Meditations — Page 2

Vocabulary

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto̰ gjàuɴ — Therefore; for that reason; consequently.

သည်

θì — Topic marker particle indicating the subject of sentence.

သားယောကျ်ားမရှိသောကြောင့်

θá jɔ̀gjá mə̀ ɕì θɔ̀ gjàuɴ — Because there was no male heir/son.

ကို

go — Object marker particle indicating direct object.

မွေးစားသား

mwé sá θá — Adopted son; a son taken into family.

အဖြစ်

ʔa̰ pjɪʔ — As; in the capacity of; becoming something.

လက်ခံကာ

lɛʔ kʰàɴ ká — Accepting; receiving and then (doing something).

သူသိကျွမ်းသည့်

θù θì tɕwáɴ θɪ̰ — Which he was familiar with; that he knew well.

နာမည်ဖြင့်

nàmɛ̀ pjɪ̰ɴ — By the name of; under the name.

ပြောင်းလဲပြီး

pjáuɴ lɛ́ pjí — Having changed; altered and then proceeding.

သူ့သမီး

θù θəmí — His daughter; female child of a person.

နှင့်

nɪ̰ɴ — And; with; together with (conjunction/preposition).

နှောင်ကြိုးဆွဲချည်ပေးလိုက်သည်။

hnáuɴ tɕjó zwɛ́ tɕʰɪ̀ pé laɪʔ θì — Tied together; betrothed or bound to someone.

သူ၏

θù ɪ̀ — His; belonging to him (possessive pronoun).

ပညာသင်ကြားရေးကို

pjɪ̀ɴɲà θɪɴ tɕjá jé go — Education; the process of learning and teaching.

အလေးအနက်

ʔə lé ʔə nɛʔ — Seriously; with great importance and gravity.

ထားကာ

tʰá ká — Keeping; placing and then (doing something else).

ဂရုစိုက်မှုဖြင့်

ɡəju soʊʔ hmù pjɪ̰ɴ — With care; attentively and carefully.

ကြီးကြပ်ပြုစုခဲ့သည်။

tɕí tɕaʔ pju̯ su̯ ɡɛ̀ θì — Supervised and nurtured; oversaw with careful attention.

အထူးကျွမ်းကျင်သော

ʔə tʰú tɕwáɴ tɕɪɴ θɔ̀ — Specially skilled; highly expert in a field.

ဆရာများကို

sʰəjà mjá go — Teachers; instructors (plural, object marker attached).

သူ့အတွက်

θù ʔə twɛʔ — For him; for his sake or benefit.

ခန့်ထားပြီး

kʰàɴ tʰá pjí — Having appointed; assigned someone to a position.

ဒဿနိကဗေဒ၏

daʔθənɪʔ bèda ɪ̀ — Of philosophy; relating to philosophical discipline.

တင်းကျပ်သော

tɪ́ɴ tɕaʔ θɔ̀ — Strict; rigorous; demanding and disciplined.

သွန်သင်ချက်များဖြင့်

θʊɴ θɪɴ tɕɛʔ mjá pjɪ̰ɴ — With teachings; using instructional doctrines or lessons.

လေ့ကျင့်သင်ကြားပေးခဲ့ရာ

lɛ̰ tɕɪ̰ɴ θɪɴ tɕjá pé ɡɛ̀ já — Trained and taught; provided disciplined instruction to.

၎င်းသည်

lɪ̰ɴ ðì θì — This/that (formal); referring to a previously mentioned thing.

သူ

θù — He/she/they; third-person pronoun in Burmese.

အလွန်ဝါသနာပါသည့်

ʔə lwɛɴ wàθənà pà θɪ̰ — Very passionate about; deeply interested in something.

အရာဖြစ်သည်။

ʔəjà pjɪʔ θì — Is the thing/matter; it is (a certain) thing.

သူသည်

θù θì — He (topic); subject marker attached to third person.

