyé-myat-dhaw — Fierce, terrible, devastating; describing a battle

တိုက်ပွဲဝင်ခဲ့သည်

tite-bwè-win-khè-dhì — Entered into and fought in battle

တစ်တောင့်ကြောင့်

ta-taung-kyaung — Because of one bullet or shot; due to

ပခုံးတွင်

pa-khon-twing — In the shoulder; at the shoulder area

ထိမှန်ခဲ့ပြီး

hti-hman-khè-byi — Was hit or struck and injured by something

ထိုသေနတ်ဆံသည်

tho-dha-net-hsan-dhì — That bullet; subject marker on the projectile

အရိုးကို

a-yo-go — The bone; object marker attached to bone

ချိုးပဲ့သွားစေကာ

cho-pè-thwa-zé-ka — Having caused the bone to break or fracture

သွေးကြောကိုပါ

thwè-kyaw-go-pa — Also the blood vessel or artery included

ဖြတ်သန်းဆုတ်ကြိုးသွားခဲ့သည်

hpyat-than-hsote-kyo-thwa-khè-dhì — Grazed through and nicked, passing dangerously by

တာဝန်ကျစစ်သည်

ta-wun-kya-sit-dhì — The orderly; soldier on duty attending the speaker

ကျွန်တော့်ကို

kyun-daw-go — Me; first-person male object pronoun

ဝန်တင်မြင်းပေါ်သို့

wun-tin-myin-baw-dho — Onto a packhorse; toward a load-bearing horse

တင်၍

tin-yway — Having lifted and placed onto; loading up

ဗြိတိသျှ

byi-ti-shi — British; relating to Great Britain

တပ်ကြောင်းသို့

tat-kyaung-dho — To the military lines or column of troops

ရောက်အောင်

yout-aung — So as to reach; in order to arrive safely

ဆောင်ကြဉ်းပေးနိုင်ခဲ့သော

hsaung-kyin-pay-nite-khè-dhaw — Who was able to bring and deliver safely

သူ၏

thu-ì — His; third-person possessive pronoun

သစ္စာစောင့်ထိန်းမှုနှင့်

thit-hsa-saung-htain-hmu-hnin — With his loyalty and faithful devotion

သတ္တိသူရဲဘောမပါဘဲ

that-ti-thu-yè-baw-ma-pa-bè — Without his brave and courageous action

လူသတ်သမား

lu-that-tha-ma — Murderers or killers; those who kill people

လက်ထဲသို့

let-htè-dho — Into the hands of; into someone's grasp

ကျရောက်သွားနိုင်ခဲ့ပေသည်

kya-yout-thwa-nite-khè-pe-dhì — Would have fallen into; could have ended up there