Light O' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl — Page 5

Vocabulary

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kyun-noh-toh — We, us (formal first person plural pronoun)

မိသားစုသည်

mi-tha-zu-thuu — The family (subject marker attached)

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

ခရိုင်

kha-yaing — District, county, administrative region

တွင်

twiin — In, at, within (locative particle)

အထင်ကရဆုံး

a-hting-ka-ya-zoun — Most prominent, most notable or distinguished

နှင့်

hnin — And, with (conjunction or instrumental particle)

အဟောင်းဆုံး

a-hhaung-zoun — Oldest, most ancient of all

သော

thaw — That, which (relative clause particle)

မိသားစု

mi-tha-zu — Family, household unit

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pyi — Being, having become (connective verb form)

ရေကြောင်း

yay-kyaung — Maritime, by sea, naval route

ဖျားဘက်

phyar-bek — Toward the side, in the direction of

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to be present at a place

အင်္ဂလိပ်

in-ga-leik — English, British (nationality or language)

လူမျိုး

lu-myoh — Ethnic group, race, nationality

များသည်

mya-thuu — Are many, plural (stative verb with subject marker)

မိမိတို့

mi-mi-toh — Ourselves, they themselves (reflexive plural pronoun)

ပိုင်ဆိုင်

paing-saing — To own, possess something

သမျှ

tha-mya — All, everything, whatever (inclusive particle)

ကို

go — Object marker particle (accusative case)

စွန့်လွှတ်၍

swun-hlut-yway — Having abandoned, relinquished, given up everything

မဆိုထားနှင့်

ma-hsoh-hta-hnin — Let alone, not to mention (emphatic negation)

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place, location, spot

နေချင်

nay-jin — Want to live, desire to stay somewhere

ကြမည်သာ

kya-mii-tha — Will surely do (emphatic future plural verb)

သင်သည်

thin-thuu — You (formal second person subject)

အရူး

a-yu — Crazy person, mad, insane individual

ကလေး

ka-lay — Child, small, little one

ကဲ့သို့

keh-thoh — Like, as if, similar to

ပြောနေသည်

pyaw-nay-thuu — Is speaking, talking continuously right now

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle meaning said, thus

မစ္စဒေါ်

mis-daw — Mrs., madam (honorific title for married woman)

က

ga — Subject marker or agent particle

ပြောလိုက်

pyaw-laik — Said, uttered (completed speech action)

သည်

thuu — Is, am, are (present tense verb marker)

ကျွန်မ

kyun-ma — I, me (humble first person feminine pronoun)

တစ်ယောက်

tit-yauk — One person, alone, a single individual

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

phyit-kyaung — That it is so (nominalizing reported speech particle)

မမေ့ပါ

ma-meh-ba — Do not forget (negative imperative polite)

အမေ

a-may — Mother, mom (informal term)

တော်တော်

taw-taw — Quite, rather, considerably (degree adverb)

စိတ်မကောင်း

seit-ma-kaung — Feeling bad, upset, sorry, distressed

ဘူး

bu — Negation particle for past or general statements

မိန်းကလေး

mein-ga-lay — Girl, young female, daughter

ဆိုလိုက်

hsoh-laik — Said, replied, uttered (completed verbal action)

သူမ

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

ဆိုဖာ

hsoh-fa — Sofa, couch, upholstered seat

ပေါ်တွင်

paw-twiin — On top of, upon (locative phrase)

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, own self (reflexive pronoun)

၏

i — Possessive marker particle (formal genitive)

နူးညံ့

nu-nyan — Gentle, soft, tender in manner

ခေါင်း

hkaung — Head (body part)

ချ

cha — To put down, place, lower something

၍

yway — And then, having done (connective gerund particle)

မိခင်

mi-jin — Mother (formal or literary term)

ပခုံး

pa-khoun — Shoulder (body part)

မှီတင်း

hmi-tin — To lean on, rest against, rely upon

လိုက်

laik — Verb particle indicating directed or following action

အမေ့

a-meh — Mother's (possessive form of mother)