ရိုးရိုးရှင်းရှင်း

jó jó ɕɪ́ɴ ɕɪ́ɴ — Simply; plainly; in an unpretentious manner.

ဝတ်ဆင်ကာ

wʊʔ sʰɪɴ ká — Wearing (clothes); dressing and then doing something.

ဘဝကို

bəwa̰ go — Life (object); one's existence or way of living.

ရိုးရှင်းစွာ

jó ɕɪ́ɴ zwà — Simply; in a plain and straightforward manner.

နေထိုင်ရန်၊

nè tʰaɪɴ jaɴ — In order to live; to reside or dwell.

နူးညံ့ခြင်းနှင့်

nù ɲʰàɴ tɕʰɪɴ nɪ̰ɴ — Softness and; tenderness together with something else.

ဇိမ်ခံမှု

zɪɴ kʰàɴ hmù — Luxury; indulgence; comfort-seeking behavior or lifestyle.

အားလုံးကို

ʔá lóɴ go — All of; every one of (object marker attached).

ရှောင်ကြဉ်ရန်

ɕáuɴ tɕɪɴ jaɴ — In order to avoid; to abstain or keep away.

သင်ကြားပေးခဲ့သည်။

θɪɴ tɕjá pé ɡɛ̀ θì — Taught; provided instruction or education to someone.

ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာကို

ko̰ kʰàɴ ðà go — The body (object); physical form of a person.

မိုးရွာရင်လည်းမတုန်သော

mó jwà jɪɴ lɛ́ mə̀ tòɴ θɔ̀ — Unwavering even when it rains; steadfast in hardship.

ခိုင်မာမှု

kʰaɪɴ mà hmù — Firmness; strength; toughness and resilience.

ရရှိစေရန်

jə ɕì sé jaɴ — In order to obtain; to cause to receive or gain.

ကစားနင်း၊

ɡə sá nɪ́ɴ — Playing and jumping; physical play activities.

အမဲလိုက်ခြင်းနှင့်

ʔə mɛ́ laɪʔ tɕʰɪɴ nɪ̰ɴ — Hunting and; the activity of pursuing wild game.

အပြင်ဂိမ်းများဖြင့်

ʔə pjɪɴ ɡéɪɴ mjá pjɪ̰ɴ — With outdoor games; using exterior physical activities.

လေ့ကျင့်ပေးခဲ့သည်၊

lɛ̰ tɕɪ̰ɴ pé ɡɛ̀ θì — Trained; gave physical or mental exercise to someone.

ကိုယ်ခံအားမှာ

ko̰ kʰàɴ ʔá hmà — Physical constitution; regarding bodily health and strength.

အားနည်းသော်လည်း

ʔá nɛ́ θɔ̀ lɛ́ — Although weak; despite being physically frail.

အကြမ်းဆုံးသော

ʔə tɕʰàɴ zóɴ θɔ̀ — The most fierce; the roughest or most brutal.

ဝက်ဝံများနှင့်

wɛʔ wàɴ mjá nɪ̰ɴ — Bears and; wild bears together with something.

ရင်ဆိုင်ရာတွင်

jɪɴ sʰaɪɴ já twɪɴ — When facing; in confronting a dangerous situation.

ကြီးမားသော

tɕí má θɔ̀ — Great; large; significant in size or degree.

ကိုယ်ပိုင်ရဲစွမ်းသတ္တိ

ko̰ paɪɴ jɛ́ zwáɴ θaʔtḭ — Personal courage; one's own bravery and valor.

ပြသခဲ့သည်။

pja̰ θə ɡɛ̀ θì — Showed; demonstrated or displayed to others.

တစ်ချိန်တည်းမှာပင်

tɪʔ tɕʰaɪɴ tɛ́ hmà pɪɴ — At the same time; simultaneously; meanwhile.

ထိုခေတ်၏

tʰo̰ kʰɛʔ ɪ̀ — Of that era; belonging to that particular period.

