Meditations — Page 1

Vocabulary

ရေးသားသည်

re: tha: dhi — To write; to compose or author something

မာတိကာ

ma ti ka — Table of contents; index of topics

မှတ်စုများ

hmat su mya: — Notes; written records or annotations

နိဒါန်း

ni dan: — Introduction; preface or opening section

ပထမ

pa. hta. ma — First; number one in sequence

အုပ်

oat — Volume or book; a bound unit of text

ဒုတိယ

du. ti. ya — Second; number two in sequence

တတိယ

ta. ti. ya — Third; number three in sequence

စတုတ္ထ

sa. toot hta — Fourth; number four in sequence

ပဉ္စမ

pain sa ma — Fifth; number five in sequence

ဆဋ္ဌမ

sa htat hta ma — Sixth; number six in sequence

သတ္တမ

thut ta ma — Seventh; number seven in sequence

အဋ္ဌမ

at hta ma — Eighth; number eight in sequence

နဝမ

na wa ma — Ninth; number nine in sequence

ဒသမ

da. tha. ma — Tenth; number ten in sequence

ဆက်စပ်ချက်

set sap chet — Connection; link or relationship between things

များ

mya: — Many; plural marker or more than one

ဝေါဟာရ

waw ha ya — Vocabulary; terminology or set of words

အဘိဓာန်

a. bhi dan — Dictionary; reference book of word definitions

သည်

dhi — Topic marker; present tense verb particle

ခရစ်သက္ကရာဇ်

khrit thet ka yat — Anno Domini; the Christian calendar era

ခုနှစ်

khu hnet — Year; a unit of time

၊

(comma pause) — Burmese comma; punctuation mark for pausing

ဧပြီလ

e pyi la — April; the fourth month of the year

ရက်

yet — Day; a unit of time

တွင်

twìn — In; at or within a location or time

မွေးဖွား

mwe: phwa: — To be born; to come into the world

ခဲ့သည်

khè dhi — Past tense marker; did or has done

။

(period stop) — Burmese full stop; end of sentence punctuation

သူ

thu — He or she; third person singular pronoun

၏

e — Possessive particle; belonging to someone

အစစ်အမှန်

a sit a hmàn — Real; true or genuine name or identity

နာမည်

na mè — Name; a person's given or full name

မှာ

hma — At; locative or copula linking particle

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit pi: — Being; and is also or furthermore

ရောမ

yaw ma — Rome; the ancient Roman city and empire

နိုင်ငံ

naing ngan — Country; a nation or state

ဘုရင်

bhu yin — King; a royal ruler or monarch

မှ

hma — From; indicating origin or source

ဆင်းသက်

sin thet — To descend; to originate from ancestry

လာသည်

la dhi — Comes; arrives or originates from somewhere

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker; said to be or reportedly

ဆိုသော

so dho — So-called; which is said or known as

မင်းနွယ်

min nwè — Royal lineage; noble bloodline or dynasty

မိသားစု

mi tha: su — Family; a household or family unit

ထို့

hto. — That; demonstrative used before reasons

ကြောင့်

kyaung. — Because; therefore or due to that reason

ဘာသာတရား

bha tha taya: — Religion; a system of faith and worship

ကို

ko — Object marker; direct object particle in Burmese

အလွန်

a lwùn — Very; extremely or excessively so

ဆုံး

soun: — Most; superlative marker or utmost degree

ကိုးကွယ်

ko kwè — To worship; to revere or practice religion

သော

dho — Relative clause marker; who or which does

ဧကရာဇ်

e ga yat — Emperor; supreme ruler of an empire

အစော

a saw — Early; at a young or early stage

ထဲ

htè — Inside; within or among something

သွေးရင်း

thwe: yin: — Blood relative; related by blood ties

ဖခင်

pha. khìn — Father; a male parent

မြင့်မား

myìn ma: — High; elevated in rank or status

ရာထူး

ya htu: — Position; official rank or office held

ထမ်းဆောင်

htàn saung — To carry out; to serve in a role

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense auxiliary; previously did or was

