Meditations — Page 3

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic or subject marker particle in Burmese sentences

က

ka — Subject marker particle used in Burmese grammar

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; a conjunction or comitative particle

တစ်ချိန်

tit cheín — At one time; once; at a certain moment

တည်း

tè — Only; same; emphatic restrictive particle

တွင်

twín — In; at; within; locative particle indicating location

သား

thá — Son; child; male offspring

ငယ်

ngɛ̀ — Young; small; junior; lesser in age or rank

အဖြစ်

a.hpyit — As; in the capacity of; in the form of

အမွေ

a.mwè — Inheritance; legacy; hereditary possession

ခံ

khan — To receive; to undergo; to endure something

ယူ

yù — To take; to get; to adopt or receive

ခဲ့

khɛ̀ — Past tense auxiliary; indicates completed past action

ပြီး

pyí — After; finished; completion marker for sequential actions

သူ့

thù — His; him; possessive or object form of 'he'

အား

á — Object marker particle; also means strength or energy

ဟူ

hù — Named; called; quotative particle indicating a name

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which; that; who

နာမည်

nàmɛ̀ — Name; title given to a person or thing

ပေး

pé — To give; to offer; to provide something to someone

သည်။

thì — Declarative sentence-final particle with full stop

ယင်း

yín — That; those; aforementioned; referring to something mentioned

နောက်

nout — After; behind; next; following in time or space

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative particle indicating origin or starting point

စ၍

si.yway — Starting from; beginning with; commencing at a point

ထို

htó — That; those; demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two

ဦး

ú — Head; person (classifier); also a respectful title

နိုင်ငံတော်

nàiŋNgàn daw — The state; the nation; government of a country

ပူးတွဲ

pù twɛ̀ — Joint; combined; together; collaborative arrangement

ပါတနာ

pà ta ná — Partner; associate; one who shares responsibilities

များ

myá — Many; plural marker; more; a lot

ဖြစ်ကြ

hpyit kjà — Became; were; plural past form of 'to be'

အငယ်

a.ngɛ̀ — The younger one; junior; the smaller of two

အဆက်ဆက်

a.hsɛt hsɛt — Continuously; successively; one after another without interruption

ဆောင်ရွက်

hsàuŋ ywɛt — To carry out; to perform; to undertake a task

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of; against

လေ့ကျင့်

lɛ̀ kjin — To train; to practice; to exercise or drill

သင်တန်း

thìn dán — Training course; class; educational program

ခြင်း

chín — Nominalizer suffix; turns verbs into abstract nouns

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; can; able to achieve

နန်း

nán — Throne; palace; royal court or seat of power

ပေါ်

pɔ̀ — On; above; upon; surface or upper location

တင်

tìn — To place on; to ascend; to present or submit

တစ်ပြိုင်နက်

tit pyàin nɛt — Simultaneously; at the same time; all at once

စစ်ပွဲ

sit pwɛ̀ — War; battle; military conflict or armed struggle

အရပ်ရပ်

a.yat yat — Various places; all directions; in every region

ပေါ်ပေါက်

pɔ̀ pout — To appear; to emerge; to arise or occur

လာ

là — To come; directional toward speaker; to arrive

အရှေ့

a.shɛ̀ — East; front; the direction ahead or eastern side

ဘက်

bɛt — Side; direction; toward; party or faction

တတိယ

ta ti ya — Third; the ordinal number three

ရောမ

yàwma — Rome; the ancient Roman Empire or city

တပ်မတော်

tat ma daw — Military; armed forces; the national army

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One; a single unit or item

လုံး

lóun — Whole; entire; all of something; completely

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; direct object indicator in sentences

ဖျက်ဆီး

hpyɛt hsì — To destroy; to demolish; to annihilate or ruin

ကျူးကျော်

kjú kjɔ̀ — To invade; to trespass; to encroach on territory

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; using; instrumental particle

