Harrigan — Page 6

Vocabulary

သူတို့သည်

thu-tho thì — They (subject marker); third person plural subject.

အော်ဟစ်

aw hsit — To shout or yell loudly.

လျက်

lyat — While doing; continuous action particle.

လူဖြူကို

lu phyu go — The white person (object marker).

ဝိုင်းအုံ

wyne oun — To surround or encircle as a group.

ကြသည်

kya thì — Plural verb marker; they do something.

ဖြတ်သွားသော

phyat thwa thaw — Passing through or cutting across something.

သူတို့၏

thu-tho yay — Their; possessive form of third person plural.

လူချင်းစာ

lu chin za — Human empathy; compassion toward fellow humans.

များသည်

mya thì — Is many; plural or numerous in quantity.

ရန်ပွဲ

yan bwè — A fight, brawl, or hostile confrontation.

ထဲ

htè — Inside; within a place or group.

ဝင်ပူး

win pu — To join in; to get involved in something.

လူစု

lu su — A crowd; a gathering of people.

တစ်ခုလုံး

tit khu lone — The entire thing; all of it completely.

သည်

thì — Subject or topic marker particle in Burmese.

ထို

htoe — That; demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant.

အရပ်မြင့်

a-yat myint — Tall in stature; of great height.

ဝိုင်းရံ

wyne yan — To encircle; to surround someone or something.

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional or accompanying verb particle.

ခေါင်းသည်

hkaung thì — The head (subject marker); referring to one's head.

နောက်သို့

nout thoe — Toward the back; in a backward direction.

ယိမ်း

yime — To sway or tilt to one side.

သွား

thwa — To go; directional verb particle indicating movement away.

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; then; sequential action connector.

သူ၏

thu yay — His; her; possessive third person singular pronoun.

မျက်လုံး

myat lone — Eye; the organ of sight.

သာယာ

tha-ya — Pleasant; content; feeling of ease and comfort.

လှပ

hla ba — Beautiful; lovely; aesthetically pleasing in appearance.

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that which; adjectival particle.

ဆင်ဖိုနီ

sin-pho-ni — Symphony; a large orchestral musical composition.

တစ်ပုဒ်ကို

tit pout go — One piece or composition (object marker).

နားထောင်

na htaung — To listen; to pay attention with one's ears.

နေသော

ne thaw — Currently doing; ongoing action relative clause marker.

ဝေဖန်ရေးသမား

we-bhan yay tha-ma — A critic; person who professionally critiques works.

တစ်ဦးကဲ့သို့

tit u kè thoe — Like one person; in the manner of someone.

တစ်ဝက်

tit wat — Half; one half of a whole amount.

မှိတ်

hmit — To close partially; half-shut (eyes).

လေသည်

le thì — Sentence-final particle indicating mild assertion or past action.

အာ့

ah — Exclamation of pain, surprise, or strong feeling.

ဟု

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

သူသည်

thu thì — He or she (subject marker); third person singular subject.

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun meaning one's own self.

ဘာသာ

ba-tha — Self; language; religion; by oneself (reflexive usage).

တိုးတိုး

toe toe — Softly; quietly; in a low voice.

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; to say; to tell someone.

သူ

thu — He; she; third person singular pronoun.

တိုက်

tite — To fight; to strike; to attack someone.

ကြည့်

kyi — To look; to watch; to observe something.

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also means 'also' or 'please.'

ရဲ

yè — Brave; also a police officer; bold.

တုတ်

tote — A stick or club used as a weapon.

များကို

mya go — Plural object marker; those things or people (object).

ဆွဲကိုင်

swè kine — To grab and hold; to grasp something firmly.

လူဝိုင်း

lu wyne — A circle of people; a crowd surrounding someone.

၏

yay — Possessive particle; of; belonging to someone.

အပြင်ဘက်

a-pyin bet — Outside; the outer side or exterior area.

အစွန်ကို

a-swun go — To the edge or periphery (object marker).

ထုခတ်

htu hkat — To beat or hit repeatedly; to pound someone.

ကြသော်လည်း

kya thaw le — Although they did; concessive plural verb construction.

နေရာ

ne ya — Place; location; a specific spot or area.

