Spoon River Anthology — Page 5

Vocabulary

ထိုသူသည်

hto thu thì — That person (subject marker); refers to someone mentioned

ကျွန်မ၏

kjʊ̀ɴ ma ḛ — My; belonging to me (female speaker)

ခင်ပွန်း

kʰɪ̀ɴ pʊ́ɴ — Husband; a woman's spouse

ဖြစ်သည်

pjɪʔ thì — Is; to be; to exist or occur

သူသည်

thu thì — He/she (subject marker); that person

လျှို့ဝှက်သော

hljoʔ wɛʔ θɔ̀ — Secret; hidden; concealed from others

ရက်စက်မှု

jɛʔ sɛʔ m̥ṵ — Cruelty; brutality; harsh treatment of others

ဖြင့်

pjɪ̀ɴ — With; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

ဘယ်သောအခါမှ

bɛ̀ θɔ̀ ʔəkʰà m̥ə — Never; at no time whatsoever

ပြောမည်

pjɔ̀ mɪ̀ — Will say; will speak; intends to tell

မဟုတ်သော

mə hoʊʔ θɔ̀ — Not; which is not; negating a quality

နည်း

nɛ́ — Method; way; technique; how to do something

လတ်ဆတ်သော

laʔ saʔ θɔ̀ — Fresh; new; recently produced or obtained

အရွယ်

ʔəjwɛ̀ — Age; size; stage of life or development

နှင့်

n̥ɪ̀ɴ — And; with; together with (conjunction/particle)

အလှအပ

ʔəlḛ ʔəpa̰ — Beauty; physical attractiveness and elegance

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to; toward (accusative)

လုယူ

lu ju — To rob; to snatch; to take by force

သွားခဲ့သည်

θwà kʰɛ̀ thì — Went; has gone away (past tense marker)

နောက်ဆုံး

nauʔ soúɴ — Last; final; ultimate in a sequence

တွင်

twɪ̀ɴ — In; at; inside (locative particle)

အညှိုး

ʔə n̥jo̰ — Grudge; resentment; lingering bitterness

အကြောင်း

ʔətɕɔ́ɴ — Reason; cause; subject matter; about something

များ

mjá — Many; plural marker; more than one

ဝါသော

wà θɔ̀ — Yellow; having a yellow color

သွား

θwà — To go; to proceed to a place

ကျိုးပဲ့သော

tɕó pɛ̀ θɔ̀ — Broken; fractured; shattered into pieces

မာန

màna̰ — Pride; arrogance; ego; sense of self-importance

ရှက်ဖွယ်သော

ʃɛʔ p̤wɛ̀ θɔ̀ — Shameful; embarrassing; causing disgrace

နှိမ့်ချမှု

n̥ɪ̀ɴ tɕʰa̰ m̥ṵ — Humiliation; act of putting someone down

တို့

to̰ — Plural pronoun marker; we/they (group indicator)

ကျွန်မ

kjʊ̀ɴ ma̰ — I; me (first person, female speaker)

သည်

thì — Topic/subject marker particle; is (copula)

သင်္ချိုင်း

θɪ̀ɴ tɕʰáiɴ — Cemetery; graveyard; burial ground

ထဲ

tʰɛ́ — Inside; within; interior of something

သို့

θo̰ — To; toward; in the direction of

နစ်မြုပ်

nɪʔ mjoʊʔ — To sink; to submerge; to drown in something

သို့သော်

θo̰ θɔ̀ — However; but; nevertheless; on the other hand

၏

ḛ — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

နှလုံးသား

n̥ə loúɴ θá — Heart; the emotional core of a person

ကိုက်ဖဲ့

kaiʔ p̤ɛ̀ — To bite and tear; to gnaw apart painfully

နေသည်

nè thì — Is staying; is living; ongoing state marker

ဟု

hṵ — Quotation particle; said that; as stated

သင်

θɪ̀ɴ — You (second person pronoun, formal/neutral)

ထင်သည့်

tʰɪ̀ɴ thɪ̀ɴ — Thinks; believes; that which seems to be

အရာ

ʔəjà — Thing; object; matter; item or affair

ကား

ká — Car; vehicle; also a topic-emphasis particle

အဘယ်

ʔə bɛ̀ — What; which; why (literary interrogative pronoun)

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သော

pjɪʔ kʰɛ̀ θɔ̀ — That which happened; that which occurred (past)

မျက်နှာ

mjɛʔ n̥à — Face; facial expression; outward appearance

သူ

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

ဖန်တီး

p̤àɴ tí — To create; to make; to bring into existence

သော

θɔ̀ — Relative clause marker; that; which (adjective suffix)

