Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone — Page 9

Vocabulary

ညဘက်က

nya-bek-ka — From the night side; coming from the night direction

မပြီးမြောက်ဘဲ

ma-pyee-myauk-bè — Without completing; leaving something unfinished

ကျန်ရစ်သည့်

kyan-yit-thè — That which remains behind; leftover

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; object; matter; item

နက်ဖြန်

nek-hpyan — Tomorrow; the next day

နေ့

né — Day; daytime

နေရောင်ခြည်က

né-yaung-jì-ka — The sunlight; rays from the sun

ထိမှန်

htì-hmàn — To hit accurately; to strike the target

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pyauk-kwè — To disappear; to vanish completely

ပျက်စီး

pyet-sí — To be destroyed; to be ruined or damaged

သွားလေသည်

thwà-lé-thì — Has gone away; passed away (emphatic past)

လက်တော်ဖြင့်

let-daw-hpyìn — By means of one's hand (honorific); with the royal hand

လုပ်ဆောင်

louk-hsaung — To carry out; to perform an action or task

တော်မူသော

daw-mu-thaw — Royal/honorific verb modifier; who deigns to do

ဖခင်

hpa-hkin — Father; male parent

လျှပ်စီး

hlyet-sí — Lightning bolt; electric flash from the sky

မီးခဲကို

mí-gè-go — The thunderbolt; burning ember (object marker)

တော်မူသည်

daw-mu-thì — Honorific verb ending; 'does so' (royal register)

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kjànoup-to — We; us (formal first-person plural pronoun)

တောင်းပန်

taung-pan — To apologize; to ask forgiveness or beg pardon

သင့်

thìn — Your; belonging to you (second person possessive)

ကြောင်းကြား

kyaung-kyà — To hear news of; to be informed about something

ဖြင့်

hpyìn — With; by means of (instrumental particle)

သူ့ကို

thu-go — Him; to him (third person object marker)

သတ်ပေး

thet-pé — To kill on behalf of; to slay for someone

တော်မူပါ

daw-mu-ba — Please do so (honorific polite request form)

သတ်တော်မူပါ

thet-daw-mu-ba — Please kill; royal honorific plea to slay

အို

o — Oh; exclamation of address or emotion

တတိယ

ta-ti-ya — Third; the ordinal number three

ပြန်တုံ့

pyan-ton — To respond; to react or retaliate

ဆိုချက်

hso-chet — Statement; claim or assertion made by someone

မင်းကြီး

min-jí — Great king; ruler of high status

ရှင်

shin — Lord; honorific address for a revered person

မြားများ

myà-myà — Arrows; multiple projectiles shot from a bow

လည်း

lè — Also; too; as well (additive particle)

ထို

hto — That; those (demonstrative pronoun or adjective)

တင်းမာသော

tin-mà-thaw — Taut; tight; tense (describing a string or cord)

လေး

lé — Bow (weapon); also numeral four

ကြိုး

kyó — Rope; string; cord

ရွှေကြိုး

shwé-kyó — Golden string; cord made of gold

မှ

hmà — From; out of (ablative or source particle)

အခွင့်အရေး

a-khwin-a-yé — Right; opportunity; privilege or entitlement

ကာကွယ်

ka-kwè — To protect; to defend or guard against harm

သူများ

thu-myà — They; those people; others

ဖြစ်၍

hpyit-ywei — Being so; since it is; therefore (causal connector)

ကျယ်ပြန့်စွာ

kjè-pyan-zwa — Widely; broadly; in a widespread manner

ပျံသန်း

pyan-thán — To fly; to soar through the air

ကြပါစေ

kya-ba-zé — May they do so; let them (optative plural)

ဟုတ်သည်

hout-thì — It is true; that is correct; indeed

လက်ဝေ့ကျ

let-wé-kja — Skilled with hands; dexterous; agile fighter

ပြေးသော

pyé-thaw — Running; that which flees or runs swiftly

အလင်းများ

a-lin-myà — Lights; multiple sources of illumination

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunctive particle)

