Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem — Page 2

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle used after subject

နှစ်ထပ်

hnit-htat — Double; two layers or two-storied

အနိုင်ရသူ

a-naing-ya-thu — Victor; one who wins or conquers

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit-thì — Is; to be; exists as something

သူ၏

thu-i — His; belonging to him, possessive pronoun

ဆုလာဘ်

hsù-la — Prize; reward; spoils won in victory

များကို

myà-go — Plural object marker; to the many things

ယူဆောင်

yù-hsaung — To take and carry; to bring along

လာသည်

la-thì — Comes; arriving; moving toward the speaker

၏

i — Possessive particle; belonging to someone

ကျေးဇူးတင်

kyè-zù-tin — To be grateful; to give thanks to

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizing suffix turning verb into noun

ကျင့်ဝတ်

kyint-wut — Code of conduct; ethics; moral duty

သင်ခန်းစာ

thin-kàn-za — Lesson; moral teaching to be learned

များ

myà — Plural marker; many; more than one

ဆွေးနွေး

hswe-nwe — To discuss; to deliberate; to converse

အလုပ်

a-lout — Work; job; task; labor to be done

အပြီး

a-pyì — After finishing; upon completion of something

အနားယူ

a-na-yù — To rest; to take a break from activity

ခွဲခွာ

khwè-khwa — To separate; to part ways; to divide

ရခြင်း

ya-chìn — The act of receiving or obtaining something

အပေါ်

a-pau — On top of; regarding; above; about

ဝမ်းနည်း

wùn-nè — To be sad; to feel sorrow or grief

အိမ်

eim — House; home; dwelling place

သို့

thó — To; toward; directional particle indicating destination

ပြန်သည့်

pyan-thì — Returning; going back to a place

ခရီး

kha-yì — Journey; trip; travel from one place

ဘုရင်မ

bù-yin-ma — Queen; female ruler of a kingdom

နှစ်ပါး

hnit-bà — Two; a pair; both of two things

နှင့်

hnint — And; with; together with someone or something

အား

à — Object marker particle; to; for someone

စွန့်စားခန်း

hsount-zà-kàn — Adventure; daring episode; dangerous undertaking

ပြောပြ

pyaw-pya — To tell; to explain; to narrate to someone

လက်ဆောင်

let-hsaung — Gift; present given to another person

ပေးခြင်း

pè-chìn — The act of giving something to someone

အပြန်အလှန်

a-pyan-a-lhan — Mutually; reciprocally; exchanging with each other

ဘဏ္ဍာ

ban-da — Treasure; treasury; royal wealth or riches

များနှင့်

myà-hnint — And many; together with multiple things

နဂါး

na-ga — Dragon; serpent; mythical dragon creature

အသက်

a-thet — Life; age; breath; one's living years

ကြီး

kyì — Big; great; large; old; elderly

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — Although; even though; despite the fact

သတ္တိ

thut-ti — Courage; bravery; valor in facing danger

ရှိသည်

shì-thì — There is; exists; to have something

အတိတ်

a-teit — The past; former times; history long ago

အမှတ်တရ

a-hmat-ta-ya — Memory; remembrance; something worth commemorating

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; direct object

ရှာဖွေ

sha-hpwe — To search; to seek; to look for

ဆက်လက်၍

hset-let-ywe — Continuing; proceeding further; and then onward

နောက်ဆုံး

nout-hsùn — Last; final; the very end of something

တိုက်ပွဲ

tite-bwè — Battle; fight; combat between opposing forces

ယုံကြည်

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

စိတ်ချရသော

seit-chya-ya-thaw — Reliable; trustworthy; dependable person or thing

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit-hswe — Friend; companion; close friendly acquaintance

ထား

htà — To place; to keep; completive verb particle

များမှ

myà-hma — From among many; ablative plural particle

စွန့်ပစ်

hsount-pyit — To abandon; to desert; to cast aside

ခံရ

khan-ya — To suffer; to receive; to be subjected to

အသေအချာ

a-thè-a-chya — Certainly; definitely; without any doubt whatsoever

အခိုက်အတန့်

a-khite-a-tan — Moment; brief period; a short while

လုယူ

lu-yù — To seize; to loot; to plunder by force

သေဆုံး

thè-hsùn — To die; to pass away; to perish

သွားသော

thwà-thaw — Gone; went; departed; who has left

ရန်သူ

yan-thu — Enemy; foe; adversary; hostile opponent

သရော်

tha-yaw — To mock; to taunt; to ridicule someone

စကား

za-ga — Words; speech; conversation; spoken language

သေခြင်း

thè-chìn — Death; dying; the act of passing away

သတင်းတမန်

tha-din-da-man — Messenger; herald; one who delivers news

နောက်ကြည့်ချက်

nout-kyì-chet — Retrospective view; looking back at past events

ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်

wùn-nè-hpwe — Sorrowful; lamentable; causing sadness and grief

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat-lán — Story; narrative; plot of a tale

