Meditations — Page 9

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also 'this' or 'that'

အစ

a-si — Beginning, start, origin of something

က

ka — Subject marker particle indicating the doer

တည်းက

tèh-ka — Since, from the very beginning

ပင်

pìn — Emphatic particle meaning 'indeed' or 'even'

အရှေ့

a-shè — East; front direction

နှင့်

hnìn — And; with; conjunction linking nouns

အနောက်

a-nauk — West; the back or rear direction

တို့

tó — Plural marker; 'we' or 'they' group particle

၏

ì — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'

တွေ့ဆုံ

twèh-hsòn — To meet, encounter, or gather together

ရာ

yà — Place; classifier for locations or scores

နေရာ

nè-ya — Place, location, spot, or position

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing; a single item or unit

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, to become, to happen

ခဲ့

khèh — Past tense marker indicating completed action

သို့သော်

thó-thaw — However, but, nevertheless, yet

သူ့

thù — His, her; third-person possessive pronoun

ကိုယ်တွင်း

ko-twìn — Internal, within the body or self

ရှား

shà — Rare, scarce, uncommon

သွေး

thwé — Blood; also used figuratively for ancestry

စပ်မှု

sap-hmù — Mixture, blending, combination of elements

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in Burmese grammar

အရေးပါ

a-yé-ba — Important, significant, of great consequence

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; 'which' or 'that'

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, object, or affair

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As, in the role of, in the form of

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kyaˀ-no-tó — We, us; formal first-person plural pronoun

လက်ခံ

let-khàn — To accept, receive, or acknowledge something

၍

ywèh — Connective particle meaning 'therefore' or 'and so'

မရ

ma-ya — Cannot, unable to, not possible

သော်လည်း

thaw-lèh — Although, even though, nevertheless

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyàun-hmà — The reason is; regarding the cause

လူမျိုး

lú-myó — Ethnic group, race, nationality, people

များ

myà — Plural marker; many, numerous

ဒဿန

dat-tha-na — Philosophy, philosophical thought or study

ပညာရှင်

pyiˀ-nyà-shin — Scholar, expert, learned person in a field

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not, not, negating identity or existence

ကြောင့်

kyàun — Because of, due to, therefore

လေးစား

lé-zà — To respect, revere, hold in high esteem

အောင်

àun — Enough to, so as to; success particle

ဆို

hsó — To say, speak, state; quotative marker

လောက်

lauk — About, approximately, enough, around

တော့

tó — Sentence-final particle indicating mild assertion

ထို

htó — That, those; demonstrative pronoun for distance

ရှေ့ဘက်

shèh-bek — Front side, forward direction

တိုင်း

tàin — Every, all; region or state (administrative)

မာ

mà — Hard, firm, tough; also a name element

ဒေသ

dèi-tha — Region, area, locality, district

မှ

hmà — From; ablative particle indicating source or origin

တဆင့်

ta-hsìn — Via, through, by means of, step by step

သူ

thù — He, she; third-person singular pronoun

အရှေ့ဘက်

a-shèh-bek — Eastern side, toward the east direction

အဝေး

a-wèh — Far, distant, remote place

ထိတွေ့

hti-twèh — To come into contact with, touch, encounter

မိ

mi — Verb complement indicating accidental or achieved action

ဖွယ်

phwèh — Worthy of, deserving, likely to

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, there is/are

ဝါဒီ

wà-di — Adherent of a doctrine or ideology, follower

တစ်

tit — One, a single; numeral one in Burmese

ထံ

htàn — To, toward a person; directional particle

တွင်

twìn — In, inside, within; locative particle

သင်ကြား

thin-kyà — To teach, instruct, or educate someone

အခြား

a-khà — Other, another, different, else

ကျမ်း

kyàn — Scripture, text, learned treatise or book

စနစ်

sa-nit — System, method, organized structure or order

လည်း

lèh — Also, too, as well; additive particle

မထောင့်

ma-htàun — Not arrogant; not haughty or proud

ထား

htà — To keep, place, maintain in a state

ပေ

pe — Sentence particle expressing mild assertion or obviousness

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two

များစွာ

myà-zwà — Very many, numerous, a great deal

လေ့လာ

lèh-là — To study, research, learn, investigate

ပြီး

pyí — After, finished, completed; sequential marker

နောက်

nauk — After, behind, next, later

အသိမ်း

a-thèin — Conclusion, summary, encompassing everything

ရည်

yì — Aim, purpose; also liquid or juice

သရေ

tha-yè — Prestige, honor, dignity, reputation

ဂရိ

ga-yi — Greece; Greek (relating to ancient or modern Greece)

