A Study in Scarlet — Page 2

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော်

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

ခံစားခဲ့ရသော

khan-zar-kheh-ya-thaw — Having experienced or endured something (past tense)

ကြာရှည်သည့်

kya-shay-thit — Lasting a long time; prolonged, lengthy

ဒုက္ခဆင်းရဲ

douk-hka-zin-yeh — Suffering and hardship; misery, distress

များကြောင့်

mya-kjoun — Because of many; due to multiple causes

နာကျင်မှု

na-kjin-hmu — Pain, ache; physical or emotional suffering

ဖြင့်

phyin — By means of; with, through (instrumental particle)

ပင်ပန်း

pin-pan — Tired, weary, exhausted from effort

နွမ်းနယ်

nwan-neh — Feeble, weak, debilitated, worn out

လျက်

lyat — While doing; continuous action particle

ဒဏ်ရာ

dan-ya — Wound, injury; physical damage to the body

ရသူ

ya-thu — One who receives or obtains something

များစွာ

mya-zwa — A great many; very numerous, a lot

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; conjunction or comitative particle

အတူ

a-tu — Together, along with; in company of

သည်

thi — Topic marker particle; indicates subject of sentence

ရှိ

shi — To exist, be present; to have

အခြေစိုက်

a-cheh-soit — To be based, stationed, or headquartered somewhere

စစ်ဆေးရုံ

sit-seh-yone — Military or examination hospital; field medical facility

သို့

thoe — To, toward; directional particle

ပို့ဆောင်

poe-saung — To transport, convey, deliver someone or something

ခြင်း

chyin — Nominalizing suffix; turns verb into abstract noun

ခံရ

khan-ya — To receive, undergo, or be subjected to

ထို

htoe — That, those; demonstrative pronoun referring to previously mentioned

နေရာ

neh-ya — Place, location, spot, position

တွင်

twín — In, at; locative particle indicating place or time

တဖြည်းဖြည်း

ta-phyi-phyi — Gradually, little by little, slowly over time

နလံ

na-lan — Recovery; returning to health after illness

ထူ

htu — To rise, get up; to recover strength

လာ

la — To come; directional verb particle toward speaker

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; and then, having finished

ဆောင်ခန်း

saung-khan — Ward, room; hall or chamber in a building

များ

mya — Plural marker; many, numerous

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, way, street

လျှောက်

lhout — To walk, proceed on foot

နိုင်သည်

nine-thi — Can, is able to; expressing ability or possibility

အထိ

a-hti — Until, up to, as far as

တောင့်ဝင်ရောင်

taung-win-yaung — Inflammation, swelling; redness and puffiness of tissue

မြေပြင်

myeh-pyin — Ground floor; surface of the earth or ground

ဆောင်

saung — Wing, hall; section of a large building

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative or object marker particle

ခဏ

kha-na — A moment, a short while, briefly

နား

nar — To rest; also means ear

တိုးတက်မှု

toe-tat-hmu — Progress, improvement, advancement, development

ရခဲ့

ya-kheh — Was able to receive or obtain (past tense)

ပြီ

pyi — Already, completion marker; indicates finished action

ဖြစ်သော်လည်း

phyit-thaw-leh — Although it is; even though, despite being

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kyun-daw-doe — We, us (formal, inclusive, male speaker)

၏

e — Possessive particle; of, belonging to

အိန္ဒိယ

ein-di-ya — India; South Asian country

နယ်မြေ

neh-myeh — Territory, region, area, domain

ကျိန်စာ

kyin-za — Curse, a dreaded affliction or bane

တည်းဟူသော

ti-hu-thaw — Known as, called; defining or naming particle

အူပိုး

u-poe — Intestinal worms; parasitic worm infection

ဝမ်းနာ

wun-na — Dysentery; severe intestinal inflammation with diarrhea

ဖျားရောဂါ

phya-yaw-ga — Fever, illness; disease characterized by high temperature

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to, toward (accusative)

