Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 4

Vocabulary

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e — Possessive or genitive particle in Burmese grammar

နှလုံးသားမှ

hna-lone-tha hma — From the heart; from one's innermost feelings

စီးဆင်းထွက်သော

si-hsing-thwet-thaw — That which flows out or streams forth naturally

စာပေများကို

sa-pe-mya-go — Writings or literature (object marker applied)

ကျွန်တော်

kya-naw — I; first-person pronoun used by males

ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ်

pa-hta-ma-zone a-kyi — The very first time; for the first occasion

ဖတ်ရှုစဉ်

hpat-shu-zin — While reading; during the act of reading

တွင်

twing — In; at; within (locative particle)

ထို

hto — That; those (demonstrative pronoun referring to something mentioned)

မြင်ကွင်းများ

mying-kwing-mya — Views; scenes; visual panoramas or landscapes

မှိန်ဝါးသွားလေသည်

hmein-wa-thwa-le-de — Became dim and blurry; faded away gradually

သည်

de — Topic marker particle; indicates subject of sentence

ဝိညာဉ်

wein-nyan — Soul; spirit; one's spiritual essence

ကို

go — Object marker particle; indicates direct object

မောဟစေပြီး

maw-ha-ze-byi — Causing to be enchanted or mesmerized; spellbinding

ကောင်းကင်

kaung-gyin — Sky; heaven; the celestial realm above

သို့

thoe — To; toward; directional particle indicating destination

တင်မြှောက်လိုက်သည်

ting-hmyauk-lite-de — Lifted up; elevated to a higher level or place

လည်း

le — Also; too; additionally (conjunctive particle)

ကဗျာဆရာ

kaba-ya hsaya — Poet; a person who writes poetry

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual (counter for people)

ဖြစ်လာပြီး

hpyit-la-byi — Became; came to be (indicating a change of state)

တစ်နှစ်တာ

ta-hnit-ta — One whole year; spanning a period of one year

ကာလပတ်လုံး

ka-la-pat-lone — Throughout the entire period; for the whole duration

မိမိ

mi-mi — One's own; self (reflexive pronoun)

ဖန်တီးထားသော

hpan-ti-hta-thaw — Created; that which has been made or crafted

နယ်မြေ

ne-mye — Territory; land; a defined geographical area

နေထိုင်ခဲ့သည်

ne-hting-khe-de — Lived; resided; dwelt in a place

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunctive particle)

နာမည်များ

na-me-mya — Names; famous names or reputations of individuals

ကိုးကွယ်ခြင်း

ko-kwe-chin — Worshipping; venerating; showing deep reverence toward something

ခံရသော

khan-ya-thaw — That which is received or experienced; subject to

ဘုရားကျောင်း

hpaya-kyaung — Temple; a sacred place of worship and prayer

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place; location; a specific spot or position

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing; a single item (general counter)

ရနိုင်မည်

ya-nine-me — Will be able to obtain or receive something

ဟု

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

မျှော်လင့်ခဲ့သည်

myaw-lin-khe-de — Hoped; expected; looked forward to something eagerly

ကျရှုံးမှု

kya-shone-hmu — Failure; defeat; the state of not succeeding

စိတ်ပျက်မှု

seit-pyet-hmu — Disappointment; disillusionment; a feeling of let-down

မည်မျှ

me-hmya — How much; to what extent or degree

လေးလံစွာ

le-lan-zwa — Heavily; deeply; with great weight or burden

ခံစားခဲ့ကြောင်း

khan-za-khe-kyaung — That (one) experienced or felt (reported speech marker)

သင်

thin — You; second-person pronoun in Burmese

ကောင်းစွာ

kaung-zwa — Well; properly; in a good or thorough manner

သိရှိ

thi-shi — To know; to be aware of; to understand something

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit-te — Is; exists as; it is the case that

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However; but; nevertheless (adversative conjunction)

တွင်ပင်

twing-pin — Even in; right at; emphasizing a specific location/time

ဦးရင်းတူ

u-yin-du — Having the same father; paternal siblings related

ညီမတူ

nyi-ma-du — Having a different mother; half-siblings (different mothers)

