Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Page 1

Vocabulary

နိဂုံး

ni.gome: — Conclusion or ending of a text or story

မူရင်း

mu.jin: — Original; the source version of something

မှတ်စုများ

hmat.su.mya: — Notes; written records or annotations

ဤ

i — This; a formal demonstrative pronoun

စာသား

sa.tha: — Text; written words or passage

သည်

thi — Is/are; a topic marker or copula particle

အီလက္ထရောနစ်

i.lak.hta.yaw.nit — Electronic; relating to digital technology

စာသားများ

sa.tha:.mya: — Texts; multiple written passages or documents

၏

i — Possessive or genitive particle meaning 'of'

ပေါင်းစပ်

paung:.zap — To combine or merge together

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or state

တစ်ခု

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

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit.pyi: — Having become; transitional connector between clauses

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative or topic marker particle

ယခု

ya.khu — Now; at the present time

ရပ်တန့်

yat.tan. — To stop; to halt an activity or process

သွားပြီ

thwa:.pyi — Has gone; indicates completed past action

ဖြစ်သော

hpyit.thaw — Which is; that which exists or occurs

စီမံကိန်း

si.hman.kain: — Project; a planned scheme or program

မှ

hma — From; a source or origin marker particle

မော်ကွန်း

maw.kwun: — Archive; a collection of preserved records

ထိန်းသိမ်း

htain:.thaim: — To preserve or maintain carefully over time

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit.thi — Is; affirmative copula ending a statement

ဗားရှင်း

ba:.shin: — Version; a particular form of something

စာစစ်

sa.sit — Proofreading; checking text for errors

သူများ

thu.mya: — People; they; those persons

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in Burmese grammar

သိမ်းဆည်း

thaim:.zin: — To store or keep something for safekeeping

ထားမှု

hta:.hmu — The act of storing or keeping something

အတွက်

a.twet — For; for the sake or benefit of

တက္ကသိုလ်

tɛk.ka.tho — University; institution of higher education

စာကြည့်တိုက်

sa.kji.daik — Library; a place for borrowing books

အား

a: — To; object or direction marker particle

ကျေးဇူး

kjé:.zu: — Gratitude; thanks; a favor or kindness

တင်ရှိ

tin.shi — To owe gratitude; to be indebted to

အများပိုင်

a.mya:.pain — Public domain; owned collectively by all

နယ်ပယ်

nɛ.pɛ — Domain; field; sphere or territory

မိတ္တူ

mait.tu — Copy; a duplicate of an original document

နှင့်

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

နှိုင်းယှဉ်

hnain:.hsin — To compare; to measure against each other

စစ်ဆေး

sit.zé: — To check or inspect carefully for accuracy

ခဲ့သည်

khɛ.thi — Did; past tense marker for completed actions

ဝေါဟာရဗေဒ

wɛ.ha.ya.bɛ.da — Terminology; the study of specialized vocabulary

သဒ္ဒါ

thad.da — Grammar; the rules of a language

ကျောင်း

kjáung: — School; an institution for learning

သို့

tho. — To; toward; directional particle

နောက်ပိုင်း

nauk.pain: — Later; afterward; in the subsequent period

တွင်

twin — In; at; within a place or time

ဆုံးပါး

zone:.ba: — To pass away; to die (formal expression)

သွားသော

thwa:.thaw — That which has gone or departed

နာတာရှည်

na.ta.shi — Chronic; a long-lasting illness or condition

ရောဂါသည်

yaw.ga.thi — A patient; person suffering from a disease

ကျောင်းအကူ

kjáung:.a.ku — School assistant; a teaching aide or helper

တစ်ဦး

tit.u: — One person; a single individual

က

ka — Subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

ပေးပို့

pé:.po. — To send; to deliver something to someone

ဖောက်ထွက်

hpauk.htwet — To break through; to burst out forcefully

နေသော

nè.thaw — That which is currently happening or ongoing

အင်္ကျီ

ain.ji — Shirt; a garment worn on the upper body

နှလုံး

hnà.lone: — Heart; the organ or emotional center

ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာ

ko.khan.da — Body; the physical human form

ဦးနှောက်

u:.hnaut — Brain; the organ of thought and intelligence

တို့

to. — Plural marker; we/they (group indicator particle)

ပွန်းပဲ့

pwun:.pɛ. — Damaged; worn out; deteriorated in condition

နေသူ

nè.thu — Person who is; one who lives or dwells

လည်း

lɛ: — Also; too; an additive particle

သူ့

thu. — His; her; possessive form of third person

မြင်ယောင်

mjin.yaung — To visualize; to imagine or picture vividly

နေမိ

nè.mi — To be inadvertently doing something continuously

သူ

thu — He; she; a third-person pronoun

အမြဲတမ်း

a.mjɛ:.dan: — Always; constantly; at all times

မထင်မရှား

ma.htin.ma.sha: — Inconspicuous; obscure; not well known

လက်ကိုင်

lɛt.kain — Handkerchief or handheld item; handle

ပဝါ

pa.wa — Cloth; a piece of fabric or scarf

တစ်ထည်

tit.htɛ — One piece of clothing or fabric

ဖြင့်

hpjin. — With; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

ဟောင်းနွမ်း

haung:.nwum: — Old and worn out; dilapidated or ragged

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that which or who

အဘိဓာန်

a.bi.dan — Dictionary; a reference book of word definitions

များ

mya: — Plural marker; many or multiple things

ကျမ်းများ

kjàm:.mya: — Texts; volumes; authoritative books or scriptures

ဖုန်

hpon — Dust; fine particles of dirt or powder

သုတ်

thot — To wipe; to clean by rubbing or dusting

နေတတ်

nè.tat — Habitually does; tends to do regularly

ပြီး

pyi: — After; done; completion marker particle

ထို

hto — That; those; a demonstrative adjective

ကမ္ဘာ

kan.ba — World; the earth or global sphere

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw.shi — Existing on; located upon a surface