ခံစားရ

khan-zar-ya — To feel, experience, suffer something

ကြောင့်

kjoun — Because of, due to; causal particle

ကျ

kya — To fall, drop; to befall (as illness)

သွား

thwa — To go; directional particle away from speaker

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; ability or permission particle

လ

la — Month; lunar calendar month

ပတ်လုံး

pat-lone — The whole of; entire duration, throughout

အသက်

a-thet — Life, age; breath or existence

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

myaw-lin-chet — Hope, expectation, anticipation for the future

မဲ့

meh — Without, lacking; devoid of something

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said, thought, considered as

ယူဆ

yu-hsa — To assume, think, consider, presume

ကြ

kya — Plural verb particle; action done by multiple subjects

နောက်ဆုံး

nout-zone — Finally, last, ultimately, at the end

သတိ

tha-ti — Consciousness, awareness, mindfulness; coming to one's senses

ပြန်

pyan — To return; again, back (directional/repetitive particle)

ငြိမ်သက်

nyein-thet — Calm, peaceful, stable; at rest

တိုးတက်

toe-tat — To progress, improve, advance, develop

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which, that, who

အခါ

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

အလွန်

a-lun — Very, extremely, exceedingly

ကာ

ka — While, as; sequential or continuative particle

ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာ

ko-khan-da — The body, physical form, bodily constitution

ကျဆင်း

kya-zin — To decline, deteriorate, fall, drop down

နေ

neh — To live, stay, reside; continuative aspect particle

ဆေး

seh — Medicine, drug, remedy; also paint or dye

ဘုတ်

boat — Board; committee or governing body

အဖွဲ့

a-phweh — Group, committee, team, organization

မှ

hma — From, out of; ablative or source particle

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — My, mine (possessive form, formal male)

အင်္ဂလန်

in-galan — England; country in the United Kingdom

ပို့

poe — To send, dispatch, deliver

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of

တစ်ရက်

ta-yet — One day; a single day

မျှ

hmya — Only, just, merely; equalizing particle

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, also; emphatic particle

ဆုံးရှုံး

zone-shone — To lose, suffer loss of something valuable

စေ

zeh — To cause, make, let; causative particle

မည်

mi — Future tense marker; will, shall

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not, are not; negation of existence

ဆုံးဖြတ်

zone-phyat — To decide, determine, resolve, make a decision

လိုက်

lout — To follow; accompaniment or directional particle

ထို့

htoe — Therefore, thus; referring to previous statement

စစ်

sit — War, military; also to examine, inspect

သင်္ဘော

thin-baw — Ship, vessel, boat for sea travel

ပေး

peh — To give, provide, offer

လွှတ်

hlut — To release, send off, let go

ခံ

khan — To bear, endure, receive, undergo

တစ်လ

ta-la — One month; duration of a single month

နောက်ပိုင်း

nout-pine — Afterward, later, subsequently, from then on

ဆိပ်ကမ်း

sate-kan — Harbor, port, dock, wharf

တံတား

tan-da — Bridge spanning water or gap

ပေါ်

paw — On, upon, above; surface locative particle

ဆင်း

zin — To descend, go down, disembark

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach, get to a place

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense particle; did, was, went (away)

ကျန်းမာရေး

kjan-ma-yeh — Health; the state of being well

ပြုပြင်

pyu-pyin — To repair, fix, restore, rehabilitate

မရ

ma-ya — Cannot get; unable to obtain or do

နိုင်

nine — To be able, can; capability or possibility

လောက်

lout — Enough, about, approximately; sufficiency particle

အောင်

aung — Until succeeding; in order to achieve, enough to

ဆိုးရွား

zoe-ywa — Serious, severe, bad, worsening condition

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix; in a manner, -ly

ပျက်စီး

pyat-zi — To be destroyed, ruined, damaged, broken

သော်လည်း

thaw-leh — Even though, although, nevertheless, however

ဖခင်

pha-khin — Father, paternal parent

ကဲ့သို့

keh-thoe — Like, similar to, as if

ကြင်နာ

kjin-na — Compassionate, caring, loving, affectionate

အစိုးရ

a-zoe-ya — Government, administration, ruling authority

နောက်ထပ်

nout-htat — Another, additional, further, next

ကိုးလ

ko-la — Nine months; duration of nine months

ကြာ

kya — To take time, last; duration of time

ကြိုးစား

kjoe-za — To try hard, make effort, strive

ပြန်လည်

pyan-le — To return, revert, do again; mutually

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung-mun — Good, excellent, well, fine in quality

