Grimms' Fairy Tales — Page 1

Vocabulary

ကောင်းသောပုံပြင်များ

kaung-thaw poun-pyin-mya — Good or fine fairy tales, stories

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with

တို့

toe — Plural marker or 'we/they' group particle

ရေးသားသည်

yay-tha-dhi — To write, authored, composed a text

ပြင်ဆင်သူ၏

pyin-sin-thu ei — Belonging to the editor or preparer

မှတ်ချက်

hmat-chyet — Note, comment, remark, annotation

ဤ

i — This (formal or literary demonstrative)

စာသား

sa-tha — Text, written content, passage

သည်

dhi — Grammatical topic marker or 'is/are'

ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုသော

ba-tha-pyan-so-dha — Who translated, translating into another language

တို့၏

toe ei — Belonging to them, their (plural possessive)

မှ

hma — From, out of, based on (particle)

အခြေခံ

a-chay-khain — Based on, foundation, fundamental basis

ထားသည်။

hta-dhi — Has been placed or established (sentence final)

မာတိကာ

ma-ti-ka — Table of contents, index, list

။

(period) — Burmese full stop, sentence-ending punctuation

ရွှေ

shway — Gold, golden (color or material)

ငှက်

hngat — Bird, any kind of bird

ကံကောင်းသော

khan-kaung-dha — Lucky, fortunate, blessed with good luck

ခရီးသွား

kha-yi-thwa — To travel, go on a journey

တေးဂီတသည်

tay-gi-ta-dhi — Music, relating to music or song

များ

mya — Plural marker, many, more than one

သူကြီး

thu-ji — Village headman, elder, respected leader

အိုကြီး

o-ji — Old man, elderly person (informal)

၊

(comma) — Burmese comma, clause-separating punctuation

မီးသွေး

mi-thway — Charcoal, coal used for burning

ပဲ

pe — Bean, pea; also emphatic particle 'only/just'

ဆူးချုံ

su-choun — Thornbush, thorny shrub or bramble

နှင်းဆီ

hnin-zi — Rose, the flower (literally dew-oil)

ခွေး

khway — Dog, domestic canine animal

ကျိုးငှက်

kjaw-hngat — Wren or small songbird

ကခုန်သော

ka-khoun-dha — Dancing, one who dances

မင်းသမီး

min-tha-mi — Princess, royal daughter

တစ်ဆယ့်

tit-hsay — Eleven (prefix for numbers eleven to nineteen)

နှစ်ပါး

hnit-pa — Two (people), a pair of persons

ငါးဖမ်းသမား

nga-hpan-tha-ma — Fisherman, one who catches fish

သူ၏

thu ei — His, her, belonging to him or her

ဇနီး

za-ni — Wife, female spouse

ဝါးငန်းငှက်

wa-ngan-hngat — Flounder (fish); or a large water bird

ဝက်ဝံ

wet-wan — Bear, large wild mammal

ဖား

pha — Frog, amphibian living near water

မင်းသား

min-tha — Prince, royal son

မိတ်ဖက်

myit-hpet — Partner, companion, associate

ဖြစ်သော

phyit-tha — Who is, being, that which is

ကြောင်

kyaung — Cat, domestic feline animal

ကြွက်

kyut — Rat, mouse, small rodent

ငန်း

ngan — Goose, large waterfowl bird

ထိန်း

htain — To keep, guard, tend, herd

မိန်းကလေး

main-ka-lay — Girl, young female child

စွန့်စားမှု

swun-sa-hmu — Adventure, risk-taking, daring endeavor

၁

tit — One, the number 1

သူတို့

thu-doe — They, them, those people

အခွံမာသီး

a-khwan-ma-thi — Nut, hard-shelled fruit or seed

စားရန်

sa-yan — In order to eat, for eating

တောင်

taung — Mountain, hill; also 'even' (particle)

သို့

thoe — To, toward, in the direction of

မည်သို့

ma-thoe — How, in what way, by what means

သွားကြ

thwa-kya — Go (plural/collective), they went

သနည်း

tha-ne — Question particle, 'how is it?' or 'what?'

၂

hnit — Two, the number 2

မစ္စတာ

Mis-ta — Mister, Mr., male title of address

ကို

ko — Object marker particle, 'to' or 'at'

သွားရောက်

thwa-yout — To go and visit, travel to a place

လည်ပတ်

le-bat — To visit, tour, go around a place

ကြသနည်း

kya-tha-ne — Do they go? (plural question particle)

သတ္တိ

that-ti — Courage, bravery, boldness

ရှိသော

shi-dha — Having, possessing, that which has

အထည်ချုပ်သမား

a-hti-chout-tha-ma — Tailor, one who sews garments

လေး

lay — Four; also a softening particle

ဆောစေ့

hsou-si — Hawthorn berry or elderberry seed

မိခင်

mi-khin — Mother, female parent

အနီရောင်

a-ni-yaung — Red color, the color red

ဦးထုပ်

u-htout — Hat, cap, head covering

ဆောင်းသော

hsaung-dha — Wearing, carrying (on the head)

ကလေးမ

ka-lay-ma — Little girl, young female child

ဓားပြ

da-pya — Robber, bandit, armed thief

မျိုးချစ်

myo-chit — Patriotic, loving one's people or race

လက်မောင်း

let-maung — Arm, forearm (body part)

ကလေး

ka-lay — Child, young person, little one

လိမ္မာသော

leim-ma-dha — Clever, well-behaved, obedient, smart

အိုမင်း

o-min — Old, elderly, aged (person or thing)

မြေး

hmway — Grandchild, grandson or granddaughter

တောင်သူ

taung-thu — Farmer, cultivator, rural person

လယ်သမား

le-tha-ma — Farmer, rice cultivator, peasant

ချစ်သူ

chit-thu — Lover, beloved, sweetheart

နှင်း

hnin — Snow, frost, dew (poetic term)

ပွင့်

pwint — Blossom, to bloom, flower opening

ပန်း

pan — Flower, blossom, floral decoration

ချုံပုတ်

choun-bout — Bush, shrub, thicket of plants

ထဲမှ

hte-hma — From inside, out of, from within

သိမ်ဆိတ်

thein-zet — Quiet, still, peaceful, calm place

သူ

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

အမှုန့်

a-hmoun — Powder, dust, fine ground particles

ရောနှော

yaw-hnaw — Mixed, blended, mingled together

သော

dha — Relative clause marker, 'which/that/who'

အဖြူရောင်

a-phyu-yaung — White color, the color white

မြွေ

hmway — Snake, serpent

ဝံပုလွေ

wan-ba-lway — Wolf, large wild canine predator

သိုးသငယ်

thoe-thinye — Lamb, young sheep

ခုနစ်

khun-nit — Seven, the number seven

ကောင်

kaung — Classifier for animals, creature counter

ပျားဆိုဒ်မ

pya-zout-ma — Queen bee; bee-related female title

ဘုရင်မ

bu-yin-ma — Queen, female monarch, royal ruler

မင်္ဂလာ

min-ga-la — Auspicious, blessed, wedding ceremony

သတ္တဝါ

that-ta-wa — Living creature, animal, being

ဖိနပ်

hpa-nat — Shoe, footwear, sandal

ချုပ်သမား

chout-tha-ma — Shoemaker or tailor, one who sews

သစ်ပင်

thit-pin — Tree, any large woody plant