ကြာမြင့်

kjà myín — Long duration; to take a long time; prolonged

စွာ

swà — Adverbial suffix indicating manner; -ly suffix equivalent

စီစဉ်

si zin — To plan; to arrange; to organize or prepare

ထား

htá — To keep; to place; to put aside; to maintain

သူပုန်

thu boun — Rebel; insurgent; one who revolts against authority

ထမှု

hta hmu — Rebellion; uprising; act of rising against authority

စတင်

sa tìn — To start; to begin; to commence an action

ဤ

ì — This; these; formal demonstrative pronoun in writing

နှိမ်နင်း

hnein nín — To suppress; to crush; to put down a rebellion

အလျင်အမြန်

a.lyìn a.myan — Quickly; rapidly; with great speed and urgency

စေလွတ်

sè lwat — To dispatch; to send off; to release or free

သို့သော်

thó thɔ̀ — However; but; nevertheless; conjunctive contrast word

သူ

thù — He; she; that person; third person pronoun

မူးယစ်

mú yit — Intoxicated; drugged; under influence of substances

ကာမဆိုး

kàma hsò — Debauchery; immoral sexual conduct; licentiousness

မှု

hmu — Nominalizer suffix; matter; affair; case or issue

မြုပ်နစ်

myout nit — Submerged; sunk into; deeply absorbed or engrossed

လျက်

lyɛt — While; in the state of; continuous action marker

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; one's own; reflexive pronoun in Burmese

တာဝန်

tàwan — Duty; responsibility; obligation or assigned role

သူ၏

thù yè — His; her; belonging to that person

အရာရှိ

a.ya shí — Officer; official; person holding an authoritative position

ထံ

htan — To; at; near; toward a person; dative particle

ချန်

chán — To leave behind; to omit; to set aside or neglect

မကြာမီ

ma kjà mi — Soon; before long; in a short while

မြောက်

myout — North; northern direction; also means to succeed

နယ်စပ်

nɛ̀ sat — Border; frontier; boundary between two territories

စွမ်းအား

swán á — Power; capability; strength; energy or force

ကြီးမား

kjí má — Great; large; enormous; of significant size or importance

မျိုးနွယ်စု

myó nwɛ̀ zu — Tribe; clan; ethnic group; group of related families

အများ

a.myá — Many; majority; the greater number or part

အပြား

a.pyá — Many kinds; numerous; various types or instances

ပေါင်းစည်း

páuŋ sí — To unite; to combine; to consolidate or join together

ကြောင့်

kjàuŋ — Because of; due to; as a result of; causal particle

နိုင်ငံ

nàiŋNgàn — Country; nation; state; a sovereign political entity

တွင်း

twín — Inside; within; interior of a space or time period

ပို

pó — More; even more; comparative degree intensifier

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kjout mɛt hpwɛ̀ — Terrible; fearsome; dreadful; inspiring great fear

အန္တရာယ်

ăn ta yè — Danger; hazard; peril; threatening situation

ရင်ဆိုင်

yìn hsàiŋ — To face; to confront; to deal with directly

မည့်

mɛ̀ — Future tense marker; will; going to; about to

အခြေ

a.chɛ̀ — Base; foundation; situation; condition or circumstance

အနေ

a.nè — State; condition; position; manner of being or living

ရောက်

yout — To reach; to arrive; to attain a destination

အနက်

a.nɛt — Meaning; depth; also the color black

အဓိက

a.dí ka — Main; primary; principal; most important element

ကျ

kjà — To fall; to decrease; to be situated in

အဖွဲ့

a.hpwɛ̀ — Group; organization; team; association of people

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle; also 'to order' food

သို့မဟုတ်

thó ma hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively; a disjunctive conjunction

စာအုပ်

sà out — Book; written volume; a bound publication

ဖော်ပြ

hpɔ̀ pya — To describe; to mention; to indicate or show

တို့

tó — Plural marker; we; they; group indicator particle

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to become; to exist or occur