ခွင့်ပြုချက်

khwin-pyu-chet — Permission, approval, authorization, consent

ရရှိ

ya-shi — To obtain, acquire, receive, get

မိတ်ဆွေ

mait-sweh — Friend, close companion, comrade

ဆွေမျိုး

sweh-myoe — Relatives, family members, kin

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist; there is none, absent

လေ

leh — Sentence-final particle expressing mild assertion or obviousness

လွတ်လပ်

hlut-lat — Free, independent, unrestricted, at liberty

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively

တစ်နေ့

ta-neh — One day; a single day, some day

လျှင်

lyin — If, when; conditional particle

ဝင်ငွေ

win-ngweh — Income, earnings, revenue

သူ

thu — He, she, they; third-person pronoun

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual

ကျေနပ်ရာ

kyeh-nat-ya — Satisfactory, content, fulfilling, adequate

ဆို

hsoe — To say, to be called; quotative verb

ထိုသို့သော

htoe-thoe-thaw — Such, of that kind; referring to described situation

အခြေအနေ

a-cheh-a-neh — Situation, condition, circumstance, state of affairs

အောက်

out — Below, under, beneath, lower

သဘာဝ

tha-ba-wa — Nature; natural state, naturally occurring condition

ကျကျ

kya-kya — Properly, well, thoroughly, correctly

လန်ဒန်

lan-dan — London; capital city of England and UK

မြို့

myoe — Town, city, urban settlement

ဆွဲဆောင်

sweh-saung — To attract, lure, entice, draw in

ဧကရာဇ်

eh-ga-yat — Emperor, monarch, supreme ruler

နိုင်ငံ

nine-ngan — Country, nation, state

လော်လော်ခြားခြား

law-law-chja-chja — Noticeably, conspicuously, distinctly, remarkably

နေထိုင်

neh-htine — To live, reside, dwell in a place

အလုပ်

a-lout — Work, job, occupation, task

ပျင်း

pyin — Lazy, idle, disinclined to work

အားလုံး

a-lone — All, everyone, everything, the whole

မနိုင်

ma-nine — Unable to, cannot; incapacity or impossibility

စီးဝင်

zi-win — To flow in, stream in, pour into

ကြီးမား

kji-ma — Huge, enormous, massive, great in size

ညစ်ညမ်း

nyit-nyan — Dirty, filthy, polluted, obscene

ရေသိုလှောင်ကန်

yeh-thoe-hlaung-kan — Water reservoir, water storage tank

ကြီး

kji — Big, large, great, senior

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, occur, happen

လမ်းမ

lan-ma — Main road, main street, thoroughfare

ပုဂ္ဂလိက

pout-ga-li-ka — Private, personal, non-governmental

ဟိုတယ်

hoe-tel — Hotel; establishment providing lodging for guests

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing; a single item or unit

အဆင်

a-hsin — Convenience, ease; level of comfort

မပြေ

ma-pyeh — Not smooth, inconvenient, uncomfortable

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a-deit-pa-yeh — Meaning, significance, definition, purpose

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life, existence, living condition

ဦးဆောင်

u-saung — To lead, head, guide, be in front

မှားယွင်း

hma-ywin — Wrong, mistaken, erroneous, incorrect

သင့်

thin — Should, ought to; appropriate, suitable

ထက်

htat — Than, more than; comparative particle

ပိုမို

poe-moe — More, even more, to a greater degree

ရှိသမျှ

shi-tha-mya — All that there is; whatever exists

ငွေ

ngweh — Money, silver, currency

သုံးစွဲ

thone-sweh — To spend, use, consume (money or resources)