Light O' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl — Page 2

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic/subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

လျင်မြန်

lyìn myàn — Fast, quick, swift in movement or action

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, meaning 'which' or 'that'

ကြွားယိမ်း

kywá yéin — To strut or walk proudly and arrogantly

ခြေလှမ်း

chéhlàn — A step or stride taken while walking

များ

myá — Many, numerous, or plural marker

ဖြင့်

hpyìn — With, by means of; instrumental particle

တဲ

tè — Informal sentence-final particle indicating assertion

ဆီသို့

sî thò — Toward, in the direction of something

သွား

thwá — To go, to move away to a place

နေ

né — To stay, live, or reside; sun

အိုမင်း

o míin — Old, aged, elderly in appearance

အိမ်

éin — House, home, dwelling place

၏

ì — Possessive or genitive particle ('of', 's)

တံခါး

tùngá — Door or gate of a building

ရှေ့

shé — Front, ahead, forward direction

သို့

thò — To, toward; directional particle

ဆောင်

hsàùng — To carry, bring, or accomplish something

ကျယ်ဝန်း

kyè wán — Spacious, wide, broad in area

သည့်

thì — Relative clause particle modifying a noun

လမ်းကြောင်း

làn kyàùng — Path, route, or course of travel

အလယ်

àlè — Middle, center of something

တွင်

twìn — In, inside, within a place or time

ရပ်

yà — To stop, halt, or stand still

ရှေးဟောင်း

shé hàùng — Ancient, old, antique, from the past

ခေတ်

khè — Era, period, age, or epoch

ထူးခြား

htú chá — Unusual, distinctive, extraordinary, remarkable

အိုင်းရစ်ရှ်

Áin yì shì — Irish, relating to Ireland or its people

တစ်လုံး

tìlóun — One piece, one unit of something

ဖြစ်

hpyì — To be, become, or happen

အိမ်ကြီး

éin jí — Large house, mansion, big home

နေရာ

né ya — Place, location, spot or position

ကျယ်ဝပ်

kyè wà — Spacious, roomy, wide and open

ပြီး

pí — After completing; done, finished, already

သိပ်သည်း

thì thì — Dense, thick, crowded together closely

လေ

lé — Wind, air; sentence-final softening particle

ထု

htù — Mass, volume, bulk of something

ကို

go — Object marker particle in Burmese grammar

ရှူရှိုက်

shú shoì — To breathe, inhale and exhale air

နိုင်

nàin — Can, able to, capable of doing

၎င်း

yìthin — It, that, the aforementioned; formal pronoun

ရေတွက်

yé twè — To count, enumerate items or people

မရ

ma ya — Cannot, unable to obtain or do

လှေကား

hlégá — Staircase, stairs inside a building

မုန်တိုင်း

móun táin — Storm, tempest, violent weather

နေ့

né — Day, daytime period

ရာ

yà — Hundred; suffix indicating approximation or place

တောင်းတမ်း

tàùng dàn — To long for, yearn, or deeply desire

သံ

thàn — Sound, voice, noise; iron or metal

ဆူညံ

sú nyàn — Noisy, loud, clamorous sound

ရှည်လျား

shé lyá — Long, lengthy, extended in size or time

နှင့်

hnìn — And, with; conjunction or comitative particle

မြောက်ဘက်

myàu bè — North, northern direction or side

စွန်း

swún — Edge, tip, end of something

ကျောက်

kyàu — Stone, rock; also a type of gem

ဝိုင်းခံတပ်

wáin khàn ta — Encircling fortification, surrounding defensive wall

ကြီး

jí — Big, large, great in size

တစ်ခု

tìkhù — One thing, one item or unit

ရှိ

shì — To exist, be present, have

ထို

htò — That, those; demonstrative pronoun

မျှောက်ခြင်မြင့်

myàu chìn myìn — Towering high, lofty and imposing structure

ပြိုကျ

pyò kya — To collapse, fall down, crumble

ပျက်စီး

pyè sí — To be destroyed, ruined, or damaged

ကြာမြင့်

kyà myìn — Long duration, lengthy period of time

စွာ

swà — Adverbial suffix meaning 'with' or '-ly'

