Heart of Darkness — Page 1

Vocabulary

မှောင်မိုက်၏

hmaung-mite i — Of the darkness; possessive marker attached

နှလုံးသား

hna-lone-tha — Heart; the seat of emotions and feelings

ကွန်ရက်

kun-yet — Network; system of interconnected people or things

ရေးသားသည်

yay-tha-dhi — To write; to compose text or literature

မာတိကာ

ma-ti-ka — Table of contents; index of a publication

အပိုင်း

a-paing — Part; section or division of something

၁

tit — One; the numeral 1 in Burmese script

၂

hnit — Two; the numeral 2 in Burmese script

၃

thone — Three; the numeral 3 in Burmese script

ဆိုသော

so-dho — Called; which is said to be; so-called

လှည့်လည်

hle-le — To wander; to move around aimlessly

သွားလာသည့်

thwa-la-dhi — Coming and going; traveling back and forth

ရွက်လှေသည်

ywet-hle-dhi — The sailing boat; vessel propelled by sails

ရွက်များ

ywet-mya — Sails; fabric panels that catch wind

မတုန်မလှုပ်ဘဲ

ma-tone-ma-hlut-be — Without trembling or moving; perfectly still

လှည့်ကာ

hle-ka — Turning; rotating and then doing something

တိတ်ဆိတ်စွာ

tate-sate-zwa — Quietly; in a silent and peaceful manner

နားနေလေသည်။

na-nay-le-dhi — Was resting; remaining at rest peacefully

ရေကြီးမှုသည်

yay-ji-mu-dhi — The flood; the rise of water levels

ပြည့်နှက်ပြီးသား

pyi-hnet-pyi-tha — Already saturated; completely full or soaked

ဖြစ်ကာ

hpyit-ka — Having become; being the case and then

လေသည်

le-dhi — Narrative past particle; it was so

ဆိတ်ငြိမ်နီးပါး

sate-nyime-ni-ba — Almost completely calm; nearly total silence

ဖြစ်နေသဖြင့်

hpyit-nay-tha-hpyin — Because it was; since the situation existed

မြစ်အောက်သို့

myit-auk-thoe — Toward the downstream of the river

ဦးတည်နေသည့်

u-nya-nay-dhi — Heading toward; directed at a destination

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to a reason or cause

ကြိုးကိုင်ပြီး

kyo-kine-pyi — Having held the rope; gripping lines ready

တိမ်းလှည့်မှုကို

tame-hle-mu-go — The deflection or deviation; a change of course

စောင့်ဆိုင်းရုံသာ

saung-sine-yone-tha — Only waiting; merely standing by for something

တတ်နိုင်သည်။

tat-nine-dhi — Is able to; can manage to do it

ပင်လယ်ဆီသို့

pin-le-si-thoe — Toward the sea; in the direction of ocean

ဆန့်ထွက်သောနေရာသည်

san-thwet-dho-nay-ya-dhi — The place that stretches outward; extending location

အဆုံးမဲ့

a-zone-me — Endless; without end or boundary

ရေလမ်းကြောင်းတစ်ခု၏

yay-lan-kyaung-tit-khu-i — Of a single waterway; one water route's

အစကဲ့သို့

a-si-ke-thoe — Like the beginning; resembling a starting point

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ရှေ့တွင်

kya-nau-toe-shay-dwin — In front of us; before our eyes

ဆန့်ကျင်နေသည်။

san-kyin-nay-dhi — Stretches out; extends or lies before us

အဝေးတွင်

a-way-dwin — In the distance; far away from here

ပင်လယ်နှင့်

pin-le-hnin — With the sea; together with the ocean

မိုးကောင်းကင်သည်

mo-kaung-jin-dhi — The sky; the expanse above the earth

အဆက်မဲ့

a-sate-me — Unbroken; without interruption or separation

ပေါင်းစည်းနေပြီး

paung-si-nay-pyi — Already merged together; joining and continuing on

တောက်ပသော

tauk-pa-dho — Shining; bright and luminous in appearance

အာကာသထဲတွင်

a-ka-tha-dhe-dwin — In the atmosphere; within the sky above

