Bleak House — Page 1

Vocabulary

တရားရုံး

taya youn — Court of law; place where legal cases are heard

တွင်

twín — In, at, within (locative particle)

လန်ဒန်

lan dun — London, capital city of England

မြို့

myó — Town or city

ဥပဒေ

u pa dè — Law, legal statute or regulation

သက်တမ်း

thet tán — Term, duration, period of validity

မကြာမီ

ma kja mi — Soon, shortly, before long

ပြီးဆုံး

pyí zoun — To finish, conclude, come to an end

ခဲ့ပြီး

khɛ̀ pyí — Past tense marker; having already done

လော့

law — Imperative particle urging action

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; is, are (copula)

အင်း

in — Pond, lake, or body of still water

ဟော်

haw — Hall, large building or great room

ထိုင်

htain — To sit down

နေ

nè — To live, stay, or remain; sun

နိုဝင်ဘာ

no win ba — November, the eleventh month of the year

လ

la — Month; the moon

၏

è — Possessive or genitive particle (formal)

ကြမ်းတမ်း

kján tán — Harsh, rough, severe, unkind

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle modifying nouns

ရာသီဥတု

ya thì u tu — Weather, climate, season conditions

မြေကြီး

myè kjí — Ground, earth, soil surface

မျက်နှာပြင်

myɛʔ hna byìn — Surface, face, outer layer of something

မှ

hmá — From, since, out of (ablative particle)

ရေ

yè — Water

များ

myá — Plural marker; many, numerous

ဆုတ်ခွာ

souʔ khwa — To retreat, withdraw, move away

သွား

thwá — To go; tooth

သ

tha — Sentence-final particle (formal written style)

ကဲ့သို့

kɛ̀ dho — Like, similar to, such as

လမ်း

lán — Road, path, way, street

ရွှံ့

shún — Mud, sludge, wet soft earth

လွှမ်း

hlwán — To cover, spread over, dominate

ပြီး

pyí — After, and then; finished, completed

တောင်ကုန်း

taun goun — Hill, small elevated landform

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, upon, above

ဆင်

sin — Elephant; to dress, put on

မြွေကောက်

mywè kauk — Winding snake-like path or curve

ကျော်ကျော

kjaw kjaw — Famous, renowned, well-known

ကြီး

kjí — Big, large, great, important

လျှောက်လာ

hljauk la — To walk toward, to come walking

ပေ

pè — Foot (unit of length); to give

လေးဆယ်

lé hsè — Forty (the number 40)

ခန့်

khán — Approximately, about, roughly

ရှည်

shɛ̀ — Long (in length or time)

သည့်

thì — Relative particle connecting clause to noun

တစ်ကောင်

ta kaun — One animal (animal counter word)

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with

တွေ့ဆုံ

twè zoun — To meet, encounter, come across someone

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, can, be able

လျှင်

hljin — If, when, conditional particle

လည်း

lɛ̀ — Also, too, as well (additive particle)

အံ့သြ

àn thaw — To be amazed, astonished, surprised

ဖွယ်

phwɛ̀ — Worthy of, likely to, apt to

မရှိ

ma shì — There is not, does not exist

မီးဖိုခေါင်း

mí pho gáun — Chimney, flue for smoke from fire

ကျဆင်း

kja sin — To fall down, decrease, descend

လာ

la — To come; directional verb particle toward speaker

မီးခိုး

mí khó — Smoke from fire

နူးညံ့

nú nyán — Soft, gentle, mild, tender

မည်းမှောင်

mjɛ̀ hmáun — Dark, gloomy, murky black

မိုး

mó — Rain; sky

ဖြူဖြူ

phyú phyú — White, pale, light-colored

လေး

lé — Four; a little, slightly (softening particle)

ဖြစ်

phyiʔ — To be, become, happen, occur

ကာ

ka — Continuous aspect marker; while doing

ပြည့်ဝ

pyí wa — Full, complete, plentiful, abundant

နှင်းခဲ

hnin khɛ̀ — Hailstone, frozen precipitation pellet

ကြီးမား

kjí má — Huge, enormous, very large

မီးမွှေး

mí mwé — Incense, fragrant burning substance

ပြာ

pyà — Ash, ashes from burned material

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also, include, involved

ပါဝင်

pa win — To participate, be included, take part

သေဆုံး

thè zoun — To die, pass away, perish

ခြင်း

chín — Nominalizer; act of, the fact that

အတွက်

a twɛʔ — For, for the sake of, because of

ညိုးငယ်

njó ngɛ̀ — Sad, gloomy, melancholy, downhearted

တစ်ယောက်

ta yauʔ — One person (person counter)

ယောက်

yauʔ — Counter for people (classifier)