မြို့တော်

myó daw — Capital city; royal city; seat of government

ပင်

pìn — Indeed; even; also; emphatic particle for emphasis

ကပ်ရောဂါ

kat yàwgà — Epidemic; plague; infectious disease spreading widely

အငတ်

a.ngat — Hunger; famine; starvation; lack of food

ဘေး

bé — Danger; side; beside; misfortune or calamity

ဖြစ်ပွား

hpyit pwá — To break out; to occur; to happen widespread

၏

yè — Possessive particle; 's; of; belonging to

တပ်

tat — Army; military unit; troops; also to attach or fix

ယူဆောင်

yù hsàuŋ — To carry; to bring; to take something along

သည့်

thìn — Relative clause marker; which; that; attributive particle

ရောဂါ

yàwgà — Disease; illness; sickness; medical condition

အခြား

a.chá — Other; another; different; remaining or separate

ကောက်ပဲ

kout bɛ̀ — Beans and grains; leguminous crops grown for food

သီးနှံ

thí hnàn — Crops; harvest; agricultural produce grown in fields

များစွာ

myá swà — Many; a great deal; numerous; a large quantity

သွား

thwá — To go; to depart; directional away from speaker

ရေကြီး

yè kjí — Flood; inundation; rising of water to dangerous levels

သက်သာ

thɛt thà — Relief; ease; comfort; reduction of pain or burden

စေ

sè — To cause; to make; causative verb particle

အရေးပေါ်

a.yé pɔ̀ — Emergency; urgent situation; crisis requiring immediate action

လို

ló — To need; to want; to require; to be like

အပ်

at — To entrust; to hand over; needle; to submit

ချက်

chɛt — Immediately; at once; also a punch or blow

ဖြည့်ဆည်း

hpyi hsí — To fulfill; to supply; to meet a need or requirement

တတ်နိုင်

tat nàiŋ — As much as possible; able to; to the extent possible

သမျှ

tha myà — All; whatever; everything; as much as there is

ငွေ

ŋwè — Money; silver; currency used for buying and selling

ရှာဖွေ

shà hpwè — To search; to find; to seek out resources or things

နန်းတော်

nán daw — Palace; royal residence; the king's official dwelling

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsàiŋ yà — Related to; concerning; pertaining to a subject

လက်ဝတ်

lɛt wut — Jewelry; ornaments worn on hands or body

ရတနာ

ya ta nà — Jewel; gem; precious stone or treasure

ရောင်းချ

yàuŋ chya — To sell; to vend; to put up for sale

အထိ

a.htì — Until; up to; as far as; extent marker

ဖိအား

hpi á — Pressure; force; stress applied on something or someone

ဧကရာဇ်

ɛ̀ ga yat — Emperor; monarch; supreme ruler of an empire

ပါး

pá — Thin; cheek; also a particle meaning 'please'

စလုံး

sa lóun — Both; all of them; every one; entirely

ကျန်ရှိ

kján shí — Remaining; left over; still existing after reduction

အုပ်ချုပ်

out choat — To govern; to rule; to administer or manage

ရေး

yé — Matter; affair; issue; also to write

ကာလ

kàla — Period; time; era; a span of duration

တလျှောက်

ta lyout — Throughout; along; the whole length or duration

တစ်နည်း

tit né — In other words; another way; alternatively stated

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Not; is not; negation of existence or identity

ဆက်လက်

hsɛt lɛt — To continue; to proceed; to carry on doing something

ဆီ

hsì — Oil; toward; in the direction of; also oil or grease

သို့

thó — To; toward; in the direction of; directional particle

ထွက်ခွာ

htwɛt khwà — To depart; to leave; to go away from a place

ကြ

kjà — Plural action particle; together; indicates group action

အတွင်း

a.twín — Inside; within; during; interior of a period or space

ခုနှစ်

khu hnit — Year; the word for 'year' in a date expression

သေဆုံး

thè hsóun — To die; to pass away; death of a person