Crime and Punishment — Page 1

Vocabulary

ရာဇဝတ်မှုနှင့်

yazawat hmu hnin — related to crime and (conjunction joining crime-related topics)

ဒဏ်ခတ်ခြင်း

dan hkat jing — act of punishing or imposing a penalty

ရေးသားသည်

yay thar thit — to write or compose a literary work

ဘာသာပြန်သည်

batha pyan thit — to translate from one language to another

ဘာသာပြန်သူ၏

batha pyan thu yi — belonging to or of the translator

မိတ်ဆက်စကား

mait set saka — introductory words or foreword of a text

အကြောင်း

a kyaung — about, concerning, or reason for something

စကားအနည်းငယ်သည်

saka a nway ngay thit — a few words; brief introductory remarks

အင်္ဂလိပ်စာဖတ်သူများအား

Ingalit sa phat thu mya a — directed toward English-language readers

နားလည်ရန်

nar leh yan — in order to understand something

အထောက်အကူဖြစ်နိုင်သည်။

a htout a ku pyit naing thit — may be helpful or of assistance

ဆရာဝန်တစ်ဦး၏

hsaya wun tit u yi — belonging to a doctor or physician

သားတော်ဖြစ်သည်။

thar daw pyit thit — is the son of (someone distinguished)

သူ၏

thu yi — his; belonging to him

မိဘများသည်

mi ba mya thit — his parents (subject of a sentence)

အလွန်

a lwan — very; extremely; to a great degree

ကြိုးစားကြပြီး

kyo tsa kyi pyi — worked hard; made great effort together

နက်နဲစွာ

nate nae swa — deeply; profoundly; in a deep manner

ဘာသာတရား

batha taya — religion; religious faith or belief system

ကိုးကွယ်သော

ko kweh thaw — who worships or is devout in faith

သူများဖြစ်သည်၊

thu mya pyit thit — they were such people (descriptive clause)

သို့သော်

thaw thaw — however; but; nevertheless

ဆင်းရဲသောကြောင့်

hsain yeh thaw kyaung — because of being poor; due to poverty

သားသမီး

tha tha mi — children; sons and daughters

ငါးဦးနှင့်

nga u hnin — together with five people (children)

အတူ

a tu — together; along with

အခန်း

a khan — room; chapter; section of a building

နှစ်ခန်းသာ

hnit khan tha — only two rooms; merely two rooms

ရှိသော

shi thaw — that exists; which has or contains

နေရာတွင်

nay ya twin — in a place; at a location

နေထိုင်ခဲ့ကြသည်။

nay htine kheh kyi thit — they lived together in that place

အဖေနှင့်

a phay hnin — father and; along with the father

အမေသည်

a may thit — the mother (subject of sentence)

မိမိတို့၏

mi mi to yi — their own; belonging to themselves

ညနေချိန်များကို

nya nway jain mya go — the evenings; their evening hours (object)

သားသမီးများအား

tha tha mi mya a — to their children; for the children

အသံထွက်

a than thwet — reading aloud; producing spoken sound

ဖတ်ပြခြင်းဖြင့်

phat pya jing phyit — by means of reading aloud to others

ဖြတ်သန်းကြပြီး၊

phyat than kyi pyi — passed (time) together; spent their time

အများအားဖြင့်

a mya a phyit — mostly; generally; for the most part

တင်းကျပ်သော

tin kyat thaw — strict; stern; morally rigorous

အကြောင်းအရာ

a kyaung a ya — subject matter; topic; content of a text

ပါသည့်

pa thit — that contains; which includes (relative clause)

စာအုပ်များမှ

sa oat mya hma — from books; sourced from various books

ဖတ်ကြသည်။

phat kyi thit — they read (together); they would read

အမြဲတမ်း

a myeh tamm — always; constantly; at all times

နာမကျန်းမာဘဲ

na ma kyann ma beh — without being healthy; being unwell constantly

ခန္ဓာကိုယ်

kanda ko — body; physical body

အားနည်းသော်လည်း

a nay thaw leh — although physically weak; despite frailty

အင်ဂျင်နီယာ

in jin ni ya — engineering; an engineer or engineering field

ကျောင်း၏

kyaung yi — of the school; belonging to the school

နောက်ဆုံး

nout hsone — final; last; the very end

စာမေးပွဲတွင်

sa may pyeh twin — in the examination; at the final exam

တတိယဆု

ta ti ya hsu — third prize; third place award

ရရှိခဲ့သည်။

ya shi kheh thit — obtained; received; achieved (past tense)

ထိုနေရာတွင်ပင်

hto nay ya twin pin — right there; at that very same place

သူသည်

thu thit — he; he (subject marker attached)

မိမိ၏

mi mi yi — one's own; his very own

ပထမဆုံး

pa hta ma hsone — very first; the earliest or initial one

လက်ရာဖြစ်သော

let ya pyit thaw — which is a work; being a creation or piece

ကို

go — object marker particle in Burmese grammar

စတင်

sa tin — to begin; to start; to commence

ရေးသားခဲ့ပြီး

yay thar kheh pyi — had written and completed (past tense)

ဖြစ်သည်။

pyit thit — is; was; it is so (copula verb)

ဤ

i — this; referring to something just mentioned

ဝတ္ထုကို

wut thu go — this novel; the story (object marker)

