Meditations — Page 5

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic marker or present tense verb suffix

စစ်ပွဲ

sit-bwè — War; armed conflict between opposing forces

များ

myá — Plural marker; many, numerous

တွင်

twìn — In, at, within a place or time

ဂုဏ်သတင်း

gùn-thadin — Reputation; fame based on noble deeds

ကျော်ကြား

kyaw-kyá — Famous, renowned, widely known

ခဲ့သော

khɛ̀-dhaw — Past tense modifier; that which occurred previously

တော်စွမ်း

taw-swán — Capable, skilled, talented, highly competent

သည့်

thì̤ — Relative clause marker linking noun and modifier

စစ်သူကြီး

sit-thu-ji — Military general; high-ranking army commander

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit-pyi — Having become; being, and then furthermore

ထို

htò — That; demonstrative pronoun indicating something distant

အချိန်

a-chein — Time; a moment or period of time

အရှေ့ပိုင်း

a-shè-bain — Eastern part; the eastern region or sector

ပြည်နယ်

pyi-nɛ̀ — State; an administrative region or province

၏

ì — Possessive particle; of, belonging to something

အမှုဆောင်

a-hmu-hsaung — Executive officer; one who carries out duties

အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူးချုပ်

ouq-chouk-yé-hmù-jouk — Governor-general; chief administrative authority of region

ဖြစ်သည်။

hpyit-thì — Is; statement of identity or existence (sentence-final)

မည်သည့်

mì-dhì̤ — Whichever; any, regardless of which one

နည်းလမ်း

né-lán — Method, way, approach to doing something

ဖြင့်

hpyin̤ — By means of; with, using, through (instrumental)

တွန်းအား

twán-á — Pressure, force, compulsion applied to someone

ပေးခံ

pé-khan — To receive pressure; be compelled or urged

ရသည်

ya-dhì — To receive, get, obtain something successfully

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit-sé — Whether or; causing to be, regardless of

ထိုစဉ်

htò-sin — At that time; during that period then

ကျန်းမာရေး

kyan-ma-yé — Health; the state of physical well-being

ချည့်နဲ့

chì̤-nɛ̤ — Weak, frail, in poor condition or health

နေသော

né-dhaw — Living, residing, being in a state

သေဆုံး

thé-hsòun — To die; to pass away, cease living

သည်နှင့်

thì-hnin̤ — Upon; as soon as, at the time of

တပြိုင်နက်

ta-pyain-net — Simultaneously; at the same time, all at once

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi-mi-ko-ko — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring to the subject

ဧကရာဇ်

eka-yat — Emperor; supreme ruler of an empire

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As; in the capacity or role of something

ကြေညာ

kyé-nya — To announce, declare, proclaim officially

ရန်

yan — In order to; purpose marker, also enemy

စီမံကြံစည်

si-man-kyan-si — To plot, scheme, plan carefully in advance

ထားပြီး

htá-pyi — Having already arranged or placed beforehand

သည်ဟု

thì-hu — Quotative marker; reportedly, it is said that

သတင်း

tha-din — News, information, report, message received

ရောက်လာ

yauq-la — To arrive, come to reach a place

သောအခါ

dhaw-a-kha — When; at the time that something happens

စီမံ

si-man — To manage, arrange, administer, plan out

ထားသည့်

htá-dhì̤ — That which has been placed or arranged

အတိုင်း

a-tain — According to; as planned or as expected

ပြုမူ

pyu-mu — To behave, act, conduct oneself in a manner

ဆောင်ရွက်

hsaung-ywet — To carry out, execute, perform a task

လိုက်သည်။

lait-thì — Followed, did accordingly; action completion marker

ကြား

kyá — Between; to hear, among, in between

ချက်ချင်း

chet-chin — Immediately, right away, at once instantly

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed; emphatic particle for emphasis

ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး

nyein-chan-yé — Peace; the state of calm and harmony

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-louq — To do, perform, carry out an action

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; done, finished, and then

ဤ

ì — This; formal demonstrative pronoun for nearby referent

အန္တရာယ်

an-da-yè — Danger, threat, peril, hazardous situation

သစ်

thit — New; fresh, or wood/timber (context-dependent)

ကို

ko — Object marker; to, toward (accusative particle)

ရင်ဆိုင်

yin-hsain — To face, confront, deal with a challenge

အိမ်

ein — House, home, dwelling place

သို့

thò — To, toward; directional particle indicating destination

ပြန်လည်

pyan-lè — To return, go back, do again

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet-khwa — To depart, leave, go away from somewhere

သည်။

thì — Sentence-final declarative marker in written Burmese

ကြီးမားသော

ji-má-dhaw — Great, enormous, very large or significant

ဝမ်းနည်းမှု

wùn-né-hmu — Sadness, grief, sorrow, feeling of distress

မှာ

hma — At, in; locative particle, also means 'to order'

မိမိ

mi-mi — One's own; self, reflexive personal pronoun

ပြည်တွင်းစစ်

pyi-twin-sit — Civil war; armed conflict within a nation

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

kyauq-met-hpwè-kaun-dhaw — Terrifying, dreadful, causing great fear

အဖြစ်ဆိုး

a-hpyit-hsò — Terrible fate, bad situation, tragic outcome

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To participate, be included, take part in

