Spoon River Anthology — Page 8

Vocabulary

အကြောင်းမူကား

a-kyaung mu ka: — the reason being; because of this matter

ပရိုတက်စတင့်

p-ro-tek-s-ting — Protestant; a branch of Christianity

များက

mya: ga — from those; those ones (plural subject marker)

ဤ

i — this; formal demonstrative pronoun

နေရာကို

ne-ya ga-go — to the place; toward the location

ဝယ်ယူ

wè yu — to buy; to purchase something

ခဲ့ပြီး

khè pyi: — having done (past action completed and continued)

ငါ့

nga' — my; first-person singular possessive pronoun

အလောင်းကို

a-laung go — the corpse; referring to a dead body

နေရာတွင်

ne-ya dwìn — at the place; in the location

မြှုပ်နှံ

hmyout-hnan — to bury; to inter a body in the ground

ခဲ့၏

khè i — did (formal past tense marker)

ဘဏ်

ban — bank; financial institution for money

လုပ်ငန်းရှင်

lout-ngan-shin — businessman; owner of a business enterprise

၏

i — formal possessive or sentence-final particle

သင်္ချိုင်း

thang-kyaing: — cemetery; graveyard where bodies are buried

နှင့်

hnin' — and; with; conjunction linking nouns

နီးကပ်

ni: kap — close; near; in close proximity

စွာ

swa — adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

သူ

thu — he; she; third-person singular pronoun

ဇနီး

za-ni: — wife; a man's female spouse

လည်း

lè: — also; too; as well (additive particle)

သတိပြု

tha-di pyu — to be careful; to pay attention; take heed

လော့

law' — imperative particle urging action; please do

သင်တို့

thin-do' — you all; second-person plural pronoun

သတိ

tha-di — mindfulness; caution; awareness; attention

ရှိသော

shi thaw — which exists; that has; possessing something

သဒ္ဓါ

thad-da — faith; devotion; religious belief and trust

တရား

ta-ya: — Dhamma; law; teaching; doctrine; justice

စိတ်

sait — mind; heart; intention; mental state

ဝိညာဉ်

win-nyan — spirit; soul; spiritual essence of a being

များ

mya: — plural marker; many; multiple items

ဘဝ

ba-wa — life; existence; one's state of being

၌

hnait — at; in; formal locative preposition

ဆန့်ကျင်

san-chin — to oppose; to go against; contradict

ဘက်

bek — side; direction; toward a particular side

စီးကြောင်း

si:-kyaung: — current; flow; course of a stream

များကို

mya: go — those (plural accusative); object plural marker

ရှက်ကြောက်

shek-kyout — timid; shy and fearful; bashful

ဖွယ်

phwè — worthy of; liable to (suffix indicating tendency)

အသက်

a-thet — life; breath; age; vital force

ရှင်

shin — to live; alive; honorific suffix for monks

ခဲ့သော

khè thaw — that which was done; past participial marker

သေ

thay — to die; dead; ceasing to live

ဆုံး

hsoun: — to end; to finish; to be lost

သူများ

thu mya: — they; those people; third-person plural

ထံ

htan — to; toward (used with persons, formal)

ဂုဏ်

goun — honor; prestige; dignity; reputation

သရေ

tha-yay — fame; glory; auspicious reputation

ဆောင်ကြဉ်း

hsaung-kyin: — to bring; to carry along; to convey

ပေးသော

pe: thaw — which gives; that grants; giving (participle)

သို့သော်

tho thaw — however; but; nevertheless; yet

သော

thaw — relativizing particle; that; which; who

တစ်ခါ

ta-kha — once; one time; on one occasion

မျှ

hmya — only; merely; just; as much as

အံ့သြ

an-tho — to be amazed; to be astonished; wonder

ခဲ့

khè — past tense marker; did; went (auxiliary)

ခြင်း

chin: — nominalization suffix turning verb into noun

မ

ma — negation prefix; not; no (negative marker)

