Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone — Page 5

Vocabulary

ထိုသို့

hto-hso — in that way, thus, like that

တွေးဆရင်း

tway-za-yin — while thinking, pondering along the way

မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်ခုကို

myaw-lin-jet-tit-khu-go — a certain hope, one particular hope (object marker)

ငါဆုပ်ကိုင်မိခဲ့၏

nga-souk-kine-mi-geh-i — I had grasped, I held onto something

၎င်းကို

di-jin-go — it, that one (object marker, formal reference)

လိုက်ရှာခဲ့၏

lite-sha-geh-i — searched for, pursued and looked for something

သားကို

tha-go — son (object marker), referring to someone's son

ငါ

nga — I, me (first person singular, informal)

စေလွှတ်ခဲ့ပြီ

say-hlut-geh-byi — have already sent, dispatched someone or something

ငါ့

nga' — my, mine (first person singular possessive, informal)

မိဖုရား၏

mi-phu-ya-i — of the queen, belonging to the queen

အစ်ကို

a-go — elder brother, older male sibling

မေးမြန်းစေရန်

may-myin-say-yan — in order to cause to inquire, to ask

ဌာနတော်၌

hta-na-daw-hnit — at the sacred place, at the royal department

ထံမှ

htan-hma — from, from the presence of someone

ငါသည်

nga-dhi — I (first person subject marker, emphatic)

ပြုမူချက်

pyu-mu-jet — action, conduct, behavior, manner of acting

ဖြင့်

hpyin — with, by means of, using (instrumental particle)

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit-say — whether, let it be, causing something to happen

စကား

za-ga — word, speech, language, what is said

နိုင်ငံကို

nine-ngan-go — the country, the nation (object marker)

ကယ်တင်

keh-tin — to save, to rescue, to deliver from danger

နိုင်ပုံကို

nine-pone-go — the way to be able to, the manner of succeeding

ယခုအခါ

ya-khu-a-kha — at this time, right now, at present

ကုန်ဆုံး

kone-zone — to end, to be exhausted, to run out

ခဲ့သော

geh-dho — that which has passed, past tense modifier

ရက်များကို

yet-mya-go — the days (plural, object marker)

ရေတွက်

yay-toot — to count, to enumerate, to reckon up

နေ၏

nay-i — is staying, is remaining, continues to be

သူ

thu — he, she, they (third person pronoun)

ထွက်ခွာ

toot-kwa — to leave, to depart, to go away from

သည့်

dhi' — relative clause marker, that which (modifier particle)

အချိန်

a-chain — time, moment, period of time

မှ

hma — from, since, starting from (particle)

စ၍

si-yway — beginning from, starting from, since then

သူ့

thu' — his, her, their (third person possessive)

အကြောင်းကို

a-kyoun-go — the reason, the cause, about it (object marker)

အံ့ဩ

an-o — to marvel, to be amazed, to wonder at

တွေးတော

tway-taw — to ponder, to reflect deeply, to contemplate

ထူးဆန်း

htu-zaan — strange, unusual, extraordinary, remarkable

လှပေ၏

hla-pay-i — it is beautiful, it appears lovely indeed

ဤမျှ

i-hma — this much, to this extent, so much

လောက်

lout — about, approximately, enough, to that extent

ကြာမြင့်

kya-myin — to be long in time, to take a long time

နေသည်

nay-dhi — is staying, is existing, continues (present tense)

မှာ

hma — at, in, on (locative particle); also imperative marker

အလွန်

a-lwan — very, extremely, exceedingly, too much

ပင်

pin — indeed, even, also (emphatic particle)

လှ၏

hla-i — is beautiful, is lovely, is handsome

သို့သော်

hto-dho — however, but, nevertheless, even so

ရောက်လာ

yout-la — to arrive, to come to a place, to reach

သော

dho — relative clause particle, that which (modifier)

အခါ

a-kha — time, occasion, when, at the time of

အမှန်

a-hman — truth, truly, in fact, correct, the truth

သိုင်းကျ

thine-kya — to fall upon, to descend on, to collapse onto

နေမည်

nay-meh — will stay, will be, will remain (future tense)