အလင်း

a-lin — Light; illumination; brightness

အမဲလိုက်

a-mè-laik — To hunt; to go hunting for game

သူမ

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

ရှင်းလင်း

shin-lin — Clear; to clarify; to explain plainly

သည်

thì — Sentence-final declarative particle; 'is/does'

တောင်

taung — Mountain; hill; also 'even' (emphatic particle)

ကမ်းပါးများ

kan-bà-myà — Cliffs; steep riverbanks or rocky shores

အတိုင်း

a-taing — According to; as per; following the manner of

ကျော်လွှား

kjaw-lhwà — To cross over; to transcend or leap beyond

လျက်

lyet — While doing; in the act of (simultaneous action)

ရွှေဖြင့်

shwé-hpyìn — With gold; by means of golden material

ရစ်ပတ်

yit-pat — To wind around; to coil or wrap circularly

ဆံပင်

hsàn-bin — Hair; strands of hair on one's head

ရှိသော

shi-thaw — That which exists; having; possessing

သင့်ကို

thìn-go — To you; you (second person object marker)

ကျွန်ုပ်

kjànoup — I; me (formal first-person singular pronoun)

ခေါ်ဆို

khaw-hso — To call; to summon or invoke by name

မြေကြီးက

myé-jí-ka — From the earth; the ground (subject marker)

နာမည်

na-mè — Name; designation of a person or thing

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry; to bear or bring along

ထားသော

htà-thaw — That which is placed or kept; having stored

သူ

thu — He; him; that person (third person pronoun)

တို့က

to-ka — Plural subject marker; they (group subject particle)

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that; quoted as saying

အော်ဟစ်

aw-hit — To shout; to cry out loudly

ကြသော

kya-thaw — Who do (plural verb modifier); those who perform

ထံ

htan — To; toward; in the direction of (dative)

တောက်ပသော

tauk-pa-thaw — Bright; shining; gleaming radiantly

မီးရှူး

mí-shu — Torch; a flaming stick for light

ဆောင်၍

hsaung-ywei — Carrying and then; bearing along (connective)

လာပါ

la-ba — Please come; come here (polite imperative)

ဖြိုဖျက်

hpyo-hpyet — To demolish; to destroy or break apart forcefully

ပါ

ba — Polite particle; please (softening imperative)

ကိုးကွယ်

ko-kwè — To worship; to revere or pay homage religiously

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; 'that which' or 'who'

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw-shwin — Joyful; happy; delighted and cheerful

နတ်ဘုရား

nat-hpaya — God; deity; divine being

နတ်ဘုရားများက

nat-hpaya-myà-ka — The gods (plural subject); divine beings as subject

ရွံမုန်း

ywun-moun — To detest; to loathe; to feel disgust toward

နတ်ဘုရားကို

nat-hpaya-go — To the god; god as object (object marker)

ဝင်လာ

win-la — To enter; to come in or arrive inside

သင်တို့

thìn-to — You all; plural second person pronoun

ဆုတောင်း

hsu-taung — To pray; to make a wish or supplication

ကြ

kya — Plural verb particle; do together (plural marker)

ကောင်းပေ

kaung-pé — Good indeed; it is well; very well then

သို့သော်

thó-thaw — However; but; nevertheless (adversative conjunction)

စကားများကို

za-gà-myà-go — The words; the speech (plural object marker)

ကြားနာ

kyà-na — To listen; to hear and understand

လို

lo — Want to; need to; like (desire particle)

သလော

tha-law — Interrogative particle; 'is it so?' or 'do you?'

နားစိုက်

ná-soik — To pay attention; to listen carefully

ထောင်

htaung — Thousand; also to erect or set up; prison

ကုထုံးများကို

ku-htoun-myà-go — The remedies; treatments or therapies (object)

ကျင့်သုံး

kjin-thoun — To practice; to apply or use a method

ပါက

ba-ka — If; in the case that (conditional particle)

တစ်ချိန်ချိန်

ta-chein-chein — Someday; at some point in time

တွင်

twìn — In; at; within (locative particle)

ဝမ်းသာ

wun-tha — Happy; glad; pleased; joyful

သက်သာ

thet-tha — Relief; comfort; to feel better or eased

မှုကို

hmu-go — The matter; the affair (nominalizer with object)

