Spoon River Anthology — Page 7

Vocabulary

ငါ

nga — First person pronoun; I, me

ရှင်သန်

shin than — To live, survive, exist

နေစဉ်

ne zin — While living; during one's lifetime

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also present tense marker

အသရေဖျက်

a tha yay phyet — To defame, disgrace, or damage someone's reputation

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that, which, who

လျှာ

hlyar — Tongue; the muscular organ in the mouth

များ

mya — Plural marker; many, more, lots of

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to, towards

ရင်

yin — Chest, heart; also conditional particle 'if'

မဆိုင်

ma hsine — Not related, not one's concern or business

နိုင်

nine — Can, able to; to be capable of

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; did, went away

ယခု

ya khu — Now, at the present time

သေ

thay — To die; dead

ပြီ

pyi — Completion marker; already done, finished

ဆို

hsò — To say, mean; quotation marker

သော်

thaw — Although, even though; concessive conjunction

လည်း

lè — Also, too, even; additive particle

ကျောက်စာ

kyout za — Stone inscription, epitaph carved on stone

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One thing; a single item or object

လက်ခံ

let khan — To accept, receive, acknowledge something

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; can, succeed in doing

မည်

mì — Future tense marker; will, shall

လူမိုက်

lu myite — Foolish person, idiot, reckless individual

တစ်ယောက်

ta yout — One person; a single individual

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from, by

ထွင်းထု

htwin htu — To carve, engrave into stone or wood

ငါ့

nga' — My, mine; possessive form of 'I'

ဘဝ

ba wa — Life, existence, one's personal life journey

၏

e — Possessive/genitive particle; of, belonging to

ပန်းပွင့်

pan pwint — Flower blossom; an open flower

ဘက်

bet — Side, direction, aspect; toward someone

ပေါင်းစုံ

paung zone — Complete, all together, comprehensive, varied

တွင်

twin — In, at, within; locative particle

ပွင့်

pwint — To bloom, open up; blossom

ကောင်း

kaung — Good, well, nice, fine

ပန်းရွက်

pan ywet — Flower leaf, petal or foliage of a flower

ဆေး

hsay — Medicine, drug; also paint or dye

လေဆိုး

lay zoe — Bad wind, foul air; toxic atmosphere

ကြောင့်

kyaung' — Because of, due to; causal particle

သင်တို့

thin doh — You all; second person plural pronoun

ရွာ

ywa — Village; a small rural settlement

နေ

nay — To live, stay, reside; also sun

သူ

thu — He, she, they; third person pronoun

မြင်

myin — To see, observe, perceive visually

တစ်ဖက်

ta bet — One side; on the other hand

သာ

tha — Only, just; emphasis/limitation particle

မြေမှုန့်

myay hmone — Dust, fine particles of earth or soil

ထဲ

htè — Inside, within, into; locative particle

မှ

hmà — From, since; ablative/source particle

ကန့်ကွက်

kan gwet — To object, oppose, protest against something

သံ

thun — Sound, voice, tone; iron (metal)

တစ်သံ

ta thun — One voice, a single sound or note

မြှောက်

hmyout — To raise up, lift, elevate, promote

ထောင်

htaung — Thousand; also prison, to raise upward

ဘယ်တော့

beh daw — When; at what time (interrogative)

ဖူး

phu — Ever (experiential marker); to have done before

အမှန်

a hmun — Truth, reality; truly, correctly, accurately

ပင်

pin — Emphatic particle; indeed, even, still

မိုက်မဲ

myite mè — Foolish, stupid, ignorant behavior or attitude

ပေ

pay — Sentence-final assertive particle; indeed, really

တည်း

tè — Emphatic/limiting particle; only, right there

လေ

lay — Wind, air; also sentence-final softening particle

လမ်းကြောင်း

lun kyaung — Path, route, course, direction to follow

မသိ

ma thi — Not know, unaware, ignorant of something

နှင့်

hnin — With, and; conjunction or instrumental particle

အား

a — Object marker; strength; to, for someone

ဖြစ်စဉ်

phyit sin — Process, course of events, what happened

အုပ်ချုပ်

out chote — To govern, rule, administer, control

အရာ

a ya — Thing, matter, object, subject

ကိုယ်ဝန်

ko wun — Pregnancy; being with child

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry, bear, bring along; perform

