Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone — Page 3

Vocabulary

အစဉ်

a-si — Always, continuously, in order

ငါ၏

nga-i — My, belonging to me

မင်းသားထွာ

min-tha-hkwa — Prince, royal son of noble birth

သခင်

tha-khin — Master, lord, owner of something

မင်းကြီးရှင်

min-ji-shin — Great king, sovereign ruler of realm

မင်း

min — King, ruler; also informal second-person pronoun

ကြည့်

kyi — To look at, to observe something

လိုက်

laik — To follow, to go along with

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also to come along

အသက်

a-thek — Life, age, breath of living being

အရွယ်

a-ywe — Age, stage of life, physical maturity

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit-phek — Both sides, two directions or parties

စလုံး

sa-lone — Both, all of the mentioned items

မည်သို့

myi-dho — How, in what manner or way

ဝိုင်းရံ

wain-yan — To surround, to encircle from all sides

နေကြ

ne-kya — Plural marker for ongoing state or action

သည်

thi — Grammatical topic marker or present-tense particle

ကို

go — Object marker, indicating direct object

မင်း၏

min-i — Your, belonging to you (second person)

နန်းတော်

nan-daw — Royal palace, residence of a king

ယဇ်ပလ္လင်

yat-pa-lin — Altar used for religious sacrifice or offerings

များ

mya — Plural marker; many, multiple instances

အတောင်

a-taung — Wing of a bird or flying creature

ငယ်သေး

ngwe-the — Very young, still small and immature

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, equivalent to 'that/which'

သငယ်ငယ်

tha-ngwe-ngwe — Very young, youthful in age

တို့

doh — Plural pronoun suffix or group marker

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together alongside another

အသက်ကြီး

a-thek-ji — Old, elderly, of advanced age

၍

yway — And then, therefore, connective particle

ကိုင်းညွတ်

kain-nyut — To bow down, to bend forward respectfully

နေသော

ne-thaw — Ongoing action marker, currently doing something

ဖြူသော

phyu-thaw — White, pale in color

မုတ်ဆိတ်ရှင်

mout-hseit-shin — Bearded person, one who has a beard

ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်

yat-pu-yaw-heit — Priest who performs religious sacrifices and rituals

ငါ

nga — I, me, first-person singular pronoun

ကဲ့သို့

keh-dho — Like, similar to, in the manner of

၏

i — Possessive particle, belonging to someone

ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်၊

yat-pu-yaw-heit — Priest conducting sacrificial religious ceremonies

ထိုမျှမက

hto-mya-ma-ka — Not only that, furthermore, in addition

ငါတို့

nga-doh — We, us, first-person plural pronoun

လူငယ်

lu-ngwe — Young person, youth, young adult

ပန်းပွင့်

pan-pwin — Flower blossom, blooming flower

တို့

doh — Plural suffix indicating a group

လည်း

le — Also, too, as well, additionally

ပေတည်း

pe-de — Indeed, emphatic sentence-final particle

ထို

hto — That, those, demonstrative adjective

အချိန်

a-chain — Time, moment, period of time

တွင်

htwine — In, at, within a place or time

သာမန်

tha-man — Ordinary, common, average, not special

လူများ

lu-mya — People, many persons, the general public

ပန်းချီး

pan-ji — Praise, compliment, words of commendation

ထားသော

hta-thaw — Placed, kept, stored there beforehand

ကိုင်းတက်

kain-tet — To branch out, spread like tree branches

ဈေးကွက်

ze-gwet — Market, marketplace where goods are traded

နှစ်ခု

hnit-khu — Two items, a pair of things

တွင်

htwine — In, at, inside a location

ပြည့်နှက်

pyi-hnet — Full of, saturated, overflowing with something

သို့မဟုတ်

dho-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively between two options

ရှေ့မှောက်

shwe-hmout — In front of, in the presence of

ဘုရား

pha-ya — God, divine being, Buddha or deity

နှစ်ဆူ

hnit-su — Two deities or two divine entities

ကျောင်းတော်

kyaung-daw — Royal temple or sacred religious monastery

စုဝေး

su-we — To gather, to assemble as a group

ဘယ်ရာ

beh-ya — Where, which direction or destination

၌

hnit — At, in, locative particle indicating place

ဆိုသော်

so-thaw — If one says, speaking of, regarding

မီး

mi — Fire, flame, light from combustion

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of, using something

ကဗျာဗေဒင်

ka-bya-be-din — Prophecy in verse, poetic oracle or divination

ပြောကြား

pyaw-kya — To speak, to announce, to declare verbally

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place, location, position, spot

၌ပင်

hnit-pin — Right at that place, at that very spot

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thi — Is, exists, to be the case

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung-hma — The reason is, regarding the cause

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-dain — Oneself, personally, by one's own action

မြင်

myin — To see, to witness, to observe

သကဲ့သို့

tha-keh-dho — Just as, in the same way as

နိုင်ငံ

naing-ngan — Country, nation, state or territory

သင်္ဘော

thin-baw — Ship, large boat or vessel

ပြင်းထန်

pyin-htan — Fierce, intense, severe or powerful

စွာ

swa — Adverbial particle meaning 'in a ... manner'

