Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem — Page 6

Vocabulary

လူမျိုး

lu myoe — ethnic group, race, or nationality of people

များ

mya — many, plural marker or more in quantity

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma hout — or, otherwise, used to present alternatives

၏

e — possessive or linking particle in formal writing

ရှင်ဘုရင်

shin byu yin — king, a male monarch ruling a kingdom

သည်

thì — topic marker or present tense verb particle

ကြီးမား

kyi ma — great, large, impressive in size or importance

သော

thaw — relative clause marker, equivalent to 'which' or 'that'

ခန်းမ

khan ma — hall, a large room or gathering place

တော်

taw — royal, worthy, or skilled; honorific modifier

နန်းတော်

nan daw — royal palace, the residence of a king

တစ်ခု

tit khu — one thing, a single item or object

ကို

ko — object marker particle indicating the direct object

တည်ဆောက်

tì hsout — to build, construct, or establish a structure

ခဲ့ပြီး

kheh pi — did and completed, past tense continuative marker

ထို

htoe — that, those; a demonstrative pronoun or adjective

၌

hnit — at, in; a locative particle indicating place

မိမိ

mi mi — oneself, one's own; reflexive pronoun

သစ္စာခံ

thit sa khan — loyal, faithful, devoted to a person or cause

သူများ

thu mya — they, those people; third person plural pronoun

ဧည့်ခံ

eh khan — to host, entertain, or welcome guests warmly

စားသောက်

sa thout — to eat and drink, to dine together

ကျွေးမွေး

kjwe mwe — to feed, nourish, or provide food for others

ကာ

ka — while, as; a continuative or simultaneous action particle

လက်ဆောင်

let hsoun — gift, present given to someone as a token

ပစ္စည်း

pyit si — item, object, possession, or material goods

ပေးအပ်

pe ap — to give, hand over, or bestow something formally

နိုင်မည်

nine myi — will be able to, future ability modal

ဟု

hu — quotation particle meaning 'saying' or 'that'

မျှော်လင့်

myaw lin — to hope, expect, or look forward to something

ထားသည်

hta thi — to keep, place, or have done beforehand

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — however, but, nevertheless; a contrastive conjunction

