On the Method of Zadig: Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" — Page 4

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — First-person pronoun; formal 'I' used by males.

ထိုမြင်းကို

hto myinn go — That horse (object marker attached).

လုံးဝမမြင်ဖူးပါ

lone-wa ma-myinn-phu ba — Have absolutely never seen it at all.

ယခင်ကလည်း

ya-khinn ga leh — Previously; in the past as well.

ဘယ်တော့မှ

beh-daw hma — Never; not at any time whatsoever.

ကြားဖူးသည်မဟုတ်ပါ

kyar-phu thì ma-hout-pa — Have never heard of it before.

ဟု

hù — Quotation particle meaning 'saying that' or 'thus'.

ဖြေကြားလေသည်

phye-kyar leh-thì — Answered; replied in response to a question.

မင်းကြီး၏

min-ji ei — Of the great king; possessive form.

မြင်းနှင့်

myinn hnin — Horse; together with the horse.

မိဖုရား၏

mi-phu-ya ei — Of the queen; possessive form.

ခွေးစပနီယယ်ကို

khwe sa-pa-ni-yeh go — The spaniel dog (object marker attached).

ခိုးယူသည်ဟု

hkoe-yu thì hù — Saying that he stole or took secretly.

အကြီးအကဲ

a-kyi a-keh — Senior official; person in authority or leadership.

သမင်ကောင်ဖမ်းသူနှင့်

tha-min kaung phann thu hnin — The deer hunter; together with the deer catcher.

အဓိက

a-di-ka — Main; primary; most important.

နန်းတွင်းအုပ်ချုပ်သူတို့

nann-twin out-choat thu doe — Palace administrators; those governing inside the palace.

ယုံကြည်ခဲ့၍

yone-kyi kheh yo — Having believed; because they trusted or believed.

မြင့်မားသောတရားရုံးသို့

myint-mar thaw ta-ya-yone thoe — To the high court; toward the superior tribunal.

သူ့ကို

thu go — Him; third-person object pronoun.

ဆွဲဆောင်သွားကြပြီး

sweh-saung thwar kya pi — Dragged and took him away together.

ထိုတရားရုံးက

hto ta-ya-yone ka — That court; subject marker on that tribunal.

ချက်ချင်းပင်

chek-chin pin — Immediately; right away without delay.

ကြိမ်လုံးဒဏ်နှင့်

kyim-lone dan hnin — With caning punishment; flogging as a penalty.

တစ်သက်တာ

ta-thek-ta — Lifelong; for an entire lifetime.

နှင်ထုတ်ဒဏ်

hnin-htoat dan — Banishment punishment; penalty of being driven out.

ချမှတ်လိုက်လေသည်

cha-hmat lout leh-thì — Imposed; handed down a sentence or ruling.

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However; but; nevertheless.

ဒဏ်စီရင်ချက်ကို

dan si-yin-chek go — The verdict; the sentence (object marker attached).

ကြေညာပြီးသည်နှင့်

kye-nya pi-thì hnin — Right after announcing the verdict or declaration.

မကြာမီ

ma-kya-mi — Soon; before long; shortly after.

ပျောက်ဆုံးနေသော

pyout-zone neh thaw — That were missing; lost and not found.

စပနီယယ်ခွေးတို့ကို

sa-pa-ni-yeh khwe doe go — The spaniel dogs (plural object marker attached).

တွေ့ရှိလိုက်ရလေသည်

twe-shi lout ya leh-thì — Were found; happened to discover them.

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto kyaung — Therefore; as a result of that.

တရားသူကြီးများသည်

ta-ya-thu-ji mya thì — The judges; those presiding over the court.

မိမိတို့၏ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်ကို

mi-mi doe ei zone-phyat-chek go — Their own decision or verdict (object marker).

ပြန်လည်သုံးသပ်ရသည့်

pyan-le thone-thap ya thì — Having to reconsider; reviewing their judgment again.

နာကြည်းဖွယ်

na-kyi phweh — Painful; distressing; causing embarrassment or sorrow.

အခြေအနေသို့

a-cheh-a-neh thoe — To the situation; toward that circumstance or condition.

ရောက်ရှိခဲ့ကြသည်

yauk-shi kheh kya thì — Arrived at; found themselves in that situation.

မမြင်ဖူးသည့်အရာကို

ma-myinn-phu thì a-ya go — The thing never seen before (object marker).

မြင်သည်ဟု

myinn thì hù — Saying that he saw it.

ဆိုသည့်အတွက်

so thì a-twek — Because of saying; on account of claiming.

ရွှေသားလေးရာ

shweh-tha leh ya — Four hundred gold pieces as monetary fine.

ဒဏ်ငွေချမှတ်ခဲ့ကြလေသည်

dan-ngweh cha-hmat kheh kya leh-thì — Imposed a monetary fine; fined him.

ပထမဆုံးအနေဖြင့်

pa-hta-ma-zone a-neh phyin — Firstly; as the first step or action.

