Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Page 2

Vocabulary

_ပြင်သစ်ဘာသာ_

pyin-thit ba-tha — Refers to the French language

_စပိန်ဘာသာ_

sa-pain ba-tha — Refers to the Spanish language

_ဖီဂျီဘာသာ_

phi-ji ba-tha — Refers to the Fijian language

_အယ်ရိုမန်ဂိုဘာသာ_

e-yo-man-go ba-tha — Refers to the Erromangan language

ကောက်နုတ်ချက်များ

kauk-hnout-chet-mya — Excerpts or quotations collected from various sources

လက်ထောက်

let-htauk — Assistant or deputy in a professional role

စာကြည့်တိုက်မှူး

sa-kyi-daik-hmu — Librarian; person who manages a library

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual

မှ

hma — From; by; indicating source or origin

ပံ့ပိုး

pan-po — To support or provide assistance to someone

ပေးသည်

pay-thi — To give; to provide something to someone

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun in Burmese

ဆိုသည့်

so-thi — Called; referred to as; so-called

သနားဖွယ်

tha-na-bwe — Pitiful; deserving of sympathy or compassion

ကောင်းသော

kaung-thaw — Good; having positive qualities or character

ကောင်လေး

kaung-lay — Young boy; a lad or young male person

တူးဖော်သူ

tu-phaw-thu — One who digs or excavates; an excavator

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

မြေစာပိုးကောင်

mye-za-po-kaung — Earthworm; a small burrowing soil creature

သဖွယ်

tha-bwe — Like; resembling; in the manner of

လူငယ်

lu-ngè — Young person; youth; a young individual

သည်

thi — Is; am; are; a verb marker in Burmese

ကမ္ဘာ့

kam-ba — Of the world; worldly; global

များ

mya — Many; plural marker in Burmese

လမ်းဘေး

lan-bay — Roadside; beside the road or street

ဆိုင်ခုံ

saing-khon — Shop stall; a market or vendor's stand

များကို

mya-go — The plural object marker; referring to many things

ဖြတ်သန်း

phyat-than — To pass through; to traverse or go across

ကာ

ka — While doing; a connective particle in Burmese

မည်သည့်

myi-thi — Whichever; whatever; any particular one

စာအုပ်

sa-ouk — Book; a written or printed publication

တွင်

twin — In; inside; within a place or context

မဆို

ma-so — Whatever; no matter which; any at all

သန့်ရှင်းသော

than-shin-thaw — Holy; pure; clean and sacred in nature

ဖြစ်စေ

phyit-se — Whether; causing to be; regardless of which

ကျမ်းစကား

kyan-za-ga — Scriptural words; language from religious texts

မဆိုင်သော

ma-saing-thaw — Unrelated; not pertaining to the topic

ဝေလငါး

we-la-nga — Whale; large marine mammal living in oceans

ပတ်သက်သည့်

pat-that-thi — Related to; concerning; having connection with

ကျပန်း

kya-pan — Random; haphazard; without deliberate selection

ရည်ညွှန်းချက်

yay-hnun-chet — Reference; citation pointing to a source

ကိုမဆို

go-ma-so — Any; whichever one; regardless of which

ကောက်ယူ

kauk-yu — To extract; to pick out or collect from

နိုင်သမျှ

naing-tha-mya — As much as possible; to the fullest extent

ဖွယ်ရှိ

bwe-shi — Likely to; there is possibility of something

ကြောင်း

kyaung — That; a clause-ending particle indicating statement

တွေ့မြင်

twe-myin — To find and see; to observe or discover

နိုင်သည်

naing-thi — Can; is able to do something

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto-kyaung — Therefore; for that reason; consequently

အခြေအနေ

a-chay-a-nay — Situation; condition; state of affairs

ကောက်နုတ်ချက်

kauk-hnout-chet — Excerpt; a passage extracted from a text

ရှိ

shi — To exist; there is; to be present

ရှုပ်ထွေး

shout-htwe — Complicated; confusing; disorderly and tangled

ပွေလီသော

pwe-li-thaw — Muddled; confused; jumbled or mixed up

ဆိုင်ရာ

saing-ya — Relevant; pertaining to; related to a subject

ထုတ်ဖော်ချက်

htout-phaw-chet — Statement; disclosure; an expressed declaration

မည်မျှ

myi-hmya — How much; to what extent; how many

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; an emphatic particle in Burmese

