A Tale of Two Cities — Page 4

Vocabulary

လက်နက်ကိုင်သော

lɛʔnɛʔkaiŋ dhɔ — Armed; carrying or bearing weapons

လူများ

lu mjá — People; persons; a group of people

၏

ɛ̀ — Possessive or genitive particle (of/belonging to)

ရဲရင့်သည့်

yɛ́jiɴ dhɛ̀ — Brave; bold; courageous; daring

အိမ်ဖောက်ထွင်းမှုများ

eiɴ pʰauʔ tʰwɪ̀ mhu mjá — Burglaries; incidents of breaking and entering homes

နှင့်

n̥ɪɴ — And; with; together with (conjunction/particle)

လမ်းပန်း

láɴpáɴ — Roads and paths; routes; thoroughfares

ဓားပြ

dá bjà — Robbery with a knife; armed robbery

တိုက်မှုများ

taiʔ mhu mjá — Attacks; assaults; incidents of assault

သည်

θɛ̀ — Topic/verb marker; present tense particle

မြို့တော်

mjóutɔ̀ — Capital city; the main city of a country

၌

n̥aiʔ — At; in; locative particle indicating place

ပင်

pɪɴ — Even; indeed; emphatic particle

ည

ɲà — Night; nighttime; evening

တိုင်း

taiɴ — Every; each; whenever (distributive particle)

ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည်

pʰjiʔ pwá kʰɛ̀ θɛ̀ — Occurred; happened; took place in the past

မိသားစု

mḭ θá zu — Family; household; one's family unit

များ

mjá — Plural marker; many; lots of

မိမိ

mḭmḭ — One's own; oneself; reflexive pronoun

တို့

tó — Plural pronoun suffix; we/they/you (plural)

ပရိဘောဂ

pəɹḭbɔ̀ɡa̰ — Furniture; household furnishings and fittings

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to; towards

လုံခြုံရေး

loɴtɕʰoɴ yé — Security; safety measures; protection

အတွက်

ə twɛʔ — For; for the sake of; because of

ပရိဘောဂဆိုင်

pəɹḭbɔ̀ɡa̰ sʰaiɴ — Furniture shop; store selling household furniture

ကုန်လှောင်ရုံ

koɴ l̥auɴ yoɴ — Warehouse; storage facility for goods

သို့

θó — To; towards; directional particle

သိမ်းဆည်း

θéiɴ sʰéɴ — To store; to keep safely; to put away

မထား

mə tʰá — Not kept; not stored; not placed somewhere

ဘဲ

bɛ́ — Without doing; instead of; negative connector

မြို့ပြင်

mjóu pjɪɴ — Outskirts; area outside the city limits

မထွက်ရန်

mə tʰwɛʔ yaɴ — Not to go out; to refrain from leaving

အများပြည်သူ

ə mjá pjìθù — General public; the populace; ordinary citizens

ရှေ့

ʃé — Front; ahead; in front of

တွင်

twɪɴ — In; at; within (locative particle)

သတိပေးချက်

θədḭ pé tɕʰɛʔ — Warning; alert; cautionary notice issued officially

ပေးခြင်း

pé tɕʰɪɴ — Act of giving; providing; issuing something

ခံခဲ့ရသည်

kʰaɴ kʰɛ̀ yà θɛ̀ — Received; was subjected to; underwent something

အမှောင်

ə m̥auɴ — Darkness; the dark; absence of light

ထဲ

tʰɛ́ — Inside; within; into (locative particle)

ဖြစ်သူ

pʰjiʔ θù — Person who is; one who happens to be

နေ့

né — Day; daytime; daily

အလင်း

ə lɪɴ — Light; brightness; illumination

မြို့တွင်း

mjóu twɪɴ — Inside the city; within city limits; downtown

ကုန်သည်

koɴ θɛ̀ — Merchant; trader; businessman; shopkeeper

တစ်ဦး

tə ʔú — One person; a single individual (formal)

ဖြစ်ပြီး

pʰjiʔ pjí — Being; having been; and then (connective)

သူ

θù — He; she; that person; third person pronoun

ကပ္ပတိန်

kaʔpəteiɴ — Captain; military or naval officer rank

အဖြစ်

ə pʰjiʔ — As; in the role of; in the capacity of

ဟန်ဆောင်

haɴ sʰauɴ — To pretend; to disguise; to act as if

ကာ

ká — While doing; having done (connective particle)