ပြီး

pi: — After; completion marker or and then

တူညီ

tu nyi — Same; identical or matching in nature

အမည်

a myi — Name; a formal name or designation

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have or be present

အဘိုး

a bho: — Grandfather; a paternal or maternal grandfather

သုံး

thoun: — Three; the number three

ကြိမ်

kyìm — Times; occurrences or number of instances

ရရှိ

ya. shi — To receive; to obtain or acquire something

မိဘ

mi ba — Parents; father and mother together

နှစ်ပါး

hnit pa: — Both; two persons or things together

စလုံး

sa loun: — All; both or the entirety of them

ငယ်ရွယ်

ngè ywè — Young; of a youthful or early age

စဉ်

sin — While; during a period or sequence

ကပင်

ga. pin — Even from; emphasizing origin or starting point

ကွယ်လွန်

kwè lwùn — To pass away; to die or decease

ခဲ့သော်

khè dhaw — Although did; concessive past tense clause

လည်း

lè: — Also; too or as well as

သူတို့

thu to. — They; third person plural pronoun

ချစ်ခင်

chit khin — To love fondly; to feel affection toward someone

နွမ်းတမ်း

nwan: tan: — To long for; to yearn or miss deeply

စိတ်

seit — Mind; heart, feeling, or mental state

ဖြင့်

phyìn. — With; by means of or through something

အမြဲ

a myè — Always; constantly or at all times

သတိရ

tha ti ya — To remember; to recall or keep in mind

နေခဲ့သည်

ne khè dhi — Continued to stay or remain doing something

အခါ

a kha — When; time or occasion of something

ဟောင်း

hhaung: — Old; ancient or longtime past

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to become or exist as

မွေးစား

mwe: sa: — To adopt; to raise as one's own child

ခြင်း

chin: — Nominalizer; converts verb to abstract noun form

ခံရ

khan ya — To receive; to undergo or experience something

ဤ

i — This; formal or literary demonstrative pronoun

နှစ်ဦး

hnit ou: — Two people; a pair of individuals

ကြား

kya: — Between; among or in the middle of

နက်ရှိုင်း

net shoung: — Deep; profound or intense in quality

ချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာ

chit chin: met ta — Love and goodwill; deep affection and benevolence

စာအုပ်

sa oat — Book; a written or printed publication

စာမျက်နှာ

sa myet hna — Page; a single leaf of a book

ပင်

pin — Emphatic particle; even or indeed or truly

ထံ

htan — To; toward a person or recipient

နူးညံ့

nu: nyan. — Gentle; tender or soft in manner

သိမ်မွေ့

thein mwe. — Refined; delicate or subtle in character

ဆင်ခြင်

sin chin — To reflect; to think carefully or deliberate

တုံတရား

toun taya: — Wisdom; good judgment or sound reasoning

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

နှင့်

hnin. — And; with or together with something

မျက်ကြည့်

myet kyi. — To look at; to observe or view directly

ရူမျက်ကြည့်

yu myet kyi. — To look up to; to regard with admiration

ဖျား

phya: — Far end; tip or edge of something

ကင်းဝေး

kin we: — To be far apart; to be distant or separated

သင်ယူ

thin yu — To learn; to study or acquire knowledge

ကြောင်း

kyaung: — Reason; because or the fact that

ကျေးဇူးတင်

kye: zu: tin — To be grateful; to thank or appreciate someone

ဖော်ပြ

phaw pya — To express; to indicate or show something

ထို

hto — That; distal demonstrative adjective or pronoun

ကလေးငယ်

ka le ngè — Young child; a small or little child

မြင့်မြတ်

myìn myat — Noble; exalted or virtuous in character

စရိုက်

sa yout — Character; nature or personal qualities

ကောင်းစွာ

kaung: zwa — Well; in a good or proper manner

သိမြင်

thi myìn — To perceive and understand; to know and see

နိုင်

naing — To be able; can or capable of doing

မဟုတ်

ma hoat — Not; negation of being or existence

ဘဲ

bè — Without; not doing or lacking something

ခေါ်ဝေါ်

khaw waw — To call; to refer to by name

လေ့

le. — Habitually; tends to or used to do

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun for self

ထက်

htet — Than; comparison marker indicating more than

ပို

po — More; to a greater degree or extent

၍

yui — Therefore; so or thus continuing from that

မှန်ကန်

hmàn kan — Correct; accurate or right in judgment

ဆိုလို

so lo — To mean; to intend or signify something

အသက်

a thet — Age; life or years of a person

ခြောက်

chout — Six; the number six

နှစ်

hnit — Year; a period of twelve months

မြင်းစီး

myín si: — Horse riding; to ride on a horse

စစ်သား

sit tha: — Soldier; a military fighter or serviceman

အဆင့်

a sin. — Level; rank or grade of a position

သို့

hto. — To; toward or in the direction of

တိုးမြှင့်

to myìn. — To promote; to advance or raise in rank

ပေးခဲ့

pe: khè — Gave; to have given or provided something

ရှစ်

shit — Eight; the number eight

ရှေးဟောင်း

she: hhaung: — Ancient; old or historically old things

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး

boun: daw kyi: — Priest; a venerable religious figure or monk

အဖွဲ့ဝင်

a phwè win — Member; a person belonging to a group

တစ်ဦး

tit ou: — One person; a single individual

အဖြစ်

a phyit — As; in the capacity or role of

ခန့်အပ်

khan. at — To appoint; to assign someone to a role

နောင်

naung — Later; in the future or afterward

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit la — To become; to come to be something

မည့်

myi. — Future marker; will or going to do

လက်ထပ်

let htat — To marry; to wed or get married

ထိမ်းမြား

htain mya: — To betroth; to formally arrange a marriage