သယ်ဆောင်

thè-hsaung — To carry; to transport; to bear something

သွားခြင်း

thwà-chìn — Going; departing; the act of leaving

မီးရှို့

mì-shò — To burn; to set fire to something

ဖြည့်စွက်ချက်

hpyì-hsout-chet — Supplement; addition; appended note or comment

နိဒါန်း

ni-dàn — Introduction; preface; opening section of text

။

a-soat — Full stop; sentence-ending punctuation in Burmese

ဤ

i — This; the demonstrative pronoun referring nearby

လက်ရှိ

let-shì — Current; present; existing at this time

လုပ်ငန်း

lout-ngan — Work; enterprise; project; business undertaking

ရိုသေ

yo-thè — To respect; to revere; to show deference

တန်ဖိုးထားရသော

tan-bo-htà-ya-thaw — Valued; prized; something considered worth keeping

ကာရန်ဆိုင်ရာ

ka-yan-hsine-ya — Relating to rhyme or meter in poetry

ဝတ္ထုကြီး

wut-htu-kyì — Great work; major literary piece or epic

ခေတ်မီသော

khet-mi-thaw — Modern; contemporary; up-to-date; current era

တိုင်းတာမှု

tite-ta-hmu — Measurement; assessment; act of measuring something

များဖြင့်

myà-hpyin — With many; using multiple things or means

အနီးစပ်ဆုံး

a-ni-zat-hsùn — Closest; nearest; most approximate rendering possible

ပြန်လည်

pyan-le — Again; returning to; re-doing something over

ဖော်ထုတ်ရန်

hpaw-htout-yan — To render; to bring out; to express clearly

ရိုးရှင်းသော

yo-shìn-thaw — Simple; plain; straightforward; uncomplicated in nature

ကြိုးပမ်းမှု

kyò-pàn-hmu — Effort; attempt; striving toward a goal

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One; a single thing or item

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning thus or saying that

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I; me; first person pronoun for males

ထပ်မံ

htat-man — Again; additionally; once more; furthermore

ဆိုသည်

hsò-thì — Says; states; to say or declare something

၊

a-chin-let — Comma; minor pause punctuation mark in Burmese

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung-hma — The reason is; because; regarding the cause

ကဗျာ

ka-bya — Poem; poetry; verse in literary form

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; exceedingly; to a great degree

နီးစပ်စွာ

ni-zat-zwa — Closely; in a near or proximate manner

ဖော်ထုတ်ပါက

hpaw-htout-ba-ga — If rendered; should one express or produce

ခေတ်မီသည့်

khet-mi-thì — Modern; contemporary; belonging to current times

နား

na — Ear; to listen; to understand by hearing

အတွက်

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

ကြီးမားသော

kyì-mà-thaw — Vast; enormous; great in scale or extent

အတိုင်းအတာ

a-tite-a-ta — Extent; degree; measure; scale of something

အထိ

a-hti — Until; up to; as far as a point

ဆရာဝန်

hsaya-wun — Doctor; physician; medical professional healer

ရေးဆိုသည့်

yè-hsò-thì — Written by; composed by; authored by someone

ဖတ်ရှုရေးသားချက်

hpat-shu-yè-thà-chet — Reading and writing; written commentary or prose

ပင်

pin — Even; also; indeed; emphatic particle

ဖြစ်သွားမည်

hpyit-thwà-mì — Will become; shall turn into something else

စာသား

za-thà — Text; written words; passage of written content

ဝေါဟာရ

waw-ha-ya — Vocabulary; terminology; set of words or terms

နီးကပ်စွာ

ni-kut-zwa — Closely; in tight proximity; following very near

လိုက်နာ

lite-na — To follow; to comply; to adhere to rules

ထားသည်

htà-thì — Has placed; has kept; has done and kept

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

tit-kha-tit-yan — Sometimes; occasionally; from time to time

ထွက်ခွာမှု

htwet-khwa-hmu — Departure; deviation; act of leaving or diverging

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-lout — To do; to make; to carry out an action

ထားသော်လည်း

htà-thaw-lè — Although having done; even though having kept

အမြဲတမ်း

a-myè-dàn — Always; constantly; at all times without exception

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung-mun — Good; excellent; of high quality or virtue

ပြီး

pyì — Finished; after; done; completion particle

လုံလောက်သော

loun-lout-thaw — Sufficient; adequate; enough for the purpose

အကြောင်းပြချက်

a-kyaung-pya-chet — Reason; justification; explanation for a decision

ဖြစ်သည်ဟု

hpyit-thì-hu — Saying that it is; asserting something to be

ထင်မြင်သော

htin-myin-thaw — Believed; thought to be; considered or deemed

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; affair; subject

အတွက်သာ

a-twet-tha — Only for; solely for the purpose of

ဘာသာပြန်သူ

ba-tha-pyan-thu — Translator; one who translates between languages

တည်းဖြတ်သူ

tè-hpyat-thu — Editor; one who edits or revises text

ဖြစ်ရန်

hpyit-yan — In order to be; so as to become

ရည်ရွယ်

yì-ywè — To intend; to aim; to have a purpose

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma-hout-pè — Is not; certainly not; definitely not so