မြို့တော်

myó-daw — Capital city, royal city

ထားသော

htà-thaw — Which has been placed or kept; stored

တိုင်တန်း

tàin-tàn — Column, pillar; also to complain or report

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'called'

ခေါ်

khaw — To call, name, summon someone

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, reflexive pronoun for self-reference

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko-bàin — Own, personal, private, belonging to oneself

ကျောင်း

kyàun — School, educational institution, monastery

ဖွင့်လှစ်

phwìn-hlit — To open, establish, inaugurate an institution

အမည်

a-mìn — Name, title, appellation of a person or thing

နာမည်

nà-mìn — Name, reputation, fame of a person

ဆင်းသက်

hsìn-thet — To descend, originate from, be derived from

အား

à — Object marker; strength, energy, power

အများဆုံး

a-myà-hsòn — Most, the greatest number or majority

ကျေးဇူး

kyé-zú — Gratitude, favor, kindness, grace

တင်

tìn — To present, submit, place upon; only, just

ရ

ya — Can, able to; to get or obtain

ဝါဒ

wà-da — Doctrine, ideology, -ism, belief system

တကျ

ta-kya — Properly, correctly, in proper order

စုစည်း

su-zì — To compile, gather, organize, consolidate

ပေး

pé — To give, provide, offer to someone

အကြောင်း

a-kyàun — Reason, cause, subject matter, about

ဤသို့

i-thó — In this way, like this, thus

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist, there is not, absent

မည်

mìn — Future tense marker; will, shall

လျှင်

hlyin — If, when; conditional particle in sentences

ဆင်ခြင်

hsin-chyin — To reflect, consider carefully, contemplate

တုံတရား

tòn-ta-yà — Reason, rationality, logical faculty of mind

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

yì-ywèh-chet — Purpose, intention, goal, objective

တစ်ရပ်

tit-yat — One particular thing, a certain matter

သို့

thó — To, toward; directional particle for movement

ရောက်

yauk — To arrive at, reach a destination

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of

နည်းလမ်း

né-làn — Method, way, approach, means of doing

သဘောထား

tha-baw-htà — Attitude, stance, viewpoint, disposition toward something

မှာ

hmà — At, in; locative or dative particle

သည့်

thì — Relative clause particle modifying a noun

အတိုင်း

a-tàin — According to, in accordance with, as per

တသမတ်တည်း

ta-tha-mat-tèh — Consistently, uniformly, in the same manner always

နေထိုင်

nè-htàin — To live, reside, dwell in a place

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into nouns

သို့မဟုတ်

thó-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively

နောင်

naun — Future, later, afterward, in the future

ရှင်းလင်း

shin-lìn — Clear, plain, explicit, easy to understand

ဖော်ပြ

phaw-pya — To explain, express, describe, demonstrate

သဘာဝ

tha-bà-waw — Nature, natural, the natural world or state

ညီညွတ်

nyì-nyut — United, harmonious, consistent, in agreement

စွာ

zwà — Adverbial suffix meaning '-ly' or 'in a manner'

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun for nearness

ကိုက်ညီ

kite-nyì — To match, conform, align, be consistent with

သူတော်ကောင်း

thù-daw-kaun — Virtuous person, good person, righteous individual

တရား

ta-yà — Law, justice, morality, doctrine, truth

ပတ်သက်

pat-thet — Related to, concerned with, involving something

အယူအဆ

a-yú-a-hsa — Concept, idea, belief, theoretical notion

ဆိုရိုး

hsó-yo — Proverb, saying, maxim, common expression

စကား

za-gà — Word, speech, language, conversation

ဆန္ဒ

sàn-da — Desire, wish, will, aspiration, volition

လိုက်လျော

lait-lyaw — To comply with, adapt to, go along with

တည်ရှိ

tèh-shi — To exist, be present, be in existence

ဆိုလို

hsó-lo — To mean, intend to say, signify

လွယ်လွယ်ကူကူ

lwèh-lwèh-kú-kú — Easily, simply, without difficulty or effort

နားလည်

nà-lèh — To understand, comprehend, grasp meaning

နိုင်

nàin — Can, able to, capable of doing something

သဘော

tha-baw — Meaning, nature, character, disposition, sense

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a-deit-pa-yèh — Meaning, definition, significance of a word

အလွန်

a-lwùn — Very, extremely, excessively, beyond measure

ဝေးကွာ

wèh-kwà — Far apart, distant, separated by great distance

လှ

hlà — Beautiful, pretty, attractive, good-looking