ရှိ

shi — to have; to exist; to be present

တုံး

toun: — block; stump; dull; blunt object

တိုင်

taing — post; pole; to complain; to reach up to

က

ga — subject marker particle; from; agent marker

အရက်

a-yet — alcohol; liquor; alcoholic drink

ဆိုင်

hsaing — shop; store; concerned with; related to

ဟု

hu — quotation particle meaning said that; as

မဲ

mè — vote; dark; to vote; ballot

ပေး

pe: — to give; to provide; to grant

အခါ

a-kha — time; occasion; when; at the time of

မိမိ

mi-mi — oneself; self; reflexive pronoun

ကိုယ်ကို

ko-go — oneself (accusative); to oneself; reflexive

ငြင်းပယ်

nyìn-pè — to refuse; to reject; to deny

ခံ

khan — to bear; to endure; to receive; suffer

ရသည့်

ya-dhin' — which receives; that is obtained; getting

အတွက်

a-twet — for; for the sake of; because of

အပြစ်

a-pyit — sin; fault; blame; wrongdoing

ပြန်

pyan — to return; back; again; to translate

ဆပ်

hsap — to repay; to pay back a debt

ရန်

yan — in order to; for the purpose of; enemy

ဟူ

hu — called; known as; formal quotative particle

၍

yway — formal connective particle meaning therefore; and so

အနက်

a-net — meaning; definition; dark color; depth

တစ်ဦး

ta-u: — one person (formal classifier for humans)

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yout — one person (informal classifier for people)

လုံ

loun — sufficient; enough; whole; all around

လောက်

lout — about; approximately; enough; sufficient

အောင်

aung — to succeed; in order to; so that; enough

သိမ်

thein — subtle; gentle; fine; delicate

မွေ့

hmwè — to delight in; to be comfortable; enjoy

ငါ

nga — I; me; first-person singular pronoun (informal)

ခြေရာ

chè-ya — footprint; trace; track left behind

လိုက်

lait — to follow; to go along with; to chase

သို့

tho — to; toward; in the direction of

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — not; is not; negation of identity

နေ

ne — to live; to stay; to be (ongoing action)

အိမ်

ein — house; home; dwelling place

အထိ

a-hti — until; up to; as far as

ပိုင်း

paing: — section; part; portion; to divide

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsaing-ya — related to; concerning; pertaining to

ညီ

nyi — younger sibling; equal; level; younger brother

အစ်ကို

a-ko — older brother; elder male sibling

အဖြစ်

a-pyit — as; in the form of; being; status of

တိုက်ပွဲ

tait-pwè — battle; fight; armed conflict; confrontation

ဝင်

win — to enter; to go into; to participate

မှတ်မိ

hmat-mi — to remember; to recall; to recollect

ကြ

kya — plural verb marker; to do together; collectively

သလော

tha-law — interrogative particle asking or is it so

ရုံး

yone: — office; court; official building

ချုပ်

chout — to sew; to control; to summarize; headquarters

အုပ်စု

out-su — group; cluster; organized body of people

ကို

go — accusative particle; to; object marker

လည်းကောင်း

lè:-kaung: — also good; as well; likewise (formal connector)

အများ

a-mya: — the majority; many; most people

ပိုင်

paing — to own; to possess; belonging to

ရန်ပုံ

yan-poun — fund; reserve money set aside for purpose

ငွေ

ngway — money; silver; currency

အတိုး

a-to: — interest (financial); increase; growth on capital

ကိုယ်

ko — body; self; oneself; personal pronoun (I)

ကျိုး

kyo: — benefit; reason; to break; to crack

ထဲ

htè — inside; within; into; interior of

ထည့်

htè' — to put in; to insert; to add to

သိမ်း

thein: — to keep; to store; to confiscate; collect

သည့်

dhin' — relativizing particle (present/past); that which

သည်

dhi — present tense verb marker; is; does

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya-nout-do' — we; us; first-person plural formal pronoun

ထိပ်

htait — top; tip; summit; head of something

တန်း

tan: — class; level; row; grade; immediately

နိုင်ငံ

naing-ngan — country; nation; state

သား

tha: — son; child; young of animal; flesh

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin-yè — poor; impoverished; in poverty; destitute

အခွန်

a-khwan — tax; duty; levy imposed by government

တာဝန်

ta-wan — responsibility; duty; obligation

ဝန်

wan — burden; load; minister (government official)

