Harrigan — Page 1

Vocabulary

အဲဒီ

è-dì — That, that one, referring to something previously mentioned

နီညို

nì-ñò — Dark red, crimson color

ဆံပင်

sʰàɴ-pìɴ — Hair on the head

ရှင်

ʃìɴ — You (polite), or a term of address

လေ

lé — Sentence particle indicating mild emphasis or explanation

ဟု

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

ရဲ

yɛ̀ — Brave; also a casual sentence-final particle

ကပ္ပတိန်

kap-pa-tèiɴ — Captain, military or nautical officer rank

က

ka̰ — Subject marker particle in a sentence

လက်ညှိုး

lɛʔ-ɲ̥ó — Index finger, the pointing finger

ထိုး

tʰó — To stab, poke, or point at something

ရင်း

yíɴ — While doing; source or origin

ပြော

pjɔ́ — To speak, say, or tell someone

လိုက်

laiʔ — To follow; directional complement indicating motion

သည်

θì — Present tense marker; also subject particle

ကျွန်တော်

tɕənɔ̀ — I, me (formal male first-person pronoun)

သူ့

θù — His, her, their (third-person possessive/object)

ကို

kò — Object marker particle indicating direct object

စောင့်

sáuɴ — To wait for or guard something or someone

ကြည့်

tɕʰi̤ — To look at, watch, or observe carefully

မယ်

mɛ̀ — Future tense particle indicating intention or prediction

ဗိုလ်ကြပ်

bò-tɕaʔ — Sergeant, a non-commissioned military officer rank

ဖြေ

pʰjé — To answer, respond, or solve a question

တစ်နေ့

tɪʔ-né — One day, someday, referring to a single day

ထဲ

tʰɛ́ — Inside, within a place or container

ဘိန်း

béiɴ — Opium, a narcotic drug plant substance

ခိုး

kʰó — To steal or smuggle something secretly

ကွင်း

kwíɴ — Ring, loop, or an open field area

နှစ်ခု

hnɪʔ-kʰṵ — Two things, a pair of objects

စီးနင်း

sí-níɴ — To ride upon or mount a vehicle or animal

စစ်ဆင်

sɪʔ-sʰìɴ — To conduct a military operation or campaign

ခဲ့

kʰɛ̤ — Past tense auxiliary indicating completed action

ပြီး

pjí — After finishing; completion marker particle

ထို

tʰò — That, those (demonstrative pronoun or determiner)