ဥစ္စာဓန

it-sa-da-na — Wealth; property; material possessions and assets

အမွေဆက်ခံရပြီး

a-mwe-set-khan-ya-byi — Having inherited property or legacy from someone

စိတ်ကူးများ

seit-ku-mya — Ideas; thoughts; imaginative concepts or mental plans

ယခင်က

ya-khin-ga — Previously; formerly; in the past or before

ဦးတည်ခဲ့သော

u-nye-khe-thaw — That which was aimed at or directed toward

လမ်းကြောင်း

lan-kyaung — Path; direction; course of action or route

ပြန်လည်

pyan-le — Again; returning; reverting back to a previous state

ဦးလှည့်သွားလေသည်

u-hle-thwa-le-de — Turned toward; redirected oneself in a new direction

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; currently; at the present time

လုပ်ဆောင်နေသော

lote-hsaung-ne-thaw — That which is currently being done or carried out

ကိစ္စ

kite-sa — Matter; affair; issue; a thing to be dealt with

ဆုံးဖြတ်

zone-hpyat — To decide; to make a decision or resolution

ချိန်မှ

chein-hma — Since the time; from the moment of deciding

နှစ်

hnit — Year; a unit of time equal to twelve months

ခြောက်နှစ်

chout-hnit — Six years; a period of six annual cycles

ကြာမြင့်ခဲ့ပြီ

kya-mying-khe-byi — Has been long; much time has already passed

ယခုတိုင်

ya-khu-tine — Until now; even to this present day still

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun used in writing)

မြတ်မြောက်သော

myat-myauk-thaw — Noble; sublime; lofty and exalted in nature

လုပ်ငန်းကြီး

lote-ngan-ji — Great work; a large and significant undertaking or project

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; for the purpose of

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi-mi-ko-go — Oneself; to one's own self (reflexive expression)

အပ်နှံခဲ့သော

at-hnan-khe-thaw — Having dedicated or devoted oneself to something

အချိန်

a-chein — Time; a period or moment; duration of something

မှတ်မိ

hmat-mi — To remember; to recall; to recollect something past

နေသေးသည်

ne-the-de — Still is; continues to be; remains the case

ခန္ဓာကိုယ်

kan-da-ko — Body; the physical body of a person

ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခ

hsin-ye-douk-kha — Hardship and suffering; poverty and miserable conditions

များ

mya — Many; plural marker; a lot of something

ခံနိုင်ရည်

khan-nine-ye — Endurance; the capacity to withstand hardship or pain

ရှိအောင်

shi-aung — So as to have; in order to possess or achieve

လေ့ကျင့်

le-kyin — To train; to practice; to exercise and develop skill

ခြင်းဖြင့်

chin-hpyin — By means of; through the action of doing something

စတင်ခဲ့သည်

sa-tin-khe-de — Began; started; commenced an activity or process

ဝေလငါးဖမ်းသမား

we-la-nga-hpan-tha-ma — Whaler; a person who hunts and catches whales

နှင့်အတူ

hnin-a-tu — Together with; alongside; in company with someone

မြောက်ပင်လယ်

myauk-pin-le — The North Sea; northern ocean waters of Europe

ခရီးထွက်မှု

kha-yi-thwet-hmu — Journey; voyage; the act of setting out on a trip

အကြိမ်

a-kyi — Time; instance; occasion; a count of repetitions

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; numerous; a great many times or instances

လိုက်ပါခဲ့သည်

lite-pa-khe-de — Went along; accompanied; followed and joined a journey

အအေးဒဏ်

a-e-dan — Cold hardship; the harsh effects of freezing cold

အစာငတ်မှု

a-za-ngat-hmu — Hunger; starvation; the state of lacking food

ရေငတ်မှု

ye-ngat-hmu — Thirst; the state of needing and lacking water

အိပ်ချင်သော်လည်း

ate-chin-thaw-le — Although wanting to sleep; despite feeling sleepy

အိပ်မပျော်မှု

ate-ma-pyaw-hmu — Insomnia; inability to sleep; sleeplessness and wakefulness

တို့

to — Plural marker; these things; we (inclusive pronoun)

စိတ်ဆန္ဒ

seit-san-da — Will; desire; one's own volition and wishes

အလျောက်

a-lyauk — According to; in accordance with; as befits something

ခံစားခဲ့သည်

khan-za-khe-de — Experienced; endured; underwent a sensation or hardship

မကြာခဏဆိုသလို

ma-kya-hkha-hso-tha-lo — Very frequently; almost constantly; as if all the time

နေ့ဘက်

ne-bet — Daytime; during the day; the daytime hours

သာမန်

tha-man — Ordinary; average; common or regular in nature

သင်္ဘောသား

thin-baw-tha — Sailor; seaman; a crew member of a ship

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; used in comparative expressions