ကဗျာဆရာ

ka bya hsaya — poet; a person who writes poetry

သုံးသပ်ချက်

thone thaat chyet — review; critique; critical assessment of work

စာစောင်တွင်

sa saung twin — in a journal; in a periodical publication

ထုတ်ဝေခဲ့ပြီး

htoat weh kheh pyi — published and (then); having been published

လက်ခုပ်တီးသံများနှင့်

let khoat ti than mya hnin — with applause; accompanied by clapping sounds

ကြိုဆိုခြင်း

kyo hso jing — welcoming; greeting warmly; reception

ခံရသည်။

khan ya thit — received; was subjected to; experienced

ရှက်တတ်သော

shet tat thaw — who is shy; tending to be bashful

မသိမကျွမ်းသော

inexperienced; unfamiliar; not yet well-known

ထို

hto — that; that particular (demonstrative adjective)

လူငယ်သည်

lu ngeh thit — the young man (subject of sentence)

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi mi ko ko — oneself; himself (reflexive pronoun)

တခဏချင်းဆိုသလို

ta khana jing hso tha lo — as if overnight; suddenly in an instant

နာမည်ကြီးသူ

na meh kyi thu — famous person; someone well-known or celebrated

တစ်ဦး

tit u — one person; a single individual

ဖြစ်လာကြောင်း

pyit la kyaung — that (he) had become; fact of becoming

တွေ့ရသည်။

tweh ya thit — found; discovered; came to realize

တောက်ပ

toud pa — bright; brilliant; shining (figuratively)

ပြောင်မြောက်သော

pyaung myout thaw — brilliant; excellent; outstanding in achievement

အောင်မြင်သည့်

aung myint thit — successful; that succeeds; winning

အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကြောင်း

a thet mway wan kyaung — livelihood; career; means of earning a living

တစ်ခု

tit khu — one thing; a single item or instance

သူ့ရှေ့တွင်

thu sheh twin — before him; in front of him; ahead

ဖွင့်လှစ်လာမည်ဟု

phwin hlat la meh ho — that it would open up; unfold ahead

ထင်ရသော်လည်း

htin ya thaw leh — although it seemed; though it appeared so

မျှော်လင့်ချက်များသည်

myaw lin chyet mya thit — hopes; expectations (subject of sentence)

မကြာမီပင်

ma kya mi pin — very soon; before long; shortly after

ကွဲပြား

kweh pya — to diverge; to scatter; to fall apart

သွားခဲ့သည်။

thwa kheh thit — went away; departed; came to be gone

ခုနှစ်တွင်

khu hnit twin — in the year; during that year

သူကို

thu go — him (object marker); referring to Dostoevsky

ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့သည်။

phan tsi kheh thit — arrested; apprehended; taken into custody

သဘောထားအရ

tha baw hta a ya — in terms of attitude or disposition

ဖြစ်စေ၊

pyit seh — whether; be it (concessive conjunction)

ယုံကြည်ချက်အရ

yone kyi chyet a ya — in terms of belief; according to conviction

တော်လှန်ရေးသမား

taw hlan yay tha ma — revolutionary; a person engaged in revolution

မဟုတ်သော်လည်း

ma hout thaw leh — although not; even though he was not

ဖတ်ရှုရန်

phat shu yan — in order to read; for the purpose of reading

စုဝေးလေ့ရှိသော

su weh leh shi thaw — who habitually gathered; tending to meet together

လူငယ်

lu ngeh — young people; youth

အသေးစု

a thway su — small group; a minor or tiny gathering

အဖွဲ့ဝင်

a phweh win — member of a group or organization

"စစ်ဆေးရေး

"sit hsay yay — censorship; investigative examination (official)

ကန့်သတ်ချက်ကို

kan thut chyet go — the restriction; the limitation (object)

ဆန့်ကျင်သော

hsan kyin thaw — opposing; going against; in defiance of

စကားဝိုင်းများတွင်

saka wine mya twin — in discussion circles; in group conversations

ပါဝင်ခြင်း၊

pa win jing — participation; taking part in (something)

ထံသို့

htan thoe — to; directed toward (someone)

ပေးစာကို

peh sa go — the letter; the written correspondence (object)

ဖတ်ခြင်း၊

phat jing — the act of reading (something aloud)

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; along with (conjunction)

စာနှိပ်စက်

sa hnate set — printing press; printing machine

တည်ဆောက်ရန်

ti hsout yan — in order to establish or build (something)

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ကို

yi yweh chyet go — the intention; the purpose (object marker)

သိရှိနေခြင်း"

thi shi nay jing — being aware of; having knowledge of something

တို့ဖြင့်

to phyit — by means of; through these (things listed)

စွပ်စွဲခြင်း

swut sweh jing — accusation; act of charging someone with wrongdoing

အုပ်ချုပ်မှု

oat chout hmu — administration; rule; governance

အောက်တွင်

out twin — under; beneath; under the rule of

"တင်းကျပ်ပြီး

"tin kyat pyi — strict and; stern as well as (description)

တရားမျှတသော

taya myah ta thaw — just; fair; righteous and equitable

လူ"

lu — person; man (end of quoted description)

ဟု

ho — quotation particle; said that; as stated

ခေါ်သော

khaw thaw — called; referred to as; named

ထိုသူ

hto thu — that person; that individual (referring back)

ဤမျှသာ

i myah tha — just this much; only this amount

ဆိုလျှင်

hso lyin — if one says; if this is the case

လုံလောက်သည်ဟု

lone lout thit ho — that it is sufficient; deemed to be enough

ယူဆကြပြီး

yu hsa kyi pyi — considering; having thought and judged so

သူ့အား

thu a — him; to him; toward that person

သေဒဏ်

thay dan — death penalty; capital punishment sentence

ချမှတ်ခဲ့သည်။

cha hmat kheh thit — sentenced; imposed (a punishment) officially