Bleak House — Page 2

Vocabulary

နှောင်းပိုင်း

hnaungg paing — Later period or latter part of something

ပင်စင်စားကြီးများ

pinsin sa kji mya — Retired elderly pensioners or senior retirees

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle in Burmese grammar

မျက်လုံးများ

myatlone mya — Eyes; the organs of sight

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; a conjunction particle

လည်ချောင်းများ

leh chaung mya — Throats; the passage inside the neck

တွင်

twin — In; inside; within a place or time

မြူနှင်း

myu hnin — Fog and mist; misty foggy atmosphere

ဖုံးလွှမ်း

phone lhwan — To cover over; to blanket completely

၍

ywe — Therefore; and so; connective particle indicating cause

သူတို့

thu to — They; them; third person plural pronoun

ဆောင်ခန်းများ

saung khan mya — Halls or lounges; rooms for gathering

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present

မီးဖို

mi pho — Fireplace; hearth for burning fire indoors

နား

na — Ear; organ of hearing; also to rest

ကြိတ်ကြိတ်တိုး

kjit kjit to — To whisper intensely; to murmur quietly together

နေကြ

ne kja — To be (plural); they are doing something

ဒေါသကြီး

daw thar kji — Very angry; having great rage or fury

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; which, that, who

သင်္ဘောမှူး

thinbaw hmu — Ship's captain; master or commander of vessel

မွန်းလွဲပိုင်း

mun lwe paing — Afternoon; the period after midday

ဆေးပိုက်

ze paik — Tobacco pipe; instrument for smoking tobacco

ကိုင်းတွင်း

kaing twin — Well; a deep hole dug for water

တို့

to — Plural particle; we/they; group marker pronoun

လည်း

le — Also; too; as well; additive particle

မြူ

myu — Mist; fog; fine water droplets in air

သည်

thi — Present tense marker; topic marker particle

ကျဆင်း

kja hsing — To descend; to fall down; to decrease

နေ

ne — To stay; to live; continuous aspect marker

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun pointing away

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative and dative case marker

သူ

thu — He; she; third person singular pronoun

ပိတ်လောင်း

pait laung — Velvet; a soft luxurious fabric material

ထဲ

hte — Inside; within; into; interior locative particle

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw shi — Located on top of; existing upon

တုန်လှုပ်

tun hlyup — To shake; to tremble; to vibrate nervously

နေသော

ne thaw — That is living or staying; continuous relative clause

သေးငယ်

the ngeh — Small; tiny; of little size or stature

သည့်

thi — Relative clause marker; that which; nominalization particle

တပည့်

ta pneh — Student; disciple; apprentice; follower of a teacher

ကလေး

ka le — Child; young one; also diminutive suffix

ခြေချောင်းများ

chje chaung mya — Toes; the digits of the feet

လက်ချောင်းများ

let chaung mya — Fingers; the digits of the hands

ကို

ko — Object marker; accusative case particle in Burmese

ရက်စက်

yet set — Cruel; brutal; merciless in treatment of others

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning -ly; in a manner

ဖိနှိပ်

phi hnhit — To oppress; to suppress; to press down forcibly

တံတားများ

tan ta mya — Bridges; structures built over water or gaps

မတော်တဆ

ma taw ta hsa — Accidentally; by chance; unintentionally happening

ရောက်လာသော

yauk la thaw — That has arrived or come to a place

သူများ

thu mya — People; persons; others; those individuals

မြူဆိုင်းသော

myu hsaing thaw — Misty; foggy; shrouded in mist or haze

ကောင်းကင်

kaung kin — Sky; the heavens above the earth

ဆီသို့

hsi hto — Toward; in the direction of something

မျက်နှာကျက်များ

myat hna kjet mya — Ceilings; the upper interior surfaces of rooms

ကျော်

kjaw — Over; past; beyond; to cross or exceed

မော်ကြည့်

maw kji — To gaze upward; to look up at something

ရှုနေကြ

shu ne kja — They are looking or gazing at something

ပြီး

pyi — After; completed; done; completion aspect marker

ဘယ်လောင်း

beh laung — Barge; a flat-bottomed cargo boat

တစ်စင်း

ta sing — One vessel; classifier for boats or ships

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On top of; upon the surface of