ရှာတွေ့

shà-twé — To find; to discover upon searching

နိုင်ပေ

naing-pé — May be able to; can indeed (potential emphatic)

မည်

mì — Will; future tense marker or uncertainty particle

သတိပြု

tha-ti-pyu — To be careful; to pay attention; to take note

သူစိမ်း

thu-zin — Stranger; outsider; unknown person

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yauk — One person; a single individual

ကဲ့သို့

kè-thó — Like; as if; in the manner of

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; to say or tell

နေသည်

né-thì — Is doing; continuous present tense marker

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

သတင်း

tha-din — News; information; a report or message

ပတ်သက်

pat-thet — To relate to; to concern; to be connected with

ရာဇဝတ်မှု

ya-za-wut-hmu — Crime; criminal offense; unlawful act

သကဲ့သို့

tha-kè-thó — Just as; in the same way as

ပင်

bin — Even; indeed; just (emphatic particle)

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung-hmà — The reason is; the cause is; regarding the matter

အကူအညီ

a-ku-a-nyi — Help; assistance; support or aid

မရဘဲ

ma-ya-bè — Without receiving; failing to get; not obtaining

မည်သို့

mì-thó — How; in what way; by what means

ဝေးဝေး

wé-wé — Far away; at a great distance

အထိ

a-hti — Until; up to; as far as (extent marker)

ခြေရာ

chéya — Footprint; trace or track left behind

ကောက်

kauk — To pick up; to gather; to trace or follow

နိုင်

naing — To be able to; can; capable of doing

နည်း

né — Method; way; how (interrogative or noun)

ချောင်းပင်

chaung-bin — Without any clue; no lead at all (emphatic lack)

မရှိဘဲ

ma-shi-bè — Without having; in the absence of

အချက်

a-chet — Point; fact; key detail or element

မရှိ

ma-shi — There is not; does not exist; absent

အလွန်

a-lwun — Very; extremely; exceedingly

နောက်ကျ

nauk-kja — Late; to be delayed; to come after the time

ပြီးမှ

pyí-hmà — Only after finishing; then and only then

နိုင်ငံသား

naing-ngan-thá — Citizen; national of a country

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As; in the capacity of; in the form of

မှတ်ပုံတင်

hmut-poun-tin — To register; to record officially; registration

ခဲ့သည်

khè-thì — Did (past tense marker); has done previously

ကြေညာချက်ကို

kjé-nya-chet-go — The announcement; the proclamation (object marker)

အားလုံး

á-loun — Everyone; all; everything; the whole

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw-pya — To reveal; to show or describe clearly

သားများ

thá-myà — Sons; children (male offspring plural)

မည်သူ

mì-thu — Whoever; which person; anyone who

မဆို

ma-hso — Whatever; whoever; regardless (indefinite particle)

သိ

thi — To know; to be aware of; to understand

သား

thá — Son; male child; offspring

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; towards (accusative)

သတ်ဖြတ်

thet-hpyut — To murder; to kill; to slay deliberately

ခဲ့သူကို

khè-thu-go — The one who did (past relative + object marker)

ရိုးသားစွာ

yo-thá-zwa — Honestly; sincerely; with integrity

ထုတ်ဖော်

htouk-hpaw — To disclose; to reveal or expose something hidden

ဝန်ခံ

wun-khan — To confess; to admit or acknowledge guilt

ရန်

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

ခေါ်ယူ

khaw-yu — To call and bring; to summon someone

ဝင့်ကြွား

win-kjwà — To boast; to be arrogant or proud

မဆုတ်

ma-hsouk — Without retreating; not withdrawing; firm

ဤသို့

i-thó — In this way; thus; like this (formal demonstrative)

ဆင်ခြင်

hsin-chin — To consider carefully; to deliberate or reflect

ကြည့်

kjí — To look; to see; to observe or examine

စေ

zé — Causative particle; let; make someone do something

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; the act of; the state of

အသေဒဏ်

a-thé-dan — Death penalty; capital punishment; sentence of death

ပေးရမည့်

pé-ya-mì — That must be given; which shall be imposed