အလွန်အကျွံ

ʔə lwɛɴ ʔə tɕʊɴ — Excessive; going beyond limits; too much of something.

ကျင့်ကြံမှုများမှ

tɕɪ̰ɴ tɕàɴ hmù mjá hmə — From practices; away from certain habits or customs.

ဝေးဝေးနေစေပြီး

wé wé nè sé pjí — Kept far away; caused to stay distant from something.

ထိန်းသိမ်းခဲ့သည်။

tʰéɴ θéɪɴ ɡɛ̀ θì — Maintained; preserved or kept under control carefully.

အကြီးမားဆုံးသော

ʔə tɕí má zóɴ θɔ̀ — The greatest; the largest or most significant.

စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားမှုမှာ

seɪʔ l̤ʊʔ ɕá hmù hmà — Regarding excitement; concerning emotional stimulation or frenzy.

ဟု

hṵ — Quotation particle; indicating reported speech or title.

လူသိများသော

lù θì mjá θɔ̀ — Well-known; widely recognized or commonly acknowledged.

အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၏

ʔə pʰwɛ̰ ʔə sɪ̀ mjá ɪ̀ — Of organizations; belonging to groups or associations.

ပြိုင်ဆိုင်မှု

pjoʊɴ sʰaɪɴ hmù — Competition; rivalry between opposing parties or teams.

ဖြစ်ပြီး

pjɪʔ pjí — Being; having become and then (continuing).

ကျင်းပသည်။

tɕɪ́ɴ pà θì — Is held; takes place; organized as an event.

ပြိုင်ကားမောင်းသူများသည်

pjoʊɴ ká máuɴ θù mjá θì — The chariot drivers; those who race vehicles competitively.

အနီ၊

ʔə nì — Red; the color red (one of racing team colors).

အပြာ၊

ʔə pjà — Blue; the color blue (one of racing team colors).

အဖြူ

ʔə pju̯ — White; the color white (one of racing team colors).

သို့မဟုတ်

θo̰ mə hoʊʔ — Or; otherwise; alternatively (conjunction).

အစိမ်းဟူသော

ʔə séɪɴ hṵ θɔ̀ — Called green; referred to as the green faction.

အရောင်လေးမျိုးထဲမှ

ʔə jàuɴ lé mjó tʰɛ́ hmə — From four colors; among the four color categories.

တစ်မျိုးကို

tɪʔ mjó go — One type (object); selecting one kind or variety.

ရွေးချယ်လေ့ရှိပြီး၊

jwé tɕʰɛ̀ lɛ̰ ɕì pjí — Usually chose; habitually selected one from options.

သူတို့၏

θù to̰ ɪ̀ — Their; belonging to them (plural possessive).

ပြိုင်ဘက်ကိုထောက်ခံသူများသည်

pjoʊɴ bɛʔ go tʰaʊʔ kʰàɴ θù mjá θì — Supporters of rivals; fans backing opposing competitors.

မည်သည့်အရာနှင့်မျှ

mɪ̀ θɪ̰ ʔəjà nɪ̰ɴ mjʰa̰ — With nothing; incomparable to anything whatsoever.

မယှဉ်နိုင်သော

mə ɕɪ̰ɴ naɪɴ θɔ̀ — Incomparable; unable to be matched or rivaled.

စိတ်အားထက်သန်မှုဖြင့်

seɪʔ ʔá tʰɛʔ θàɴ hmù pjɪ̰ɴ — With intense enthusiasm; showing extreme zeal and passion.

ထောက်ခံမှုများ

tʰaʊʔ kʰàɴ hmù mjá — Support; acts of backing or endorsing someone.

ပြသကြသည်။

pja̰ θə tɕə θì — Showed; collectively displayed or demonstrated to others.

ပုန်ကန်ထကြွမှုနှင့်

pòɴ kaɴ tʰə tɕwə hmù nɪ̰ɴ — Rebellion and; uprising together with other problems.

