Spoon River Anthology — Page 4

Vocabulary

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

တို့သည်

toh dthi — They; plural subject marker particle

ယခု

ya khu — Now; at this present time

မည်သည့်

myi dthi — Which; whichever; any particular one

နေရာတွင်

nay ya twinn — In the place; at the location

ရှိကြ

shi kya — To exist or be present together

သနည်း၊

tha nei — Question particle implying 'where' or 'what'

အိုမင်းသော

o min thaw — Old; aged; elderly in appearance

တို့သည်၊

toh dthi — They; plural subject marker with pause

မေဂျာ

may ja — Major; military officer rank above captain

သည်

dthi — Subject or topic marker particle

စကား

sa ga — Words; speech; language; conversation

ပြောခဲ့

pyaw khe — Spoke; said something in the past

ဖူးသူ၊

hpu dthu — Person who has experienced or met something

တော်လှန်ရေး

taw hlan yay — Revolution; uprising against established power

ခေတ်က

khet ka — From the era; during the period of

လေးစားဖွယ်

lay za phway — Worthy of respect; deserving admiration

ကောင်းသော

kaung thaw — Good; virtuous; of fine quality

သူရဲကောင်း

thu yay kaung — Hero; brave and courageous person

များနှင့်၊

mya hnin — With the many; alongside multiple others

အားလုံး၊

a lone — All; everyone; everything included

အားလုံး

a lone — All; every single one; entirety

တောင်ကုန်း

taung gone — Hill; small mound or elevated ground

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twinn — On top of; upon a surface

အိပ်ပျော်

ait pyaw — To be fast asleep; sleeping soundly

နေကြ

nay kya — To be staying or living together

ပြီ။

pyi — Already; completion marker ending a sentence

စစ်ပွဲ

sit pwe — War; battle; armed military conflict

မှ

hma — From; out of; starting point marker

သေဆုံးသော

thay zone thaw — Deceased; having died; who passed away

သား

tha — Son; male child; offspring

များကို

mya go — Object marker for plural nouns

သူတို့

thu toh — They; them; third person plural pronoun

ဆီသို့

si thoh — Toward; in the direction of someone

ဆောင်ခဲ့

saung khe — Carried; brought; conveyed to a place

ကြသည်၊

kya dthi — Plural action marker; they do something

ဘဝ

ba wa — Life; existence; one's living condition

က

ka — Subject marker; from; agent particle

ချေမှုန်

chay hmone — To grind down; obliterate; destroy completely

ခဲ့သော

khe thaw — Past tense modifier; that which occurred before

သမီး

tha mi — Daughter; female child; girl offspring

လည်း၊

le — Also; too; as well; additionally

ဖခင်

hpa khin — Father; male parent

မဲ့ကာ

me ka — Without; lacking; while being deprived of

ငိုကြွေး

ngo kwe — To weep; cry; sob with lamentation

နေသော

nay thaw — Who is living; who remains in state

၏

e — Possessive particle; belonging to someone

သားသမီး

tha tha mi — Children; sons and daughters collectively

အိပ်ပျော်၊

ait pyaw — Fast asleep; deeply sleeping with pause

တေးဝါသနာရှင်

tay wa tha na shin — Music enthusiast; person passionate about songs

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; to be present

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun indicating self-reference

အသက်

a thet — Age; life; one's years of living

နှစ်ကိုးဆယ်

hnit ko hsay — Ninety years; ninety in age

တစ်လျှောက်

ta hlaut — Throughout; all along; the entire duration

ဆော့ကစား

saw ga za — To play; engage in games or sport

ခဲ့သူ၊

khe dthu — Person who did something in the past

ရင်ဘတ်

yin bat — Chest; breast; front of the torso

ကို

go — Object marker particle; direct object indicator

ဖွင့်လှစ်

phwin hlat — To open up; unfold; reveal fully

ကာ

ka — While; as; continuous action connector

မိုးနှင်းမုန်တိုင်း

mo hnin mone tine — Snowstorm; blizzard; severe windy snow weather

ရင်ဆိုင်

yin hsine — To face; to confront; to meet head-on

သောက်စား

thaut sa — To eat and drink; consume food and beverages

မူးယစ်

mu yit — Intoxicated; under influence of drugs or alcohol

ကာ၊

ka — While doing; continuous connective with pause

အဓိကရုဏ်း

a di ka yone — Riot; major civil disturbance or violent unrest

ဖြစ်ပွား

phyit pwa — To occur; to break out; to happen

ဇနီး

za ni — Wife; female spouse in marriage

ဆွေမျိုး

hsway myoh — Relatives; kinfolk; extended family members

တို့ကို

toh go — Object marker for a group of people

ဂရုပြု

ga yu pyu — To take care of; pay attention to

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalization suffix; the act of doing