ရပ်တန့်

yaʔ táɴ — To stop; to halt; to come to a standstill

ခဲ့သော

kʰɛ̀ θɔ̀ — Past tense modifier; that which has happened

လုပ်ဖော်ကိုင်ဖက်

louʔ pʰɔ̀ kaiɴ pʰɛʔ — Colleague; coworker; work partner

မှ

m̥a̰ — From; by; ablative/source particle

မှတ်မိ

m̥aʔ mḭ — To recognize; to remember; to recall someone

ပြီး

pjí — After; having done; completion marker

ပြောဆို

pjɔ̀ sʰo — To speak; to say; to talk to someone

မေးမြန်း

mé mjáɴ — To question; to inquire; to ask someone

ခံရ

kʰaɴ ya̰ — To receive; to be subjected to; to undergo

သော

θɔ̀ — Relative clause marker; that/which (modifier)

အခါ

ə kʰá — When; at the time of; occasion

ရဲရင့်စွာ

yɛ́jiɴ zwá — Bravely; boldly; courageously; with daring

ခေါင်း

kʰáuɴ — Head; top part; leader of a group

ပစ်ခတ်

piʔ kʰaʔ — To shoot; to fire a weapon at someone

မောင်းနှင်

máuɴ n̥ɪɴ — To drive away; to chase off; to expel

ထွက်ခွာ

tʰwɛʔ kʰwá — To leave; to depart; to go away from

သွားခဲ့သည်

θwá kʰɛ̀ θɛ̀ — Went; has gone; departed (past tense)

စာတိုက်ယာဉ်

sà taiʔ yàɴ — Mail coach; postal vehicle; post carriage

ခုနစ်ယောက်

kʰuɴniʔ yauʔ — Seven people; a group of seven persons

က

ka̰ — Subject marker particle; agent marker

လမ်းကြောင်း

láɴ tɕáuɴ — Route; path; road direction; course

ပိတ်ဆို့

peiʔ sʰó — To block; to obstruct; to barricade a route

တိုက်ခိုက်

taiʔ kʰaiʔ — To attack; to assault; to strike forcefully

ခဲ့ပြီး

kʰɛ̀ pjí — Having done (past); then; after doing that

အစောင့်

ə sáuɴ — Guard; sentry; person standing watch

သုံးယောက်

θóɴ yauʔ — Three people; a group of three persons

သေနတ်

θènɛʔ — Gun; firearm; rifle or pistol

ဖြင့်

pʰjɪɴ — With; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

ပစ်သတ်

piʔ θaʔ — To shoot dead; to kill by shooting

ထို့နောက်

tʰó nauʔ — After that; subsequently; then afterward

ကျန်

tɕaɴ — Remaining; the rest; leftover

လေးယောက်

lé yauʔ — Four people; a group of four persons

ကျည်ဆံ

tɕì saɴ — Bullet; cartridge; ammunition round

ကုန်ဆုံး

koɴ sóɴ — To run out; to be exhausted; to be depleted

ကြောင့်

tɕáuɴ — Because of; due to; owing to

ဟူ

hù — Called; named; so-called (quotative particle)

၍

ywɛ̀ — Therefore; so; and so (connective particle)

သူ့

θú — His; her; of that person (possessive)

ထိုနောက်

tʰó nauʔ — After that; following that event; subsequently

အေးချမ်းစွာ

é tɕʰáɴ zwá — Peacefully; calmly; without disturbance or fuss

လုယူ

lu yù — To rob; to steal by force; to plunder

နိုင်ခဲ့သည်

naiɴ kʰɛ̀ θɛ̀ — Was able to; succeeded in; managed to do

ထည်ဝါသော

tʰɛ̀ wá θɔ̀ — Grand; magnificent; imposing; splendid

အာဏာပိုင်

ʔàná paiɴ — Authority; official; person in power or charge

ဖြစ်သည့်

pʰjiʔ θɛ̀ — Who is; which is; that is (relative marker)

ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်

wuɴ tɕí tɕʰouʔ — Prime Minister; head of government

တစ်ယောက်

tə yauʔ — One person; a single individual

မတ်တပ်

maʔ taʔ — Standing upright; at attention; erect posture

ရပ်ပြီး

yaʔ pjí — Having stopped; standing and then; after halting

ဥစ္စာ

ʔiʔsà — Property; belongings; valuables; possessions

ပေးအပ်

pé ʔaʔ — To hand over; to surrender; to give up

ရ

ya̰ — To get; to receive; can; able to

အောင်

ʔauɴ — So that; in order to; until achieving success

ညှဉ်းပန်း

ɲ̥íɴ páɴ — To torment; to torture; to harass cruelly

ခံခဲ့

kʰaɴ kʰɛ̀ — Endured; suffered; was subjected to (past)

ထို

tʰó — That; those; demonstrative adjective/pronoun

ဘုန်းတန်ခိုး

póɴ taɴ kʰó — Glory and power; majesty; divine authority

ကြီးသော

tɕí θɔ̀ — Great; large; big; important (modifier)

