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Vocabulary

မျက်နှာဖုံး

myaknha phome — A mask covering the face

အခြားနာမည်ဖြင့်လည်း

a khya na myi phyin lè — Also known by another name

သိကြသည်-

thi kya thi- — Known as; recognized by others

၏

ei — Possessive or linking grammatical particle

ကုန်းကျော

kone kyaw — Hunchback; person with a curved back

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person

ရေးသားသည်

yay tha thi — To write or compose a literary work

ဘာသာပြန်သည်

ba tha pyan thi — To translate from one language to another

နိဒါန်းစကား

ni dan za ga — Preface or introductory remarks of a book

။

(full stop) — Burmese full stop punctuation mark

နှစ်

hnit — Year; a unit of time (twelve months)

အနည်းငယ်

a nyi ngè — A small amount; just a little

မျှ

hmya — Only; merely; as much as

အကြာကာလ

a kya ka la — A period or duration of time

က

ka — Subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

၊

(comma) — Burmese comma punctuation mark

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in Burmese grammar

လည်ပတ်

lèh pat — To visit or tour a place

ရင်း

yin — While doing; by means of (conjunctive particle)

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma hote — Or; otherwise; alternatively

ပို

po — More; even more; additionally

၍

ywei — Therefore; and so (conjunctive particle)

ဆိုရ

so ya — To say; to speak; if one says

လျှင်

hlyìn — If; when (conditional particle)

စူးစမ်း

su zam — To investigate or probe carefully

ရှာဖွေ

sha phwè — To search for or explore something

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

စာအုပ်

za oat — Book; a bound written publication

စာရေးဆရာ

za yay hsa ya — Author or writer of literary works

သည်

thi — Topic marker or verb-ending particle

နန်းစင်

nan zin — Throne; royal platform or elevated seat

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; a lot

ထဲမှ

htè hmà — From within; out of something inside

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or unit

မှောင်မိုက်

hmawng mite — Dark; gloomy; lacking light

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker (which, that, who)

ထောင့်

htaung — Corner; angle of a surface or room

တစ်နေရာ

tit nay ya — One place; a certain location

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (locative particle)

နံရံ

nan yan — Wall of a building or room

ပေါ်၌

paw hnyit — On; upon; on top of

လက်

let — Hand; arm (body part)

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of (instrumental particle)

တူးထွင်း

tu htwin — To carve, engrave, or dig into

ထားသော

hta thaw — Which has been placed or done

အောက်ပါ

awat pa — The following; listed below

စကားလုံး

za ga lone — Word; a unit of speech or writing

တွေ့ရှိ

twè shi — To find or discover something

ခဲ့သည်

khè thi — Did (past tense marker)

အသက်အရွယ်

a thet a ywe — Age; one's stage of life

ကြောင့်

kyawng — Because of; due to; owing to

မည်းမောင်း

myi maung — Dark and dim; gloomy in appearance

နေသော

nay thaw — Which is residing or existing somewhere

ဂရိ

ga ri — Greek; relating to Greece or its language

စာလုံးကြီး

za lone ji — Capital letter; uppercase letter

ကျောက်

kyawt — Stone; rock material

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On; upon; on the surface of

နက်ရှိုင်းစွာ

net shite zwa — Deeply; profoundly; with great depth

ထားပြီး

hta pyi — Having already placed or done something

လက်ရေး

let yay — Handwriting; written by hand

အနုပညာ

a nu pyin nya — Art; fine arts; creative skill

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

ထူးခြားသော

htu hja thaw — Unusual; distinctive; remarkable in character

သင်္ကေတ

thin keh ta — Symbol; sign; emblem representing something

၎င်းတို့

dindoe to — They; those things (formal plural pronoun)

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

pone than dan — Shape; form; physical appearance

အနေအထား

a nay a hta — Condition; situation; state of affairs

တို့

to — Plural pronoun marker; they, we, you

ရိုက်နှိပ်

yite hnyit — To print or press; to stamp

ထားသ

hta tha — Has been placed or kept (verb ending)

ကဲ့သို့

kè thoe — Like; similar to; as if

ထို

hto — That; those (demonstrative adjective)

စာများ

za mya — Letters; writings; texts (plural)

ရေးထိုး

yay htoe — To inscribe or sign one's name

မှာ

hma — At; in; on (locative particle)

အလယ်ခေတ်

a lè khet — Middle Ages; medieval period of history

တစ်ဖက်

tit phet — One side; on the other hand

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

phyit kyawng — That it is so; indicating a fact

ထုတ်ဖော်

htoat phaw — To reveal or expose something hidden

ပြသ

pya tha — To show or display to others

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

yi ywe chet — Purpose; intention; goal or aim

ဖြင့်ပင်

phyin pin — Precisely by means of; exactly with

ဆောင်ရွက်

sawng ywet — To carry out or perform an action

ထင်ရ

htin ya — To seem; to appear to be so

အထူးသဖြင့်

a htu tha phyin — Especially; particularly; in a special way

ပါဝင်သော

pa win thaw — Which contains or includes something

ကံကြမ္မာ

kan kyan ma — Fate; destiny; karmic fortune

ဆိုင်ရာ

site ya — Related to; concerning; pertaining to

စိတ်မကောင်းဖွယ်

seit ma kawng phwe — Distressing; causing sadness or discomfort

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a deit pa ye — Meaning; definition; significance of something

