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Vocabulary

မိခင်ဘက်မှ

mi hkin bek hma — From the mother's side; maternal lineage

ဆင်းသက်လာသော

hsin thet la thaw — Descended from; originating from a lineage

သူ၏

thu yi — His; belonging to him (possessive pronoun)

အနွယ်အစဉ်

a nweh a sin — Lineage; family succession; ancestral line

မှာလည်း

hma leh — Also in; also at (locative particle with 'also')

ထင်ရှား

htin sha — Famous; prominent; well-known; distinguished

ကျော်ကြားမှုတွင်

kyaw kja hmu twing — In terms of fame; regarding renown

ဘာမှ

ba hma — Nothing at all; not anything (negative emphasis)

မလျော့နိမ့်ပေ

ma lyaw naing peh — Not inferior; not lesser; not diminished at all

ဤသည်မှာ

i thi hma — This is; referring to what follows (formal)

မဒမ်

ma dam — Madam; a formal title for a woman

၏

yi — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

မိသားစု

mi tha su — Family; household unit including relatives

နာမည်

na meh — Name; title given to a person or thing

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyit thi — Is; am; are (general statement of being)

သည်

thi — Topic marker particle; this (demonstrative/particle)

တစ်ကြိမ်က

ta kjeint ka — Once; at one time; formerly

မျက်မှန်

myet hman — Eyeglasses; spectacles worn to aid vision

အိတ်

ait — Bag; case; pocket; container for carrying items

တစ်ခု

ta hku — One (item); a single thing (classifier)

ထဲတွင်

hteh twing — Inside; within a place or container

နေထိုင်

neh htine — To live; to reside; to dwell somewhere

ခဲ့ဖူးသော

kheh phu thaw — Once did; had previously (past experience marker)

ထူးဆန်း

htu hsan — Unusual; strange; extraordinary; remarkable

လှပသော

hla pa thaw — Beautiful; lovely; attractive in appearance

မင်းသမီး

min tha mi — Princess; female royalty; noble young woman

မြေးမ

mjeh ma — Granddaughter; female grandchild

သမီး

tha mi — Daughter; one's female child

ဖြစ်ပြီး

pfyit pji — Being; having become; and also (connective)

ထို

htoe — That; those (demonstrative pronoun, distant)

အိတ်မှ

ait hma — From the bag; out of the case

ထွက်လာ

htwet la — To come out; to emerge from inside

သည့်အခါ

thi a kha — When; at the time that (temporal conjunction)

ဝတ်စားဆင်ယင်မှု

wut sa hsin yin hmu — Manner of dressing; style of attire and adornment

မှာ

hma — At; in; to (locative/dative particle)

ကြည်နူး

kji nu — Delightful; pleasing; heartwarming; touching

ဖွယ်ရာ

pfweh ya — Worthy of; deserving; apt to cause a feeling

ထူးချွန်

htu chwan — Outstanding; excellent; exceptionally talented

လှပ

hla pa — Beautiful; pretty; attractive; good-looking

သဖြင့်

tha pfying — Therefore; because of that; consequently

သေးငယ်သော

theh ngeh thaw — Small; tiny; little in size

ကိုယ်ကြီး

ko ji — Body; physical stature; one's person

တောက်ပမှု

tawt pa hmu — Brightness; radiance; brilliance; glowing quality

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်

pat wun kjing — Surroundings; environment; area around something

ရှိ

shi — Existing; present; there is/are

အရာဝတ္ထု

a ya wut htu — Object; thing; physical item or article

အားလုံး

a lone — All; everyone; everything; the whole

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to; toward (accusative)

လင်းလက်

lin let — To illuminate; to brighten; to make shine

စေသည်

seh thi — Causes to; makes (causative verb ending)

ယုံကြည်

youn kji — To believe; to trust; to have confidence in

စိတ်ချ

sait hcha — To feel assured; confident; at ease

ရသော

ya thaw — Obtained; received; able to (relative marker)

အတ္ထုပ္ပတ္တိ

a htu pat ti — Biography; life story of a person

ရေးသူ

yeh thu — Writer; author; one who writes

တစ်ဦး

ta u — One person; a single individual (person classifier)

က

ka — Subject marker particle; agent marker in sentences

မစ္စတာ

mis ta — Mister; Mr.; a male honorific title

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction/comitative)

မစ္စီ

mis si — Mrs.; Missus; title for a married woman

တို့

to — Plural marker; they; those (group particle)