နှင့်

hnin — and, with; a conjunction or comitative particle

တပ်မတော်သား

tat ma daw tha — soldier, member of the armed forces

ဝမ်းမြောက်

wun myout — to rejoice, feel glad, or be overjoyed

ဝမ်းသာ

wun tha — happy, pleased, feeling contentment or satisfaction

မှု

hmu — abstract noun suffix indicating action or state

မှာ

hma — at, in, on; locative or command particle

ကာလ

ka la — period, era, time; a span of duration

တို

toe — short, brief, or plural pronoun suffix

သာ

tha — only, just; a limiting or emphatic particle

ကြာမြင့်

kja myin — to last long, take a long time

ခဲ့သည်

kheh thi — did, past tense auxiliary indicating completed action

နတ်ဆိုး

nat so — evil spirit, demon, or malevolent supernatural being

မုန်းတီး

moun ti — to hate, despise, or feel strong aversion toward

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

phwe kaun — worthy of, deserving; used to express merit

အနိုင်ကျင့်

a nine kjin — to oppress, bully, or exert power over others

ပြင်းပြင်း

pyin pyin — intensely, strongly, with great force or severity

ထန်ထန်

htan htan — fiercely, violently, extremely intense in manner

ခံစား

khan sa — to feel, experience, or endure an emotion or situation

နေရ

ne ya — must stay, have to remain or endure

အနီး

a ni — near, close by, in proximity to something

ရှိ

shi — to exist, be present, have; existential verb

ဆွဲငန်

hsweh ngan — to drag, pull, or haul with force

မြေ

mye — earth, ground, land, or soil

ပေါ်

paw — on top of, above, upon a surface

မှ

hma — from, since; ablative or source particle

နေရာ

ne ya — place, location, spot, or position

ထိုင်ခင်း

htain khyin — seating, a place where one sits or settles

သို့

thoe — to, toward; a directional particle indicating movement

ရောက်ရှိ

yout shi — to arrive at, reach, or be present at

လာသော

la thaw — coming, that which comes or arrived

အသံ

a thun — sound, voice, noise made by someone or something

သူ

thu — he, she, they; third person pronoun

လုံးဝ

lone wah — completely, absolutely, totally, not at all

ခံနိုင်ရည်

khan nine yeh — tolerance, endurance, ability to bear or withstand

မရှိ

ma shi — does not exist, there is none, lacking

ပေ

pe — emphatic or evidential sentence-final particle

ကြောက်မက်

kjout met — terrifying, dreadful, inspiring great fear or horror

ဘေးအန္တရာယ်

be an ta yeh — danger, threat, hazard, or peril to safety

ကျူးလွန်

kju lwun — to commit, perpetrate, or violate an act

မည်

myi — will, shall; future tense marker particle

ဆုံးဖြတ်

hsone phyat — to decide, resolve, or make a determination

အဆောက်အဦ

a hsout a u — building, structure, construction of physical edifice

မကြာမကြာ

ma kja ma kja — frequently, often, repeatedly over a period of time

သွားလာ

thwa la — to come and go, travel back and forth

နေသည်

ne thi — to be staying, living, or continuously doing something

ကျေးဇူးတော်ရှင်

kje zu daw shin — patron, benefactor, lord who shows grace or favor

တစ်ဦး

tit u — one person, a single individual

ပြီးတစ်ဦး

pi tit u — one after another, each person in succession

ကြမ်းကြုတ်

kjam kjout — rough, brutal, harsh, or cruel in behavior

စွာ

swa — adverbial suffix meaning in a manner or way

ဖမ်းဆီး

phun si — to capture, arrest, or seize by force

သွား

thwa — to go, move away from current location

ခြင်း

kjin — nominalizer suffix turning verb into abstract noun

ပစ်

pyit — to throw, shoot, or discard something away

ကျရောက်

kja yout — to fall upon, befall, or descend onto something

လည်း

le — also, too, even; an additive or concessive particle

တိုက်ဆိုင်

tout hsain — to coincide, encounter, or confront face to face

ရန်

yan — in order to, for the purpose of; purpose particle

အားအင်

a ain — strength, power, energy, or physical force

လုံလောက်

lone lout — sufficient, enough, adequate for a purpose

ရဲရင့်

yeh yin — brave, courageous, bold in facing danger

မျှ

hmya — as much as, equal to, even; equalizing particle

မတွေ့

ma twe — not found, did not meet or encounter

ရ

ya — to obtain, get, or be able to do

ဆယ်

hse — ten, the number 10 in Burmese counting

နှစ်

hnit — year, or two in Burmese numeral context

တာ

ta — nominalizer or duration particle in informal speech

ပတ်လုံး

pat lone — throughout, all around, the whole period or extent

ကျွန်

kjun — slave, servant, or first person humble pronoun

ပြည်သူ

pyi thu — citizens, people of a nation, the public

ညှဉ်းဆဲ

nyin hse — to torment, harass, or afflict someone cruelly

နှိပ်စက်

hnyet set — to oppress, persecute, or tyrannize over people

ပင်လယ်

pin le — sea, ocean, a large body of saltwater

ဖြတ်၍

phyat ywe — by crossing, cutting through, passing across something

တစ်ရက်

tit yet — one day, a single day's journey or time

ခရီး

kha yi — journey, trip, travel to a destination

ဝေး

we — far, distant, remote from a reference point

တွင်

twin — in, at, within; locative particle for places

ဂိတ်

gait — gate, entrance, or port of a place

ဘုရင်

byu yin — king, ruler, or monarch of a kingdom

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin yeh — poor, impoverished, or suffering from hardship