ရိုက်ခတ်

yaik-hkat — To strike, to hit, to batter forcefully

ခံ

khan — To receive, to endure, to suffer

နေ

ne — To stay, to live; ongoing action particle

ခေါင်း

khaung — Head, the top part of the body

နောက်ထပ်

nout-htat — Further, additionally, one more time

မမော့

ma-maw — Cannot lift, unable to raise up

နိုင်တော့

nain-daw — Can, able to; or particle of completion

ဘဲ

beh — Without doing, not doing, negative connective

သွေး

thwe — Blood, the red fluid in living bodies

လှိုင်းလုံး

hlain-lone — Wave, rolling ocean or water wave

နက်

net — Deep, profound, dark in depth

ထဲ

hteh — Inside, within, into a place

မြုပ်နစ်

myout-nit — To sink, to be submerged underwater

ပေသည်

pe-thi — Emphatic sentence-final affirmative particle

နှံသီး

hnan-thi — Grain, cereal crop such as wheat or rice

အသီးအပွင့်

a-thi-a-pwin — Fruits and blossoms, produce of plants

ကပ်ဆိုး

kat-so — Plague, epidemic, devastating calamity or disease

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing, a single item or object

ကျရောက်

kya-yout — To befall, to strike, to occur upon

ကျက်စား

kyet-sa — To graze, to feed on grass or pasture

သိုး

tho — Sheep, a woolly domesticated animal

နွား

nwa — Cow, cattle, bovine animal

အပေါ်

a-paw — On top of, above, upper side

မီးဖွား

mi-phwa — To give birth, to deliver a child

မိန်းမ

main-ma — Woman, female adult person

တောက်လောင်

tout-laung — To blaze, to burn fiercely with fire

မီးရှူးတိုင်

mi-shu-taing — Torch, a fire-bearing pole or stick

ဆောင်

saung — To carry, to bring along, to bear

ကပ်ဘေး

kat-be — Disaster, calamity, plague or great misfortune

မြို့ပေါ်

myo-paw — On the city, in the urban area

သို့

dho — To, toward, in the direction of

ကျိုးမောင်း

kyo-maung — To command, to drive, to direct forcibly

ကျ

kya — To fall, to drop down, to descend

လူဟောင်း

lu-haung — Old person, someone from the past

လေ့

leh — Habitually, customarily, used to doing

စေ

se — Causative particle, to cause or make do

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense particle, did or went

ပြီ

pyi — Completion marker, already done, finished

အိမ်တော်

ain-daw — Royal household, the king's palace or home

မှောင်မိုက်

hmaung-maik — Darkness, gloom, obscurity of dark night

ညည်းညူသံ

nyi-nyu-than — Sound of groaning, moaning or lamenting

မျက်ရည်

myet-ye — Tears, the fluid from weeping eyes

ပြည့်ဝ

pyi-wa — Full, complete, abundant, sufficient

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto-kyaung — Therefore, for that reason, consequently

အို

o — Oh, vocative exclamation expressing emotion

မီးဖို

mi-pho — Hearth, fireplace, cooking fire area

နား

na — Ear; also to rest or to listen

ထိုင်

htaing — To sit, to be seated somewhere

ဤ

i — This, the near demonstrative pronoun

ကလေးငယ်

kha-le-ngwe — Small child, young infant or toddler

မထင်မှတ်

ma-htin-hmut — Unexpectedly, not anticipated or imagined

ဘဲ

beh — Without, not doing, negative manner particle

နတ်ဘုရား

nat-pha-ya — God, divine spirit, supernatural deity

သစ်

thit — New, fresh; also wood or timber

တစ်ဆူ

tit-su — One deity, a single divine being

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As, in the role of, in the form of

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Not, is not, negation of existence

လူသား

lu-tha — Human being, mankind, person

ပထမ

pa-hta-ma — First, primary, at the beginning

ဦးဆုံး

u-zone — First of all, foremost, at the top

သူ

thu — He, she, that person, third person

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by using, by means of

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life, existence, way of living

ဖြစ်ရပ်ဆိုး

phyit-yat-so — Bad event, tragic occurrence or disaster

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi-shu — To look at, to observe carefully

လာ

la — To come; directional particle toward speaker

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer, turning verbs into noun forms

မြို့တော်

myo-daw — Capital city, royal city or main town

ကြွလာ

kwa-la — To come (honorific), to arrive respectfully

မဟုတ်လော

ma-hout-law — Is it not so? Isn't that right?

မြို့

myo — City, town, urban settlement

မှ

hma — From, since, ablative source particle

ပေးဆောင်

pe-saung — To offer, to pay, to contribute something

ခဲ့သော

kheh-thaw — Past relative clause marker, that which did

အခွန်

a-khun — Tax, tribute, levy imposed by authority

ကယ်တင်

keh-tin — To rescue, to save from danger or harm

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kyout-met-phwe — Terrifying, dreadful, causing great fear

သီချင်းဆို

thi-chin-so — To sing a song, to perform music vocally

သူမ

thu-ma — She, her, third-person feminine pronoun

ရရှိ

ya-shi — To obtain, to receive, to acquire

ထံ

htan — Near, at the presence of someone

လမ်းညွှန်

lan-nyun — To guide, to direct, to show the way

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or matter

အခြားသူ

a-khya-thu — Another person, someone else, a different individual

က

ka — Subject marker particle in a sentence

ဆုံးမသင်ကြား

zone-ma-thin-kya — To teach and advise, to educate morally

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Not, is not, negative copula

ဩဇာသွင်း

o-za-thwin — To exert influence, to impose authority over

သနှင့်

tha-hnin — With that, along with that matter

လူတိုင်း

lu-daing — Everyone, every person, all people

ထိုသို့

hto-dho — In that way, like that, thus

ထင်မြင်

htin-myin — To think, to opine, to have a view

ကြ

kya — Plural action marker for multiple subjects

သက်သေခံ

thet-the-khan — To testify, to give evidence or witness

ပြန်လည်

pyan-le — To return, to go back, reciprocal action

အသစ်

a-thit — New, fresh, recently made or acquired

ဖြစ်စေ

phyit-se — Whether, causing to be, let it be

သည်

thi — Sentence-final or topic marker particle