Harrigan — Page 3

Vocabulary

အပျော်ရွှင်ဆုံးသော

a-pyaw-shwin-hsone-thaw — Most joyful or happiest of all

လူအုပ်

lu-owk — A crowd or group of people

များ

mya — Many; plural marker in Burmese

ပင်လျှင်

pin-hlyin — Even; even so; emphasizing inclusion

နေဝင်

nay-win — Sunset; the sun setting

ချိန်

chein — Time; moment; to aim or measure

၏

e — Possessive or linking particle in Burmese

အိပ်စက်

eik-set — To sleep; act of sleeping

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or state

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

နားနေ

na-nay — To rest; to take a break

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to; toward

ကတိ

ka-ti — A promise; a vow or pledge

ပေး

pay — To give; to provide something

သည့်

thay — Relative clause marker; that; which

ကဲ့သို့

keh-tho — Like; similar to; as if

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that; which

တည်ငြိမ်

teh-nyein — Stable; calm; steady and composed

ငြိမ်သက်

nyein-thet — Peaceful; tranquil; serene and quiet

လုံးဝ

lone-waw — Completely; absolutely; entirely; wholly

မဖျက်ဆီး

ma-phyet-si — Not to destroy; not to ruin

နိုင်

nain — Can; able to; to be capable

အတွက်

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

မနှစ်မြို့

ma-hnit-myo — To dislike; to find unpleasant or disagreeable

ဖွယ်

phway — Worthy of; likely to; tending to

ဖြစ်ခဲ့

phyit-khe — Was; became; happened in the past

သည်

thì — Present tense marker; topic marker particle

သူ

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

မျက်နှာ

myet-hna — Face; facial expression; countenance

ကြုတ်

kyout — To scrunch; to contort or twist the face

ကာ

ka — While; as; continuative particle linking clauses

မနေနိုင်

ma-nay-nain — Cannot stay still; unable to remain calm

မထိုင်နိုင်

ma-htine-nain — Cannot sit still; unable to stay seated

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of; using; instrumental particle

အမြန်

a-myan — Quickly; fast; in a hurry

အသက်ရှူ

a-thet-shu — To breathe; act of breathing

တွတ်တိုး

twet-to — Whispering; speaking softly and quietly

ပြော

pyaw — To say; to speak; to tell

လိုက်

like — To follow; directional verb indicating movement

ငါ

nga — I; me (informal first person pronoun)

ဒီ

di — This; here (colloquial demonstrative pronoun)

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place; location; spot or position

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle indicating location

ကြာကြာ

kya-kya — For a long time; prolonged duration

နေ

nay — To stay; to live; to be somewhere

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not; not; negation of identity

ဘူး

bu — Negative particle for past or experience

သွား

thwa — To go; to leave; directional verb

ရ

ya — Can; to obtain; to get; able

ပဲ

pe — Only; just; emphatic restrictive particle

အလယ်

a-lè — Middle; center; in between

ဗဟို

ba-ho — Center; central point; headquarters

သို့

tho — To; toward; directional particle

လှိုင်း

hlain — Wave; a surge or swell of water

ထန်

htan — Strong; intense; powerful; forceful

စီးဆင်း

si-zin — To flow; to stream along continuously

ထဲ

hte — Inside; within; into (locative particle)

ဝင်ရောက်

win-yout — To enter; to go inside a place

အထဲ

a-hte — Inside; the interior of something

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (formal locative particle)

ပို

po — More; even more; comparative degree marker

ကောင်း

kaung — Good; nice; well; fine

စစ်သား

sit-tha — Soldier; military enlisted person

မှ

hma — From; since; starting from a place

စစ်သင်္ဘော

sit-thin-baw — Warship; a military naval vessel

တပ်သား

tat-tha — Enlisted soldier; low-ranking military member

တရုတ်

ta-yout — Chinese; relating to China or Chinese people

လူမျိုး

lu-myo — Ethnicity; race; nationality; ethnic group

ဂျပန်

ja-pan — Japanese; relating to Japan or its people

အမေရိကန်

a-may-ri-kan — American; relating to the United States

ဆို

hso — To say; quotative particle; called; named

အမျိုးသားရေး

a-myo-tha-yay — Nationalism; national affairs or identity matters

အသားအရောင်

a-tha-a-yaung — Skin color; complexion; racial skin tone

ကွဲပြား

kwet-pya — Different; diverse; varied; distinct from each other

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; a great number; a lot of

အရောင်

a-yaung — Color; hue; shade of color

တောက်ပ

taut-pa — Bright; shining; brilliant; luminous

သေးငယ်

thay-ngè — Small; tiny; little in size

အိမ်

ein — House; home; building for living in

ကြား

kya — Between; among; to hear something

ရည်မဲ့မဲ့

yeh-meh-meh — Aimlessly; without purpose or direction

လမ်းလျှောက်

lan-shjout — To walk; to stroll along a path

ရင်း

yin — While doing; as; familiar particle showing closeness

ဆုံစည်း

hsone-si — To gather; to meet and assemble together

ကြ

kya — Plural action particle; to do together

သို့သော်

tho-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; on the other hand

ပျော်ပါးမှု

pyaw-ba-hmu — Enjoyment; pleasure; fun and amusement

ရှာဖွေ

sha-phway — To search; to look for; to seek out

ထို

hto — That; those; referring to something previously mentioned

စောင့်ကြည့်

saung-kji — To watch; to observe; to monitor carefully

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix for actions or matters

ကင်း

kin — Free from; devoid of; clear of something

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic intensifying particle

ဘယ်သူ

beh-thu — Who; which person (interrogative pronoun)

