Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Page 6

Vocabulary

ထို

hto — That; referring to something previously mentioned

နေရာ

nay.ya — Place, location, or position

တွင်

twain — In, at, within a place or context

သတ္တဝါ

thut.ta.wa — Living creature, animal, or being

အားလုံး

a.lone — All, everyone, everything without exception

ထဲ

hte — Inside, within a space or container

မှ

hma — From, out of; marks source or origin

အကြီး

a.kji — The big one; large in size

ဆုံး

hsone — Most; superlative marker or to end

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that, which, who

သူ

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

သည်

thi — Topic marker; is, are; present tense particle

နက်

nate — Deep, profound; dark in shade

မှောင်

hmaung — Dark, gloomy, dim with little light

ရေ

yay — Water; liquid essential for life

ကုန်း

kone — Land, dry ground; elevated landmass

စွန်း

swun — Edge, tip, extremity of something

ကဲ့သို့

ke.hto — Like, as if; similar to something

တိမ်း

tain — To lean, tilt, or slope to one side

စောင်း

saung — To slant, lean, or lie diagonally

လျက်

lyet — While doing; simultaneous action particle

အိပ်

ate — To sleep, to lie down and rest

ပျော်

pyaw — Happy, joyful; to enjoy oneself

သို့မဟုတ်

hto.ma.hote — Or; alternatively; one or the other option

ကူး

ku — To cross over; to transfer or pass through

ပြီး

pyi — After, done; completion particle for actions

တော့

taw — Now then; particle marking conclusion or emphasis

ရွှေ့

shway — To move, shift, or relocate something

လျား

hlja — To run fast; swift horizontal movement

နေ

nay — To live, stay, reside; sun; present tense marker

မြေ

myay — Earth, ground, soil, land

ထင်

htin — To think, believe, or appear to be

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; can, able to

၏

e — Possessive marker; of, belonging to

ဆီလာ

hsi.la — To come toward; approaching this direction

များ

mya — Many, much, plural marker

ကို

ko — Object marker; to, toward; accusative particle

ရှူ

shu — To breathe, inhale air

သွင်း

thwin — To insert, put in, or bring inside

ကာ

ka — Particle indicating continuous or ongoing action

အသက်

a.thet — Life, breath, age of a living being

ရှု

shu — To breathe; to look at or observe

မှု

hmu — Nominalizer suffix; matter, affair, act

ပင်လယ်

pin.leh — Sea, ocean; large body of saltwater

တစ်

tit — One; the number one; a, an

ဖျန်း

hpyan — To spray, sprinkle liquid onto something

ထုတ်

htoat — To take out, expel, or produce something

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional particle indicating movement away

စာအုပ်

sa.oat — Book; written volume for reading

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed; emphasis particle; tree

ပြင်း

pyin — Strong, intense, forceful, powerful

ထန်

htan — Vigorous, fierce, extreme in intensity

ဝေလ

way.la — Whale; large marine mammal

ငါး

nga — Fish; aquatic animal; the number five

၎င်း

da.jin — That aforementioned; referring to previously stated item

တို့

to — Plural pronoun suffix; we, they, those

အတွင်း

a.twain — Inside, within a period or space

ဆီ

hsi — Oil; toward; in the direction of

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry, bring along, or bear something