ပိုမို

po-mo — More; even more; to a greater extent or degree

ကြိုးစားလုပ်ကိုင်ပြီး

kyo-za-lote-kine-byi — Having worked hard and diligently; striving and laboring

ညဘက်

nya-bet — Nighttime; during the night; the evening or night hours

သင်္ချာပညာ

thin-kha-pyin-nya — Mathematics; the academic study of numbers and calculation

ဆေးပညာ

hse-pyin-nya — Medical knowledge; the science and study of medicine

သီအိုရီ

thi-o-yi — Theory; a system of ideas explaining something abstract

ပင်လယ်ရေကြောင်း

pin-le-ye-kyaung — Maritime; sea routes; navigation on the open ocean

စွန့်စားသူ

swun-za-thu — Adventurer; one who takes risks and dares boldly

အကျိုး

a-kyo — Benefit; result; useful outcome or advantage gained

အများဆုံး

a-mya-zone — Most; the greatest amount or highest degree possible

ရနိုင်သော

ya-nine-thaw — That can be obtained or gained; achievable benefit

သဘာဝသိပ္ပံပညာ

tha-ba-wa-thip-pan-pyin-nya — Natural science; the study of the natural world

အကိုင်းအခက်

a-kine-a-khet — Branches and twigs; various subdivisions or branches of study

လေ့လာရာ

le-la-ya — In studying; in the course of learning something

အသုံးချခဲ့သည်

a-thone-chya-khe-de — Utilized; put to use; applied for a practical purpose

နှစ်ကြိမ်

hnit-kyi — Twice; two times; on two separate occasions

တကယ်ပင်

ta-kye-pin — Truly; indeed; really and genuinely so

ဝေလငါးဖမ်း

we-la-nga-hpan — Whale hunting; the activity of catching whales at sea

သင်္ဘော

thin-baw — Ship; vessel; a large boat for sea travel

ဒုတိပိုင်

du-ti-pine — Second mate; second officer aboard a sailing vessel

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As; in the capacity of; in the role of something

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-tine — Personally; oneself; by one's own action directly

ငှားရမ်းခဲ့ပြီး

hnga-yan-khe-byi — Having hired or chartered; engaged for payment previously

ချီးကျူးခြင်း

chi-kyu-chin — Praise; commendation; the act of complimenting someone

ခံစားရသော

khan-za-ya-thaw — That which is felt or received; experienced praise

အောင်

aung — So that; in order to; expressing purpose or result

တာဝန်

ta-wan — Duty; responsibility; an obligation one must fulfill

ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သည်

htan-hsaung-khe-de — Carried out; fulfilled; discharged one's duty or responsibility

ကပ္ပတိန်

kap-pa-tein — Captain; the commanding officer of a ship

က

ga — Subject marker particle; indicates agent of an action

ဒုတိယ

du-ti-ya — Second; the second in rank or order

အဆင့်

a-hsin — Level; rank; grade or degree of a position

အား

a — Object or dative marker; to; toward a person

ကမ်းလှမ်းပြီး

kan-hlan-byi — Having offered; having extended an offer to someone

အလွန်အကျွံ

a-lwan-a-kyun — Excessively; extremely; beyond the appropriate or normal limit

အလေးအနက်

a-le-a-net — Seriously; gravely; with great seriousness and earnestness

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by; using; instrumental particle indicating means

ဆက်လက်

set-let — Continue; proceed; go on further with something

နေရှိရန်

ne-shi-yan — To remain; to stay; in order to continue being present

တောင်းပန်

taung-pan — To request; to beg; to earnestly ask or implore

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that which; adjectival modifier

အခါ

a-kha — When; at the time; occasion when something happens

ကြွားဝါမိ

kwa-wa-mi — Felt proud; experienced a sense of boastful pride

ကြောင်း

kyaung — That; reported speech marker indicating a statement or fact

ဝန်ခံ

wan-khan — To admit; to confess; to acknowledge something honestly

ရမည်

ya-me — Must; will have to; obligation to obtain or do

ဝန်ဆောင်မှု

wan-hsaung-hmu — Service; the act of serving or providing assistance

သူ

thu — He; she; that person (third-person pronoun)

တန်ဖိုးထား

tan-hpo-hta — To value; to appreciate; to regard as important

ပြသ

pya-tha — To show; to demonstrate; to display or reveal something

နေခြင်း

ne-chin — The state of being; living or residing nominalized