Spoon River Anthology — Page 6

Vocabulary

တစ်ယောက်သောသူသည်

tit-yout-thaw-thu-thì — A certain person; one individual subject of discussion.

ထိုကြီးမားသောလက်ကို

htò-kyì-mà-thaw-let-gò — That large/great hand; referring to a specific big hand.

ကိုက်နိုင်လျှင်

kite-naing-hlyin — If one is able to bite; conditional ability to bite.

သူ့ကို

thù-gò — Him/her; object pronoun referring to that person.

ဖမ်းဆီးပြီး

pham-sì-byì — Having seized/captured; arrested and then proceeded further.

ဖျက်ဆီးသောလက်ကို၊

hpyet-sì-thaw-let-gò — The destructive/destroying hand; a hand that ruins things.

ကြွက်တစ်ကောင်က

kyut-tit-kaung-ga — A mouse/rat; one small rodent as subject.

ငါ့ကို

ngà-gò — Me; first-person singular object pronoun.

ကိုက်ခဲ့သကဲ့သို့

kite-khè-tha-gè-thò — Just as it bit; in the same manner of biting.

ငါ၏မူပိုင်ဖမ်းကော့ကို

ngà-yì-mu-paing-pham-kaw-gò — My own original/proprietary trap; referring to a personal trap.

သရုပ်ပြနေစဉ်၊

tha-yout-pyà-nè-zin — While demonstrating/performing; in the act of showing something.

ထိုနေ့တွင်

htò-nè-dwìn — On that day; referring to a specific past day.

ငါ၏သံပစ္စည်းဆိုင်၌

ngà-yì-than-pyit-sì-saing-hnaît — In my hardware/iron goods shop; at my metal store.

သို့သော်

thò-thaw — However; conjunction indicating contrast or exception.

မည်သည့်အခါမျှ

myit-hnìt-a-kha-myà — Never; at no time whatsoever.

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mì-mì-ko-gò — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring to one's own self.

လက်စားမချနိုင်

let-sà-ma-chya-naing — Unable to take revenge; cannot retaliate against someone.

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်သော

kyout-met-hpwè-thaw — Terrifying/dreadful; causing great fear and dread.

နတ်ဆိုးကြီး

nat-sò-jì — Great evil spirit/demon; a powerful malevolent supernatural being.

ဘဝ၏အပေါ်တွင်။

ba-wà-yì-a-paw-dwìn — Upon/over life; on top of one's existence.

သင်သည်

thìn-thì — You; second-person singular subject pronoun.

အခန်းထဲသို့

a-khan-dè-thò — Into the room; direction toward an interior space.

ဝင်သည်—ထိုအရာသည်

wìn-thì—htò-a-ya-thì — Enters—that thing; entering and that matter referred to.

မွေးဖွားခြင်းပင်ဖြစ်သည်၊

mwè-hpwà-chín-bìn-pyit-thì — That itself is birth; the very act of being born.

ထို့နောက်

htò-nout — After that; then; subsequently following that event.

အသက်ရှင်ရမည်—သင်၏စိတ်ဝိညာဉ်ကို

a-thet-shìn-ya-mì—thìn-yì-seit-wìn-nyàn-gò — Must live—your spirit/soul; obligated to live, engaging your soul.

လုပ်ဆောင်ရမည်၊

lout-saung-ya-mì — Must do/perform; obligated to carry out an action.

အဟာ!

a-ha! — Aha!; exclamation of sudden realization or triumph.

သင်တောင့်တသောအစာသည်

thìn-taung-ta-thaw-a-za-thì — The food you desire/crave; nourishment you long for.

မျက်မှောက်တွင်ရှိ၏၊

myet-hmout-dwìn-shì-yì — Is present before you; exists right in front now.

သင်လက်ထပ်လိုသော

thìn-let-htat-lò-thaw — Whom you wish to marry; desired as a marriage partner.

ငွေကြေးရှိသောမိန်းမတစ်ယောက်၊

ngwè-kyè-shì-thaw-mein-ma-tit-yout — A wealthy woman; a female person who has money.

ဂုဏ်သတင်း၊

gun-tha-dìn — Fame/reputation; one's honor and public standing.