ထား

hta — To keep, place, or leave something somewhere

ဖူလာ

hpu.la — To become full, satiated, swollen

ကျမ်း

kjan — Scripture, sacred text, holy book

စာ

sa — Letter, writing, text, lesson

ခု

hku — Now; classifier for objects; this moment

နောက်

naot — After, behind, next; following in sequence

ရှိ

shi — To exist, be present, have something

ကြီး

kji — Big, large, great in size or importance

မား

ma — Intensifier for large or prominent things

သား

tha — Son; offspring; particle of softening tone

ကောင်

kaung — Animal classifier; creature, individual being

စောင့်

hsaung — To wait for; to guard or watch over

ဆိုင်း

hsine — To delay, be suspended; sign or board

နီး

ni — Near, close, nearby in distance

ကပ်

kat — To be close to; to stick, adhere

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

လဲ

le — Also, too; question particle; to fall down

လျောင်း

hljing — To lie down, recline horizontally

၍

(yway) — Connective particle meaning therefore, thus, and so

အခွင့်

a.khwin — Opportunity, permission, right to do something

အရေး

a.yay — Matter, importance, issue, concern

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not, no

ပေး

pay — To give, provide, or offer something

ဘဲ

be — Without doing; negative continuative particle

သေး

thay — Still, yet; not yet done; small

ငယ်

ngeh — Small, young, little in size or age

မျိုး

mjo — Kind, type, species, sort

ချ

hja — To place down, lower, or put down

ဟောင်း

haung — Old, worn, used; no longer new

ကျဲ

kje — Sparse, scattered, thin in density

သွား

thwa — To go, leave; tooth; past action marker

ကြား

kja — Between, among; to hear a sound

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, way, route

မှား

hma — Wrong, incorrect, mistaken

ကြ

kja — Plural action marker; to do together

အနမ်း

a.nan — A kiss; act of kissing

မိ

mi — To catch, hit, or affect unintentionally

သင်္ဘော

thin.baw — Ship, large boat for sea travel

ပြင်

pyin — Outside; to prepare, fix, or repair

မတ်

mat — March; to stand upright; a unit of measure

ဘက်

bet — Side, direction, toward a particular area

မျော

mjaw — To float or drift along with current

စဉ်

hsin — During, while; in order, sequence

ဦး

u — Head; prefix of respect; first, foremost

ခေါင်း

khaung — Head; the uppermost part of a body

ဖြတ်

hpjat — To cut through, pass through, cross

တောက်

thoat — Bright, gleaming; to shine or flash

ကမ်း

kan — Shore, bank, coast of water body

နား

na — Ear; to rest; near, close by

သို့

hto — To, toward; directional particle of movement

တတတ်

ta.tat — Continuously, repeatedly, in quick succession

နိုင်

nine — Can, able to; to win or defeat

သမျှ

tha.mja — All, whatever, as much as there is

အောင်

aung — In order to succeed; successfully; until achieved

လှေ

hle — Boat, small vessel for water travel

ဖြင့်

hpjin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

ဆွဲ

hswe — To pull, drag, or draw toward oneself

သယ်

the — To carry, transport, bear a load

သို့သော်

hto.thaw — However, but, nevertheless; contrastive conjunction

ပေ

pay — Foot unit of length; particle of obviousness

ဆယ့်

hse — Tens digit prefix in compound numbers

နှစ်

hnit — Two; year; the number two

သုံး

thone — Three; to use or utilize something

ချင်း

chin — Among, between; mutual action particle

ဆိုက်

hsait — To arrive at, reach a destination

ကျ

kja — To fall down, drop; to fail

လိမ့်

lain — Will, probably; future probability particle

မည်

mi — Future tense marker; will, shall

သိုမ်း

thome — To collect, gather, or store away

ခရီး

kha.yi — Journey, trip, travel to a destination

ဆယ်

hse — Ten; the number ten

ခါ

kha — Time, occasion, instance of an event

သမုဒ္ဒရာ

tha.moat.da.ya — Ocean, vast sea; great body of water

၌

(nae) — At, in; locative particle for location

ကစား

ka.za — To play, engage in games or sport

မွေ့

mway — To delight in, be fond of, enjoy

တွေ့

tway — To meet, find, encounter someone or something

သဘာဝ

tha.ba.wa — Nature; natural state or characteristic

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from; because

ပခုံး

pa.khone — Shoulder; upper part of the arm joint

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, above; to appear, emerge

တပ်

tat — Army, military unit; to attach or install

ဆင်

hsin — Elephant; to dress up; to resemble

ပိုက်

pite — Pipe, tube; to hold under arm

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; together with; conjunction particle

အပေါက်

a.paot — Hole, opening, gap in a surface

ဆော်

hsaw — To stir up, agitate, or provoke

ဝဝ

wa.wa — Plump, chubby, well-fed in appearance

ဆာ

hsa — Hungry; to feel hunger or craving

အာရှ

a.sha — Asia; the largest continent on Earth

အာဖရိက

a.hpa.yi.ka — Africa; large continent south of Europe

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun for nearness

အလွန်

a.lwan — Very, extremely, exceedingly intense degree

အုပ်

oat — To govern, rule; a flock or group

ဝင်

win — To enter, go inside, come in

ရောက်

yoat — To arrive at, reach a place

ကြောက်

kjout — To fear, be afraid of something

ရွံ့

ywun — To feel disgust or revulsion toward something

ကြောင့်

kjoun — Because of, due to, owing to

ဂရု

ga.yu — Care, attention, mindfulness, heed

တစိုက်

ta.sait — Steadily, persistently, without stopping or diverting

ဆက်

hset — To continue, connect, carry on doing

ဖြစ်

hpjit — To be, become, happen, occur

ဆဋ္ဌမ

hsat.tha.ma — Sixth; the ordinal number six

ကမ္ဘာ

kan.ba — World, earth, globe, universe

ပတ်

pat — To go around, encircle; week; to wrap

ကျွန်ုပ်

kjanu — I, me; formal first-person singular pronoun

မြစ်

myit — River; a large flowing body of water

မြောက်

myout — North; northern direction on a compass

အရှေ့

a.shay — East; the direction of the rising sun

လေ

lay — Wind, air; sentence final particle of tone

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely; also a mild emphasis

ဝေး

way — Far, distant, remote from here

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning said, called, that

ခေါ်

khaw — To call, name, or summon someone

ထွက်

htwet — To exit, go out, depart from somewhere

ခွာ

khwa — To separate, leave, detach from something

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker; did, went, previously

ပါးစပ်

pa.zat — Mouth; the oral opening on a face

ဖွင့်

hpwin — To open, unlock, or start something

မဟုတ်

ma.hote — Is not, not so; negation of being

အချို့

a.hjo — Some, a few, certain ones

ဆို

hso — To say, sing, claim, or state

သော်လည်း

thaw.le — Although, even though; concessive conjunction

မှာ

hma — At, in; location marker; to order something

ဒဏ္ဍာရီ

dan.da.yi — Legend, myth, traditional story or tale