မရှိ

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

ဘဲ၊

be — Without doing; not doing something connective

ရွှေ

shway — Gold; the precious yellow metal

လည်းကောင်း၊

le kaung — Also good; as well; likewise with pause

ချစ်ခြင်း

chit chin — Love; the act of loving or affection

နတ်ဘုံ

nat boom — Heaven; paradise; celestial realm of spirits

လည်းကောင်း

le kaung — Also; likewise; as well as that

ဂရု

ga yu — Care; attention; mindfulness toward something

မပြု

ma pyu — Not do; not perform; to refrain from

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi shu — To look at; to observe; to view

လော့။

law — Imperative particle urging action; go ahead

သူသည်

thu dthi — He; she; that person as subject

လွန်ခဲ့သော

lwan khe thaw — Past; gone by; elapsed time ago

နှစ်များ

hnit mya — Years; multiple years of time

ငါးကြော်

nga kyaw — Fried fish; fish cooked in oil

ပွဲများ

pwe mya — Events; festivals; gatherings; multiple occasions

အကြောင်း

a kyaung — About; concerning; the reason or topic

ရွတ်ဖတ်

ywut phat — To recite; to read aloud; to chant

နေသည်၊

nay dthi — Is living; is in a state of

ဥယျာဉ်

u yain — Garden; park; cultivated outdoor green space

တွင်

twinn — In; inside; within a place or context

ရှေးဟောင်း

shay haung — Ancient; old; antique; of historical origin

မြင်းပြေး

myin pyay — Horse racing; competitive racing with horses

အကြောင်း၊

a kyaung — About; concerning; regarding with a pause

ပြောခဲ့သော

pyaw khe thaw — That which was said; previously spoken words

အရာ

a ya — Thing; matter; object; item of concern

တစ်ကြိမ်

ta kyime — Once; one time; on a single occasion

အရာ။

a ya — Thing; matter; subject ending a sentence

ပတ်

pat — Week; to go around; to surround

ငါ

nga — I; me; first person informal pronoun

သင်္ချိုင်း

thin kyine — Cemetery; graveyard; burial ground for deceased

နီးကပ်သော

ni kut thaw — Close; nearby; in near proximity to

လဲလျောင်း

le lyaung — To lie down; to recline; to rest horizontally

နီးသော

ni thaw — Near; close; not far in distance

နေရာတွင်၊

nay ya twinn — In the place; at the location with pause

အိန္ဒိယ

in di ya — India; the South Asian country

တိုင်းရင်းသားများ

tine yin tha mya — Indigenous peoples; native ethnic group members

ကုန်သွယ်

kone thway — Trade; commerce; buying and selling goods

ချမ်းသာ

chan tha — Wealthy; prosperous; comfortable and well-off

ကြွယ်ဝ

kway wa — Rich; abundant; having plenty of resources

လာသူ၊

la dthu — Person who came; one who arrived

နောက်ပိုင်း

naut pine — Later; afterward; in subsequent time

ဒေဝါလီ

day wa li — Bankruptcy; insolvency; financial ruin state

ဥပဒေ

u pa day — Law; legal rule; statute or regulation

အသုံးပြု

a thone pyu — To use; to utilize; to make use of

ယခင်

ya khin — Previously; formerly; in the past time

ထက်ပင်

htet pin — Even more than; surpassing; even further

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix indicating manner or degree

ထွက်ပေါ်

htut paw — To emerge; to appear; to come out

ကိုယ်တိုင်

koh tine — Oneself; personally; by one's own self

မူကား

mu ka — As for; regarding; topic contrast marker

အလုပ်ကြိုးစားမှု

a lut kyoh za hmu — Hard work; diligent effort; industrious endeavor

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin yay — Poor; impoverished; living in poverty

