Harrigan — Page 2

Vocabulary

သူ့

thu. — His, her, or its (possessive/object form)

ရဲ့

yè. — Possessive or assertive particle in colloquial speech

လှည့်

hlhè. — To turn, rotate, or go around

ကင်း

kín — To be free from, devoid of something

ဧရိယာ

è-yi-yà — Area, zone, or region

က

ka̰ — Subject marker particle in a sentence

ငြိမ်

njìm — Quiet, still, or motionless

သက်

θɛʔ — Life, age, or to take effect

နေ

né — To stay, live, or reside; sun

တယ်

tɛ̀ — Colloquial sentence-final affirmative particle

ကို

ko̰ — Object marker or directional particle toward

ငါ

ngà — I, me (informal first-person pronoun)

တို့

tó. — Plural marker or first-person plural we/us

နဲ့

nɛ̀. — With, and; conjunction or comitative particle

အတူ

a̰-tu — Together, along with someone or something

လာ

là — To come; directional verb toward the speaker

ခိုင်း

kháin — To order, instruct, or make someone do

ရ

ya̰ — To get, obtain, or be able to

မ

ma̰ — Negation prefix placed before verbs

လား

lá — Question particle indicating yes/no question

လို

lo̰ — To want, need, or be like/similar to

ဘူး

bú — Negative past or denial particle; bottle

လို့

lo̤. — Quotative or reason particle meaning because/saying

ဒုတိယ

dṵ-ti-ya̰ — Second, second in order or rank

အရာရှိ

a̰-ya-ʃi — Officer, official, or person of authority

ပြုံး

pjóun — To smile or grin

ရယ်

yɛ̀ — Laughter particle or light emphasis marker

ကာ

kà — Continuative particle; while doing something

ပြော

pjɔ̀ — To speak, say, or tell

ပြီး

pjí — After completing; and then; already done

နီ

ni — Red (color)

ညို

ɲò — Brown or dark-colored

ရောင်

yaùng — Color or hue of something

ဆံပင်

sʰàm-bìn — Hair on the head

ရှင်

ʃìn — Polite address term; to live or survive

ထို

tʰo̰ — That, those (demonstrative pronoun, formal)

လူ

lu — Person, human being, or people

၏

ì — Formal possessive or genitive particle

ကျယ်

tɕɛ̀ — Wide, broad, or spacious

ဝန်း

wùn — Surrounding area, circumference, or encirclement

သော

θɔ̀ — Formal relative clause marker particle

ပခုံး

pa̰-kʰóun — Shoulder of the human body

များ

mjá — Many, plural marker, or more

ကြည့်

tɕì. — To look at or watch something

တမ်း

tám — Yearning, longing; intensifier of desire

လိုက်

laiʔ — To follow, go along, or accompany

သည်

θì — Formal present-tense sentence-final or topic particle

သင်္ဘော

θim-bɔ̀ — Ship or large boat

ဆိပ်

sʰaiʔ — Port, harbor, or dock

ပေါ်မှ

pɔ̀-m̥a̰ — From on top of; from above

တံတား

tàn-tá — Bridge over water or a gap

ဝင်

wìn — To enter or go inside

လှိုင်း

l̥áin — Wave of water or sea

ခွဲ

kʰwɛ̀ — To separate, divide, or split

ဆန်

sʰàn — Rice (uncooked); to go against or upstream

သွား

θwá — To go away from the speaker

ကဲ့သို့

kɛ̀-θo̰ — Like, similar to, as if

အုပ်

ouʔ — To rule over; cover; a flock or group

ထဲ

tʰɛ̀ — Inside, within, or into

မှ

m̥a̰ — From, since, or only (restrictive particle)

တိုး

tó — To increase, advance, or push forward

ခေါ်

kʰɔ̀ — To call, name, or summon someone

ခဲ့

kʰɛ̀. — Past tense marker; went or did previously

သူ

θu — He, she, or they (third person pronoun)

ရုတ်

yoʔ — Sudden, abrupt, or unexpected action

တရက်

ta̰-yɛʔ — One day; suddenly one day

သို့

θo̰ — To, toward (directional particle, formal)