တိုက်ရိုက်ကြည့်ရင်း

tite-yite-kyi-yin — While looking directly; gazing straight ahead

တက်လာသော

tet-la-dho — That had risen; coming up into view

ကျောက်မျက်

kyauk-myet — Gemstone; precious or semi-precious stone

ဘောင်ဖြင့်

baung-hpyin — With a frame; bordered or edged by something

ညှပ်ထားသော

hnyat-hta-dho — Clamped or sandwiched; held between two things

ရွက်လှေများ၏

ywet-hle-mya-i — Of the sailing boats; belonging to vessels

မဲနေသော

me-nay-dho — That is dark or black; appearing darkened

ရွက်များသည်

ywet-mya-dhi — The sails; fabric on boats catching wind

ဆေးသုတ်ထားသော

say-thote-hta-dho — Painted; coated with paint or varnish

တိုင်ရင်းများ၏

tine-yin-mya-i — Of the masts; belonging to ship's poles

တောက်ပမှုများဖြင့်

tauk-pa-mu-mya-hpyin — With the gleaming brightness; using shining qualities

ရဲရဲနီသော

ye-ye-ni-dho — Boldly red; vividly or brilliantly crimson colored

ချောင်ကြားထဲတွင်

chaung-kya-dhe-dwin — Within a narrow gap or creek area

ရပ်နေသကဲ့သို့

yat-nay-tha-ke-thoe — As if standing still; appearing motionless

ထင်ရသည်။

htin-ya-dhi — It seems; appears to be a certain way

မြင့်မားမှုမဲ့သော

myin-ma-mu-me-dho — Without height; low and flat in elevation

ကမ်းစပ်များပေါ်တွင်

kan-zat-mya-pau-dwin — On the shores; upon the riverbanks or coastlines

မြူခိုးများ

myu-kho-mya — Mists; hazy vapors hanging over an area

လွှမ်းမိုးနေပြီး

hlwan-mo-nay-pyi — Dominating and covering; having already overshadowed

ထိုကမ်းစပ်များသည်

hto-kan-zat-mya-dhi — Those shores; the banks in question

ပင်လယ်ဆီ

pin-le-si — Toward the sea; in the sea's direction

ဆန့်ထွက်နေသည်။

san-thwet-nay-dhi — Stretches out; extends continuously into the distance

အထက်တွင်

a-htet-dwin — Above; in the upper area or overhead

မဲမှောင်နေပြီး

me-hmaung-nay-pyi — Already dark and gloomy; turned very dark

ပိုမိုနောက်ကျသော

po-mo-nauk-kya-dho — More distant and further back; increasingly behind

နေရာများတွင်

nay-ya-mya-dwin — In various places; at multiple locations

ကမ္ဘာပေါ်ရှိ

kamba-pau-shi — Existing on Earth; found upon the world

အကြီးဆုံးနှင့်

a-ji-zone-hnin — The largest and; together with the greatest

အထင်ကရဆုံးမြို့ကြီးအပေါ်

a-htin-ka-ya-zone-myo-ji-a-pau — Over the most notable and prominent great city

မောင်းနေသည့်

maung-nay-dhi — That is driving or looming; pressing overhead

ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်

wan-ni-phwe — Pitifully; in a sorrowful or lamentable manner

မှောင်မိုက်ထဲသို့

hmaung-mite-dhe-thoe — Into the darkness; toward the dark interior

ထပ်မံ

htat-man — Again; once more; additionally repeating something

ကျဉ်းကပ်သွားသကဲ့သို့

kyin-kat-thwa-tha-ke-thoe — As if narrowing and closing in; tightening

ကုမ္ပဏီများ၏

kum-pa-ni-mya-i — Of the companies; belonging to businesses or firms

ဒါရိုက်တာသည်

da-yite-ta-dhi — The director; the person in charge officially

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏

kya-nau-toe-i — Our; belonging to us; first person plural possessive

ကပ္တိန်နှင့်

kap-tin-hnin — With the captain; together with the ship's captain

လက်ခံသူ

let-khan-thu — The host; one who receives or accepts guests

ဖြစ်သည်။

hpyit-dhi — Is; it is so; statement-ending copula verb

