Spoon River Anthology — Page 3

Vocabulary

တ

ta — A Burmese letter or connector particle

ကဗျာဆရာ

ka-bya-sa-ya — A poet; one who composes poetry

အင်္ဂလိပ်

Ing-ga-lait — English; relating to England or its language

ဆေးဆိုင်သမား

say-sain-tha-ma — A pharmacist or medicine shop owner

တပ်

tat — Army; military camp or force

ယူ

yu — You; second person pronoun in English loanword

မသိသောသူ

ma-thi-thaw-thu — An unknown person; someone unidentified

ဝ

wa — A Burmese letter; circle shape

အယ်ဒီတာ

El-di-ta — Editor; a person who edits publications

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး

Boun-daw-ji — A Buddhist monk; revered religious leader

အားလို

a-lo — Needing; in want of something

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction)

ဒေါ်

Daw — Respectful title for an older woman

ဘော

baw — Ball; round object used in sports

တောင်ကုန်း

taung-goun — A hill; elevated mound of land

တို့

to — Plural marker; we/they (group pronoun)

ဘယ်

bel — Where; which direction; which place

ရောက်

yout — To arrive; to reach a destination

သွား

thwa — To go; to move toward a place

ကြ

kya — Plural verb marker; to do together

ပြီ

pyi — Already; completion marker for actions

လဲ

le — Also; too; or; question particle

စိတ်ဆန္ဒ

seit-san-da — Desire; will; personal intention or wish

သူ

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

လက်မောင်း

let-maung — Arm; the upper limb of a person

တောင့်တင်း

taung-tin — Muscular; firm; physically strong

တော်တော်

taw-daw — Quite; fairly; considerably; rather

ပြော်တတ်

pyaw-tat — Prone to joking; playful; mischievous

သောက်ရူး

thout-yu — Drunkard; one who drinks excessively

ရန်ချင်

yan-hkin — Quarrelsome; eager to fight or argue

သူ

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

လဲ။

le — Also; too; sentence-final question particle

အားလုံး

a-lone — Everyone; all; the whole group

အားလုံး

a-lone — Everyone; all; the whole group

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphasis particle

ပေါ်

pau — On top of; upon; above a surface

တွင်

twin — In; at; inside (locative particle)

အိပ်ပျော်

ate-pyaw — To be fast asleep; to sleep deeply

နေ

ne — To stay; to live; progressive marker

ပြီ။

pyi — Already; completion marker ending a sentence

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual

သည်

thi — Topic marker; is/are (copula particle)

ဖျားနာ

phya-na — To be sick; to suffer from illness

ရင်း

yin — While doing; in the process of

ကွယ်လွန်

kwel-lun — To pass away; to die (formal term)

သည်

thi — Topic marker; copula particle

မိုင်းတွင်း

main-twin — Mine; underground excavation for minerals

၌

hnait — In; at; within (formal locative particle)

မီးလောင်

mi-laung — To catch fire; to burn up

ကျွမ်း

kywan — To burn thoroughly; to be consumed by fire

ရန်ဖြစ်ရာ

yan-phyit-ya — Resulting in conflict; causing a quarrel

သတ်ဖြတ်

that-phyat — To kill; to slaughter; to murder

ခံ

khan — To endure; to receive; to undergo

ရ

ya — To get; to receive; can; able to

ထောင်တွင်း

htaung-twin — Inside a prison; within a jail cell

သေဆုံး

the-zone — To die; to perish (common expression)

သားသမီး

tha-tha-mi — Children; sons and daughters

ဇနီး

za-ni — Wife; a married woman

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; in order to

ကြိုးစား

kyo-za — To try hard; to make an effort

တံတား

tan-ta — Bridge; structure spanning water or gap

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative particle

ပြုတ်ကျ

pyout-kya — To fall off; to drop from a height

သည်—

thi — Topic or copula marker used with dash

အိပ်ပျော်

ate-pyaw — Fast asleep; in deep sleep

နူးညံ့

nu-nyun — Gentle; soft; tender in manner

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that; which

နှလုံး

hnalone — Heart; the cardiac organ; inner feelings

ရှင်

shin — Respectful address; live; alive

ရိုးစင်း

yo-sin — Simple; plain; uncomplicated

ဝိညာဉ်

winyain — Spirit; soul; spiritual essence

ကျယ်လောင်

kjel-laung — Loud; boisterous; making a lot of noise

မာနကြီး

ma-na-ji — Arrogant; very proud; haughty

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw-shwin — Happy; joyful; feeling delight

လဲ—

le — Also; too; question particle with dash

အရှက်ကွဲဖွယ်

a-shet-kwel-phwel — Shameful; disgraceful; causing embarrassment

မွေးဖွားမှု

mwe-phwa-hmu — Birth; the act of being born

ချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာ

khit-hkyin-met-ta — Love; loving-kindness; affection

ဆိတ်သုဉ်းမှု

seit-thone-hmu — Desolation; loneliness; complete emptiness

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; owing to

ရက်စက်

yet-set — Cruel; ruthless; merciless

၏

i — Possessive particle; of; 's (genitive)

လက်ခြေ

let-khje — Limbs; hands and feet

နှလုံးသား

hnalone-tha — Heart; innermost feelings; emotional core

တောင့်တမှု

taung-ta-hmu — Longing; craving; yearning for something

ကို

ko — Object marker; to; toward (accusative)

ရှာဖွေ

sha-phwe — To search; to look for something

မာနကျိုး

ma-na-kyo — To have one's pride broken; humbled

သွားမှု

thwa-hmu — Act of going; departure

ဝေးလံ

we-lan — Remote; far away; distant

လန်ဒန်

Lan-dan — London, the capital city of England

ပါရီ

Pa-yi — Paris, the capital city of France

နေထိုင်

ne-htine — To reside; to live somewhere

ပြီး

pyi — After; having done; completion particle

နောက်

nout — After; behind; next; following

သူမ

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

ကျဉ်းမြောင်း

kjin-myaung — Narrow; tight; confined space

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place; location; position

သို့

thoe — To; toward; in the direction of

ပြန်ဆောင်

pyan-saung — To escort back; to bring back

လာ

la — To come; to arrive; directional particle

ခြင်း

khyin — Nominalizer; act of; -ing (verbal noun marker)