သော်

θɔ̀ — Although, however (formal concessive conjunction)

စိတ်

seiʔ — Mind, heart, feelings, or intention

ပူ

pu — Hot, warm; worried or anxious

မှု

m̥u — Abstract nominalizer; matter, case, or affair

ရှိ

ʃi — To exist, be present, or have

ဘဲ

bɛ̀ — Without doing; negative manner particle

မိမိ

mḭ-mḭ — Oneself, reflexive pronoun for self-reference

လမ်း

lán — Road, path, way, or route

ဆက်

sʰɛʔ — To continue, connect, or follow on

ရဲ

yɛ̀ — Police; brave; assertive colloquial particle

တပ်ဖွဲ့

taʔ-p̤wɛ̀. — Military unit, force, or armed organization

မေ့

mé. — To forget something or someone

ကြောင့်

tɕaùng. — Because of, due to, owing to

ဟုတ်

hoʔ — True, correct; yes that is right

ဥပဒေ

ṵ-pa̰-dè — Law, legislation, or legal regulation

သံသယ

Doubt, suspicion, or uncertainty

ပြည့်

pjì. — Full, complete, or filled to capacity

မျက်လုံး

mjɛʔ-lóun — Eyeball or eye

အောက်

auʔ — Below, under, or beneath

တွင်

twìn — In, at, within (formal locative particle)

ရပ်

yaʔ — To stop, halt, or stand still

တည်

tì — To be stable, established, or located

ရန်

yan — In order to; enemy or adversary

အကျင့်

a̰-tɕin. — Habit, custom, or behavioral tendency

ပါ

pà — Polite sentence particle; also, too, included

ပြီ

pjí — Already done; completion particle

ဖြစ်

p̤jiʔ — To be, become, or happen

ပင်

pìn — Indeed, even, just (emphatic particle)

လည်

lɛ̀ — Also, too; neck; to turn or revolve

ပျက်

pjɛʔ — To be broken, ruined, or destroyed

ပြား

pjá — Flat; a flat thin object or coin

တစ်ခု

tiʔ-kʰṵ — One thing, a single item

လုံး

lóun — Whole, entire; round object classifier

၎င်း

lo-jin — It, that (formal third-person reference pronoun)

အမြဲ

a̰-mjɛ̀ — Always, constantly, at all times

ရောက်

yauʔ — To arrive at or reach a place

ခြင်း

tɕín — Nominalizing suffix turning verb into noun

တပ်

taʔ — Military unit; to attach or install

ဝတ်စုံ

waʔ-sóun — Uniform or complete set of clothing

ဝတ်

waʔ — To wear or put on clothing

စစ်သား

siʔ-θá — Soldier or military serviceman

အတွက်

a̰-twɛʔ — For the sake of, for, because of

မြင်း

mjín — Horse (the animal)

စီး

sí — To ride on; flow; vehicle classifier

စစ်

siʔ — War, military; genuine or real

တံပိုး

tàm-bó — Trumpet or bugle instrument

သံ

θàn — Sound, voice; iron or metal

ကြား

tɕá — To hear; between or among

ဤ

ʔi — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

ည

ɲa̰ — Night or nighttime

ပထမ

pa̰-θa̰-ma̰ — First, primary, or foremost

ဆုံး

sʰóun — End, finish; to die or be lost

ရှု

ʃu — To view, look at, or breathe in

စရာ

sa̰-yà — Worth doing; nominalizing potential suffix

စွာ

swà — Adverbial manner suffix meaning fully or with

ပြု

pjṵ — To do, make, or perform an action

လုပ်

louʔ — To do, work, or carry out

သေး

θé — Still, yet; small or tiny

လျှောက်

ʃauʔ — To walk or to apply (formally)

ယခု

ya̰-kʰṵ — Now, at the present time

ရပ်ကွက်

yaʔ-kwɛʔ — Ward or neighborhood administrative block

ဆီ

sʰi — Toward, in the direction of; oil

ဦး

ú — Head; Mr.; person classifier (polite)