နေရာ၊

nè-ya — Place/position; a location or social standing.

သို့မဟုတ်

thò-ma-hout — Or; alternatively; conjunction presenting another option.

လောကတွင်

law-ga-dwìn — In the world; within society or earthly existence.

အာဏာ၊

a-na — Power/authority; the ability to command or control others.

လုပ်ဆောင်ရမည့်အလုပ်နှင့်

lout-saung-ya-mìt-a-lout-hnìn — Work that must be done; tasks and duties to perform.

အနိုင်ယူရမည့်အရာများရှိ၏—

a-naing-yu-ya-mìt-a-ya-myà-shì-yì — There are things to conquer/win; challenges to overcome exist.

အိုး၊

ò — Oh; exclamation expressing emotion or realization.

ဟုတ်တယ်!

hout-te! — Yes! That's right!; affirmative exclamation of agreement.

အစာကို

a-za-gò — The food; object marker on nourishment or meal.

ကာရံသောကြိုးများ၊

ka-yan-thaw-kyò-myà — Surrounding ropes/strings; cords that enclose or confine something.

နောက်ဆုံးတွင်

nout-sòun-dwìn — In the end; finally; at the last moment.

သင်ဝင်ရောက်၏—သို့သော်

thìn-wìn-yout-yì—thò-thaw — You enter—however; you go in, but a contrast follows.

ခြေသံတစ်ချက်ကို

chè-than-tit-chet-gò — One footstep sound; a single sound of a footfall.

ကြားရ၏၊

kyà-ya-yì — Heard/can hear; the act of perceiving a sound.

နတ်ဆိုးကြီး၊

nat-sò-jì — Great evil spirit; powerful malevolent supernatural being.

ဘဝသည်

ba-wà-thì — Life; existence as subject of a sentence.

ဝင်လာ၏၊

wìn-la-yì — Has entered/come in; arrived inside a space.

(သူသည်

(thu-thì — (He/she; third-person singular subject pronoun in parentheses.

စောင့်နေပြီး

saung-nè-byì — Is waiting; in a state of anticipatory waiting.

နွေးစပ်၏

nwè-sat-yì — Is warm/cozy; having a comfortable warm sensation nearby.

သံကျည်းသံကို

than-kyì-than-gò — The clanging/metallic sound; object of a ringing iron sound.

ကြားခဲ့၏)

kyà-khè-yì) — Had heard); previously perceived a sound, closing parenthesis.

အံ့ဖွယ်သောဒိန်ခဲကို

an-hpwè-thaw-dein-khè-gò — The wonderful/amazing cheese; a remarkable piece of cheese.

ကိုက်စားသည်ကို

kite-sà-thì-gò — The act of biting and eating; chewing something eagerly.

ကြည့်ရှုရန်၊

kyìt-shu-yan — In order to watch/observe; for the purpose of looking.

ပြာလောင်သောမျက်လုံးများဖြင့်

pyà-laung-thaw-myet-lòun-myà-byìn — With burning/blazing grey-blue eyes; using fierce glaring eyes.

သင့်ကို

thìn-gò — You; second-person singular object pronoun.

စိုက်ကြည့်ကာ၊

soit-kyìt-ka — Staring fixedly; gazing intently at someone or something.

မျက်နှာကုဋ်ပြပြီး

myet-hna-gut-pyà-byì — Having made a grimace; showing a twisted or contorted face.

ရယ်မောကာ၊

ye-maw-ka — Laughing; in the act of laughing mockingly or aloud.

ကဲ့ရဲ့ပြောင်လှောင်ကာ

kè-yè-pyaung-hlaung-ka — Mocking and ridiculing; taunting with scorn and derision.

ကျိန်ဆဲ၏၊

kyein-sè-yì — Curses/swears; utters curses or profane words at someone.

ဖမ်းကော့ထဲတွင်

pham-kaw-dè-dwìn — Inside the trap; within the confines of a snare.

အပေါ်အောက်

a-paw-a-out — Up and down; back and forth vertically in movement.

ပြေးနေကာ၊

pyè-nè-ka — While running; in the continuous state of fleeing/running.