ပင်

pɪ̀ɴ — Even; indeed; emphasis particle; also a tree

ဤ

ʔì — This (literary demonstrative pronoun, singular)

သူ့

θṵ — His; her (possessive form of third person)

နေရာ

nè jà — Place; location; spot; position somewhere

တွန်းပို့

tʊ́ɴ po̰ — To push away; to drive toward; to propel

သေမှု

θè m̥ṵ — Death; dying; the act of passing away

ထို့ကြောင့်

tʰo̰ tɕɔ́ɴ — Therefore; because of that; for that reason

တုံ့ပြန်

tóʊɴ pjaɴ — To respond; to react; to answer back

ရခြင်း

ja tɕʰɪ́ɴ — Receiving; obtaining; the act of getting something

သူမ

θú ma̰ — She; her (third person feminine pronoun)

မိနစ်

mɪ̀ nɪʔ — Minute; sixty seconds of time

တိုင်း

táiɴ — Every; each; all; without exception

ကျွန်တော်၏

tɕənɔ̀ ḛ — My; belonging to me (male speaker, possessive)

အား

á — Object marker; strength; energy; power

ယူသွားခဲ့သည်

ju θwà kʰɛ̀ thì — Took away; carried off; removed and departed

နာရီ

nàjì — Hour; clock; watch (timepiece)

အသက်

ʔəθɛʔ — Life; age; breath; the span of living

ဖျားနာ

p̤já nà — To be sick; to be ill; to have a fever

နေသော

nè θɔ̀ — Living; staying; that which is ongoing

လ

la̰ — Month; moon; lunar cycle

ကဲ့သို့

kɛ̀ θo̰ — Like; similar to; in the same manner as

ကျွန်တော်

tɕənɔ̀ — I; me (first person masculine pronoun, formal)

ညှစ်ယူ

n̥ɪʔ ju — To squeeze out; to extract; to wring forcefully

ခဲ့သည်

kʰɛ̀ thì — Past tense auxiliary; did; has done (completed)

လည်ပတ်

lɛ̀ paʔ — To rotate; to revolve; to go around

ကမ္ဘာ

kàmbà — World; earth; the globe; all of existence

အားဆုတ်

á souʔ — To weaken; to lose strength; to diminish

စေသော

sè θɔ̀ — Causing; making; that which causes something

ရက်

jɛʔ — Day; date; a single calendar day

အရိပ်

ʔəjeɪʔ — Shadow; shade; a dark silhouette cast by light

ကုန်လွန်

koúɴ lwɛ̀ɴ — To pass; to elapse; to come to an end

ကြယ်

tɕɛ̀ — Star; a bright celestial body in the sky

မှ

m̥ə — From; since; out of (ablative particle)

သနားကြင်နာမှု

θənà tɕɪ̀ɴ nà m̥ṵ — Compassion; tender care and sympathy for others

ပြီးတော့

pjí tɔ̀ — Then; after that; and so; having finished

၎င်း

θṵ nɪ́ɴ — He/she/it; that aforementioned person or thing

အပြုံး

ʔə pjóʊɴ — Smile; a pleasant facial expression of happiness

အဖြစ်

ʔə pjɪʔ — As; in the role of; in the form of

ပြောင်းလဲ

pjáʊɴ lɛ́ — To change; to transform; to alter significantly

လိုက်သည်

laiʔ thì — Follows; goes along with; accompanies someone

ပန်းပု

páɴ pṵ — Sculpture; carving; three-dimensional artistic work

ဆရာ

sʰəjà — Teacher; master; respected skilled person

မြေစေ့

mjè sí — Seed planted in ground; a buried seed

တုံး

tóʊɴ — Block; stump; chunk; blunt cylindrical piece

တစ်ခု

tɪʔ kʰṵ — One; a single thing; one item

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်

pjɪʔ kʰɛ̀ thì — Became; happened; occurred (past tense)

အတွေး

ʔə twé — Thought; idea; mental reflection or pondering

လက်ချောင်း

lɛʔ tɕʰáʊɴ — Finger; one of the digits of the hand

တွေးတော

twé tɔ̀ — To ponder; to think deeply; to contemplate

နဖူးကြီး

nə p̤ú dʑí — Forehead; large brow; the front of the head

နောက်

nauʔ — After; behind; next; the back or rear

ပျံသန်း

pjaɴ θáɴ — To fly; to soar; to move through the air

သွားကြသည်

θwà tɕa̰ thì — They go; went (plural action, past/present)