အတွင်း

a̰-twìn — Inside, within a time or space

ညွှန်

ɲ̥ʊ̀n — To point, direct, or indicate

နေရာ

né-yà — Place, location, or position

ဆောင်

sʰaùng — To carry, bring about, or bear

ဘဝ

ba̰-wɔ̀ — Life, existence, or state of being

တစ်

tiʔ — One (the number); a/an indefinite article

ဒုက္ခ

dòuʔ-kʰa̰ — Suffering, hardship, or misfortune

သည့်

θì. — Relative clause marker (formal attributive particle)

တိတ်

teiʔ — Silent, quiet, or soundless

ဆိတ်

sʰeiʔ — Quiet, deserted; goat (the animal)

အသံ

a̰-θàn — Sound, voice, or audio

ငယ်

ŋɛ̀ — Young, small, or junior in age

လေး

lé — Four; dear (endearment); a little bit

ထောင့်

tʰaùng. — Corner, angle, or nook

ဟော

hɔ̀ — To preach, predict, or proclaim

ပန်း

pán — Flower or blossom

ဆောင်း

sʰáun — Winter season; to wear on shoulders

တီး

tí — To play a musical instrument

လျက်

ljɛʔ — While doing, continuously (formal adverbial particle)

ဖြတ်

p̤jaʔ — To cut through, pass through, or cross

သန်း

θán — Million; strong; to pass through gently

စု

sṵ — To collect, gather, or save up

တန့်

tán. — To stop, pause, or hesitate momentarily

ပျော့

pjɔ̤. — Soft, gentle, or flexible

ပျောင်း

pjáung — Flute (musical instrument)

သရ

θa̰-ya̰ — Vowel in linguistics or phonetic study

ဓာတ်

daʔ — Element, chemical substance, or essence

ဘာသာ

bà-θà — Language, religion, or subject matter

စကား

sa̰-ɡá — Speech, word, conversation, or language

ဖြင့်

p̤jin. — By means of, with, using (instrumental particle)

သီချင်း

θi-tɕín — Song or musical piece

ဆို

sʰo̰ — To sing; to say or mean (quotative)

ကြ

tɕa̰ — Plural verb marker; to do together

ကမ်း

kán — Shore, bank, or coast

စပ်

saʔ — Spicy; to relate to or connect

ရေ

yé — Water; address particle for females

ဆင်း

sʰín — To descend, go down, or get off

အဆုံး

a̰-sʰóun — The end or conclusion of something

မဲ့

mɛ̀. — Without, lacking; will (future marker colloquial)

ငြိမ်း

njím — To be at peace or extinguished

ချမ်း

tɕʰán — Cool, peaceful; happiness or well-being

စေ

sé — To cause, let, or make someone do

လေ

lé — Sentence particle for mild assertion or air/wind

ထု

tʰṵ — To hit, pound; mass or volume

ပျင်း

pjín — Lazy or reluctant to do something

သာယာ

θà-ya̰ — Pleasant, comfortable, or enjoyable

လှ

l̥a̰ — Beautiful, pretty, or attractive

သမုဒ္ဒရာ

θa̰-mouʔ-da̰-yà — Ocean or vast sea

အလယ်

a̰-lɛ̀ — Middle, center, or midpoint

အရှေ့

a̰-ʃé. — East; the front or ahead

နှင့်

n̥ìn. — And, with (formal conjunction or comitative)

အနောက်

a̰-nauʔ — West; behind or the back direction

ဆုံ

sʰóun — To meet, converge, or come together

ဆည်း

sʰín — To accumulate, gather toward evening or dusk

ရာ

yà — Hundred; place; nominalizing suffix

ထူး

tʰú — Special, extraordinary, or different from others

ဆန်း

sʰán — Strange, unusual, or novel

မြို့

mjó. — Town or city

၌

hnaiʔ — At, in (formal written locative particle)

ခပ်

kʰaʔ — Rather, somewhat (adverbial intensifier); to scoop

သိမ်း

θéim — To keep, store, seize, or fold

အရာ

a̰-yà — Thing, matter, or object

နှိမ့်

n̥eiʔ. — To lower, humble, or look down on

ချ

tɕʰa̰ — To put down, lower, or place below