Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Page 4

Vocabulary

ယင်းတို့အနက်

yin-do-a-nɛʔ — Among them; referring to a group previously mentioned

တစ်ကောင်မှာ

tiʔ-kaung-hma — In one (animal); referring to a single creature

အလွန်

a-lwɛn — Very; extremely; exceedingly

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

kjauʔ-mɛʔ-pʰwɛ-kaung-ðɔ — Terrifying; inspiring great fear and dread

အရွယ်အစားရှိ

a-ywɛ-a-sá-ʃḭ — Having a size; being of a certain dimension

သည်။

ðɪ — Sentence-final particle indicating a statement

၎င်း

ðin-ji — It; he; she; third-person pronoun or reference

သည်

ðɪ — Topic or subject marker; also present-tense verb particle

ပါးစပ်ကို

pá-zaʔ-go — The mouth (object marker); referring to a mouth

ဖွင့်

pʰwɪ̰ɴ — To open; to unlock something

လျက်

ljɛʔ — While; simultaneously doing something

ရှေ့မှ

ʃḛ-hma — From the front; coming from ahead

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

tɕənɔʔ-do — We; us; first-person plural formal pronoun

ဆီသို့

sî-ðo — Toward; in the direction of

ချဉ်းကပ်

tɕʰɪ̀ɴ-kaʔ — To approach; to draw near to something

လာပြီး

là-bjí — Came and; after coming; sequential action

ဘက်ပေါင်းစုံ

bɛʔ-paung-soʊɴ — All directions; every side; all around

မှ

hma — From; out of; ablative particle

လှိုင်းများကို

hlaiɴ-mjá-go — Waves (plural, object marker); referring to sea waves

မြှောက်တင်

mjauʔ-tɪɴ — To lift up; to raise high; to elevate

ရှေ့ရှိ

ʃḛ-ʃḭ — Located in front; existing ahead

ပင်လယ်ကို

pɪɴ-lɛ-go — The sea or ocean (object marker)

အမြှုပ်တက်

a-hmjuʔ-tɛʔ — To foam; to bubble up; to froth

အောင်

aung — So that; until; enough to cause a result

ရိုက်ခတ်

jaiʔ-kʰaʔ — To strike; to beat; to crash against

လာသည်။

là-ðɪ — Came; is coming; verb indicating movement toward

သူ

ðù — He; she; third-person singular pronoun

မြင်းဝေလငါးများ

mjɪ̀ɴ-wɛlɪ̀ɴŋá-mjá — Sperm whales; large toothed whale species

ဖမ်းဆီးရန်

pʰáɴ-sí-jaɴ — In order to capture; for the purpose of catching

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

jɪ-jwɛ-tɕɛʔ — Purpose; intention; aim; objective

ဖြင့်

pʰjɪ̰ɴ — With; by means of; using; instrumental particle

ဤ

ʔì — This; demonstrative pronoun indicating nearby referent

နိုင်ငံကို

naiɴ-ŋàɴ-go — The country (object marker); referring to a nation

လည်း

lɛ̀ — Also; too; as well; additive particle

လာရောက်

là-jauʔ — To come and arrive; to visit a place

ခဲ့သည်

kʰɛ̀-ðɪ — Past tense marker; did; has done previously

ထို

ðo — That; those; distal demonstrative adjective

ဝေလငါးများ

wɛlɪ̀ɴŋá-mjá — Whales; large marine mammals (plural)

၏

ʔɛ̀ — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

သွားများ

ðwá-mjá — Teeth (plural); the teeth of an animal

တန်ဖိုးကြီးသော

tàɴ-pʰó-tɕí-ðɔ — Valuable; of great worth or importance

အရိုးများ

a-jo-mjá — Bones (plural); skeletal parts of an animal

ရှိသည်

ʃḭ-ðɪ — There is; to exist; to have; to be present

အရိုး

a-jo — Bone; a hard skeletal structure in the body

အချို့ကို

a-tɕʰó-go — Some (object marker); referring to certain ones

ဘုရင်

pʰa-jɪ̀ɴ — King; monarch; ruler of a kingdom

ထံ

tʰàɴ — To; toward a person; dative particle for persons

ဆောင်ကြဉ်း

saung-tɕɪ̀ɴ — To bring; to deliver something to someone

ခဲ့သည်။

kʰɛ̀-ðɪ — Past tense sentence-final; did; had done

အကောင်းဆုံးသော

a-kaung-zoùɴ-ðɔ — The best; of the highest quality

ဝေလငါးများကို

wɛlɪ̀ɴŋá-mjá-go — Whales (plural, object marker); the whales

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko-paiɴ — Own; one's own; personal; private possession