အောင်မြင်

àuɴ-mjɪ̀ɴ — To succeed, achieve victory or accomplishment

မှု

m̥ṵ — Nominalization suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs

၏

ɛ̀ — Possessive or linking particle in formal writing

ဂုဏ်

ɡòɴ — Honor, prestige, glory, or dignity

မာန

màna̰ — Pride, arrogance, or ego

ရင်ဘတ်

yíɴ-baʔ — Chest, the front of the torso

ဖောင်းပွ

pʰáuɴ-pwè — To swell up, puff out with pride or air

စေ

sé — Causative particle meaning to cause or let someone

ညနေ

ɲa̰-né — Evening, late afternoon time of day

သူ

θù — He, she, third-person singular pronoun

မြို့တော်ဝန်

mjòʊ-dɔ̀-wʊɴ — Mayor, the head official of a city

ပင်

pìɴ — Emphatic particle meaning indeed, even, or also

အကြံဉာဏ်

a̰-tɕʰàɴ-ɲàɴ — Idea, suggestion, or piece of advice

ပေး

pé — To give something to someone

နိုင်

nàiɴ — Can, able to; to win or be capable

မည်

mì — Future tense marker in formal written Burmese

ထင်

tʰìɴ — To think, believe, or assume something

နေ

né — To live, stay; progressive aspect marker

ဆက်

sʰɛʔ — To continue, connect, or carry on doing

လူ

lù — Person, human being, people

အုပ်

oʊʔ — To rule, govern; a group or flock

ကြား

tɕá — Between, among; to hear a sound

မှ

m̥a̰ — From, since; restrictive particle meaning only

အချို့

a̰-tɕʰó — Some, a few of a group

သော

θɔ́ — Relativizer particle linking clauses in formal Burmese

များ

mjá — Plural marker; many, a lot of something

သူတို့

θù-dó — They, them, third-person plural pronoun

လျှောက်

ʃauʔ — To walk or to apply formally for something

လှမ်း

l̥áɴ — To reach across, stretch toward something distant

ပုံ

pòɴ — Picture, shape, or resemblance; as if

ဖြင့်

pʰjɪ̀ɴ — With, by means of, using an instrument

ခွဲ

kʰwɛ́ — To separate, divide, or split something apart

ထုတ်

tʰoʊʔ — To take out, extract, or produce something

ကား

ká — Car, automobile; topic-marking particle

မျက်လုံး

mjɛʔ-lóɴ — Eyeball, the eye organ

သိ

θì — To know, understand, or be aware of

ကောင်

kàuɴ — Guy, fellow; informal reference to a person

မှာ

m̥à — At, in, on a location; future marker colloquially

တော့

dɔ̤ — Sentence particle indicating contrast or then

တစ်ကိုယ်

tɪʔ-kò — Oneself, alone, by one's own self

လုံး

lóɴ — Whole, entire; a counter for round objects

ပြည့်

pji̤ — Full, filled to capacity or completion

ဝဝ

wà-wà — Plump, chubby, well-fed in appearance

ရေး

yé — To write; concerning, about a matter

ထား

tʰá — To place, put down; resultative verb particle

သလို

θa̰-lò — As if, like, similar to something

ပဲ

pɛ́ — Emphatic limiting particle meaning just or only

နီ

nì — Red color

ပိုမို

pò-mò — More, even more, to a greater degree

နီးကပ်

nì-kaʔ — Close, nearby, in close proximity

လာ

là — To come; directional verb complement toward speaker

အပူ

a̰-pù — Heat, warmth, or thermal energy

ရှိန်

ʃèiɴ — Intensity of heat or brightness; to radiate warmth

ကြောင့်

tɕáuɴ — Because of, due to a cause or reason

ပျော့

pjɔ̤ — Soft, gentle, or flexible in texture

ပျောင်း

pjáuɴ — Smooth, supple, or softened in quality

ဦးထုပ်

ù-tʰoʊʔ — Hat, cap worn on the head

နောက်

nauʔ — Behind, after, next; the back direction

အိတ်

eiʔ — Bag, pocket, or pouch for carrying things

ထည့်

tʰɛ̤ — To put in, insert something into a container

သိပ်

θeiʔ — Very, extremely; to pack tightly together

ယခု

ya̰-kʰṵ — Now, at the present moment

ဝင်း

wíɴ — Compound, enclosed yard or compound area

တစ်ခု

tɪʔ-kʰṵ — One thing, a single object or item

အလင်း

a̰-lìɴ — Light, brightness, illumination

ရောင်

yàuɴ — Color; to shine, radiate light or color

ပေါ်

pɔ́ — On top of, above; to appear or emerge

တည်ငြိမ်

tɪ̀-ɲèiɴ — Calm, stable, steady, or composed

စွာ

swà — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner or way

ရောက်ရှိ

yauʔ-ʃì — To arrive at, reach a destination

မီး

mí — Fire, flame, or electric light

တောက်

dauʔ — To blaze, flare, or burn brightly

သဖွယ်

θa̰-p̤wɛ̀ — Like, resembling, in the manner of

ဖြစ်

pʰjiʔ — To be, become, happen, or occur

ဆိုလို

sʰò-lò — To mean, intend to say something

သည်မှာ

θì-m̥à — As for, regarding what is being referred to

အန္တရာယ်

ʔaɴ-da̰-yɛ̀ — Danger, hazard, risk, or threat

သတိပေး

θa̰-dḛ-pé — To warn, alert, or caution someone

သည့်

θɪ̤ — Relative clause marker in formal Burmese

အချက်ပြ

a̰-tɕɛʔ-pjà — Signal, indicator, or sign given to someone

အရာရှိ

a̰-ya̰-ʃì — Officer, official, a person of authority

နှစ်ဦး

hnɪʔ-ù — Two people, a pair of individuals

စစ်ဆေး

sɪʔ-sʰé — To inspect, examine, or investigate thoroughly

မျက်လှမ်း

mjɛʔ-l̥áɴ — Line of sight, visual range or view

နှင့်

hnɪ̀ɴ — And, with; a conjunction connecting nouns

ကြုံ

tɕʰóɴ — To encounter, face, or experience a situation

တွေ့

twḛ — To meet, find, or encounter someone or something

လောင်းကစား

láuɴ-ka̰-zá — Gambling, betting or wagering money on games

ချန်ပီယံ

tɕʰaɴ-pì-yàɴ — Champion, winner of a competition

တစ်ဦး

tɪʔ-ù — One person, a single individual

ချက်

tɕʰɛʔ — Moment, instant; a point or cook action

စောင့်ဆိုင်း

sáuɴ-sʰáiɴ — To wait patiently for someone or something

မျက်နှာ

mjɛʔ-n̥à — Face, the front of a person's head

ကဲ့သို့

kɛ̤-θò — Like, similar to, in the same way as

အေးစက်

é-sɛʔ — Chillingly cold, icy cold sensation

တိုင်းတာ

táiɴ-tà — To measure, gauge, assess a quantity or degree

ပြန်

pjàɴ — To return, go back; again, once more

ညည်းညူ

ɲí-ɲù — To moan, groan, or complain with a sound

သံ

θàɴ — Sound, voice, metal (iron or steel)