သမိုင်း

tha mine — History; historical record; past events

တွင်

twing — In; at; within (locative particle)

သူတို့

thu to — They; them; those people (third person plural)

ကျော်ကြားသော

kyaw kja thaw — Famous; renowned; celebrated; widely known

မိဘ

mi ba — Parents; father and mother together

ဆင်းသက်မှု

hsin thet hmu — Descent; ancestry; act of descending from lineage

အသရေဖျက်သော

a tha yeh pfyet thaw — Disgraceful; defamatory; damaging to reputation

အရာ

a ya — Thing; matter; affair; subject; item

မျှ

hmya — Even; as much as; only; merely (particle)

မဖြစ်ပွား

ma pfyit pwa — Did not occur; did not happen; no incident

ခဲ့ကြောင်း

kheh kjawng — That (something) happened (reported evidential)

ဖော်ပြ

pfaw pya — To state; to describe; to indicate; to mention

ထားသည်

hta thi — Has placed; has done (resultative aspect marker)

ထို့အပြင်

hto a pfying — Moreover; furthermore; in addition to that

အခြားသူများ

a hkha thu mya — Other people; others; different individuals

ထက်

htet — Than; more than (comparative particle)

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko pine — Own; personal; privately owned; self's own

ငယ်

ngeh — Young; small; junior; lesser in age

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — Although; even though; however; nevertheless

ကောင်းမွန်သော

kaung mwan thaw — Good; excellent; virtuous; of high quality

နိုင်ငံသား

nine ngan tha — Citizen; national; member of a country

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more than one

အဖြစ်

a pfyit — As; in the capacity of; in the role of

ယူဆ

yu hsa — To assume; to consider; to regard as; to think

ခြင်း

hching — Nominalizer; act of; the fact of (verbal noun)

ခံရမှုတွင်

khan ya hmu twing — In being regarded as; in receiving a status

မလျော့နိမ့်

ma lyaw naing — Not inferior; not lesser; not falling short

ခဲ့ပေ

kheh peh — Did indeed; truly was (past affirmative particle)

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; yet (contrastive conjunction)

ထိုအတောအတွင်း

htoe a taw a twing — Meanwhile; during that time; in the meantime

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kja no to — We; us; our (first person plural, formal)

ရိုးရှင်းသော

yo shin thaw — Simple; plain; straightforward; uncomplicated

ဇနီးမောင်နှံ

za ni mawng hnan — Husband and wife; married couple

သူရဲကောင်း

thu yeh kaung — Hero; brave person; courageous individual

မငယ်

ma ngeh — Not small; not young; not inferior (negation)

မွေးဖွားမှု

mweh pfwa hmu — Birth; being born; act of coming into the world

ကြောင့်

kjawng — Because of; due to; owing to (causal particle)

ရုတ်တရက်

yout ta yet — Suddenly; all at once; unexpectedly; abruptly

ကျော်ကြား

kyaw kja — To become famous; to be renowned; celebrated

လာသည်

la thi — Came; has come; coming (directional verb)

ဤ

i — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

သတ္တဝါ

thut ta wa — Living being; creature; animal; sentient being

မော့မွေ့

maw mweh — Cheerful; merry; lively; full of joy

အလွန်

a lwan — Very; extremely; exceedingly (intensifier)

တင့်တယ်

tin teh — Fitting; proper; dignified; becoming; elegant

ချောမွေ့

hchaw mweh — Smooth; elegant; graceful; running smoothly

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

pfweh kaung — Worth; deserving; meriting a positive quality

ပြီး

pji — Done; finished; and then; after completing

ကျန်းမာ

kjin ma — Healthy; in good health; well in body

သန်စွမ်း

than swan — Strong; vigorous; robust; full of strength

စိတ်ဓာတ်

sait dhat — Spirit; morale; mental attitude; disposition

ပြည့်ဝ

pji wa — Full; complete; abundant; well-supplied

နှစ်နှစ်သား

hnit hnit tha — Two years old; aged two years

အရွယ်

a yweh — Age; size; appropriate stage of life

မှ

hma — From; since; starting point (ablative particle)

စ၍

si yway — Starting from; beginning from; since (conjunction)

အများ

a mya — Many; the majority; most people or things

နှစ်သက်

hnit thet — To like; to enjoy; to be fond of something

ခြစားရာ

hchi za ya — Favorite; something enjoyed; object of affection

ဖြစ်လာ

pfyit la — Became; came to be; turned into; developed into

သူမ

thu ma — She; her (third person feminine pronoun)