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As, in the role of, becoming (postposition)

မမှတ်ယူ

ma-hmut-yu — Not to regard as, not to consider (negative verb)

နိုင်

naing — Can, able to, capable of doing

ဆိုသည်

hsoh-thuu — Says, means, is called (quotative verb)

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life, existence, one's lifetime

တစ်လျှောက်

tit-hlhauk — Throughout, along the whole length or duration

လုံး

loun — Whole, entire, all of (classifier/quantifier)

ဒီမှာ

di-hma — Here, in this place (informal)

နေထိုင်

nay-hting — To live, reside, dwell somewhere

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker (action done and moved away from)

တယ်

deh — Sentence-final particle for present statements

ဖေဖေ့

phay-pheh — Father's (possessive form, informal)

ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု

paing-saing-hmu — Ownership, possession, property rights

ကျွန်မတို့

kyun-ma-toh — We, us (humble feminine first person plural)

အအေးစက်

a-ay-set — Cold shiver, chill sensation on the body

တွေ

tway — Plural marker for nouns (informal)

ဘာ

ba — What (interrogative pronoun)

ဆိုင်

hsaing — Related to, concerning, pertaining to

သလဲ

tha-leh — Question particle seeking explanation or reason

တစ်ချိန်

tit-chein — Once, at one time, formerly

မှတ်မိ

hmut-mi — To remember, recall, recollect something

သေးသည်

thay-thuu — Still, yet (indicating ongoing state)

ထိုအချိန်

htoh-a-chein — That time, at that moment (demonstrative time)

မြေကြီး

myay-ji — Earth, ground, soil, land

အကြီးကျယ်

a-kji-kyeh — Great, vast, grand, of great magnitude

ဆုံး

zoun — Most (superlative suffix), end, finish

ဆိတ်ညံ

seit-nyan — Silent, quiet, still, hushed

ဆွေးငွေ့

hswee-ngweh — Gloomy, dreary, melancholy, desolate in atmosphere

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, and then (connective particle)

ဘုရားသခင်

pha-ya-tha-khin — God, the Lord (Christian or general deity)

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed, emphatic particle

စွန့်ပစ်

swun-pyit — To abandon, discard, cast away completely

ထင်

hting — To think, believe, suppose, appear

ယခုတော့

ya-khu-taw — Now then, but now, at this point

၎င်း

da-jin — It, that, the aforementioned (formal pronoun)

ထိုက်တန်စွာ

htouk-tan-zwa — Worthily, appropriately, as deserved

ကျင့်ဝတ်

kjin-wut — Ethics, duty, moral conduct, obligation

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit-la — To become, to come to be, emerge as

ပြီ

pyi — Already, completed action particle

ဆိုသည်မှာ

hsoh-thuu-hma — As for saying, meaning that, which means

မှန်

hman — Correct, true, right, accurate

ပါသည်

ba-thuu — Polite affirmative sentence-ending particle

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However, but, nevertheless (concessive conjunction)

ဟောင်းနွမ်း

hhaung-nwan — Old, worn out, dilapidated, decrepit

အိမ်

ein — House, home, dwelling

တကယ်ပင်

ta-keh-pin — Truly, really, indeed (emphatic adverb)

မည်သို့

mii-thoh — How, in what way (interrogative manner)

ရှိသည်

shi-thuu — There is, exists (present declarative)

သင်

thin — You (formal second person pronoun)

နားလည်

na-leh — To understand, comprehend, grasp meaning

နိုင်မည်

naing-mii — Will be able to, capable of (future modal)

ဆိုလျှင်

hsoh-hlyin — If, supposing that (conditional particle)

ကောင်းသည်

kaung-thuu — Is good, fine, well (positive stative verb)

မဟုတ်လော

ma-hout-law — Is it not so? Right? (rhetorical question tag)

ဒီ

di — This (informal demonstrative pronoun)

မှ

hma — From, since, only (ablative or restrictive particle)