သင်၏ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခသည်

thìn-yì-sin-ye-dout-kha-thì — Your suffering/misery; the hardship and pain you experience.

ငြီးငွေ့စေသည်အထိ။

nyì-ngwè-sè-thì-a-htì — To the point of causing weariness/disgust; until boredom overtakes.

သူတို့သည်

thu-dò-thì — They; third-person plural subject pronoun.

ငါ့ကျောက်ပေါ်တွင်

ngà-kyout-paw-dwìn — On my gravestone/rock; upon the stone marking my grave.

ဤစကားများကို

ì-za-gà-myà-gò — These words; the following statements as a direct object.

ထွင်းထုထားသည်၊

htwìn-htù-thà-thì — Has been chiseled/carved; words engraved into stone permanently.

"သူ၏ဘဝသည်

"thu-yì-ba-wà-thì — "His/her life; opening of an epitaph describing someone's life.

သာယာနူးညံ့၍

tha-ya-nu-nyàn-ywa — Being pleasant and gentle; smooth, easy, and agreeable in nature.

သူ၏အတွင်းရှိ

thu-yì-a-twìn-shì — That which is inside him/her; existing within one's interior.

ဒြပ်တည်များသည်

dyat-tì-myà-thì — The elements/substances within; fundamental components or inner elements.

ထိုမျှမွှေနှောက်နေ၍

htò-myà-hmwè-hnout-nè-ywa — Being so stirred/troubled to such extent; greatly agitated inside.

သဘာဝသည်

tha-ba-wà-thì — Nature; the natural world or one's innate character.

ထကြွပြီး

hta-kyù-byì — Having risen/stirred up; roused and moved to action.

လောကခပ်သိမ်းအား

law-ga-khut-theìn-à — To all the world; addressing the entirety of humankind.

ဤသို့ပြောနိုင်ခဲ့သည်—

ì-thò-pyaw-naing-khè-thì— — Was able to say thus; could declare or proclaim as follows.

ဤသူသည်

ì-thu-thì — This person; the individual being referred to here.

တစ်ယောက်သောလူပင်ဖြစ်သည်။

tit-yout-thaw-lu-bìn-pyit-thì — Is indeed a singular/remarkable person; truly one of a kind.

သိသောသူတို့သည်

thì-thaw-thu-dò-thì — Those who know; people who understand and are aware.

ပြုံးမောကြ၏

pyòun-maw-kyà-yì — Smile and laugh; they smirk or chuckle in amusement.

ဤအချည်းနှီးသော

ì-a-chì-hnì-thaw — This futile/empty; describing something vain and meaningless here.

ကြွေးကြော်မှုကို

kywe-kyaw-hmù-gò — The proclamation/boast; a declaration or cry as object.

ဖတ်ရှုရင်း၊

phat-shu-yìn — While reading; in the process of reading something.

ငါ၏သင်္ချိုင်းကျောက်စာသည်

ngà-yì-thin-gyaing-kyout-za-thì — My gravestone inscription; the text carved on my tombstone.

ဤသို့ဖြစ်သင့်ခဲ့သည်၊

ì-thò-pyit-thìn-khè-thì — Should have been thus; ought to have read as follows.

"ဘဝသည်

"ba-wà-thì — "Life; opening word of an epitaph or life statement.

သူ့အတွက်

thu-a-twet — For him/her; on behalf of or concerning that person.

သာယာနူးညံ့ခဲ့ခြင်းမရှိ၊

tha-ya-nu-nyàn-khè-chín-ma-shì — Was not pleasant or easy; life brought no comfort or ease.

သူသည်

thu-thì — He/she; third-person singular subject pronoun.

ဘဝကို

ba-wà-gò — Life; existence as a direct object in a sentence.

တိုက်ပွဲဆင်နွဲခဲ့ပြီး

tite-bwè-sin-nwè-khè-byì — Having fought a battle; engaged in struggle and conflict.

ထိုတိုက်ပွဲ၌ပင်

htò-tite-bwè-hnaît-bìn — In that very battle; precisely within that same conflict.

အသတ်ခံလိုက်ရ၏။

a-that-khan-lite-ya-yì — Was killed/slain; received death at the hands of another.