ရောက်နေ

yauk ne — Has arrived and remains; is present at

ကာ

ka — While; as; sequential or simultaneous action particle

မြူနှင်းသော

myu hnin thaw — Foggy and misty; covered with fog and mist

တိမ်ကောင်းများ

tein kaung mya — Clouds; masses of water vapor in sky

ဆောင်းနေသည်

saung ne thi — Is hanging or draping; suspending something down

ကဲ့သို့

ke hto — Like; as; similar to; in the manner of

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်

pat wan kjin — Surroundings; environment; the area all around

တစ်ဝိုက်လုံး

ta waik lone — All around; the entire surrounding area

ဖုံးအုပ်

phone oup — To cover over; to envelop completely

ထားလေ

hta le — Has placed or kept; resultative particle with emphasis

လမ်းများ

lan mya — Roads; streets; paths for traveling

တစ်လျှောက်

ta lyauk — Along; throughout; all the way along

အနှံ့အပြား

a hnan a pya — Everywhere; scattered all over; in all directions

နေရာများ

ne ya mya — Places; locations; spots; various areas

ထဲမှ

hte hma — From inside; out of; from within

ဖောင်းပွ

phaung pwa — To swell up; to inflate; to puff up

ပေါ်လာ

paw la — To appear; to emerge; to come up

နွေးညက်သော

nwe nyet thaw — Warm and gentle; softly warm in feeling

လယ်ကွင်းများ

leh kwin mya — Paddy fields; agricultural rice cultivation areas

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative case marker particle

လယ်သမား

leh tha ma — Farmer; agricultural worker who cultivates land

ထွန်ကောင်

htun kaung — Plow; farming tool used to till soil

ကလေးများ

ka le mya — Children; young kids; multiple young persons

မြင်ရသည်

myin ya thi — Can be seen; is visible; one can see

တူပေ

tu pe — Seems similar; appears to be the same

ဆိုင်

hsaing — Shop; store; also to concern or relate to

အများစု

a mya su — Most; the majority; the greater part

၎င်းတို့

dain to — They; them; those (formal third person plural)

ပုံမှန်

pone hman — Normal; regular; usual; ordinary and standard

အချိန်

a chein — Time; period; moment; duration of an event

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle in Burmese

နှစ်နာရီ

hnit na yi — Two hours; a duration of two hours

အစောပိုင်း

a saw paing — Early period; the earlier part of time

မီးများ

mi mya — Fires; lights; flames; multiple sources of light

ထွန်းနှိုး

htun hno — To light up; to kindle; to ignite fire

ထားပြီ

hta pyi — Already done; has been placed or completed

ကလည်း

ka le — Also; even; contrastive or additive emphatic particle

ဤ

i — This; a formal demonstrative pronoun in Burmese

အချက်

a chet — Point; fact; detail; a specific piece of information

သိသည်

thi thi — Knows; is aware of; to have knowledge

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said that; thinking that

ထင်ရ

htin ya — Seems; appears to be; one thinks or perceives

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a beh kjaung — Why; for what reason; what is the cause

ဆိုသော်

hso thaw — If one says; because; in that regard

၎င်း

dain — It; that; he/she (formal pronoun or reference)

ပင်ပန်းနွမ်းနယ်

pin pan nwan neh — Exhausted; weary; extremely tired and worn out

မလိုလားသည့်

ma lo la thi — Unwanted; undesirable; not wished for or desired

သဏ္ဌာန်

than htan — Form; shape; appearance; the outward figure

ရှိနေသော

shi ne thaw — That exists; which is present; being there

ကြောင့်

kjaung — Because of; due to; causal postposition particle

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyit thi — Is; to be; to become; existence verb