ကွဲပြား

kweh-pya — Different, distinct, separate, divergent

တစ်လုံး

tit-loun — One word, one piece, one whole unit

ရိပ်မိ

yeit-mi — To sense, perceive, have an inkling of

ချင်စိတ်

jin-seit — Desire, wish, wanting feeling or impulse

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist, there is none

တိမ်တိုက်

tein-tike — Cloud (fluffy, drifting cloud in sky)

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing, one item (general classifier)

ခဏတာ

kha-na-ta — Briefly, momentarily, for a short while

တောက်ပ

toke-pa — Bright, shining, gleaming, radiant

မျက်လုံး

myet-loun — Eye, eyeball (body part)

များ

mya — Many, plural marker (noun suffix)

ဖုံးကွယ်

phoun-kweh — To cover, conceal, hide from view

တူပါသည်

tu-ba-thuu — Resembles, seems similar, looks alike (polite)

မိုက်မဲ

maik-meh — Foolish, stupid, dull-witted

သောင်းကျန်း

thaung-kjan — Unruly, wild, rebellious, out of control

သဘောထား

tha-baw-hta — Attitude, disposition, viewpoint, mindset

ရှိသူ

shi-thu — Person who has, one who possesses

ဤမျှ

i-mya — This much, to this extent (formal)

အောင်

aung — Enough to, so that, until (result particle)

စာနာမှု

sa-na-hmu — Compassion, empathy, sympathy for others

ကင်းမဲ့

kin-meh — Devoid of, lacking, without (deficiency verb)

သမီး

tha-mi — Daughter, young girl (term of address)

ရှိရ

shi-ya — Must have, ought to exist or be present

သည်မှာ

thuu-hma — As for, regarding, the fact that (topic marker)

အတွက်

a-twet — For, for the sake of, because of

ကြီးစွာ

kji-zwa — Greatly, enormously, on a large scale

စိန်ခေါ်မှု

sein-khaw-hmu — Challenge, difficult test, provocation

တစ်ရပ်

tit-yat — One instance, a certain matter or affair

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thuu — Is, becomes, it is the case that

ဖို့

phoh — In order to, for the purpose of (purposive particle)

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

yi-yweh-chet — Purpose, intention, aim, objective

ကြည့်

kji — To look, watch, observe, see

ပါ

ba — Polite particle; please (imperative softener)

အတော်ပဲ

a-taw-beh — Quite, pretty much, rather (degree adverb informal)

ချစ်ချစ်ခင်ခင်

chit-chit-kin-kin — Lovingly, affectionately, with warmth and care

နေနေ

nay-nay — Still, while continuing, living on (gerund reduplication)

ကြသည်

kya-thuu — They do, plural verb marker (present tense)

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat-lan — Story, tale, narrative, plot

ထဲမှ

hteh-hma — From within, out of, from inside

တစ်ပုဒ်

tit-put — One piece, one story or literary work

ပြောပြ

pyaw-pya — To tell, narrate, explain to someone

နားထောင်

na-htaung — To listen, pay attention to sound or speech

ချင်လှ

jin-hla — Want very much, intensely desire to do

နဖူး

na-phu — Forehead (facial body part)

ပေါ်မှ

paw-hma — From on top of, off the surface of

မျက်ခုံး

myit-khoun — Eyebrow (facial feature above the eye)

ကြုံးမှု

kyoun-hmu — Furrowing, wrinkling (as in brow furrowing)

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pyauk-kweh — To disappear, vanish, fade away completely

သွားပြီး

thwa-pyi — Having gone, after going (sequential particle)

ဒေါသ

daw-tha — Anger, rage, wrath (strong negative emotion)

တင်းမာမှု

tin-ma-hmu — Tension, tightness, stiffness, strain

မျဉ်းများ

myin-mya — Lines, streaks, marks (plural)

မျက်နှာ

myit-hna — Face, facial expression, countenance

ဖျောက်ထွက်

phyauk-htwet — To slip away, sneak out, disappear quietly

သွားလေ

thwa-lay — Went away, departed (past tense with finality)