Bleak House — Page 4

Vocabulary

တရားရုံး

taya youn — Court of law where legal cases are heard

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also 'is/are'

မှုန်

hmun — Dim, hazy, or blurry in appearance

ဝါး

wa — Bamboo plant; also to chew

နေ

nay — Sun; to live or stay somewhere

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or state

မှာ

hma — At, in; locative and dative particle

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not, don't

ထူးဆန်း

htù zàn — Strange, unusual, extraordinary, remarkable

လှ

hlha — Beautiful, attractive, lovely

ပေ

pay — Foot (unit of measurement); also a particle

နေရာ

nayya — Place, location, position, spot

အနှံ့

a-hnan — Throughout, all over, everywhere

ဖယောင်းတိုင်

phayaung tine — Candle, a stick that provides light when burned

များ

mya — Many, plural marker; more

ကုန်ဆုံး

koun zoung — To run out, be exhausted, finish completely

လျက်

lyat — While doing; continuous action connector particle

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, be present

မြူနှင်း

myù hnin — Fog and dew; mist, haze

ထို

htò — That, those; demonstrative pronoun

လေး

lay — Four; also a softening particle; heavy

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial particle meaning 'in a manner of'

လွှမ်းမိုး

hlwàn mo — To dominate, overwhelm, overshadow, cover over

လည်း

lè — Also, too, as well; additive particle

ဘယ်တော့မှ

bètaw hma — Never, not at any time

ထွက်ပေါက်

htwat pout — Exit, way out, outlet

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, receive; can, able to

တော့

taw — Then, so; particle indicating contrast or conclusion

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that, thus'

ထင်

htin — To think, believe, appear, seem

အဆင်းရောင်

a-zin yaung — Color tone, hue, shade of color

ထည်

htì — Fabric, cloth material; volume, substance

မှန်

hmàn — Glass, mirror; correct, true, right

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pyatin pout — Window, an opening in a wall for light

မိမိ

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

တို့

to — Plural marker for pronouns; we, they, you all

အရောင်

a-yaung — Color, hue, shade

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to, at, for

ဆုံးရှုံး

zoung shoun — To lose, suffer a loss, be deprived of

ကာ

ka — Connective particle; while, as; to block or shield

နေ့

nay — Day, daytime

အလင်းရောင်

a-lin yaung — Light, beam of light, illumination

အတွင်း

a-twin — Inside, within, interior

လုံးဝ

loun-waw — Completely, absolutely, entirely, totally

ဝင်

win — To enter, go in, come in

ခွင့်

khwin — Permission, right, opportunity, leave

ပြု

pyu — To do, make, perform, carry out

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, way, street

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, above, upon; to appear

မှ

hma — From, since; ablative and conditional particle

အဆင်

a-zin — Level, standard; how things are going

ပြေ

pyay — To be smooth, easy, resolved; to flow

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which, that, who

သူ

thu — He, she, that person; third-person pronoun

တံခါးဝ

tan-ka waw — Doorway, entrance, threshold

ပြား

pya — Flat; a thin flat piece; currency subunit

တဆင့်

ta-zin — Through, via, step by step, one level

ချောင်း

chaung — Stream, creek; also a narrow passage

ကြည့်

kji — To look, watch, observe, see

ဇိမ်

zeim — Luxury, comfort, indulgence, ease

ကြောင်

kyaung — Cat; also a particle meaning 'because, that'