နတ်ဘုရား

nat-phu-ya — god, deity, divine spirit, supernatural being

ကြေညာ

kye-nya — to announce, to declare, to proclaim publicly

အရာများကို

a-ya-mya-go — the things, the matters (plural, object marker)

မဆောင်ရွက်

ma-saung-ywet — not to carry out, not to perform, to fail to act

ပါက

pa-ga — if, in the event that (conditional particle)

ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်

yat-pu-yaw-hit — priest, religious officiant who performs sacrifices

သင်၏

thin-i — your, yours (second person possessive, formal)

စကားသည်

za-ga-dhi — the word, the speech (subject marker)

ကိုက်

kite — to match, to fit, to correspond, to bite

သည်

dhi — subject marker particle, is (present tense particle)

သင်

thin — you (second person pronoun, formal or neutral)

ပြောနေ

pyaw-nay — is speaking, is saying, continues to talk

စဉ်

zin — while, during, at the time of, continuously

ထို

hto — that, those (demonstrative pronoun or adjective)

ကြွေးကြော်

kway-kyaw — to shout, to cry out, to exclaim loudly

သံသည်

than-dhi — the sound, the voice, the tone (subject marker)

ပြီ

byi — already, completion marker (perfective particle)

ဟု

hu — quotation particle, saying that, according to

အား

a — to, for, at (dative/object particle)

ပြောနေ၏

pyaw-nay-i — is speaking, is in the act of saying

အိုး

o — oh, alas (exclamation of surprise or sorrow)

ဘုရင်

phu-yin — king, monarch, ruler of a kingdom

သူ၏

thu-i — his, her (third person possessive, formal)

ဝမ်းမြောက်

wun-myout — to rejoice, to be glad, to feel joyful

မျက်နှာ

myet-hna — face, countenance, facial expression

ဆောင်လာ

saung-la — to bring, to carry and come, to deliver

ဖွယ်

phway — worthy of, likely to, tending to (potential particle)

သတင်း၏

tha-din-i — of the news, of the message (possessive)

နိမိတ်ကောင်း

ni-mit-kaung — good omen, favorable sign, auspicious portent

ဖြစ်ပါစေ

hpyit-pa-say — may it be, let it be so (optative expression)

ခန့်မှန်း

kan-hman — to estimate, to guess, to predict, to surmise

အတိုင်း

a-tine — according to, as, in accordance with

ဆိုလျှင်

so-lyin — if one says, if that is so, supposing that

ကြိုဆို

kyo-so — to welcome, to greet, to receive someone warmly

ဖွယ်ရာ

phway-ya — worthy of, deserving, befitting (potential modifier)

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — not, it is not, that is not the case

ဦးခေါင်းကို

u-gaung-go — the head (object marker), referring to one's head

သစ်သီး

thit-thi — fruit, tree fruit (of any kind)

သီးသော

thi-dho — that which bears fruit, fruit-bearing (modifier)

နှင်းဆီနွယ်

hnin-zi-nway — laurel vine, wreath plant (used in ceremonial crowns)

ဦးဆောင်း

u-zaung — headdress, hat, head covering (worn on the head)

သရဖူ

tha-ya-phu — crown, diadem, royal headgear

ဆင်ထား

zin-hta — to adorn, to wear (headwear), to put on ornament

မည်

meh — will, shall (future tense marker)

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma-hout-pay — it is not so, certainly not, not the case at all

မကြာမီ

ma-kya-mi — soon, before long, shortly, in the near future

သိရ

thi-ya — to come to know, to learn of, to find out

သူသည်

thu-dhi — he, she (third person subject marker, emphatic)

ယခု

ya-khu — now, at present, currently, at this moment

ကြားနိုင်

kya-nine — can hear, able to hear, within hearing distance

အကွာအဝေး

a-kwa-a-way — distance, space between, how far apart

သို့

hto — to, toward, in the direction of (directional particle)

ရောက်

yout — to reach, to arrive at, to get to a place

နေပြီ

nay-byi — is already there, already staying, has arrived now

ဝင်လာ၏

win-la-i — has entered, came in, arrived inside

နန်းတော်

nan-daw — royal palace, the king's official residence

ဆွေမျိုး

zway-myou — relative, family member, kinsman, relation

ပြောပါ

pyaw-pa — please speak, please tell, say it (polite imperative)

