Middlemarch — Page 3

Vocabulary

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun used in writing

နေရာ

nay.ya — Place, location, or position

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction connecting nouns or phrases

ထို

hto — That; demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant

တွင်

twin — In, at, within; locative particle

ငန်း

ngan: — Business, work, or enterprise; also a goose

ကလေး

ka.lay: — Child, baby, or small one

တစ်ကောင်

ta.kaung — One animal; counter for living creatures

သည်

thi — Topic marker particle; also present tense marker

ညို

nyo — Dark brown or dusky in color

မဲ

me: — Black; dark; also a vote

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that which, who

ရေကန်

yay.kan — Pond, lake, or water reservoir

ထဲ

hte: — Inside, within; locative particle indicating interior

ရှိ

shi — To exist, be present, have

ဘဲ

be: — Duck; also used as a sentence-final particle

ပေါက်

pauk — To emerge, sprout, appear; be born

များ

mya: — Many, numerous; plural marker

ကြား

kya: — Between, among; to hear

အ

a. — Prefix forming nouns or softening syllables

အေး

ay: — Cool, cold; calm, peaceful

မ

ma. — Negative prefix; not, un-

သင့်

thin — Should, ought to; appropriate, suitable

တင့်

tin — Dignified, fitting, elegant in appearance

ကြီး

ji: — Big, large, great; senior

ပြင်း

pyin: — Strong, intense, severe

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker

ပြီး

pyi: — After, finished; completion marker

မိမိ

mi.mi. — Oneself; reflexive pronoun

တူ

tu — Same, similar, equal; to resemble

ခြေ

chay — Foot, leg; base of something

သည်း

thi: — Heavy, intense; also liver (organ)

မျိုး

myo: — Kind, type, species; nationality

နွယ်

nwɛ — Vine, creeper; lineage, related group

မိဿဟာယ

mit-tha.ha.ya — Fellowship, friendship, close companionship

ဖွဲ့

hpwe — To form, compose, organize, establish

ကာ

ka — While doing; a particle indicating ongoing action

စီး

si: — To ride, flow; current of water

ဆင်း

sin: — To descend, go down; poor (informal)

နေ

nay — To live, stay, dwell; sun

ချောင်း

chaung: — Stream, creek; also a throat

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to, toward

ဘယ်

bɛ — Where; which; left direction

အခါ

a.hka — Time, occasion, when

မျှ

hmya — Only, merely, as much as; equality particle

တွေ့

twe — To meet, encounter, find

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, happen, occur

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun

တည်

ti — To establish, found; stable, firm

ထောင်

htaung — Thousand; to erect; prison

သူ

thu — He, she, they; third person pronoun

ဟုတ်

hout — To be correct, true, right

သန့်

than — Clean, pure, neat

ရှင်း

shin: — Clear, plain; to explain, clean up

သိ

thi — To know, understand, be aware of

ရီ

yi — To laugh; laughter (colloquial)

ဆာ

sa — Hungry; to be hungry

တစ်ဦး

ta.u: — One person; counter for people

မွေး

mway: — To be born; to raise, breed

ဖွား

hpwa: — To be born; birth (formal/literary)

၏

i — Possessive particle; formal genitive marker

ချစ်

chit — To love, like, be fond of

ခြင်း

chin: — Nominalizing suffix; the act of doing something

ပြည့်

pyi — Full, complete, fulfilled

နှက်

hnɛt — To be soaked, drenched, saturated

နှလုံး

hnaloung: — Heart; the physical or emotional heart

ခုန်

khun — To jump, leap, beat (as a heart)

သံ

than — Sound, voice, tone; iron (metal)

ရောက်

yauk — To arrive, reach a place

နိုင်

nain — Can, able to; to win, defeat

သေး

thay: — Still, yet; small, tiny

ကောင်း

kaung: — Good, fine, nice, excellent

မြတ်

myat — Noble, sacred, precious, excellent

မှု

hmu — Abstract nominalizing suffix; matter, affair

ငို

ngo — To cry, weep, sob

ကြွေး

kway: — Debt; cry or call out loudly

တောင့်

taung — To long for, yearn, desire intensely

ဆန္ဒ

sanda — Desire, wish, aspiration, will

ကာလ

ka.la — Period of time, era, age

ကြာ

kya — Long time; to take time, duration

မြင့်

myin — High, tall, elevated

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning -ly, in a manner

မှတ်

hmat — To remember, note, record, mark

တစ်ခု

ta.khu — One thing; counter for objects

ခုသော

khu.thaw — This particular; current, present (modifier)

ကျေးဇူး

kjay:zu: — Kindness, grace, favor, gratitude

ပြု

pyu — To do, make, perform, act

စု

su — To collect, gather, save up

စည်း

si: — To bind, organize; rule, regulation

မည့်

mi — Future tense marker; will, going to

အစား

a.sa: — Instead of; food, meal, substitute

အတား

a.ta: — Obstacle, hindrance, impediment

အဆီး

a.si: — Barrier, blockage, obstruction

တုန်

tun — To shake, tremble, vibrate

ယင်

yin — Fly (insect); to fly (literary)

ကွဲ

kwɛ: — To split, separate, differ, break apart

ပြား

pya: — Flat; a thin flat piece; to spread

ပျောက်

pyauk — To disappear, be lost, vanish

ကွယ်

kwɛ — To pass away, disappear, be hidden

သွား

thwa: — To go; teeth (noun)