စစ်မှန်

sit-hmun — Genuine; authentic; truly real and valid

သမ္မာကျမ်းစာ

tham-ma-kyan-za — The Bible; the holy scripture of Christianity

သမုဒ္ဒရာ

tha-moud-da-ya — Ocean; a large body of saltwater

သတ္တဗေဒ

that-ta-be-da — Zoology; the scientific study of animals

အစစ်အမှန်

a-sit-a-hmun — The real truth; genuine and authentic fact

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As; in the role of; being something

မမှတ်ယူ

ma-hmat-yu — Not to regard; not to consider as something

သင့်ပေ

thin-pay — Should not; it is not appropriate

မည်သို့

myi-tho — In what way; however; by what means

မျှ

hmya — Only; just; as much as; to the extent

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma-hout-pay — It is not so; that is not the case

ရှေးခေတ်

shay-khet — Ancient times; old era; historical past

စာရေးဆရာ

sa-yay-hsaya — Author; writer; a person who writes literary works

ရည်ညွှန်း

yay-hnun — To refer to; to allude or point toward

၍

yway — And so; therefore; a connective literary particle

ဆိုရသော်

so-ya-thaw — Having said; when said; to put it another way

လည်းကောင်း

le-kaung — Also good; likewise; as well as

ဤနေရာ

i-nay-ya — This place; here; at this location

ပါဝင်သော

pa-win-thaw — Included; contained within; participating in

ကဗျာဆရာ

ka-bya-hsaya — Poet; a person who writes poetry

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya-noup-to — We; us; our; first-person plural formal pronoun

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-daing — Oneself; personally; by one's own action

အပါအဝင်

a-pa-a-win — Including; inclusive of; as part of a group

နိုင်ငံ

naing-ngan — Country; nation; a sovereign state

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; a great number; a lot of

မျိုးဆက်

myo-zet — Generation; a successive group of people

တို့က

to-ga — They; those people; plural subject marker

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — About; concerning; the reason or cause

ပေါင်းစပ်

paung-zat — To combine; to blend together various elements

ပြောဆို

pyaw-so — To speak; to say and discuss something

ခဲ့သော

khay-thaw — Past tense marker; having done previously

တွေး

twe — To think; to ponder or contemplate something

စိတ်ကူးယဉ်

seit-ku-yin — To daydream; to imagine or fantasize about something

သီဆို

thi-so — To sing; to compose and perform a song

ခဲ့သမျှကို

khay-tha-mya-go — Everything that was done; all previous instances

လေပျံ

lay-pyan — To fly through the air; to soar upward

ကြည့်မြင်

kyi-myin — To see; to observe and perceive visually

သကဲ့သို့

tha-khay-tho — As if; just like; in the same manner as

တစ်ချက်

ta-chet — Once; one time; a single glance or instance

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi-shu — To observe; to look at carefully or review

နိုင်ရန်

naing-yan — In order to be able to; so as to

ဖော်ပြ

phaw-pya — To show; to express or present something clearly

သည့်

thi — Which; that; a relative clause marker

အားဖြင့်

a-phyin — By means of; through; by way of something

တန်ဖိုးရှိသော

tan-bo-shi-thaw — Valuable; worthwhile; having great value or merit

သို့မဟုတ်

tho-ma-hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively speaking

ဖျော်ဖြေ

pyaw-phye — To entertain; to provide amusement or enjoyment

စရာ

sa-ya — Something to do; worthy of doing or experiencing

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; an emphatic limiting particle

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thi — Is; to be; indicates a state of being

