On the Method of Zadig: Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" — Page 6

Vocabulary

သစ်ပင်များ

thit-pin-mya — Trees; plural of tree

၏

e — Possessive or linking particle in Burmese grammar

အကိုင်းအခက်

a-kaing-a-hkaek — Branches and twigs of a tree

များသည်

mya-dhi — Are many; plural verb marker

မြေပြင်မှ

mye-pyin-hma — From the ground surface

ငါးပေ

nga-pe — Five feet in measurement

အမြင့်တွင်

a-myint-dwin — At a height; at an elevation

အထက်၌

a-htet-hnite — Above; at a higher position

တစ်ခုနှင့်

tit-hku-hnint — With one; together with one thing

တစ်ခု

tit-hku — One thing; one unit

ထိတွေ့

hti-twe — To touch; to make contact with

နေကြပြီး

ne-kya-byi — Are staying; continuing to do together

၎င်းတို့

di-go-to — They; those; third-person plural pronoun

အောက်တွင်

a-aut-dwin — Below; underneath; at a lower position

မကြာမီ

ma-kya-mi — Soon; before long; in a short time

ကျွတ်ကျသော

kyoot-kya-dho — Fallen; dropped off from a surface

အရွက်များကို

a-ywet-mya-go — Leaves; plural of leaf (object marker)

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I; me; first-person pronoun (male, formal)

မြင်ခဲ့သည်

myin-hkaè-dhi — Saw; did see; past tense of see

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto-kyaung — Therefore; because of that; consequently

မြင်းသည်

myin-dhi — It is a horse; refers to a horse

အကိုင်းအချို့ကို

a-kaing-a-hcyo-go — Some branches; certain branches (object marker)

ဖြတ်သွားသော

hpyat-thwa-dho — Passed through; went past cutting through

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; as a result of

၎င်း၏

di-go-e — Its; of it; possessive of that thing

အမြင့်မှာ

a-myint-hma — Regarding height; at the height of

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

hpyit-kyaung — That it is; indicating a reported fact

သိနိုင်ခဲ့သည်

thi-naing-hkaè-dhi — Was able to know; could determine

၎င်း

di-go — It; that; third-person singular pronoun

နှင့်

hnint — And; with; together with

ပတ်သက်ပြီး

pat-thate-byi — Regarding; concerning; in relation to

၎င်းသည်

di-go-dhi — It is; that subject marker for third person

နှစ်သုံးဆယ့်သုံး

hnit-thone-zeh-thone — Twenty-three; the number twenty-three

ရွှေဖြင့်

shwe-hpyin — Made of gold; with gold

ပြုလုပ်ထားသည်

pyu-loat-hta-dhi — Has been made; constructed or fabricated

ဖြစ်ရမည်

hpyit-ya-myi — Must be; ought to be; should be

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung-hma — The reason is; as for the reason

ကျောက်

kyauk — Stone; rock; a hard mineral material

၎င်းကို

di-go-go — It (object); referring to that thing

ပွတ်တိုက်ခဲ့ပြီး

pwoot-tite-hkaè-byi — Rubbed against; scraped and then continued

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun or adjective

ကျောက်မှာ

kyauk-hma — On the stone; regarding the stone

တွေ့ရှိရသည်

twe-shi-ya-dhi — Found; discovered; came to find

ယင်း

yin — That; those; aforementioned thing or person

ဂုဏ်သတ္တိများ

gun-thatti-mya — Qualities; properties; characteristics of something

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kyun-daw-dhi — I (subject); formal male first-person subject

စမ်းသပ်မှု

san-thaat-hmu — Testing; an experiment or trial procedure

မှတဆင့်

hma-ta-hsin — Through; via; by means of

ရင်းနှီး

yin-hni — Familiar with; well acquainted with something

နေသည်

ne-dhi — Is staying; is in a state of

နောက်ဆုံး

nauk-zone — Finally; last; at the end

အနေဖြင့်

a-ne-hpyin — In the capacity of; as; by way of

ခြေနင်းများသည်

hche-nin-mya-dhi — Footprints are; the footprints (subject)

အခြား

a-hcha — Other; another; different

မျိုးသော

myo-dho — Type of; kind of; sort of

ပေါ်တွင်

pau-dwin — On top of; upon; on a surface

ထားခဲ့သော

hta-hkaè-dho — Left behind; placed and left there

အမှတ်အသားများ

a-hmat-a-tha-mya — Marks; signs; identifying marks or symbols

သန့်ရှင်းသော

thant-shin-dho — Clean; pure; cleansed or uncontaminated

ငွေဖြင့်

ngwe-hpyin — Made of silver; with silver

ဟု

hku — Quotation particle; said that; as saying

ထင်မိသည်

htin-mi-dhi — Thought; assumed; came to think so

တရားသူကြီး

taya-thu-kyi — Judge; magistrate; legal authority figure

အားလုံးသည်

a-lone-dhi — Everyone; all of them (subject marker)