စိတ်ကူး

seʔ kú — Idea, imagination, thought, fancy

မိ

mi — To catch, grasp; to hit target accidentally

နိုင်

nain — To be able to, can, win

ခွေး

khwé — Dog

ထဲ

htɛ̀ — Inside, within, into

မမှတ်မှတ်

ma hmɛʔ hmɛʔ — Absent-mindedly, without paying attention

မရရ

ma ya ya — Somehow or other, barely managing

မြင်း

mjin — Horse

သိပ်

thiʔ — Very, extremely, too much

မကောင်း

ma kaun — Not good, bad, unwell, harmful

လှ

hlá — Beautiful, pretty, attractive

မျက်ကန်းပတ်

myɛʔ kán paʔ — Blindly, without care or awareness

အထိ

a hti — Until, up to, as far as

ပတ်

paʔ — To encircle, go around; week

လျှောက်

hljauk — To walk, to stroll

သွားလာ

thwá la — To travel back and forth, commute

သူ

thu — He, she, that person (third person pronoun)

စိတ်တို

seʔ tó — Short-tempered, irritable, impatient

ဒေါသ

daw tha — Anger, wrath, rage

ထွက်

htwɛʔ — To exit, go out, come out

ယွင်းကူး

ywin kú — To infect, spread (of disease or problem)

မှု

hmú — Case, matter, affair (nominalizing suffix)

ကြောင့်

kjáun — Because of, due to, owing to

တစ်ဦး

ta ú — One person (formal polite counter)

ထီး

htí — Umbrella; male (animal prefix)

ကို

go — Accusative object marker particle

တိုး

tó — To increase, push forward, advance

နှောင့်ယှက်

hnáun shɛʔ — To disturb, annoy, interfere with

ရင်း

yin — While doing; origin, source, stem

နံနက်ခင်း

nan naʔ khin — Morning, early part of the day

မိုးလင်း

mó lin — Dawn, daybreak, when sky lightens

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from (ablative)

တည်းက

tɛ̀ ga — Since, from (a time), ever since

ဤ

ì — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

နေ့

nè — Day, daytime

ခဲ့

khɛ̀ — Past tense aspect marker particle

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, still (emphatic particle)

တွေကျ

twè kja — Things falling or happening together suddenly

ချော်

chaw — To slip, slide accidentally on surface

ကြ

kja — Plural verb particle; together as group

ထောင့်

htáun — Corner, angle of a surface or room

ခြေကုတ်

chè gouʔ — Foothold, toehold, footing on ground

မပြတ်

ma pyaʔ — Without stopping, continuously, incessantly

လဲကျ

lɛ̀ kja — To fall down, collapse, topple over

အလွှာ

a hlwa — Layer, stratum, coat of substance

ထပ်

htaʔ — To add, again, floor/story of building

ပြားချပ်ပြား

pyá chaʔ pyá — Flat and thin, plate-like in shape

ကော်ဆေး

kaw zè — Glue, adhesive substance

ကပ်ငြိ

kaʔ nji — To stick to, adhere, cling onto

အတိုး

a tó — Interest (on money); increment, increase

ရိုး

yó — Bone; simple, plain, ordinary

စုပုံ

su boun — To accumulate, pile up, collect together

နေရာ

nè ya — Place, location, spot, position

တိုင်း

táin — Every, all, each time; region, state

မြူ

mjú — Mist, fog, haze

ဖုံး

phoun — To cover, conceal, hide; phone (loanword)

မြစ်

myiʔ — River

ဆီးတက်

hsí taʔ — To obstruct, block the way ahead

ဘက်

bɛʔ — Side, direction, toward

စိမ်းလန်း

sain lán — Green and lush, fresh and verdant

ကျွန်းကလေး

kjun ga lè — Small island, little islet

မြက်ခင်း

myaʔ khin — Lawn, grassy ground, meadow

ကြား

kjá — Between, among; to hear

စီးဆင်း

sí sin — To flow, stream, run (of water)

လျက်

lyaʔ — While, as, still (simultaneous action particle)

ရှိ

shi — To exist, be present, have

ဆင်း

sin — To descend, go down, alight

မူ

mu — As for, however (contrastive topic marker)

ညစ်ညမ်း

nyiʔ nyán — Dirty, filthy, polluted, contaminated

မြို့တော်

myó daw — Capital city

တစ်ခု

ta khù — One thing (general object counter)

သင်္ဘော

thin baw — Ship, large boat, vessel

တန်းစီ

tán sì — To line up, queue, stand in row

ဆိပ်ကမ်း

hseʔ kán — Harbour, port, dock for boats

ရေနံ

yè nán — Petroleum, crude oil

ဘေး

bé — Side, beside; danger, hazard

မြင့်မား

mjin má — High, tall, elevated, lofty

မြေ

myè — Land, ground, earth, soil

မီးသွေး

mí thwé — Coal, charcoal used as fuel

မီးဖို

mí pho — Fireplace, stove, furnace, hearth

သို့

tho — To, toward, in the direction of

တိုးဝင်

tó win — To enter, penetrate, come inside

ကျင်း

kjin — Pit, trench, pool, moat

ကြိုးဆွဲ

kjó zwɛ̀ — To pull with rope, haul, drag

ပျံဝဲ

pyán wɛ̀ — To fly, soar, hover in the air

ကုန်ချီ

koun chì — To carry goods, transport cargo

လှေ

hlè — Small boat, canoe, rowboat

ငယ်

ngɛ̀ — Small, young, little

သင်္ဘောတိုင်

thin baw táin — Ship's mast, tall pole on vessel

ညွတ်ငိုက်

nyouʔ ngaiʔ — To droop, nod downward, bow limply