သို့

tho — To; toward; in the direction of

ဖြစ်၍

phyit-yway — Because it is; being so; therefore

ကျွန်တော်

kya-naw — I; me; first-person singular male pronoun

မှတ်ချက်

hmat-chet — Note; comment; a written or spoken remark

ပေးသူ

pay-thu — Giver; the one who provides or gives something

ဖြစ်သည့်

phyit-thi — Who is; which is; being a certain thing

သင်

thin — You; second-person singular pronoun in Burmese

ကောင်းချမ်းသာ

kaung-chan-tha — To be well and prosperous; good health and happiness

ပါစေ

pa-se — May it be so; a wishing or blessing particle

ကမ္ဘာ

kam-ba — The world; the Earth; all of humanity

၏

e — Possessive particle; of; belonging to something

စပျစ်ရည်

za-pyit-yay — Wine; grape juice or fermented grape beverage

တစ်ခါ

ta-kha — Once; one time; on one occasion

ဖူလုံ

phu-lon — Sufficient; enough; fully satisfied with enough

မည်

myi — Will; future tense marker in Burmese

မဟုတ်သော

ma-hout-thaw — Not being; which is not; untrue or incorrect

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

hmyaw-lin-chet — Hope; expectation; a wish for the future

မဲ့

meh — Without; lacking; devoid of something

ပြီး

pyi — After; finished; already done; completion marker

မျက်နှာ

myat-hna — Face; facial expression; one's countenance

ဝါဝါ

wa-wa — Pale; pallid; yellowish complexion

မျိုးနွယ်ဝင်

myo-nwe-win — Member of a family or lineage; relative

ပေါ့ပါးသော

paw-pa-thaw — Light; carefree; not heavy or burdensome

လွန်ကဲ

lun-ke — Excessive; too much; going beyond normal limits

နက်ရှိုင်း

net-shaing — Deep; profound; having great depth or meaning

လွန်းသော

lun-thaw — Too much; excessively; beyond a reasonable degree

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third-person pronoun

သို့သော်

tho-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; on the other hand

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

ta-kha-ta-yan — Sometimes; occasionally; from time to time

အနား

a-na — Beside; near; close to something or someone

ထိုင်

htaing — To sit; to be seated in a place

ငတ်မွတ်

ngat-mwut — Hungry; starving; suffering from lack of food

ဆင်းရဲသူ

saing-yay-thu — Poor person; someone suffering poverty and hardship

ခံစား

khan-za — To feel; to experience an emotion or sensation

ရသော

ya-thaw — Who receives; who experiences; that is obtained

မျက်ရည်

myat-yay — Tears; liquid from the eyes when crying

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by; using; an instrumental particle

ပြေပြစ်မှုကို

pyay-pyit-hmu-go — The act of smoothness or reconciliation

ပြောင်ခြင်း

pyaung-chin — Brightness; shininess; the quality of gleaming

ပြုကာ

pyu-ka — While doing; performing an action; having done

မျက်လုံး

myat-lon — Eye; the organ of sight in a person

ပြည့်

pyin — Full; filled up; complete to capacity

ဖန်ခွက်

hpan-khwet — Glass; a drinking vessel made of glass

ဗလာ

ba-la — Empty; blank; containing nothing inside

တိုက်ရိုက်

taik-yout — Directly; straight; without going through another

ပြောကာ

pyaw-ka — While speaking; having said; after saying something

မကောင်း

ma-kaung — Not good; bad; unwell; of poor quality

လည်း

le — Also; too; as well; an additive particle

ဝမ်းနည်းမှု

wun-nyi-hmu — Sadness; sorrow; a feeling of grief

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung-hma — The reason is; because; on account of

ကမ္ဘာကို

kam-ba-go — The world; object marker applied to world

နှစ်သိမ့်

hnit-thein — To comfort; to console; to soothe someone's feelings

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing

သင်တို့

thin-to — You all; second-person plural pronoun in Burmese

ကြိုးပမ်း

kyo-pan — To strive; to make an effort or endeavor

လေလေ

lay-lay — The more; emphatic intensifier in comparisons

ထိုမျှ

hto-hmya — That much; to that extent; so much

ကျေးဇူးတင်

kye-zu-tin — To be grateful; to thank; to appreciate kindness

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; the act of doing something

မဲ့ဘဲ

meh-be — Without; lacking; in the absence of something

အစဉ်

a-zin — Always; continually; in order; constantly

ကြည့်ရ

kyi-ya — To be seen; can be seen; to look at

လိမ့်မည်

lain-myi — Will likely be; probably will; expected to happen

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; on behalf of

ရှင်းလင်း

shin-lin — Clear; to clarify; to explain something plainly

ပေးနိုင်

pay-naing — Able to give; can provide or offer something

ပါလျှင်

pa-hlyim — If there is; if it includes; conditional particle

ကောင်းပေမည်

kaung-pay-myi — Would be good; it would be nice if so