အရပ်

a yat — Height; stature; direction; locality

တစ်လက်မ

ta let ma — One inch; a single inch (unit of measurement)

မပိုသော

ma po thaw — Not exceeding; not more than; no taller than

သူ

thu — He; she; him; her; that person (third person)

မိခင်

mi hkin — Mother; one's female parent

သာမန်

tha man — Ordinary; normal; average; commonplace

ကလေး

ka leh — Child; baby; young person; kid

အတွက်

a twet — For; for the sake of; for the purpose of

တင်းကြပ်

tin kjat — Tight; strict; firm; taut; closely fitted

ကြိုတင်

kjo tin — In advance; beforehand; to prepare ahead

ပြင်ဆင်

pyin hsin — To prepare; to get ready; to arrange beforehand

ထားခဲ့

hta kheh — Had kept; had placed; left behind (past result)

မည်သို့

ma thoe — How; in what manner; in what way

လုပ်ရမည်ကို

lout ya meh ko — What must be done; how one should act

မသိ

ma thi — Did not know; unaware; ignorant of something

၍

yway — And so; therefore; thus (conjunctive particle)

ရှုပ်ထွေး

shout htwe — Confused; complicated; tangled; perplexed

နေသည်

neh thi — Is living; is staying; continues to be (progressive)

နောက်ဆုံး

naut hson — Finally; last; at the end; ultimately

အတွင်းဘက်

a twing bet — Inner side; interior; inside direction

အပြင်ဆင်

a pfying hsin — Outward decoration; exterior preparation

ကာ

ka — While doing; after doing (sequential connector)

သူတူပင်

thu tu pin — He himself; that very same person (emphatic)

မွေ့ယာ

mweh ya — Mattress; sleeping mat; soft bedding layer

နူးညံ့သော

nu nyan thaw — Soft; tender; gentle; smooth to the touch

ဖြင့်

pfying — With; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

ဖြည့်

pfji — To fill; to stuff; to complete; to supplement

ထားသော

hta thaw — That has been placed; filled; stored (resultative)

ခွံ

khwan — Shell; husk; outer casing; pod

တစ်ဝက်

ta wet — Half; one half; fifty percent of something

အံ့ဩဖွယ်

an aw pfweh — Wonderful; amazing; astonishing; marvelous

ကလေးငယ်

ka leh ngeh — Small child; little baby; very young child

ကောင်းသော

kaung thaw — Good; fine; pleasant; of good quality

အိပ်ယာ

ait ya — Bed; sleeping place; place to rest and sleep

ကလေးထိန်း

ka leh htain — Babysitter; childminder; nanny; child carer

ခြင်းမ

hching ma — Cradle; baby basket; woven infant sleeping basket

အနီးအနားမှ

a ni a na hma — From nearby; from the vicinity; close by

နာရီပြင်

na yi pfying — Clockmaker; watchmaker; clock repairer

ဆရာ

hsa ya — Teacher; master; expert; skilled professional

ဇနီး

za ni — Wife; spouse (female); married woman

ဖြစ်သူ

pfyit thu — The one who is; person who serves as

တီထွင်

ti htwing — To invent; to create; to devise something new

တတ်သော

tat thaw — Skilled at; able to; knowing how to do

အမြဲတမ်း

a mja dan — Always; constantly; at all times; perpetually

တောင့်တင်း

tawng tin — Strong; firm; sturdy; robust; enduring

နေနိုင်ရန်

neh naing yan — In order to be able to live; to remain strong

ကြီးမားသော

kji ma thaw — Large; big; great; of considerable size

နာရီ

na yi — Clock; watch; hour; timepiece

လက်ချောင်း

let hjawng — Finger; digit on the hand

ဆွဲချိတ်

hsweh hjait — To hang; to hook; to suspend from something

ဆင်ယင်

hsin yin — To decorate; to adorn; to dress up elegantly

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of (purpose marker)

ချီးကျူး

hchi kju — To praise; to commend; to admire; to compliment

ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

pfweh kaung thaw — Praiseworthy; admirable; worthy of commendation

အကြံကောင်း

a kjan kaung — Good idea; wise suggestion; clever plan

ပေါ်ပေါက်

paw paut — To appear; to emerge; to arise; to come forth

တီထွင်မှု

ti htwing hmu — Invention; act of creating something new

မြဲ

mjeh — Lasting; permanent; stable; enduring; firm

ဖြစ်သွား

pfyit thwa — Became; turned into; ended up being