နီးကပ်စွာ

ni-kut-zwa — Closely; in a close or near manner

မတိုး

ma-to — Not to approach; not to advance forward

မကပ်

ma-kut — Not to stick; not to cling or attach

ဆံပင်

hsun-bin — Hair; strands of hair on the head

မီးတောက်

mi-taut — Flame; blazing fire; burning flame

သူတို့

thu-to — They; them (third person plural pronoun)

နှိုးဆော်

hno-hsou — To encourage; to urge; to stir up

သတိပေး

tha-ti-pay — To warn; to give a caution or alert

နီမြန်း

ni-myan — Reddish; glowing red; flushed with red color

မီးခွက်

mi-kwet — Lantern; candle holder; small lamp or light

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing; a single item or unit

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to become; to happen; to occur

သို့မဟုတ်

tho-ma-hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively (conjunctive)

ချဉ်းကပ်

chin-kut — To approach; to come near to someone

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker

တိုင်း

tine — Every; each time; whenever; all throughout

တစ်ချက်

tit-chet — Once; one time; a single moment

မျှ

hmya — Only; just; as much as; equally

အေးစက်

ay-set — Chillingly cold; icy cold sensation

စိတ်

seit — Mind; heart; feelings; mental state

မဝင်စား

ma-win-za — Not interested; not curious about something

ဟန်

han — Manner; appearance; pretense; style of behavior

ကြည့်ရှု

kji-shu — To look at; to view; to observe something

မျက်လုံး

myet-lone — Eye; eyeball; the organ of sight

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from; by

လည်း

le — Also; too; as well; additionally

လမ်းသွား

lan-thwa — Passerby; one who walks along the road

လမ်းလာ

lan-la — Passerby coming; someone walking toward you

စကားပြော

za-ga-pyaw — To have a conversation; to speak with someone

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pya-tin-pauk — Window; an opening in a wall for light

ထိုင်

htine — To sit; to be seated somewhere

မိန်းကလေး

mein-ka-lay — Girl; young female; a young woman

အလှဆုံး

a-hla-hsone — Most beautiful; prettiest of all

ရွေးချယ်

yway-chè — To choose; to select from options available

သဘောကျ

tha-baw-kja — To like; to be pleased or satisfied with

နှစ်သက်

hnit-thet — To like; to be fond of; to enjoy

တွန်းရွေ့

toun-yway — To push away; to shove aside; to displace

ဖြတ်သန်း

phyat-than — To pass through; to go across; to traverse

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of; so as

မလိုအပ်

ma-lo-ut — Not necessary; not needed; unnecessary

သူမ

thu-ma — She; her (third person feminine pronoun)

သပ်ရပ်

thut-yut — Neat; tidy; well-groomed and orderly appearance

ဆင်ခြင်

hsin-chin — To consider carefully; to reflect or deliberate

ကျွန်း

kjwin — Island; a land mass surrounded by water

သား

tha — Son; male offspring; also a softening particle

ကြောင်း

kyaung — Because; that (complementizer particle); reason for

ပြ

pya — To show; to demonstrate; to display something

မည်း

myi — Black; dark-colored; deeply dark in shade

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; included; please

တစ်ဦး

tit-u — One person; a single individual

ဝိုင်း

wine — Round; circle; to surround; to gather around

လက်မောင်း

let-maung — Arm; the upper limb of the human body

တစ်ဖက်

tit-phet — One side; the other side; one direction

တန်း

tan — Row; line; level; rank; to extend straight

ပေါ်

pau — On top of; upon; above; on a surface

တင်

tin — To place on; to put on top; to present

ထား

hta — To place; to keep; to leave in place

မေးစေ့

may-zit — Chin; the lower part of the face

လက်ဖဝါး

let-pha-wa — Palm of the hand; the inner hand surface

ကိုင်

kine — To hold; to grasp; to carry something

သူတွေ

thu-tway — They; those people (colloquial plural)

ဖယ်

phè — To move aside; to remove; to set apart

စမ်း

san — To try; to test; to attempt something

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning said; that (formal)

နား

na — Ear; to listen; to stop or pause

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; one's own; reflexive pronoun

မှီ

hmi — To lean on; to depend on; to rely upon

အို

o — Oh; exclamation of surprise or calling someone

တိုးတိုး

to-to — Softly; quietly; in a hushed manner

ရွတ်ဆို

ywut-hso — To recite; to chant; to say aloud

ထို့နောက်

hto-nout — After that; then; subsequently; following that

ရင်

yin — If; when; chest; heart area of body

ရော

yaw — Also; mixed with; along with; too

မင်း

min — You (informal); also means king or lord

ဆု

hsu — Prize; reward; blessing; a gift bestowed

ချ

cha — To bestow; to grant; to lower or place down

မယ်

mè — Future tense particle; will; going to do