အတူ

a̰-tù — Together, jointly with another person

အထက်

a̰-tʰɛʔ — Above, upper, superior in rank or position

ဆီ

sʰì — Oil; toward, in the direction of

လှည့်

l̥ɛ̤ — To turn around, rotate, or spin

မင်း

míɴ — You (informal); king or ruler

တာ

tà — Colloquial nominalization or sentence-final particle

မှန်

m̥àɴ — Correct, true; glass or mirror

တယ်

tɛ̀ — Colloquial sentence-final declarative particle

ခေါင်း

kʰáuɴ — Head, the top part of a person's body

ညိတ်

ɲeiʔ — To nod the head in agreement or acknowledgment

လော့

lɔ̤ — Imperative particle urging someone to do something

တစ်ယောက်

tɪʔ-jauʔ — One person, a single human individual

ခေါ်

kʰɔ́ — To call, summon, or name someone

သွား

θwá — To go, leave a place; directional complement away

ပါ

pà — Polite sentence particle; also to include or participate

ဒုက္ခ

doʊʔ-kʰa̰ — Suffering, hardship, trouble or distress

ရင်

yíɴ — Chest; if or when in conditional clauses

မင်းတို့

míɴ-dó — You all, you plural (informal second person)

အကူအညီ

a̰-kù-a̰-ɲì — Help, assistance, support from another person

လို

lò — To need, want, or lack something

ကောင်း

káuɴ — Good, fine, excellent in quality

မော်တော်ကား

mɔ́-tɔ̀-ká — Motor car, automobile, vehicle

အနီး

a̰-nì — Near, close vicinity, nearby area

ရှိ

ʃì — To exist, be present, have something

တပ်သား

taʔ-θá — Soldier, enlisted military personnel

လက်

lɛʔ — Hand, arm; also a measure of length

ဆင့်

sʰɪ̤ɴ — To relay, pass on a message; level or step

ဒီ

dì — This, here, these (proximal demonstrative)

ည

ɲa̰ — Night, nighttime hours

ကျွန်တော်တို့

tɕənɔ̀-dó — We, us (formal male first-person plural)

လူသား

lù-θá — Human being, mankind, humanity

ထိုက်တန်

tʰaiʔ-tàɴ — Worthy, deserving, meriting something

အလုပ်

a̰-loʊʔ — Work, job, task, or occupation

ကြီး

tɕí — Big, large, great in size or importance

ကျန်းမာ

tɕáɴ-mà — Healthy, in good physical health

သလား

θa̰-lá — Question particle asking whether something is so

စိတ်အား

seiʔ-á — Enthusiasm, mental energy, motivation

မထက်သန်

ma̰-tʰɛʔ-θàɴ — Lacking enthusiasm, not zealous or motivated

ဘဲ

bɛ́ — Without doing; a negative resultative particle

အပြုံး

a̰-pjóɴ — A smile on one's face

တစ်ချက်

tɪʔ-tɕʰɛʔ — Once, one time; a single moment or stroke

ပြ

pjà — To show, display, or demonstrate something

လား

lá — Question particle at end of yes-no question

ပိုက်ကြိုး

paiʔ-tɕó — Rope, cord, or wire used for binding

တင်းကြပ်

tíɴ-tɕaʔ — Tight, strict, tense, firmly secured

တီ

tì — Tea; also an informal particle or short form

ရွက်

ywɛʔ — Leaf of a plant or tree

ကြာ

tɕà — Long time; to take time, to be delayed

ဖုတ်

pʰoʊʔ — To bake, roast, or grill food with heat

ငါး

ŋá — Fish; also the number five

စား

sá — To eat food or consume a meal

အကြံပြု

a̰-tɕʰàɴ-pjù — To suggest, recommend, or advise something

မော်လေး

mɔ́-lé — Mawlamyine, a major city in Mon State Myanmar

လုပ်စရာ

loʊʔ-sa̰-yà — Something that needs to be done, a task

နည်းနည်း

nɛ́-nɛ́ — A little, slightly, a small amount

သေး

θé — Still, yet; small, tiny in size