ရမည်

ya-mì — Will receive; must, shall (future obligation)

ဆိုသည့်

hsò-dhì̤ — Which is said to be; called, named

ကိစ္စ

ka-si — Matter, issue, affair, problem to address

သူ

thu — He, she, that person (third person pronoun)

အရည်အချင်း

a-yè-a-chin — Qualification, ability, competence, skill level

ချီးကျူး

chi-kyù — To praise, commend, speak highly of someone

လွတ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာခွင့်

lwat-nyein-chan-tha-khwin̤ — Amnesty; pardon granting freedom and peace

ပေးရန်

pé-yan — In order to give; to provide something

အခွင့်အရေး

a-khwin̤-a-yé — Rights, opportunity, privilege to do something

မရမီ

ma-ya-mi — Before receiving; prior to getting something

မိမိကိုယ်ကိုယ်

mi-mi-ko-ko — Oneself; emphatic reflexive form of self-reference

အနာတရ

a-na-ta-ya — Wound, injury, physical harm to the body

ဖြစ်အောင်

hpyit-aun — So as to make happen; in order to achieve

မပြုမိ

ma-pyu-mi — Not having done accidentally; fail to act

စေရန်

sé-yan — In order to cause; to make someone do

နှလုံးထဲ

hnalòun-htɛ — Inside the heart; deep within one's feelings

မှ

hma — From; ablative or source particle in Burmese

ဆန္ဒပြု

sanda-pyu — To wish, desire, express one's will formally

ခဲ့သည်။

khɛ̀-thì — Sentence-final past tense marker in Burmese

သို့သော်

thò-dhaw — However, but, nevertheless (concessive conjunction)

အရှေ့

a-shè — East; the eastern direction or side

ရောက်

yauq — To arrive, reach, get to a place

မလာ

ma-la — Did not come; negation of coming

မီပင်

mi-pin — Even before; prior to, emphatic before-marker

မသေဆုံး

ma-thé-hsòun — Did not die; negation of death occurring

သေးကြောင်း

thé-kaun — That not yet; still indicating an unreached state

ထံ

htan — To, toward a person; near someone (dative)

ရောက်ရှိ

yauq-shi — To arrive and be present at a place

သွားသည်

thwá-dhì — Went; to go away from current location

လိုက်ပါသူ

lait-pa-thu — Follower, companion, one who accompanies another

ကြွေကြ

kwé-kya — To fall, drop; deteriorate in quality or rank

ရာ

ya — Hundred; also relativizing particle in clauses

လုပ်ကြံ

louq-kyan — To assassinate, murder with premeditated intent

ခြင်း

chin — Verbal nominalizer; the act of doing something

ခံရ

khan-ya — To suffer, endure, be subjected to something

ထို့နောက်

htò-nauq — After that; subsequently, thereafter, then afterward

အရှေ့ဒေသ

a-shè-dètha — Eastern region; eastern territory or geographic area

သွားရောက်

thwá-yauq — To go and arrive at a destination

ခဲ့ပြီး

khɛ̀-pyi — Having already done; past completion connective

နေသည့်

né-dhì̤ — Who/which is residing or currently living

လုပ်ကြံသူ

louq-kyan-thu — Assassin; person who commits premeditated murder

ဦးချောင်း

ú-chaun — Ringleader, head conspirator; leader of a plot

သူ့

thṳ̀ — His, her; possessive form of third person pronoun

ယူဆောင်

yú-hsaung — To take along, bring, carry away with

လာကြ

la-kya — Came (plural); they came together collectively

၎င်းတို့

di-do — They, those people; third person plural pronoun

လက်ဆောင်

let-hsaung — Gift, present given to someone as offering

ဒေါသ

daw-tha — Anger, fury, rage, wrath emotional state

ငြင်းပယ်

nyìn-pɛ — To reject, refuse, deny, turn away

သူများ

thu-myá — Those people, they (informal plural third person)

ရှေ့

shè — Front, ahead, before; forward direction

လက်မခံ

let-ma-khan — To refuse to accept, reject, not receive

လိုပေ။

lo-pè — It seems necessary; apparently should be so

ခရီးစဉ်

kha-yi-sin — Journey, trip, travel itinerary or route

ဇနီး

za-ni — Wife, spouse (female partner in marriage)

အောင်ပွဲ

aun-bwè — Victory celebration, triumph, winning ceremony

ကျင်းပ

kyin-pa — To hold, organize, host an event or ceremony

ဆင်နွှဲ

sin-hnwè — To participate in a ceremony, celebrate festively

လိုလို

lo-lo — Seemingly, as if, approximately like something

ဝန်ထုပ်ဝန်ပိုး

wùn-htouk-wùn-bò — Burden, heavy load, responsibility weighing heavily

တဖန်

ta-hpan — Again, once more, on another occasion

ထမ်းဆောင်

htán-hsaung — To bear, carry out, fulfill a duty