စေ

say — To cause, make, let; causative particle

အသက်

a thet — Life, age, breath; years of life

မွေးဖွား

mway phwa — To be born, give birth to someone

မဟုတ်

ma hote — Not, is not; negation of identity

ကြောင်း

kyaung — That, because; nominalizer or reason particle

သိ

thi — To know, understand, be aware of

လျက်

hlet — While doing; simultaneous action connector

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko pine — Own, personal, one's own possession

ဆုံးရှုံး

zone shone — To lose, suffer loss, be deprived of

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; act of, the fact of

မရှိ

ma shi — Not exist, have none, absent, lacking

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing; negative connective particle

မဖြစ်

ma phyit — Not happen, not become, cannot occur

ထို့

htoh — That, those; demonstrative particle referring back

လူငယ်

lu ngè — Young person, youth, young adult

တံခါးဝ

tan ga waw — Doorway, entrance, threshold of a door

သို့

thoh — To, toward; directional particle

ဝင်ရောက်

win yout — To enter, go inside, intrude into

သွား

thwa — To go; directional verb away from speaker

နေထိုင်

nay htine — To live, reside, dwell in a place

ယုံကြည်

yone kyi — To believe, trust, have faith in

ကြ

kya — Plural action marker; together, among group

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative or ordering particle

ခင်ပွန်း

khin bun — Husband; a woman's spouse or partner

ချစ်ခြင်း

chit chin — Love, the act of loving someone

မေတ္တာ

meit ta — Loving kindness, goodwill, benevolent affection

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

ချစ်

chit — To love, be fond of, cherish

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker; saying that, called

ကြေညာ

kway nya — To announce, declare, proclaim publicly

မုန်းတီးမှု

mone ti hmu — Hatred, intense dislike, feeling of hate

ဖြည့်ဆည်း

phyi hsin — To fill, fulfill, supply, satisfy a need

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of

သတ်

thet — To kill, slay; also punctuation finalizer

သင်

thin — You; second person singular pronoun

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; oneself; informal first person pronoun

ချီးမွမ်း

chi mwan — To praise, compliment, commend someone

မြစ်

myit — River; a large flowing body of water

ကြီးပြင်း

kyi pyin — To grow up, be raised, mature into adulthood

ရာ

ya — Hundred; also nominalizing or relative suffix

အကြီးဆုံး

a kyi zone — The biggest, eldest, largest, most senior

အစ်မ

a ma — Older sister; elder female sibling

မိဘမဲ့

mi ba mè — Orphan; without parents, parentless child

ကလေး

ka lay — Child, baby, young kid

အပြစ်တင်

a pyit tin — To blame, accuse, find fault with

အပေါ်

a pau — Above, on top of, toward, regarding

သူတို့

thu doh — They, them; third person plural pronoun

မထီမဲ့မြင်

ma hti mè myin — To look down on, disrespect, treat contemptuously

ပြုမှု

pyu hmu — Treatment, behavior, conduct toward someone

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; please, also included

အပြစ်

a pyit — Fault, sin, blame, wrongdoing, offense

ဂရုစိုက်

ga yu site — To take care of, be careful, pay attention

မှန်ကန်

hmun kun — Correct, accurate, proper, right, legitimate

ကောင်းကျိုး

kaung kyo — Benefit, advantage, good result, positive outcome

အဆိပ်

a hseit — Poison, venom, toxic substance

သင့်

thin — Your; suitable, appropriate; you should

မှီခို

hmi kho — To depend on, rely on, seek refuge with

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix; case, matter, act of

အမြဲတမ်း

a myè da mun — Always, forever, constantly, at all times

သတိပေး

tha ti pay — To warn, caution, remind, give notice

မြို့

myoh — Town, city, urban settlement

မူးယစ်

mu yit — Intoxicated, drugged; narcotic substances

သောက်သုံး

thout thone — To consume by drinking; drink and use

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, occur

အခါ

a kha — Time, occasion, when; temporal marker

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး

phone daw kyi — Buddhist monk, venerable monk, abbot

သင်္ဂြိုဟ်

thin gyo — To bury the dead, conduct funeral rites

ငြင်းဆန်

nyin hsan — To refuse, reject, deny, decline a request

သန့်ရှင်း

thun shin — Clean, pure, holy, sacred, uncontaminated

မြေ

myay — Earth, ground, land, soil

ထို

htoh — That, those; demonstrative adjective

ကံကောင်း

kun kaung — Lucky, fortunate; good fortune or luck

ပြန်လည်

pyan lè — To return, go back; again, in return

ရောက်ရှိ

yout shi — To arrive at, reach, be present at