မွဲတေမှု

mway tay hmu — Destitution; extreme poverty; being utterly penniless

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; as a result of

ပင်ပန်း

pin pan — Tired; weary; exhausted from hard work

နွမ်းနယ်

nwan nay — Worn out; fatigued; drained of energy

လာပြီး၊

la pyi — Coming and then; having arrived and then

အခြားသူများ

a cha dthu mya — Other people; others; different individuals

မည်သို့

myi thoh — How; in what manner; by what means

လာကြသည်

la kya dthi — They come; they arrive together

မြင်တွေ့

myin tway — To see; to observe; to notice visually

ပြီး၊

pyi — After; having completed; and then connective

အနီးတွင်

a ni twinn — Near; in the vicinity of a place

တစ်ည

ta nya — One night; on a single night occasion

ခရီးသည်

kha yi dthi — Traveler; passenger; one on a journey

တစ်ယောက်

ta yout — One person; a single individual

ဓားပြ

da pya — Robber; bandit; one who attacks with knife

တိုက်ခဲ့

tite khe — Attacked; assaulted; struck in the past

ထိုသို့

htoh thoh — In that manner; like that; thus

ပြုလုပ်

pyu lut — To do; to perform; to carry out an action

စဉ်

zin — While; during the time of; sequence connector

မသိ

ma thi — To not know; unaware; without knowledge

မသာ

ma tha — Uncomfortable; unwell; not at ease

သူ့ကို

thu go — Him; her; object marker for third person

သတ်ဖြတ်

that phyat — To kill; to murder; to slay a person

မိကာ၊

mi ka — Having caught; having been captured; with pause

ထို

htoh — That; those; demonstrative adjective or pronoun

အမှု

a hmu — Case; legal matter; affair; court case

ငါ့ကို

nga go — Me; object marker for first person informal

တရားစွဲ

ta ya zwe — To sue; to file a legal case against

ဆိုကာ

hsoh ka — Saying; while saying; stating and then

ကြိုး

kyoh — Rope; cord; string; also effort or trying

သည်။

dthi — Subject marker ending a declarative sentence

ထိုသည်

htoh dthi — That one; that thing as subject

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphasis particle in sentences

ဝင်ရောက်သည့်

win yout dthi — That which enters; which comes into something

နည်းလမ်း

ni lan — Method; way; means of doing something

ဖြစ်ခဲ့

phyit khe — Became; occurred; happened in the past

ယခုအခါ

ya khu a ka — Now; at the present time; currently

မိမိတို့

mi mi toh — We ourselves; referring to one's own group

ကိုယ်စီသော

koh si thaw — Each one's own; respective; belonging individually

များဖြင့်

mya phyin — With many; by means of multiple things

ကျင့်သုံး

kyint thone — To practice; to apply; to put into use

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya naw toh — We; us; first person formal plural pronoun

သည်၊

dthi — Topic or subject marker particle with pause

ဘေးချင်း

bay chin — Side by side; flanking each other

ယှဉ်ကာ

hshyin ka — While competing; alongside; comparing with others

ငြိမ်းချမ်း

ngyime chan — Peace; peaceful; tranquil and free from conflict

ရွာ

ywa — Village; small rural settlement or hamlet

တစ်ရွာ

ta ywa — One village; a single village community

ဖြတ်သန်း

phyat thang — To pass through; to traverse; to go across

လမ်းလျှောက်

lan hlaut — To walk; to go on foot along a path

သွားသည့်

thwa dthi — Who goes; that which travels or departs

သူ

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

သင်

thin — You; second person formal pronoun

တွေ့ဖူး

tway hpu — Have met before; previously encountered someone

သလား၊

tha la — Question particle asking whether something is so

မျက်စိများ

myet si mya — Eyes; the plural of eye

ချကာ

cha ka — While lowering; casting down; dropping downward

မျက်နှာ

myet hna — Face; the front of one's head

လူ

lu — Person; human being; man or woman

လား။

la — Question particle ending a yes-no question