မျက်နှာ

myat hna — Face, facial expression, countenance

ဆိုး

zo — Bad, wicked, severe, harsh

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

မြင်ကွင်း

myin kwin — View, scene, panorama, visual field

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with; conjunction

၏

ei — Genitive/possessive particle; of, belonging to

အမာခံ

a-ma khan — To endure, bear hardship, be resilient

ထိုင်ခုံ

htine khoun — Chair, seat, something to sit on

မြင့်

myin — High, tall, elevated in position

အမိုး

a-mo — Roof, covering overhead of a building

အထိ

a-hti — Until, up to, as far as

ထိပ်ပိုင်း

htit pine — Top part, upper section, apex

ပြန်သံ

pyan thàn — Echo, reflected sound, reverberation

ကျပ်

kyat — Tight, cramped; Burmese currency unit kyat

သို့

thò — To, toward; directional particle

ဝင်ရောက်

win yout — To enter, gain access, come inside

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of; enemy

ဝံ့

wan — To dare, venture, have courage to do

ရဲ

yè — To be brave; also a casual sentence particle

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, occur

မြင့်မြတ်

myin myat — Noble, exalted, sublime, lofty in character

အလင်း

a-lin — Light, brightness, illumination

မဲ့

mè — Without, lacking; also a softening particle

မှောင်မိုက်

hmaung mite — Darkness, gloom, obscurity

မီးပုံး

mi boun — Lantern, paper balloon with fire inside

ငေး

ngay — To stare, gaze fixedly at something

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, done; completion marker

တက်ရောက်

tat yout — To attend, participate, be present at

လာ

la — To come; directional verb complement

ဝင်ဦးထုပ်

win ù htout — Crown, royal headpiece worn on the head

ဆံပင်

zan bin — Hair of the head

ငှက်ပေါင်း

ngat paung — Many birds gathered together, a flock

တိမ်

tein — Cloud in the sky

တိုက်

tite — Building, block; to hit, strike, attack

ထဲ

htè — Inside, in, within; into

ရပ်

yat — To stop, halt, stand still

တန့်

tan — To stop, pause, hold back

ကြ

kya — Plural verb marker; to do together

ဤ

ì — This, these; literary demonstrative pronoun

နယ်မြေ

nè myay — Territory, region, area of land

တိုင်း

tine — Every, each; region, division; to measure

တွင်

twin — In, at, within; locative particle

ပြိုလဲ

pyo lè — To collapse, fall down, crumble

ပျက်စီး

pyat si — To be destroyed, ruined, damaged, broken down

အိမ်

ein — House, home, dwelling place

နွမ်းပါး

nwan pa — Poor, impoverished, destitute, in poverty

မြေ

myay — Land, earth, ground, soil

သူရူးဂေဟာ

thu yu gay ha — Madhouse, mental asylum, psychiatric institution

ပင်ပန်း

bin ban — Tired, weary, exhausted from effort

နွမ်းလျ

nwan lya — Worn out, feeble, weak, exhausted

ရူးသွပ်

yu thwat — Crazy, insane, mentally deranged

သုသာန်

thu than — Cemetery, graveyard, burial ground

သေဆုံး

thay zoung — To die, pass away, lose one's life

ဖိနပ်

phe nat — Shoes, footwear, sandals

ပြည့်စုံ

pyì zoung — Complete, perfect, fully equipped, sufficient

ဝတ်စားဆင်ယင်

wat sa zin yin — To dress up, wear clothing and accessories

မှု

hmu — Case, affair, matter; nominalizing suffix

ညံ့ဖျင်း

nyan phyin — Inferior, poor quality, incompetent, mediocre

တောင်းဆို

taung zo — To demand, request, claim, ask for

လူ

lu — Person, human being, people

မိတ်ဆွေ

mite zway — Friend, acquaintance, companion

သင်္ချိုင်းစု

thin chine zu — Cemetery, graveyard, burial ground cluster

တစ်ဝိုက်

ta wite — Around, surrounding, vicinity, nearby area

ငှား

hnga — To rent, hire, borrow for temporary use

ချေး

chay — To lend; also dirt, grime, filth

ကောက်ပတ်

kout pat — To scheme, manipulate, act crookedly

ငွေကြေး

ngway kyay — Money, currency, finances

တတ်နိုင်

tat nine — To be able to afford, capable of managing

အား

a — Strength, force; object particle; free time

မှန်ကန်

hmàn kan — Correct, accurate, right, proper

နွမ်းနယ်

nwan nè — Weak, feeble, exhausted, worn down

စေ

say — To cause, make, let, send; causative particle

ကြွယ်ဝ

kyway waw — Wealthy, rich, abundant, prosperous

နည်းလမ်း

ni lan — Method, way, means, approach, technique

ပေး

pay — To give, provide, offer something to someone

ဘဏ္ဍာရေး

ban hta yay — Finance, financial matters, treasury

သည်းခံ

thìn khan — To be patient, tolerant, endure with patience

ရဲရင့်

yè yin — Brave, courageous, bold, daring

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

myaw lin chit — Hope, expectation, anticipation for the future

ဤမျှ

ì hmya — This much, this extent, to this degree

ဦးနှောက်

ù hnout — Brain, mind, intellect

နှလုံးသား

hnaloun tha — Heart, innermost feelings, soul

ချိုးဖဲ့

cho phè — To break, snap, bend and break apart

ကျင့်သုံး

kyin thoun — To practice, apply, use, put into practice

အကြား

a-kya — Between, among, in the middle of

သတိပေးစကား

thati pay za ga — Warning, cautionary words, advisory message

မီ

mi — To reach, catch up to; before, in time

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; oneself, self; first-person pronoun

ကျ

kya — To fall, drop, decrease; to suit, fit

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach, get to a place

နိုင်

nine — To be able to, can; to win, succeed

သည့်

thì — Relative clause particle referring to a noun

မည်

mi — Future tense marker; will, shall

ကန်

kan — Lake, pond; to kick; to object, oppose

ဆို

zo — To say, state, mean; quotative verb

ခံ

khan — To receive, undergo, endure, bear

လိုက်

lite — To follow, go along with; directional complement

မည့်

mi — Future relative clause particle; that will

ကြာခဏ

kya kha na — Often, frequently, from time to time

တစ်ဦး

ta ù — One person (formal/polite counter)

တစ်ယောက်

ta yauk — One person (common/informal usage)

မျှ

hmya — Only, just, merely; as much as, equal to

ပင်

bin — Tree; also an emphatic particle meaning 'even, indeed'

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung mwan — Good, fine, excellent, of good quality