သူသည်

thu-dhi — He or she; third person singular subject

မျှော်ကြည့်ရင်း

hmyaw-kyi-yin — While gazing ahead; looking far into the distance

လှေ၏

hle-i — Of the boat; belonging to the vessel

ရှေ့ဘက်တွင်

shay-bet-dwin — At the front; in the forward direction

ရပ်နေစဉ်

yat-nay-zin — While standing; during the time of standing

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya-nau-toe — We; us; first person plural pronoun

လေးဦးသည်

le-u-dhi — The four of us; four persons as subject

ချစ်ခင်စွာဖြင့်

chit-khin-zwa-hpyin — Affectionately; with fondness and loving regard

သူ၏

thu-i — His or her; third person singular possessive

ကျောကို

kya-go — His back; the rear of the body

ကြည့်ရှုနေကြသည်။

kyi-shu-nay-kya-dhi — Were watching; collectively gazing at something together

မြစ်တစ်လျှောက်လုံးတွင်

myit-tit-hlhauk-lone-dwin — Along the entire river; throughout the whole river

သူ့လောက်

thu-lauk — As much as him; to his extent or degree

သင်္ဘောသား

thin-baw-tha — Sailor; seaman who works aboard a vessel

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

pone-than-dan — Appearance; physical form or outward image

ကိန်းသော

kine-dho — That dwells or resides; inhabiting a place

အရာတစ်ခုမျှ

a-ya-tit-khu-hmya — Not even one thing; nothing whatsoever at all

မရှိပေ။

ma-shi-be — Does not exist; there is none at all

လမ်းပြတစ်ဦးနှင့်

lan-pya-tit-u-hnin — With a guide; together with one navigator

တူသည်၊

tu-dhi — Resembles; is similar to something else

သင်္ဘောသားတစ်ဦးအတွက်

thin-baw-tha-tit-u-a-twet — For a sailor; intended for one seaman

လမ်းပြဆိုသည်မှာ

lan-pya-so-dhi-hma — What a guide means; speaking of navigation

ယုံကြည်ရနိုင်မှု၏

yone-kyi-ya-nine-mu-i — Of reliability or trustworthiness; of being dependable

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ပြုမှု

pu-gol-pyu-mu — Personification; embodiment of an abstract quality

အလုပ်သည်

a-lote-dhi — The work or job; the task at hand

မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်ထဲတွင်

myit-wa-kyun-pau-dhe-dwin — Within the river delta; inside the estuary area

မဟုတ်ဘဲ

ma-hote-be — Not being; rather than; instead of something

သူ့နောက်တွင်

thu-nauk-dwin — Behind him; in the space at his rear

မောင်းနေသော

maung-nay-dho — That is driving or moving; in motion

မှောင်မိုက်ထဲတွင်

hmaung-mite-dhe-dwin — Within the darkness; inside the dark space

ရှိသည်ဟု

shi-dhi-hu — That there is; reportedly existing somewhere

သဘောပေါက်ရန်

tha-baw-pauk-yan — In order to understand; to grasp the meaning

ခက်ခဲသည်။

khet-khe-dhi — Is difficult; hard to do or understand

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ကြားတွင်

kya-nau-toe-kya-dwin — Among us; in the middle of our group

တစ်နေရာရာ၌

tit-nay-ya-ya-nite — Somewhere; at some unspecified place or location

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya-nau — I; me; first person singular formal pronoun

ပြောပြီးသကဲ့သို့

pyaw-pyi-tha-ke-thoe — As I have already said; as mentioned before

ပင်လယ်၏

pin-le-i — Of the sea; belonging to or of the ocean

ချည်နှောင်မှု

chyi-hnaung-mu — Binding; a tie or connection that holds

ရှိသည်။

shi-dhi — There is; exists; statement-ending existential verb