နိုင်ငံ

naiɴ-ŋàɴ — Country; nation; state; territory

တွင်

twɪɴ — In; at; within; locative particle

ဖမ်းမိ

pʰáɴ-mḭ — To catch; to successfully capture something

ခဲ့ပြီး

kʰɛ̀-bjí — After having done; past action followed by another

အချို့

a-tɕʰó — Some; a few; certain ones among a group

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative or topic marker particle

ကိုက်

kaiʔ — Fathom; a unit of length measurement

အရှည်

a-ʃɪ̀ — Length; the measurement of how long something is

ရှိသည်။

ʃḭ-ðɪ — Has; there is; exists; sentence-final statement

နှစ်ရက်

hnɪʔ-jɛʔ — Two days; a period of two days

အတွင်း

a-twɪ̀ɴ — Within; inside; during a time period

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; marks direct object

သတ်ဖြတ်

ðaʔ-pʰjaʔ — To kill; to slaughter; to put to death

ခဲ့သော

kʰɛ̀-ðɔ — Past tense attributive; that was done previously

ခြောက်ဦး

tɕʰauʔ-ú — Six persons or beings; a count of six individuals

အနက်

a-nɛʔ — Among; within a group; out of several

တစ်ဦး

tiʔ-ú — One person; a single individual

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

pʰjiʔ-tɕaung — That it is; indicating reported or known fact

ပြောဆို

pjɔ-so — To say; to speak; to state something

တိရစ္ဆာန်

tḛ-jɪʔ-sʰàɴ — Animal; beast; creature of the animal kingdom

ဖြစ်စေ

pʰjiʔ-sè — Whether it be; let it be; causative particle

သင်္ဘော

θɪ̀ɴ-bɔ — Ship; vessel; large boat for sea travel

ဝေလငါး

wɛlɪ̀ɴŋá — Whale; large marine mammal of the ocean

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်သော

kjauʔ-mɛʔ-pʰwɛ-ðɔ — Fearsome; dreadful; causing terror or fright

ပါးစပ်

pá-zaʔ — Mouth; the oral opening of a person or animal

တွင်းသို့

twɪ̀ɴ-ðo — Into the inside of; toward the interior

ဝင်ရောက်

wɪɴ-jauʔ — To enter; to go inside; to come in

သည့်

ðɪ̰ — Relative clause marker; that; which; attributive particle

အခြားသော

a-tɕʰá-ðɔ — Other; another; different from the present one

အရာများ

a-jà-mjá — Things; objects; items; various matters

အားလုံး

á-loùɴ — All; everything; every single one

ချက်ချင်းပင်

tɕɛʔ-tɕɪ̀ɴ-bɪɴ — Immediately; at once; right away; instantly

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pjauʔ-kwɛ — To disappear; to vanish; to be lost from sight

ကာ

ká — While; as; simultaneous action connector particle

မျိုချ

mjo-tɕa — To swallow; to gulp down something whole

ခံရသော်လည်း

kʰàɴ-já-ðɔ-lɛ̀ — Although receiving or undergoing; despite being subjected to

ပင်လယ်

pɪɴ-lɛ — Sea; ocean; large body of salt water

ငါးငယ်

ŋá-ŋɛ — Small fish; young or little fish

မှာမူ

hma-mù — As for; regarding; contrastive topic marker

ထဲသို့

tʰɛ-ðo — Into; toward the inside of something

လုံခြုံစွာ

loùɴ-tɕʰoùɴ-zwà — Safely; securely; in a protected manner

ဆုတ်ခွာ

soʊʔ-kʰwà — To retreat; to withdraw; to move away

ပြီး

bjí — After; finished; then; completion particle

နေရာ

nè-já — Place; location; spot; a particular area

အိပ်ပျော်

ʔaiʔ-pjɔ — To fall asleep; to sleep soundly

နေသည်။

nè-ðɪ — Is; is staying; continuous present tense marker

ထွက်ပြေးကြ

tʰwɛʔ-bjé-tɕa — Run away; flee; escape together (plural subject)