က

ga — Subject marker particle or 'from' indicator

တည်းက

tèga — Since, from a specific time onward

လှား

hlá — To be flat, level, horizontal surface

ပေါင်းဘူး

pàùng bú — Never; has never happened before

ခွေး

khwé — Dog, canine animal

ပင်

pìn — Indeed, even, just; emphatic particle

ကြောက်ရွံ့

kyàu ywùn — To be frightened, scared, or horrified

ကြီးမား

jí má — Enormous, very large, immense in scale

ရမ်းကား

yàn ká — Fierce, wild, aggressive, violent behavior

ကြွက်

kywe — Rat, mouse, rodent

တစ်ဦး

tìú — One person, a single individual

တည်း

tè — Alone, only, solely; restrictive particle

နေထိုင်

né htàin — To live, reside, dwell in a place

အဖြစ်

àhpyì — As, in the capacity of, as a role

စွန့်လွှတ်

swùn hlwa — To abandon, give up, relinquish something

ထား

htá — To place, keep, or put aside

ည

nya — Night, nighttime

ဘက်

bè — Side, direction, part of something

မှ

hmà — From, since; source or agent marker

အိမ်နီးချင်း

éin ní chín — Neighbor, person living nearby

ငိုကြွေး

ngo kywé — To cry, weep, sob with tears

နတ်ဆိုး

na hsó — Evil spirit, malevolent supernatural being

ကြား

kyá — Between, among; to hear a sound

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, receive; can do

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle, meaning 'saying that'

အတည်ပြု

àtìn pyù — To confirm, verify, or officially approve

ကြ

kyà — Plural verb particle or 'together' marker

အိပ်ခန်း

éi khàn — Bedroom, room used for sleeping

အနီးဆုံး

ànísóun — Nearest, closest in distance or relation

သူမ

thù ma — She, her; third-person female pronoun

မိမိ

mìmì — Oneself, one's own; reflexive pronoun

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pyàtìn paù — Window opening in a wall or building

ပြင်

pyìn — Outside, exterior; to fix or repair

နှစ်ကြိမ်

hnì kyèin — Twice, two times, on two occasions

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker indicating completed action

ဟူသော

hú thaw — So-called, referred to as, known as

ဂုဏ်သတင်း

gòun thàdìn — Reputation, fame, renown of a person

ပြောင်မြောက်

pyàùng myàu — Skillful, accomplished, proficient at something

ရုံ့ပြန်

youn pyàn — To shrink back, recoil, retreat in fear

သက်တမ်း

thè tàn — Lifespan, term, period of existence

ဆယ့်ခုနှစ်

sè khùnì — Seventeen, the number 17

နှစ်

hnì — Year; the number two

ခန့်

khàn — Approximately, about, around a quantity

ပိန်ပိန်

péin péin — Thin, slim, slender in body frame

ချပ်ချပ်

cha cha — Flat, level, smooth surface texture

အရပ်

àya — Height of a person; place, area

မြင့်

myìn — Tall, high in stature or elevation

လွန်စွာ

lwùn swà — Extremely, excessively, beyond normal degree

သပ်ရပ်

tha ya — Neat, tidy, well-kept in appearance

မိန်းကလေး

méin galéi — Girl, young female child or teenager

ကာ

ká — While, during; continuative verb particle

မျက်နှာ

myè hná — Face, facial appearance of a person

ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်

sàn kyìn bè — Opposite, contrary, opposing side or direction

စစ်မှန်

si hmàn — Genuine, authentic, truly real

ရိုင်းပြ

yáin pyà — To behave rudely, act uncouth or wild

လည်း

lè — Also, too, as well; additive particle

အလှအပ

àlha àpa — Beauty, attractiveness, aesthetic appearance

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

poun thànan — Shape, form, figure, physical appearance

ကိုက်ညီ

kài ñì — To match, fit, correspond with something

အိုင်ယာလန်

Áin ya lan — Ireland, the island nation in Europe

တောင်

tàùng — South; mountain; even, still particle

အနောက်

ànàu — West; the rear or back side

ပိုင်း

páin — Part, section, portion of something

အမျိုးသမီး

àmyó thamí — Woman, female adult person

များစွာ

myá swà — Many, a great number or amount

၌

hnì — At, in; locative particle in formal writing

စပိန်

Za péin — Spain, the European country

ကဲလ်တစ်

Kè tì — Celtic, relating to Celtic culture or peoples

သွေး

thwé — Blood; also lineage or ancestry

အရိပ်အယောင်

àyè àyàùng — Shadow, trace, vague appearance or hint

ထူ

htù — Thick in width or density

နူးညံ့

nú nyàn — Gentle, soft, tender in manner

အလွန်

àlwùn — Very, extremely, exceedingly so

မည်း

mí — Black, dark-colored

ဆံပင်

zàn pìn — Hair on the head

ဘိုးဘွား

bó bwá — Ancestors, forebears, grandparents, lineage

ထံ

htàn — To, toward a person; near someone

ရရှိ

ya shì — To obtain, acquire, receive something

လာ

lá — To come; directional or tense particle

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into nouns

ကောင်း

kàùng — Good, fine, excellent, well