တွင်ပင်

twin pin — Even at; right in that very place.

ရပ်တန့်

yat tan — To stop; to halt movement or action completely.

သိပ်သည်းစွာ

thit thì zwa — Densely; thickly; in a tightly packed manner.

စုဝေး

su wè — To gather together; to assemble as a group.

လူစုကို

lu su go — The crowd (object marker); referring to the mob.

ဖြိုခွဲ

phyo khwè — To disperse; to break up a crowd forcibly.

နိုင်ခြင်း

nine chin — The ability to; being capable of doing something.

မရှိ

ma shì — There is not; does not exist; absence of something.

စစ်သား

sit tha — A soldier; a military serviceman or warrior.

ရဲရင့်စွာ

yè yin zwa — Bravely; courageously; with boldness and daring.

တိုက်ပွဲ

tite bwè — A battle; a fight; armed or physical combat.

ဝင်

win — To enter; to go into; to join something.

သူတို့ကို

thu-tho go — Them (object marker); third person plural object.

တားဆီး

ta zì — To prevent; to block; to stop someone's advance.

ထား

hta — To keep; to place; resultative verb particle.

နိုင်

nine — To be able to; can; to win or succeed.

ခဲ့သည်

khè thì — Did (past tense marker); completed past action particle.

တိုက်ခိုက်သူ

tite khite thu — An attacker; one who assaults or fights aggressively.

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; multiple persons or things.

ခေါင်း

hkaung — Head; the uppermost part of the body.

အပေါ်မှ

a-paw hma — From above; over the top of something.

ကာကွယ်သူ

ka-khwè thu — A defender; one who protects or guards others.

ပခုံး

pa-khoung — Shoulder; the joint connecting arm to torso.

မော်ကြွ

maw kyu — To rise up; to be elevated or lifted.

လည်းကောင်း

le kaung — Also; as well; additionally in a coordinating sense.

အားကောင်းစွာ

a-kaung zwa — Strongly; powerfully; with great force or strength.

ထိုးသော

htoe thaw — That which strikes; punching or stabbing (relative clause).

သီးဆုပ်

thì sout — A fist; clenched hand used for punching.

ဆွဲဆွဲငင်ငင်

swè swè ngin ngin — Pulling and tugging repeatedly; dragging back and forth.

အသံကို

a-thun go — The sound (object marker); referring to a noise.

မြင်

myin — To see; to perceive visually; to witness something.

ကြား

kya — To hear; to listen; space between things.

ဖိစီး

phi zì — To press down; to oppress; to apply pressure.

သိပ်သည်း

thit thì — Dense; thick; tightly packed or compressed together.

နေ

ne — To stay; to be; ongoing action auxiliary verb.

လက်မောင်း

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

အပြည့်အဝ

a-pyin a-wa — Fully; completely; to the fullest extent possible.

ဝှောက်ရန်

hwout yan — To hide; in order to conceal oneself.

နည်းပါး

nì pa — Few; scarce; small in number or amount.

သော်လည်း

thaw le — However; although; concessive conjunction meaning 'but.'

ကြီးမားသော

kyi ma thaw — Great; large; of considerable size or importance.

ကော့တိတ်

kaw tite — A coat; an outer garment worn over clothes.

နံရံကို

nun yan go — The wall (object marker); referring to a wall.

ကျော

kyaw — Back (of body); also means 'past' or 'beyond.'

မှီ

hmì — To lean against; to rely upon something for support.

ရပ်တည်

yat tì — To stand firm; to take a stable position.

ကာ

ka — While; connecting particle indicating simultaneous actions.

ထိုးချ

htoe chya — To thrust downward; to stab or strike down.

တိုင်းကို

tine go — Every; each; all of them (object marker).

အကျိုး

a-kyoe — Benefit; result; effect; usefulness of something.

ရှိ

shì — To have; to exist; there is something.

အောင်

aung — In order to succeed; so that; purposive particle.

ပြုလုပ်

pyu lote — To do; to perform; to carry out an action.

တညီ

ta-nyi — Unanimously; in unison; all together as one.

တညွတ်တည်း

ta-nyoot tì — In complete agreement; all of one accord.