ထမ်း

htan: — to carry; to bear; to shoulder a load

မြင်း

myin: — horse; an equine animal

ဖြစ်

pyit — to be; to happen; to become; to occur

ပြု

pyu — to do; to make; to perform; to act

လုပ်

lout — to do; to work; to perform an action

ရေ

yay — water; liquid; also sentence particle

ဝေ

way — to distribute; to share out; to allocate

ရေး

yè: — to write; matter; affair; concerning

လုပ်ငန်း

lout-ngan: — business; enterprise; work; occupation

လမ်း

lan: — road; path; way; street; route

ခိုး

kho: — to steal; to rob; to do secretly

ယူ

yu — to take; to receive; to fetch; get

ကာ

ka — while; as; protecting; connective particle

နှုန်း

hnoun: — rate; ratio; pace; standard measure

ထား

hta: — to place; to keep; to put; to store

တိုး

to: — to increase; to grow; to push forward

မြှင့်

hmying' — to raise; to promote; to elevate; boost

စီးပွား

si:-pwa: — economy; commerce; livelihood; prosperity

သမား

tha-ma: — practitioner; person of a trade; professional

တွင်

dwìn — at; in; within; locative particle

ထို

hto — that; those; demonstrative pronoun (formal)

အရှုံး

a-shoun: — loss; deficit; failure; losing situation

တွေ

twè — plural marker (informal); those; multiple things

ပျက်

pyet — to break; to be ruined; to fail; spoil

စီး

si: — to flow; to ride; to stream; current

မှု

hmu — nominalization suffix for actions; matter; case

မှ

hma — from; since; out of; ablative particle

မတ်တပ်

mat-tap — standing upright; at attention; erect posture

ထ

hta — to stand up; to get up; to rise

သွား

thwa: — to go; to leave; directional particle away

မွေး

hmwè: — to be born; to raise; to nurture; birth

ဝမ်း

wan: — stomach; abdomen; womb; belly

ကျောင်း

kyaung: — school; monastery; educational institution

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — one (thing); a single item (general classifier)

ခေါင်း

khaung: — head; leader; top; beginning of something

စည်း

si: — rule; discipline; to bind; boundary; rhythm

နောက်

nout — after; behind; later; next; following

အိုင်ဒီယယ်

a-iq-di-yè — ideal; a perfect standard or model

ထုတ်

htout — to take out; to produce; to publish

ပြီ

pyi — already; done; completed action particle

အချိန်

a-chein — time; moment; period; duration

လူ

lu — person; human being; man

အားလုံး

a:-loun: — everyone; everything; all; without exception

မျက်စိ

myet-si — eye; the organ of sight

ဝှက်

hswet — to hide; to conceal; to keep secret

မြတ်

hmyat — noble; excellent; precious; sacred; exalted

နိုး

no: — to wake up; to arouse; to be awake

ထိန်း

htein: — to control; to regulate; to maintain; hold

မြည်း

hmyin: — to taste; to try food; to sample

တ

ta — numeral one; prefix; a certain (informal)

ကောင်

kaung — creature; individual (informal/slightly impolite)

မေး

mè: — to ask; to question; jaw; chin

ရိုး

yo: — simple; plain; bone; trunk; ordinary

ကဲ့

kè' — like; as; similar to (comparative particle)

ရိုက်

yait — to hit; to strike; to beat; to type

နှက်

hnet — to pound; to beat; to thrash repeatedly

ပြီး

pyi: — after; having finished; completed and then

တား

ta: — to prohibit; to prevent; to stop; forbid

မြစ်

myit — river; large flowing body of water

ချက်

chet — immediately; instantly; cooking; a stroke

ဖြင့်

hpyin' — with; by means of; using; instrumental particle

ကုန်

koun — goods; merchandise; to run out; finish

ကျ

kya — to fall; to decrease; to drop; to suit

စရိတ်

sa-yit — expense; cost; expenditure; fee

ဆောင်

hsaung — to carry; to bring; to convey; to bear

စေ

se — to cause; to make someone do; let

ရှုံး

shoun: — to lose; to be defeated; to suffer loss

နိမ့်

nein' — low; short in height; humble; inferior