လူသိများ

lu.thi.mya: — Well-known; widely recognized by many people

နိုင်ငံ

nain.ngan — Country; a nation or sovereign state

အားလုံး

a:.lone: — All; everyone; every single one

တောက်ပ

tauk.pa — Bright; shining; radiant or brilliant

အလံများ

a.lan.mya: — Flags; national or symbolic banners

လှောင်ပြောင်

hlaung.pjaung — To mock; to ridicule or make fun of

သကဲ့သို့

tha.gɛ.tho. — As if; just like; in the manner of

အလှဆင်

a.hla.hsin — To decorate; to adorn with beauty

ထားသည်

hta:.thi — Has placed; keeps or has done previously

ရသည်

ya.thi — Receives; gets; can do something

နှစ်သက်

hnit.thet — To like; to be fond of something

ခဲ့

khɛ. — Past action marker indicating completed event

အမှု

a.hmu — Matter; affair; a case or issue

တစ်နည်းနည်း

tit.nɛ:.nɛ: — In some way; somehow or another

အသက်

a.thet — Life; age; breath or living existence

မြောင်ဆုံး

mjàung.zone: — Most miserable; lowest or most wretched state

ရမည်

ya.mji — Must receive; will get; obligatory future action

နူးညံ့

nu:.ɲan. — Gentle; soft; tender in manner or touch

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix indicating manner of action

သတိပေး

tha.ti.pé: — To warn; to give a caution or reminder

သင်

thin — You; second-person pronoun (formal)

အခြားသူများ

a.hkja:.thu.mya: — Other people; those who are different persons

သင်ကြား

thin.kja: — To teach; to instruct or educate someone

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

ပြုပြီး

pju.pyi: — Having done; after completing an action

ငါတို့

nga.do. — We; us; first-person plural pronoun

ဘာသာ

ba.tha — Language; religion; subject or discipline

ဝေလငါး

wɛ.la.nga: — Whale; a large marine mammal

မည်သည့်

mji.thi. — Which; whatever; whichever one

အမည်

a.mji — Name; the designation of a person or thing

ခေါ်ရမည်

khaw.ya.mji — Must call; must be named or referred to

နားလည်မှုမဲ့

na:.lɛ.hmu.mɛ. — Lacking understanding; ignorant or incomprehending

ကြောင့်

kjáung. — Because of; due to; a causal particle

အက္ခရာ

ak.kha.ya — Letter; a character of an alphabet

ချန်

hcan — To omit; to leave out or skip over

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle

မဆို

ma.hsó — Whatever; regardless of which option

ဆိုလိုရင်း

hsó.lo.jin: — The intended meaning; what is really meant

ဖြည့်ဆည်း

hpji.zin: — To supplement; to fill in or satisfy fully

ပေးသော

pé:.thaw — That which gives or provides something

မမှန်

ma.hman — Incorrect; wrong; not true or accurate

အရာ

a.ya — Thing; matter; an object or entity

ဆင်ခြင်

hsin.hcin — To consider carefully; to reflect or deliberate

တုံတရားမဲ့

tone.ta.ya:.mɛ. — Without reason; lacking judgment or discretion

ဘဲ

bɛ — Without doing; negative manner particle

ဝေလ

wɛ.la — Whale; large ocean mammal (shortened form)

ဆွီဒင်

hswei.din — Sweden; a Scandinavian country in northern Europe

ဒိန်းမတ်

dain:.mat — Denmark; a Scandinavian country in northern Europe

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ta.yit.hsan — Animal; a living creature or beast

ဝိုင်း

wain: — Round; circular in shape or form

သဏ္ဌာန်

than.dan — Shape; form; the physical appearance or figure

သို့မဟုတ်

tho.ma.hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively

လိမ့်

lain. — Will; probability marker for future events

ခြင်း

hcin: — Nominalizing suffix for verbs or adjectives

ပေးထားသည်

pé:.hta:.thi — Has given; has provided something previously

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a.bɛ.kjáung. — Why; for what reason or cause

ဆိုသော်

hsó.thaw — If one says; speaking of; as for

ဆိုသည်

hsó.thi — Says; means; it is said that

ကဲ့သို့

gɛ.tho. — Like; similar to; in the manner of

ဆောင်ထားသည်

hsaung.hta:.thi — Carries; bears; holds as a characteristic

ဟု

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

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a.dei.pɛ — Meaning; definition; the significance of something

၎င်း

dɛ.goun: — It; that; a formal third-person pronoun

ဒတ်ချ်

dat.hci — Dutch; relating to the Netherlands

ဂျာမန်

ja.man — German; relating to Germany

တိုက်ရိုက်

taik.yaik — Directly; straightforwardly without deviation

ဆင်းသက်

hsin:.thet — To descend from; to originate or derive from

လာပြီး

la.pyi: — Having come; arrived and then proceeded

ဂဏန်း

ga.nan: — Number; numeral or figure

ချသွား

hca.thwa: — To put down; to lay down or drop

ဟီဘရူး

hi.ba.yu: — Hebrew; the language of ancient Israel

ဂရိ

ga.yi — Greek; relating to Greece or Greek language

လက်တင်

lɛt.tin — Latin; the classical language of ancient Rome

အင်္ဂလို-ဆက်ဆွန်

in.ga.lo.sɛk.hswan — Anglo-Saxon; relating to early English people

အိုက်စလန်

aik.sa.lan — Iceland; a Nordic island nation

အင်္ဂလိပ်

in.ga.leit — English; relating to England or its language