နက်နဲ

naknae — Deep; profound; complex in meaning

သိမ်မွေ့သော

thein-mwe-dho — Subtle; refined; delicate in nature

ဉာဏ်ပညာကို

nyan-pyin-nya-go — Wisdom and knowledge (object marker)

ချီးကျူး

hchi-kyu — To praise; to admire; to commend someone

အံ့သြ

an-tho — To be amazed; to wonder; to marvel

ကြသည်

kya-dhi — They do; plural verb particle

ကျော်ကြားမှုမှာ

kyaw-kya-hmu-hma — Regarding his fame; as for his reputation

ဘုရင်

bhu-yin — King; monarch; ruler of a kingdom

မိဖုရား

mi-hpu-ya — Queen; royal consort; king's wife

ထံပင်

htan-bin — To the presence of; to that person

ရောက်ရှိ

yauk-shi — Arrived; reached a place or person

သွားသည်

thwa-dhi — Went; goes; to go somewhere

နန်းတော်

nan-daw — Royal palace; the king's palace

ခန်းမများမှ

kan-ma-mya-hma — From the halls; from the rooms or chambers

အထိ

a-hti — Up to; until; as far as

နာမည်သည်

na-myi-dhi — The name is; his name (subject marker)

လူတိုင်း

lu-tine — Everyone; every person; all people

ပါးစပ်တွင်

pa-zat-dwin — In the mouth; on everyone's lips

ရှိနေသည်

shi-ne-dhi — Is present; exists; is there continuously

မှော်ဆရာ

hmaw-hsaya — Magician; sorcerer; practitioner of magic

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; a great number; a lot of

သည်

dhi — Subject marker particle; is; are

သူ့ကို

thu-go — Him; that person (object marker)

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As; in the role of; in the state of

မီးရှို့

mi-sho — To burn; to set on fire

သင့်သည်

thint-dhi — Should; ought to; it is appropriate

ထင်မြင်

htin-myin — To think; to have an opinion or view

ကြသော်လည်း

kya-dho-lé — Although they did; even though they thought

ဘုရင်သည်

bhu-yin-dhi — The king (subject); the monarch subject marker

သူ့အပေါ်

thu-a-pau — Towards him; upon him; regarding him

ဒဏ်ငွေ

dan-ngwe — Fine; penalty payment; monetary punishment

ချမှတ်ထားသော

hcha-hmat-hta-dho — Imposed; decreed; already decided upon

ရွှေ

shwe — Gold; the precious yellow metal

လေးရာ

le-ya — Four hundred; the number 400

များကို

mya-go — Plural object marker; the things (object)

သူ့ထံ

thu-htan — To him; towards that person

ပြန်လည်

pyan-le — Back; return; again; once more

ပေးအပ်ရန်

pe-at-yan — To give back; to hand over; to return

အမိန့်ပေးခဲ့သည်

a-maint-pe-hkaè-dhi — Ordered; commanded; gave an official order

အရာရှိများ

a-ya-shi-mya — Officials; officers; government functionaries

နှင့်အတူ

hnint-a-tu — Together with; along with; accompanied by

တည်ကြည်သော

ti-kyi-dho — Calm; composed; steadfast in manner

နည်းဖြင့်

ni-hpyin — In a manner; by means of; with method

သွားရောက်

thwa-yauk — Went and arrived; traveled to a place

ခဲ့ကြသည်

hkaè-kya-dhi — They did; past tense plural completion marker

သို့သော်

thó-dho — However; but; nevertheless; on the other hand

တရားဥပဒေ

taya-u-pade — Law; legal code; the law of the land

ကုန်ကျစရိတ်

kone-kya-za-yait — Cost; expense; expenditure incurred

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; regarding

သုံးရာ

thone-ya — Three hundred; the number 300

ကိုးဆယ့်ရှစ်

ko-zeh-shit — Ninety-eight; the number 98

ကိုသာ

go-tha — Only; just that; emphasizing the object

ထိန်းသိမ်း

htain-thain — To keep; to preserve; to maintain control

ထားပြီး

hta-byi — Having kept; already done and continuing

အမှုတော်ထမ်းများ

a-hmu-daw-htan-mya — Royal servants; officials serving the king

လုပ်ခကို

loat-hka-go — Fee; wages; payment for work (object)

မျှော်လင့်

hmyaw-lint — To hope; to expect; to look forward to

နေကြသည်

ne-kya-dhi — They are; they continue to be together