ဒဏ်ငွေကို

dan-ngweh go — The fine; monetary penalty (object marker attached).

ပေးဆောင်ရလေသည်

pay-saung ya leh-thì — Had to pay; was required to pay.

ထို့နောက်

hto-nout — After that; subsequently; then afterward.

တရားရုံးတွင်

ta-ya-yone twin — In the court; inside the tribunal.

မိမိ၏

mi-mi ei — One's own; reflexive possessive pronoun.

ခုခံချက်ကို

khu-khan-chek go — The defense; one's argument in self-defense.

တင်ပြခွင့်ရရှိပြီး

tin-pya khwin ya-shi pi — Having received the right to present his case.

အောက်ပါအတိုင်း

out-pa a-tine — As follows; according to what is below.

တင်ပြလေသည်

tin-pya leh-thì — Presented; submitted or stated formally.

တရားမျှတမှု၏

ta-ya myat-ta hmu ei — Of justice; possessive form of fairness.

ကြယ်တာရာများ

kyeh-ta-ya mya — Stars; multiple stars as metaphor for excellence.

ဗဟုသုတ၏

ba-hu-tha-ta ei — Of knowledge; possessive form of learning.

နက်နဲမှုများ

nek-neh hmu mya — Depths; profound complexities of knowledge.

သမ္မာတရား၏

tham-ma ta-ya ei — Of truth; possessive form of righteousness.

မှန်ကြောင်းများ

hmaan kyaung mya — Truths; correct principles or verifiable facts.

ခဲကဲ့သို့

kheh keh thoe — Like lead; as heavy as lead.

လေးလံ၍

leh-lan yo — Being heavy; weighty and burdensome.

သံကဲ့သို့

thann keh thoe — Like iron; as firm as iron.

မတိမ်းမယိမ်းသော

ma-tine-ma-yine thaw — Unwavering; not swaying or bending at all.

စိန်နှင့်

sein hnin — Diamond; together with a diamond.

ကြည်လင်မှုတွင်

kyi-lin hmu twin — In clarity; within the quality of clearness.

ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ကာ

shin-pyaing ka — Competing with; rivaling in comparison.

ရွှေနှင့်

shweh hnin — Gold; together with gold.

ကင်းမဲ့မှုမရှိသော

kin-meh hmu ma-shi thaw — Not lacking; without any absence or deficiency.

သင်တို့

thin doe — You all; second-person plural pronoun.

ဂုဏ်ကြီးသောစုဝေးရာသို့

goan-ji thaw su-weh-ya thoe — To the great assembly; toward the honored gathering.

မိန့်ခွင့်ရသောကြောင့်

myint khwin ya thaw kyaung — Because of being permitted to speak formally.

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kyun-daw thì — I (formal male); subject marker attached.

သစ္စာဆိုပါသည်

thit-sa so ba thì — Swear an oath; make a solemn promise.

ဂုဏ်ကြီးသောနွားမကို

goan-ji thaw nwar-ma go — The noble she-camel (object marker attached).

မမြင်ဖူးပဲ

ma-myinn-phu peh — Without ever having seen it.

မင်းသားများ၏

min-tha mya ei — Of the princes; possessive plural form.

မင်းသား၏

min-tha ei — Of the prince; possessive singular form.

သန့်ရှင်းသောမြင်းကိုလည်း

thant-shin thaw myinn go leh — Also the pure noble horse (object marker).

မတွေ့ဖူးပါ

ma-twe-phu ba — Have never encountered or met it.

ဖြစ်ပျက်ခဲ့သည်မှာ

phyit-pyak kheh thì hma — As for what happened; regarding the events.

ဤသို့ပင်ဖြစ်သည်

i-thoe pin phyit-thì — It happened exactly like this.

သေးငယ်သောတောနှင့်

theh-ngeh thaw taw hnin — Near the small forest; with the little woods.

အနီးရှိ

a-ni shi — Nearby; existing in close proximity.

လမ်းလျှောက်နေခဲ့ပြီး

lann-shhout neh kheh pi — Was walking along; had been strolling about.

ထိုနောက်

hto nout — After that; then subsequently.

ဂုဏ်ကြီးသောအဓိကနန်းတွင်းအုပ်ချုပ်သူနှင့်

goan-ji thaw a-di-ka nann-twin out-choat thu hnin — With the great chief palace administrator.

ထင်ရှားကျော်ကြားသော

htin-sha kyaw-kya thaw — Famous; well-known and celebrated.

သမင်ကောင်ဖမ်းသူတို့ကို

tha-min kaung phann thu doe go — The deer hunters (plural object marker attached).

တွေ့ဆုံသည့်

twe-zone thì — Of meeting; the occasion of encountering.

ဂုဏ်အခွင့်ကို

goan a-khwin go — The honor; the privilege (object marker attached).

ရရှိခဲ့သည်

ya-shi kheh thì — Received; obtained or acquired something.