Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Page 5

Vocabulary

ထိုစာအုပ်ပင်

hto sa-oat pin — That very book itself

အသက်

a-thate — Life, age, or breath of a living being

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; conjunction connecting words or phrases

သေခြင်း

the-jing — Death, the act or state of dying

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle in Burmese grammar

သမိုင်း

tha-maing — History, historical record or chronicle

မြေကြီး

mye-ji — Earth, ground, soil beneath one's feet

ပေါ်

pau — On, upon, above a surface

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to be present, to have

အမြတ်

a-myat — Profit, gain, or benefit from something

မြတ်နိုးနိုး

myat-no-no — With great reverence, fondness, or admiration

အရာ

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

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative or dative particle

အတွင်း

a-twing — Inside, within, during a period or space

ဒဏ်ရာ

dan-ya — Wound, injury, or physical damage to body

အတွက်

a-twet — For, for the sake of, because of

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thi — Is, becomes; indicates a state or identity

မင်းကြီး

min-ji — Great king, senior ruler or monarch

ဝေလငါး

we-la-nga — Whale, a large marine mammal

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very, extremely, exceedingly beyond normal degree

တူသည်

tu-thi — To resemble, be similar or alike

ကာကွယ်

ka-kwai — To protect, defend, guard against harm

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of doing

ဆေးသမား

sè-tha-ma — Doctor, physician, or medical practitioner

ကျွမ်းကျင်မှု

kywan-jin-hmu — Skill, expertise, or professional proficiency

က

ga — Subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

လည်း

lè — Also, too, as well; additive particle

အကျိုး

a-kyo — Benefit, result, consequence, or usefulness

မပြုနိုင်

ma-pyu-naing — Cannot do, unable to perform or achieve

သို့သော်

thò-dho — However, but, nevertheless; contrastive conjunction

၎င်း

di-gin — It, he, she, they; third-person pronoun (formal)

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in Burmese grammar

ဖြစ်စေသော

phyit-se-dho — That which causes or brings about something

သူ

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

ထံ

htan — To, toward a person; directional particle

ပြန်

pyan — To return, go back, or again

သွား

thwa — To go, to travel away from here

ရမည်

ya-myi — Must get, shall obtain or must do

ထိုသူ

hto-thu — That person, that individual being referred to

သည်

thi — Topic marker or present tense verb particle

နိမ့်သော

naing-dho — Low, shallow, or of lesser height

မြှား

hmya — Arrow, a projectile shot from a bow

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

ရင်ဘတ်

yin-bat — Chest, breast, the front of the torso

ထိုး

hto — To pierce, stab, or thrust into something

ကာ

ka — While doing; connective verb particle indicating continuity

အနား

a-na — Near, beside, close to something or someone

မရသော

ma-ya-dho — Unobtainable, that which cannot be gotten

ကိုက်ခဲမှု

kaik-khe-hmu — Pain, ache, soreness felt in the body

ဖြစ်ပေါ်

phyit-pau — To arise, occur, come into being

စေသည်

se-thi — Causes, makes someone do something; causative particle

ရသော

ya-dho — That which is obtained or receivable

ကမ်း

kan — Shore, bank, coast of water body

ဆီသို့

si-thò — Toward, in the direction of something

ပင်လယ်

pin-le — Sea, ocean, large body of salt water

ဖောက်

phaut — To pierce through, break open, or penetrate

ပြီး

pi — After completing, done, finished; perfective particle

ပျံသန်း

pyan-than — To fly, to soar through the air

သကဲ့သို့

tha-kè-thò — As if, just like, similar to something

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed, precisely; emphatic particle

မင်းသမီး

min-tha-mi — Princess, daughter of a king or royalty

ကောင်းနတ်

kaung-nat — Good spirit, angel, or benevolent supernatural being

များ

mya — Plural marker; many, multiple, more than one

ကဲ့သို့

kè-thò — Like, similar to, in the manner of

ကြီးမား

ji-ma — Great, huge, vast in size or importance

သော

dho — Relative clause particle modifying a noun

၎င်းတို့

di-gin-do — They, those people; third-person plural pronoun

ကြီးမားသော

ji-ma-dho — That which is great, large, or immense

ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာ

ko-kan-da — Body, physical frame or form of a person

လှုပ်ရှားမှု

hlut-sha-hmu — Movement, motion, activity of a body

တိတ်ဆိတ်

tate-sate — Silent, quiet, still, without noise

အေးငြိမ်

e-nyain — Calm, peaceful, cool and still

အချိန်

a-chain — Time, period, moment, or duration

တွင်

twin — In, at, within; locative particle

ပွက်ပွက်ဆူ

pwat-pwat-su — Boiling, bubbling up noisily with great heat

အထိ

a-hti — Until, up to, as far as

ဆူညံ

su-nyan — Noisy, loud, clamorous, full of sound

စေနိုင်

se-naing — Can cause, able to make something happen

ဆာ

sa — Hungry, feeling hunger or appetite

သို့

thò — To, toward; directional particle or conjunction

နိဒါန်း

ni-dan — Introduction, preface, prologue of a text

ဆိုသည်မှာ

so-thi-hma — What is meant by, referring to the meaning

အဘယ်

a-bhe — What, which; interrogative word in formal Burmese

နည်း

ni — Method, way, how; interrogative or noun suffix

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning said, called, or as

လူတို့

lu-do — People, human beings in general; plural

တရားမျှတ

ta-ya-myat-ta — Fair, just, equitable in judgment or treatment

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

သံသယ

than-tha-ya — Doubt, suspicion, uncertainty about something

ဝင်

win — To enter, go into, come inside

ကြ

kya — Plural verb particle indicating collective action

ပေမည်

pe-myi — May be, probably will be; speculative particle

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a-bhe-kyaung — Why, for what reason; interrogative expression