စိတ်နှလုံး

seit hna lone — Heart and mind; inner feelings

နက်နဲစွာ

net nè zwa — Profoundly; deeply; in a deep manner

ရိုက်ခတ်

yite khat — To strike or hit; to impact strongly

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi mi ko ko — Oneself; referring to one's own self

မေးမြန်း

may myin — To ask or inquire; to question someone

ရှေးဟောင်းသော

shay hawng thaw — Ancient; old; of historical antiquity

ဘုရားကျောင်း

pha ya kyawng — Church or cathedral; place of worship

နဖူး

na pu — Forehead; front of the face

ရာဇဝတ်မှု

Crime; criminal act or offense

ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခ

sin yè dok kha — Suffering and hardship; misery and pain

အညှိုးအကြောင်း

a hnyo a kyawng — Grudge; resentment; cause of grievance

ချန်

hjan — To leave behind; to set aside

မထား

ma hta — Not having kept or placed

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing; not doing (negative particle)

လောက

law ka — The world; the earth; worldly existence

မ

ma — Negative prefix marker in Burmese

စွန့်ခွာ

swun hkwa — To abandon or leave something behind

လိုသော

lo thaw — Which is needed or desired

စိတ်

seit — Mind; heart; mental state or feeling

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist; there is none

ခဲ့သည့်

khè thi — Which did; past tense relative marker

ဝေဒနာ

we da na — Pain; suffering; physical or emotional anguish

ခံစားနေရသော

khan za nay ya thaw — Which is being experienced or felt

ဝိညာဉ်

win nyan — Soul; spirit; spiritual essence of beings

မည်သူ

myi thu — Who; whoever; which person

ဖြစ်နိုင်

phyit naing — Possible; able to be; might be

မည်နည်း

myi nyi — How; in what way (interrogative)

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker meaning 'saying that'

ကောင်းကောင်းမွန်မွန်

kawng kawng mwun mwun — Properly; thoroughly; in a good manner

ဆင်ခြင်

sin hchin — To reflect on; to consider carefully

နိုင်ရန်

naing yan — In order to be able to

ကြိုးစား

kyo za — To try hard; to make an effort

နောက်ပိုင်း

naot pine — Afterward; later; subsequent period of time

အဖြူရောင်

a phyu yawng — White color; the color white

သုတ်

thote — To wipe or smear over a surface

ခြင်း

hchin — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into nouns

ခြစ်ချ

hchit hcha — To scrape off or scratch away

ပြုလုပ်

pyu loat — To do; to make; to perform

မည်သည့်

myi thi — Which; whichever; whatever (relative particle)

နည်း

nyi — Method; way; how (question word)

ဆိုသည်

so thi — Says; means; is called

သိ

thi — To know; to understand something

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; also 'to include'

စာရေးသားမှု

za yay tha hmu — Act of writing; written composition

လည်း

lè — Also; too; as well (additive particle)

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pyawt kwè — To disappear; to vanish from sight

သွားခဲ့သည်

thwa khè thi — Went away; has gone (past tense)

အကြောင်းမှာ

a kyawng hma — The reason is; the cause being

ယင်းသည်ပင်

yin thi pin — That itself; that very thing precisely

လူများ

lu mya — People; many people; the public

နှစ်ပေါင်း

hnit pawng — Combined years; total number of years

နှစ်ရာ

hnit ya — Two hundred; hundreds of years

ကြာ

kya — Long; for a long time; duration

အောင်

awng — Until; so that; enough to achieve

အံ့သြဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

an thaw phwe kawng thaw — Wonderful; astonishing; worthy of amazement

ဆက်ဆံ

set hsan — To deal with; to relate to someone

လာ

la — To come; directional particle (toward speaker)

ကျင့်သုံး

kyint thone — To practice or apply a method

နည်းလမ်း

nyi lan — Method; approach; way of doing things

ဖြစ်သော

phyit thaw — Which is; being (relative clause marker)

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thi — Is; exists; it is (copula verb)

ပျက်စီးမှု

pyet si hmu — Destruction; damage; ruination of something

အတွင်း

a twin — Inside; within; during a period

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative particle

ရော

yaw — And also; including; mixed together

အပြင်

a pyin — Outside; exterior; beyond something

အရပ်ရပ်

a yat yat — Various places; all kinds of directions

ထံ

htan — To; toward; at (person-directed particle)

ရောက်လာ

yawt la — To arrive; to come to a place

ကြသည်

kya thi — Plural action marker; they do (verb ending)

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး

phoung daw ji — Buddhist monk; venerable monastic figure

အဖြူ

a phyu — White; the color white (adjective form)

ဆရာတော်ကြီး

hsa ya daw ji — Senior monk; highly revered Buddhist abbot

ထို့နောက်

hto naot — After that; then; subsequently

လူထု

lu htu — General public; mass of people

ပြီး

pyi — After; already done; completion marker

ဖျက်ဆီး

pyet si — To destroy; to demolish; to ruin