ဒုက္ခ

douk kha — suffering, hardship, trouble, or misfortune

ကြားသိ

kja thi — to hear about, come to know through hearing

ရသည်

ya thi — obtains, receives, or is able to do

ဖွယ်

phwe — worthy of, likely to; potential or likelihood suffix

ချေမှုန်း

che hmoun — to destroy, annihilate, or wipe out completely

သက်ကြီး

thet kji — elderly, aged, senior in years

ရွယ်အို

ywe o — old age, elderly stage of life

ကယ်တင်

ke tin — to rescue, save, or deliver from danger

ရွေးချယ်

ywe che — to choose, select, or pick from options

ထားသော

hta thaw — that which has been kept, placed, or done

လေးဆယ်

le hse — forty, the number 40

လေးဦး

le u — four people, a group of four persons

လုပ်ဖော်

lout phaw — companion, fellow worker, partner in work

ကိုင်ဖက်

kain phet — comrade, partner, one who works alongside another

အတူ

a tu — together, jointly, at the same time with others

နိုင်ငံ

nine ngan — country, nation, state as a political entity

သဘော

tha baw — meaning, idea, intention, or disposition of mind

ပျောက်

pyout — to disappear, get lost, vanish from sight

ထွက်

htwet — to exit, come out, or leave a place

ပြီးနောက်

pi nout — after that, afterwards, following a completed action

ကူညီ

ku nyi — to help, assist, or support someone in need

နိုင်

nine — to be able to, can, or win against

စွမ်း

swun — capability, ability, power or skill to do

အား

a — strength, energy; object marker in some contexts

မကြာမီ

ma kja mi — soon, before long, in a short while

ယုံကြည်

yone kji — to believe, trust, have faith in someone

စေ

se — to cause, let, make; causative or imperative particle

ညနေ

nya ne — evening, late afternoon time of day

ချမ်း

khjan — cool, peaceful, or prosperous; used in blessings

မတိုင်မီ

ma tain mi — before reaching, prior to arriving at a point

ကုန်လွန်

koun lwun — to pass by, elapse, or expire as time

သွားသော

thwa thaw — that which went, having gone or departed

နာရီ

na yi — hour, clock, or watch measuring time

ဘီယာ

bi ya — beer, an alcoholic beverage brewed from grain

သောက်

thout — to drink, consume a liquid beverage

စကား

za ga — word, language, speech, or conversation

ပြောဆို

pyaw hsoe — to speak, say, or converse with others

တို့

toe — plural pronoun suffix or group marker

ဖြင့်

phyin — with, by means of; instrumental particle

ဖြတ်ကျော်

phyat kjaw — to cross over, pass through, overcome an obstacle

ကြသည်

kja thi — plural action marker, they do together

အိပ်ချိန်

ait chein — sleeping time, bedtime, or time to rest

ရောက်လာ

yout la — to arrive, come to a place or point

အခါ

a kha — time, occasion, when; temporal marker word

တာဝန်

ta wun — responsibility, duty, or obligation to fulfill

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — one person, alone, a single individual

အုပ်ချုပ်

out choupt — to govern, rule, administer, or manage affairs

ကာကွယ်

ka kweh — to protect, defend, guard against harm or danger

ခွင့်

khwin — permission, right, or opportunity to do something

ယခုအထိ

ya khu a hti — until now, up to this point in time

မပေး

ma pe — not give, withhold from giving something to someone

ဖူး

phu — ever, experiential particle indicating past experience

ကြောင်း

kjoun — that, because; complementizer or reason particle

ပြောကြား

pyaw kja — to inform, announce, or tell someone something

အားလုံး

a lone — all, everyone, everything without exception

အနားယူ

a na yu — to rest, take a break, relax from activity

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet khwa — to depart, leave, go away from a place

သွားကြ

thwa kja — they went, plural past action of going

ပြီး

pi — finished, done, after completing; completion particle

မူ

mu — as for, regarding; topic contrast particle

လက်နက်

let net — weapon, arms, tool used for fighting

အိပ်

ait — to sleep, rest, or lie down to slumber

ကဲ့သို့

keh thoe — like, as, similar to in comparison

ဖြစ်

phyit — to be, become, happen, or occur

နယ်မြေ

ne mye — territory, region, land area under jurisdiction

ဖြတ်

phyat — to cut through, cross, or pass by quickly

သွားသူ

thwa thu — one who goes, the person who departed

ဘုရားသခင်

byu ya tha khin — God, the Lord; used in Christian contexts

အမျက်

a myet — anger, wrath, fury, or rage of someone

ဒေါသ

daw tha — anger, irritation, one of the three Buddhist poisons

ဆောင်

hsoun — to carry, bring, or convey something along

လာသည်

la thi — comes, arrives, or approaches a place

အိပ်ပျော်

ait pyaw — to fall asleep, be deeply sleeping soundly

နေသော

ne thaw — who is living or staying; present participle of dwell

စစ်သူရဲ

sit thu yeh — warrior, fighter, brave soldier in battle

သတ်ပစ်

thet pyit — to kill, slay, put to death by force

လိုက်သည်

lait thi — follows, goes along with, or pursues someone

ထို့နောက်

htoe nout — after that, then, subsequently in sequence

ဆီ

hsi — toward, to; directional particle indicating destination

ချဉ်းကပ်

chin kapt — to approach, draw near, come closer to

သွားသည်

thwa thi — goes, departs, moves away from a place