သဘောတူ

tha-baw du — To agree; to consent; to be in agreement.

သကဲ့သို့

tha kè thoe — As if; like; in the same manner as.

ရုတ်တရက်

yote ta-yat — Suddenly; all at once; without warning or notice.

သေမင်းတမန်

the min ta-man — Messenger of death; an angel of death figure.

ကဲ့သို့သော

kè thoe thaw — Like; similar to; resembling something or someone.

တိုက်သူ

tite thu — One who fights; a fighter or attacker.

ထံမှ

htan hma — From; away from a person or place.

နောက်ဆုတ်

nout sout — To retreat; to step back; to withdraw.

ကြ

kya — Plural verb particle; they do; collective action marker.

အောင်မြင်မှုကို

aung myin hmu go — Success; victory (object marker); achievement being referenced.

ကြေညာ

kye nya — To announce; to declare publicly; to proclaim.

သံသည်

thun thì — The sound or tone (subject marker); iron/metal.

ဆူညံ

su nun — Noisy; loud; making a clamorous sound.

အသံ

a-thun — Sound; voice; noise; an audible sensation.

ကြားမှ

kya hma — From within; from among; out of the middle.

ထွက်ပေါ်

thwet paw — To emerge; to appear; to come out from.

လာ

la — To come; directional verb particle toward speaker.

ဦးထုပ်

u htoat — Hat; a covering worn on top of head.

ကျွတ်

kyoot — To fall off; to come loose; to slip away.

ရှည်

shè — Long; lengthy; extended in length or duration.

မည်း

myì — Black; dark in color; of dark complexion.

ဆံပင်

zun bin — Hair; the hair growing on a person's head.

လေ

le — Sentence-final particle indicating mild assertion or evidence.

တွင်

twin — In; at; within a place or time.

တိုးကြတ်

toe kyat — Crowded; pressing close together; packed tightly.

ထောင်မတ်

htaung mat — To stand upright; to stand erect and straight.

နေသည်

ne thì — Is staying; is doing; ongoing present tense marker.

ပြီးတော့

pyi daw — And then; after that; subsequently in sequence.

လှပတ်

hla bat — To wave; to flap; to flutter back and forth.

သူတို့

thu-tho — They; them; third person plural pronoun.

ခုန်ပြေး

khun pyè — To jump and run; to leap away quickly.

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; nevertheless; contrastive conjunction.

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at this moment; currently at present.

အကြမ်းပတမ်း

a-kyan pa-dan — Roughly; violently; in a rough and brutal manner.

ထုမောင်း

htu maung — To beat heavily; to pound with force repeatedly.

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer particle; the act of doing something.

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of; instrumental particle.

ထဲသို့

htè thoe — Into; toward the inside of something.

ဖြိုဖောက်

phyo phout — To break through; to smash open forcefully.

ဝင်ရောက်

win yout — To enter; to come inside a place.

ဒုတိယ

du-ti-ya — Second; the ordinal number following the first.

အရာရှိ

a-ya shì — An officer; an official or person of authority.

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with; conjunction particle.

မျက်နှာ

myat hna — Face; the front of the human head.

ချင်းဆိုင်

chin zine — Face to face; directly opposite each other.

ရောက်

yout — To arrive; to reach a place or person.

လာသော

la thaw — Coming; that which has come (relative clause).

အခါ

a-kha — When; at the time that something occurs.

မြင့်မြင့်

myint myint — High up; elevated; with head held very high.

မော်

maw — To look up; to raise one's gaze upward.

ဝါးနင်း

wa nin — To trample; to step on something underfoot.

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On top of; upon a surface or position.

အလင်းရောင်

a-lin yaung — Light; illumination; rays of light from a source.

တောက်ပ

tout pa — Bright; shining; radiant with light or brilliance.

လင်းဒေါက်

lin dout — A lantern or lamp; portable light-giving device.

ကျ

kya — To fall; to drop; to descend downward.

သွားသည်

thwa thì — Went; has gone; past directional verb construction.

မျက်ကွယ်

myat khwè — Out of sight; beyond one's range of vision.

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pyout khwè — To disappear; to vanish out of sight completely.