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ကြီး

pouʔɡo̰ tɕí — Great person; important dignitary; eminent figure

တော်ဝင်

tɔ̀ wɪɴ — Royal; belonging to the royal family

အခြံအရံ

ə tɕʰaɴ ə yaɴ — Entourage; escort; bodyguards surrounding someone

အားလုံး

á loɴ — All; everyone; everything; the whole group

မျက်ရှေ့

mjɛʔ ʃé — In front; before one's eyes; in the presence of

ထောင်

tʰauɴ — Prison; jail; place of incarceration

အကျဉ်းသား

ə tɕɪɴ θá — Prisoner; inmate; person detained in jail

ထောင်မှူး

tʰauɴ m̥ú — Prison warden; chief jailer; prison superintendent

တိုက်ပွဲ

taiʔ pwɛ́ — Battle; fight; armed confrontation; clash

ဖြစ်ပွား

pʰjiʔ pwá — To occur; to break out; to take place

ကြပြီး

tɕà pjí — Having done (plural); and then (plural verb ending)

ဥပဒေ

ʔṵpədè — Law; legislation; legal rule or statute

ကျည်ဆန်

tɕì saɴ — Bullet; projectile; rifle bullet

ကျည်လုံး

tɕì loɴ — Bullet; round of ammunition; projectile

ထည့်သွင်း

tʰɛ̀ θwɪɴ — To insert; to load (a gun); to put inside

ထားသော

tʰá θɔ̀ — That which is kept; placed; stored (modifier)

ချောင်းဝ

tɕʰáuɴ wà — Mouth of a creek; river mouth; narrow opening

ကျယ်

tɕɛ̀ — Wide; spacious; large in area; broad

သူတို့

θù tó — They; them; those people (third person plural)

ကြား

tɕá — Between; among; to hear; in the middle of

ခဲ့သည်

kʰɛ̀ θɛ̀ — Did; has done; past tense verb ending

ခိုးသား

kʰó θá — Thief; robber; one who steals

နန်းတော်

náɴ dɔ̀ — Palace; royal residence; king's dwelling

ဧည့်ခန်း

é kʰáɴ — Reception room; drawing room; guest room

မင်းသားကြီး

mɪɴ θá tɕí — Senior prince; great prince; high-ranking royal

လည်ပင်း

lɛ̀ pɪ̀ɴ — Neck; the part connecting head to shoulders

စိန်

sèiɴ — Diamond; precious gemstone; jewel

ပြုလုပ်သော

pju louʔ θɔ̀ — Made; done; performed; carried out (modifier)

လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်

lɛʔ wá kaʔ taiɴ — Cross; crucifix; Christian cross symbol

ဆွဲ

swɛ́ — To pull; to drag; to snatch; to tug

ဖြတ်တောက်

pʰjaʔ tauʔ — To cut off; to sever; to slash through

ယူသွား

yù θwá — To take away; to carry off; to steal away

ကြသည်

tɕà θɛ̀ — They do; plural present tense verb ending

သေနတ်ကိုင်

θènɛʔ kaiɴ — Armed with a gun; gunman; person carrying firearm

စစ်သား

siʔ θá — Soldier; military person; armed forces member

တိတ်တဆိတ်

teiʔ tə seiʔ — Secretly; stealthily; quietly without notice

တင်သွင်းသော

tɪɴ θwɪɴ θɔ̀ — Imported; brought in; smuggled in (modifier)

ကုန်ပစ္စည်း

koɴ piʔsí — Goods; merchandise; commodities; products

ရှာဖွေ

ʃà p̄wè — To search; to look for; to investigate

ရန်

yaɴ — In order to; for the purpose of; to (infinitive)

ဝင်ရောက်

wɪɴ yauʔ — To enter; to come in; to infiltrate a place

လူအုပ်ကြီး

lu ʔouʔ tɕí — Large crowd; big mob; a huge group of people

လည်း

lɛ́ — Also; too; as well; even (additive particle)

ပြန်

pjaɴ — To return; to go back; again; back

ဤ

ʔì — This (formal); this particular (demonstrative)

ဖြစ်ရပ်

pʰjiʔ yaʔ — Incident; event; occurrence; happening

တစ်ခု

tə kʰù — One thing; a single item or instance

ထူးဆန်း

tʰú sʰáɴ — Strange; unusual; extraordinary; remarkable

လွန်းသည်

lwáɴ θɛ̀ — Too much; excessively; extremely so

ဟု

hṵ — Quotative particle; saying that; as stated

မည်သူ

mḭ θù — Who; whoever; anyone; which person

မျှ

m̥ja̰ — Even; at all; whatsoever (emphatic negative)

မထင်မှတ်

mə tʰɪɴ m̥aʔ — Unexpected; not anticipated; unforeseen; surprising

ကြောင်း

tɕáuɴ — That; the fact that (reported speech marker)