အဂတိလိုက်စားမှုတို့သည်

ʔə ɡədḭ laɪʔ sá hmù to̰ θì — Corruption; acts of bribery and dishonest conduct.

ပြိုင်ရထားများနောက်တွင်

pjoʊɴ jə tʰá mjá naʊʔ twɪɴ — Behind the racing chariots; following the competitions closely.

လိုက်ပါလာပြီး၊

laɪʔ pà là pjí — Came along; followed and arrived with something.

ဤအရာများ

ʔì ʔəjà mjá — These things; these particular matters or items.

အားလုံးမှ

ʔá lóɴ hmə — From all; away from every single one of them.

တင်းတင်းမာမာ

tɪ́ɴ tɪ́ɴ mà mà — Strictly; firmly; in a very rigid and resolute manner.

ဝေးဝေးနေကာ

wé wé nè ká — Staying far away; keeping a great distance from.

ရှောင်ကြဉ်ခဲ့သည်။

ɕáuɴ tɕɪɴ ɡɛ̀ θì — Avoided; abstained from or kept away from something.

ခရစ်နှစ်

kʰəjɪʔ hnɪʔ — Anno Domini; Christian year (AD calendar reference).

တွင်

twɪɴ — In; at; within (locative particle).

ရာထူးသို့

já tʰú θo̰ — To the position; toward a rank or office.

တိုးမြှင့်ခဲ့ပြီး

tó mjɪ̰ɴ ɡɛ̀ pjí — Was promoted; raised to a higher rank and then.

ကြိုတင်နှောင်ကြိုးဆွဲချည်မှုသည်

tɕjo̰ tɪɴ hnáuɴ tɕjó zwɛ́ tɕʰɪ̀ hmù θì — The prior betrothal; pre-arranged engagement or binding.

လက်ထပ်ထိမ်းမြားမှုဖြင့်

lɛʔ tʰaʔ tʰéɪɴ mjá hmù pjɪ̰ɴ — Through marriage; by means of a wedding ceremony.

ပြည့်စုံခဲ့သည်။

pjɪ̰ zóɴ ɡɛ̀ θì — Was fulfilled; became complete or fully realized.

နှစ်နှစ်အကြာတွင်

hnɪʔ hnɪʔ ʔə tɕà twɪɴ — Within two years; after a period of two years.

သူ့ထံ

θù tʰàɴ — To him; toward or in the presence of him.

သမီးတစ်ဦးကို

θəmí tɪʔ ʔú go — A daughter (object); one female child born to someone.

မွေးဖွားပေးခဲ့ပြီး

mwé pʰwá pé ɡɛ̀ pjí — Having given birth to; bore a child for someone.

မကြာမီ

mə tɕà mì — Soon after; before long; shortly thereafter.

အခြားနန်းတော်ဆိုင်ရာ

ʔə tɕʰá náɴ dɔ̀ sʰaɪɴ já — Other palace-related; pertaining to additional imperial matters.

ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်

ɡòɴ tʰú sʰáuɴ — Honorary; bearing special distinctions or titles of honor.

အဆင့်အတန်းများ

ʔə sʰɪ̰ɴ ʔə tàɴ mjá — Ranks and grades; levels of status or position.

သူ့အား

θù ʔá — To him; directed at or given to him.

ပေးအပ်ချီးမြှင့်ခဲ့သည်။

pé ʔaʔ tɕʰí mjɪ̰ɴ ɡɛ̀ θì — Bestowed and honored; conferred titles upon someone officially.

ကွယ်လွန်ခဲ့ပြီး

kwɛ̀ lwàɴ ɡɛ̀ pjí — Having passed away; died and then something followed.

ကြီးကျယ်ခမ်းနားသော

tɕí tɕɛ̀ kʰàɴ ná θɔ̀ — Grand and magnificent; great and splendid in scale.

ကြီးသူကြီး

tɕí θù tɕí — The great elder; a senior dignitary or noble figure.