သား

tha — son, child, boy; also a polite address particle

ငါတို့

nga-do — we, us (first person plural, informal)

မည်သည့်

meh-dhi' — which, whatever, whichever (interrogative modifier)

သတင်းကို

tha-din-go — the news, the message (object marker)

ယူဆောင်

yu-saung — to take and bring, to carry along, to convey

လာ

la — to come, to arrive; directional verb complement

သနည်း

tha-ne — what is it? (question particle, formal)

သတင်းကောင်း

tha-din-kaung — good news, positive information, favorable tidings

သည်းမခံနိုင်

dhin-ma-khan-nine — cannot bear, unable to endure or tolerate

ဆိုးကျိုးများ

so-kyo-mya — bad consequences, harmful effects, negative results

ပင်လျှင်

pin-lyin — even, even if, as well (emphatic concessive particle)

မှန်ကန်

hman-kan — correct, accurate, right, proper, valid

ဖြေရှင်းချက်ကို

hpyay-shyin-jet-go — the solution, the resolution (object marker)

ရှာတွေ့

sha-tway — to find by searching, to discover, to locate

လျှင်

lyin — if, when, upon (conditional particle)

ကောင်းကျိုး

kaung-kyo — benefit, good result, advantage, blessing

သာ

tha — only, just, merely (restrictive particle)

ဖြစ်ထွန်း

hpyit-htone — to thrive, to flourish, to prosper, to succeed

တတ်၏

tat-i — is capable of, tends to, habitually does

ဗျာဒိတ်တော်

bya-dait-daw — royal oracle, divine prophecy, sacred declaration

အဘယ်သို့

a-beh-hto — how, in what way, by what means (interrogative)

ဆို၏

so-i — says, said, declares (quotative verb)

အထိ

a-hti — until, up to, as far as, to the extent of

စကားများ

za-ga-mya — words, speeches, many things said

ယုံကြည်

yone-kyi — to believe, to trust, to have faith in

မှုကို

hmu-go — the matter, the affair, the act (object marker)

လည်း

leh — also, too, as well (additive particle)

မပေး

ma-pay — not to give, to withhold, to not offer

ကြောက်ရွံ့

kyout-ywun — to be afraid, to fear, to be frightened

အများ

a-mya — many, a lot, the majority, most (quantity word)

ရှေ့မှောက်

shay-hmout — in front of, in the presence of, before someone

တွင်

dwin — in, at, within (locative particle)

ကြားလို

kya-lo — want to hear, desire to listen to something

ဤနေရာ

i-nay-ya — this place, here, this location

ဖြောင့်တန်းစွာ

hpyaung-tan-zwa — straightforwardly, honestly, directly, frankly

ပြောမည်

pyaw-meh — will speak, will say, will tell (future tense)

သို့မဟုတ်

hto-ma-hout — or, otherwise, or else (disjunctive conjunction)

နှင့်

hnin — and, with, together with (conjunction/comitative)

အတူ

a-tu — together, along with, at the same time

အတွင်း

a-dwin — inside, within, interior, during (locative)

ဝင်

win — to enter, to go in, to come inside

အားလုံး

a-lone — all, everyone, everything, the whole lot

ရှေ့တွင်

shay-dwin — in front, ahead, at the front (locative)

ထမ်းနေ

htan-nay — is carrying, is bearing, continues to carry

ဝန်သည်

wun-dhi — the burden, the load, the weight (subject marker)

အတွက်

a-twet — for, for the sake of, on behalf of

ထက်

htet — than, more than, above, surpassing (comparative)

ဤသည်

i-dhi — this (proximal demonstrative subject marker)

ပြည်သူများ

pyi-thu-mya — the people, citizens, the general public

ပိုသည်

po-dhi — is more, is greater, is better (comparative)

သမျှကို

tha-mja-go — all, everything, whatever there is (object marker)

ပြောချ

pyaw-ja — to speak out, to say freely, to express openly