ဆိုသော်

so-dho — If one says, speaking of, as for

ပညာတတ်

pyin-nya-tat — Educated, learned, knowledgeable, scholarly person

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two

သုံးဆယ်

thone-hsai — Thirty, the number thirty

ကြာ

kya — For a duration of time; long in time

လက်ရာ

lat-ya — Work, craftsmanship, a piece of creative work

တိတိကျကျ

tite-tite-kya-kya — Exactly, precisely, accurately without vagueness

ပြောသည်မှာ

pyo-thi-hma — What is said, in saying, speaking of

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya-nout — I, me; formal first-person singular pronoun

မသိ

ma-thi — Do not know, unaware, ignorant of something

ဟူ

hu — Called, named, known as; quotative particle (formal)

၍

yway — And so, therefore; connective or resultative particle

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — Reason, cause, subject matter, or topic

ခေတ်သစ်

khet-thit — Modern era, new age, contemporary period

ဝါးတုတ်

wa-tut — Bamboo stick, a rod or staff made of bamboo

အတူ

a-tu — Together, in the same place or jointly

လေးလံသော

le-lan-dho — Heavy, weighty, burdensome in physical weight

အမြီး

a-mi — Tail, the rear appendage of an animal

ပျက်စီးမှု

pyat-si-hmu — Destruction, damage, ruination of something

ခြိမ်းခြောက်

chim-chaut — To threaten, intimidate, or menace someone

နံဘေး

nan-be — Side, flank, lateral part of a body

ထိုးစိုက်

hto-sate — To thrust into, plant or stick something in

ထားသော

hta-dho — That which has been placed or kept

ကျင်း

kyin — Pit, hole dug in the ground

ဝတ်ဆင်

wat-sin — To wear, put on clothing or ornaments

ကျောပေါ်

kyau-pau — On the back, upon the dorsal surface

ကြံတော

kyan-daw — Sugarcane field or sugar plantation area

တစ်ခု

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

ပေါ်လာ

pau-la — To appear, emerge, come into view

နွေ

nwe — Summer, the hot dry season

ကျွန်းများ

kyun-mya — Islands, multiple landmasses surrounded by water

စစ်ပွဲ

sit-pwe — War, battle, armed military conflict

အနုပညာ

a-nu-pyin-nya — Art, fine arts, creative artistic expression

ဖန်တီး

phan-ti — To create, invent, produce something new

ထို

hto — That, those; demonstrative adjective or pronoun

သို့မဟုတ်

thò-ma-hut — Or, alternatively; disjunctive conjunction

နိုင်ငံတော်

naing-ngan-daw — State, nation, the official government body

ခေါ်ဆိုသည်

khau-so-thi — To call, name, refer to something as

ဘာသာ

ba-tha — Language, religion, or a specific tongue

အတုအပ

a-tu-a-pa — Artificial, fake, imitation not genuine

လူသား

lu-tha — Human being, humankind, person of human nature

တစ်ဦး

tit-u — One person, a single individual

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely; limiting particle

ဖွင့်ပြချက်

phwin-pya-chat — Explanation, exposition, or clarification of meaning

ဝါကျ

wa-kya — Sentence, a grammatical unit of language

မိုက်မဲသော

maik-mè-dho — Foolish, stupid, lacking intelligence or sense

မန်ဆိုး

man-so — Monster, a terrifying or monstrous creature

မဝါး

ma-wa — Without chewing, not chewing food properly

ဘဲ

bhe — Without doing; negative adverbial connective particle

မျိုချ

myo-kya — To swallow, gulp down food or liquid

လိုက်သည်

laik-thi — Follows, goes after, pursues or accompanies

ပါးစပ်

pa-zat — Mouth, the oral opening of a face

ထဲ

hte — Inside, within, into an enclosed space

ငါးစေ့

nga-se — Fish spawn, fish egg or small fish seed

တစ်ကောင်

tit-kaung — One animal, a single creature or beast

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး

phone-daw-ji — Buddhist monk, a venerable religious clergyman

ခရီးသွား

kha-yi-thwa — Traveler, one who travels or journeys afar

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ta-yit-hsan — Animal, a living creature of the animal kingdom

ဘုရားသခင်

pha-ya-tha-khin — God, the divine creator and supreme being

လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်

lut-hsaung-chat — Action, deed, or act that is performed

အားလုံး

a-lone — All, everything, everyone without exception

မှ

hma — From, since, out of; ablative particle

ရေကူး

ye-ku — To swim, move through water by body

အကြီးဆုံး

a-ji-zone — The biggest, largest, greatest of all

အဖြစ်

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

ဖန်ဆင်း

phan-sin — To create, bring into existence, to make

ဆုံးရှုံးသည်

zone-shone-thi — To lose, suffer loss or be defeated