နာကျင်မှု

nà tɕɪ̀ɴ m̥ṵ — Pain; suffering; physical or emotional hurt

နက်ရှိုင်းစွာ

nɛʔ ʃáiɴ zwà — Deeply; profoundly; in a deep manner

မျဉ်းကြောင်း

mjɪ́ɴ tɕáʊɴ — Line; stroke; a drawn or written mark

ဆွဲခဲ့သည်

swɛ́ kʰɛ̀ thì — Drew; pulled; sketched (past tense)

နှုတ်ခမ်း

n̥oʊʔ kʰáɴ — Lips; the two fleshy edges of the mouth

သတ်မှတ်

θaʔ m̥aʔ — To define; to set; to determine officially

ကာ

kà — While; as; blocking; simultaneous action particle

ပါး

pá — Cheek; also thin; slender (dual meaning)

ဆင်းသက်

sɪ́ɴ θɛʔ — To descend; to come down; to derive from

စေခဲ့သည်

sè kʰɛ̀ thì — Caused; made something happen (past causative)

ဝမ်းနည်းမှု

wáɴ nɛ́ m̥ṵ — Sadness; sorrow; grief; feeling of unhappiness

မျက်လုံး

mjɛʔ lóʊɴ — Eye; the organ of sight

ညွတ်ကျ

n̥wʊʔ tɕa̰ — To bow down; to bend; to droop downward

ဝိညာဉ်

wɪ̀ ɲàɴ — Soul; spirit; the spiritual essence of a being

ဝင်ရောက်

wɪ̀ɴ jauʔ — To enter; to go inside; to intrude

နတ်ဆိုး

naʔ só — Evil spirit; demon; malicious supernatural being

ခုနစ်ပါး

kʰṵnɪʔ pá — Seven (classifier for flat/thin items or persons)

တိုက်ခိုက်

taiʔ khaiʔ — To attack; to assault; to fight against

လျက်

ljɛʔ — While doing; continuous action particle (gerund)

မဟုတ်ခဲ့ပါ

mə hoʊʔ kʰɛ̀ bà — Was not; did not exist; negation of past state

လည်း

lɛ́ — Also; too; as well; additionally

ဆုပ်ကိုင်

souʔ kàiɴ — To grasp; to hold tightly; to grip firmly

ထားသော်လည်း

tʰá θɔ̀ lɛ́ — Even though kept; although maintained (concessive)

ကြိုးပမ်း

tɕó páɴ — To strive; to try hard; to make an effort

ဆန်ကျင်မှု

saɴ tɕɪ̀ɴ m̥ṵ — Opposition; resistance; going against something

မုန်းတီးသော

móʊɴ tí θɔ̀ — Hating; full of hatred; feeling intense dislike

ပုံဖော်

póʊɴ p̤ɔ̀ — To depict; to portray; to give form to something

မြင်ရန်

mjɪ̀ɴ jaɴ — In order to see; for the purpose of seeing

ကြောက်ရွံ့သော

tɕauʔ jwʊɴ θɔ̀ — Fearful; frightening; causing fear and dread

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pjà tɪ́ɴ pauʔ — Window; an opening in a wall for light

ထုခတ်

tʰṵ kʰaʔ — To strike; to hit; to knock forcefully

လော့ချိတ်

lɔ̀ tɕʰaiʔ — Lock; padlock; device for securing a door

ကြွေကြမ်း

tɕwé tɕáɴ — Floor; pavement; tiled or hard ground surface

ထောင့်

tʰaʊɴ — Corner; angle; a point where surfaces meet

ကိုယ်

ko̰ — Body; self; oneself; physical form of a person

ဝှက်ခဲ့သည်

wɛʔ kʰɛ̀ thì — Hid; concealed; kept secret (past tense)

ထိုအခါ

tʰo̰ ʔəkʰà — At that time; then; at that moment

သေဆုံး

θè soúɴ — To die; to pass away; to cease living

သွားကာ

θwà kà — Going and; having gone; while going away

ပျောက်မသွားနိုင်အောင်

pjauʔ mə θwà nàiɴ ʔɔ̀ɴ — So as not to disappear; preventing loss or vanishing

ကပ်ခဲ့သည်

kaʔ kʰɛ̀ thì — Stuck to; attached; adhered closely (past tense)

တစ်သက်လုံး

tɪʔ θɛʔ lóʊɴ — Entire lifetime; throughout one's whole life

လိုက်လာ

laiʔ là — To follow and come; to come along; to trail