ခါးသီး

kha thi — Bitter; harsh; unpleasant to taste or experience

စိုစွတ်သော

so swet thaw — Damp; wet; moist in nature or condition

ဤနေရာ

i ne ya — This place; here; this specific location

အခါးသီးဆုံး

a kha thi zone — The most bitter; the harshest or most unpleasant

ဖြစ်၍

pfyit ywe — Being; because it is; therefore it is

သိပ်သည်းသော

thit thi thaw — Dense; thick; tightly packed together

အသိပ်သည်းဆုံး

a thit thi zone — The densest; the most thickly concentrated or packed

ဖြစ်ပြီး

pfyit pyi — Having been; after being; is and also

ပြင်ဆင်မရသည့်

pyin hsin ma ya thi — Incorrigible; impossible to fix or reform

တားဆီးမှု

ta hsi hmu — Obstruction; prevention; act of blocking or hindering

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One thing; a single item or object

ဖြစ်သည့်

pfyit thi — Which is; that is; being (relative clause form)

ညံ့ဖျင်းသော

hnan pfyin thaw — Inferior; poor quality; incompetent or substandard

ကော်ပိုရေးရှင်း

kaw po ye shin — Corporation; a large formal business organization

တံခါးဝန်း

tan kha wan — Doorway; gateway; the area around a door

အတွက်

a twet — For; for the sake of; benefactive particle

သင့်လျော်သော

thin lyaw thaw — Appropriate; suitable; fitting for a purpose

လှဆင်မှု

hla hsin hmu — Decoration; ornamentation; the act of beautifying

အနီး

a ni — Near; nearby; close to a location

ဖြစ်လေ

pfyit le — Indeed is; turns out to be; emphatic be

ဆက်စပ်

set sat — To connect; to link; to be related to

နီးကပ်သော

ni kat thaw — Close; nearby; in close proximity to something

နှလုံးသား

hnalone tha — Heart; the center of emotion and feeling

အလယ်ဗဟို

a leh ba ho — Center; the middle or central point of something

မြင့်မြတ်သော

myin myat thaw — Noble; exalted; of high honor and dignity

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး

phon daw kji — Buddhist monk; a highly respected senior monk

ရုံးတော်

yone daw — Royal or high court; an honorific court building

ထိုင်နေ

htaing ne — Is sitting; seated and remaining in place

ဒုစရိုက်ကြီးများ

du tha yait kji mya — Great crimes; serious criminal offenses or misdeeds

အနက်

a net — Meaning; significance; also dark color; depth

အညစ်ဆိုးဆုံး

a hnit hso zone — The most wicked; most corrupt and vile

ယနေ့

ya ne — Today; this present day; the current day

မြေကြီး

mye kji — Earth; ground; soil; the earthen surface below

မျက်မှောက်

myat hmout — Present; face to face; in front of; nowadays

တရားရုံး

ta ya yone — Court of law; a judicial legal institution

အခြေအနေ

a chje a ne — Situation; condition; state of affairs or circumstances

ကိုက်ညီ

kite hni — To match; to fit; to correspond or agree

နိုင်ရန်

naing yan — In order to be able; so as to win

မည်မျှ

ma hmya — How much; how many; to what extent

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic intensifying particle

ထူသော

htu thaw — Thick; dense; not thin in dimension

ဖြစ်ဖြစ်

pfyit pfyit — Whether it is; no matter what it is

နက်သော

net thaw — Deep; dark; profound in depth or color

နွံ

nwan — Mud; swamp; soft wet muddy ground

ဗွေများ

bwe mya — Traces; marks; footprints left behind on surface

နိုင်ဖွယ်

naing pfweh — Possibly; likely capable; there is a chance

မရှိပေ

ma shi pe — Does not exist; there is none at all