စို့

so̰ — Exclamation; let's go; come on; imperative particle

သည်းခံသော

ðɪ̀-kʰàɴ-ðɔ — Patient; enduring; tolerant; bearing hardship steadfastly

ဘဝ

ba-wà — Life; existence; one's life circumstances or situation

မြတ်နိုးဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

mjaʔ-nó-pʰwɛ-kaung-ðɔ — Admirable; worthy of reverence or deep respect

ပရောဖက်

pa-jɔ-pɛʔ — Prophet; one who speaks divine messages

ဖော်ပြ

pʰɔ-pja — To describe; to mention; to show or indicate

ထားသော

tʰá-ðɔ — That was placed or described; having mentioned before

မဟုတ်ပါက

ma-houʔ-pá-ka — If not; unless; conditional negative particle

မိစ္ဆာ

mḭ-sʰa — Evil; wicked; malevolent; of demonic nature

နတ်ကြီး

naʔ-tɕí — Great spirit; powerful deity or supernatural being

က

ka — Subject marker particle; marks the agent of action

ကျွန်တော့်

tɕənɔ̰ — My; mine; first-person possessive (formal male)

ယူသွား

jù-ðwá — To take away; to carry off somewhere

ပါစေ။

pá-zè — May it; let it be; optative or wish particle

အသည်း

a-ðɪ̀ — Liver; the internal organ of the body

လှည်း

hlɛ̀ — Cart; ox-cart; a wheeled vehicle pulled by animals

နှစ်စီး

hnɪʔ-sí — Two vehicles; a count of two carts or carriages

မျှ

hma — As much as; equivalent to; as many as

ဝင်ဆံ့

wɪɴ-sʰàɴ — To fit inside; to have capacity to contain

ပင်လယ်များကို

pɪɴ-lɛ-mjá-go — The seas or oceans (plural, object marker)

ကျိုချက်

tɕo-tɕɛʔ — To boil; the act of boiling or simmering liquid

နေသော

nè-ðɔ — That is; which is doing; present attributive particle

အိုး

ó — Pot; cooking pot; vessel for boiling food

ကဲ့သို့

kɛ̀-ðo — Like; as; similar to; in the manner of

တဆူဆူ

ta-sù-sù — Boiling vigorously; bubbling intensely; seething

စေသော

zè-ðɔ — That causes; making something happen; causative attributive

မဟာ

ma-hà — Great; grand; mighty; prefix meaning large or supreme

ကြီး။

tɕí — Big; great; large; sentence-final size descriptor

သို့မဟုတ်

ðo-ma-houʔ — Or; otherwise; alternatively; conjunction of choices

အသားထု

a-ðá-tʰu — Body mass; bulk of flesh; the physical body size

အပိုင်းအခြား

a-paiɴ-a-tɕʰá — Extent; range; boundary; scope of something

နှင့်

hnɪ̰ — And; with; together with; conjunction particle

ပတ်သက်ပြီး

paʔ-θɛʔ-bjí — Regarding; concerning; related to; about something

သေချာသော

ðè-tɕa-ðɔ — Certain; definite; sure; accurate information

အချက်ကို

a-tɕɛʔ-go — The point or fact (object marker); a specific detail

မည်သည့်

mɪ̀-ðɪ̰ — Any; whichever; whatever; interrogative relative particle

အရာ

a-jà — Thing; matter; object; item; a particular thing

မရရှိ

ma-já-ʃḭ — Did not obtain; unable to get; lacking information

ခဲ့ပါ။

kʰɛ̀-pá — Past tense polite sentence-final; did; had done

၎င်းတို့

ðin-ji-do — They; them; third-person plural pronoun

အလွန်ပင်

a-lwɛn-bɪɴ — Very indeed; extremely so; emphatically very much

ဝဖုံး

wà-pʰóɴ — To be covered in fat; obese; very fat

ကြပြီး

tɕa-bjí — Plural past completion; they did and then; after doing

တစ်ကောင်

tiʔ-kaung — One animal; a single creature or beast

မယုံနိုင်

ma-yoùɴ-naiɴ — Unbelievable; hard to believe; incredible

လောက်သည့်

lauʔ-ðɪ̰ — As much as; to the degree of; sufficient amount

ပမာဏ

pa-má-ɴa — Amount; quantity; measure; the size or volume

ဆီကို

sî-go — Oil (object marker); referring to fat or oil

ညှစ်ထုတ်

ɲɪʔ-tʰouʔ — To squeeze out; to extract by pressing; to press out

နိုင်သည်။

naiɴ-ðɪ — Can; is able to; has the ability or capacity