Spoon River Anthology — Page 9

Vocabulary

တရားသူကြီး

tayaa thu ji — A judge presiding over a court of law

မည်သို့

mya hto — How; in what manner or way

ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာသနည်း

hpyit paw la tha nei — How did it come about or happen

ငါ့အား

nga a — To me; directed at the speaker (informal)

ပြောပြပါ

pyaw pya ba — Please tell or explain to me

တရားရေးသမားများ

tayaa yay tha ma mya — Legal professionals; people in the law field

အနက်

a nat — Meaning; definition of a word or term

အတတ်ပညာ

a tat pyin nya — Professional skill; specialized knowledge or expertise

အကြွယ်ဝဆုံး

a kywe wa hsone — Most abundant; richest or most profuse

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သော

hpyit khay tho — That which happened or occurred previously

ငါသည်

nga thi — I am; first person singular subject marker (informal)

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction/postposition)

ကိုက်

kite — Matching; agreeing with; corresponding to something

တို့ကို

to ko — Plural object marker; them or those (accusative)

အလွတ်

a lwat — By heart; from memory without notes

တော်တော်

taw taw — Quite; fairly; rather; considerably (degree adverb)

သိသော

thi tho — That which is known; being knowledgeable about

အကြီးကျယ်ဆုံးသော

a kji kjay hsone tho — Greatest; most magnificent or grand of all

မိန့်ခွန်းကို

main khwan ko — The speech; formal address (object form)

ပြောကြားခဲ့သူ

pyaw kja khay thu — The person who spoke or delivered a speech

တရားရုံးကြီး

tayaa yone ji — High court; a major court of law

တစ်ခုမျှ

tit khu mya — Not even one; not a single one

မကြားဖူးသော

ma kja hpu tho — Never heard before; unheard of previously

ပြီးလျှင်

pyi hlyin — After finishing; once completed; thereafter

ရေးသားခဲ့သော

yay tha khay tho — That which was written or composed previously

၏

e — Possessive particle; of (genitive marker)

ချီးမွမ်းမှုကို

chi mwan hmu ko — The praise; compliment or commendation (object form)

ရရှိခဲ့သော

ya shi khay tho — That which was received or obtained previously

အမှုတိုချုပ်

a hmu to chote — Legal brief; summarized court case document

တစ်ခုကို

tit khu ko — One thing (object form); a single item

ဤနေရာ

i nay ya — This place; here; this location

၌

hnit — At; in; locative postposition indicating place

မှတ်သားမခံရဘဲ

hmat tha ma khan ya beh — Without being noticed or recorded by anyone

မေ့လျော့ခံရလျက်

meh lyaw khan ya lyat — Being forgotten; suffering neglect or oblivion

လဲလျောင်းနေသည်မှာ

leh lyaung nay thi hma — Is lying down; remains in a reclining state

မြို့တော်မှ

myoe taw hma — From the capital city; originating from the capital

မူးယစ်

mu yit — Intoxicated; drunk; under the influence

သောက်စားသူ

thout sa thu — One who drinks and eats; a drinker

မှာကား

hma ka — As for; regarding; emphatic topic marker

ကျောက်သားတုံး

kyout tha tone — A block or slab of stone

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One; a single thing or object

ရှိပြီး

shi pyi — There is; having; existing (with continuation)

ထိပ်တွင်

htit twin — On top; at the top of something

အိုးတစ်လုံး

o tit lone — One pot; a single clay or earthen pot

ဖြင့်

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

တင်ဆောင်ထားကာ

tin hsaung hta ka — Having placed and carried on top of something

သဘာဝသည်

tha ba wa thi — Nature; the natural world (subject form)

ကဲ့ရဲ့သော

keh yeh tho — Mocking; scornful; having a contemptuous attitude

စိတ်ထားဖြင့်

sate hta hpyin — With a mindset or disposition of a certain kind

ထိုအိုး

hto o — That pot; that particular earthen vessel

ပန်းပွင့်သော

pan pwin tho — Flowering; blossoming; bearing open flowers

ပေါက်ပင်

pout pin — A sprouted plant; a growing plant or shoot

တစ်ပင်ကို

tit pin ko — One plant (object form); a single plant

စိုက်ပျိုး

soit pyoe — To plant; to cultivate or grow plants

ထားလေသည်

hta lay thi — Has placed or kept; has done and left so

ကင်း

kin — Free from; clear of; devoid of something

သင်၏

thin e — Your; belonging to you (formal possessive)

အာရုံကို

a yone ko — Attention; the senses (object form)

ထားပါ

hta ba — Please keep; please pay or direct (polite imperative)

ဘဏ်

ban — Bank; financial institution for deposits and loans

ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ

ok-ka-hta — Chairman; president of an organization or committee

သတင်းစာ

tha din za — Newspaper; printed or published news publication

အယ်ဒီတာ

eh di ta — Editor; person who edits publications or content

အဓိက

a di ka — Main; principal; most important or primary

ဘုရားကျောင်း

hpaya kyaung — Church; place of worship or religious building

သင်းအုပ်ဆရာ

thin ote hsa ya — Pastor; minister leading a religious congregation

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး

hpone taw ji — Monk; revered Buddhist or Christian religious leader

ပိတ်

pate — Closed; shut; to close or block off

မြို့တော်

myoe taw — Capital city; the main city of a region

အကြိမ်

a kyim — Time; instance; occurrence of a repeated action

များစွာ

mya zwa — Many times; very much; a great deal

မြို့တော်ဝန်

myoe taw wan — Mayor; chief administrator of a city

နောက်ဆုံး

nout hsone — Last; final; at the very end

အနေဖြင့်

a nay hpyin — In the capacity of; as; in the role of

လူမှု

lu hmu — Social; relating to society or community affairs

စင်ကြယ်မှု

sin kje hmu — Purity; cleanliness; moral or physical cleanness

အသင်း

a thin — Association; club; organized group or society

အသင်းဝင်များ

a thin win mya — Members of an association or organization

သင်တို့

thin to — You all; plural second person (formal)

အားလုံး

a lone — All; everyone; everything without exception

သေဆုံးရာ

thay hsone ya — Place or point of death; dying location

စကားများကို

za ga mya ko — The words; speeches (object form, plural)

အာရုံ

a yone — Attention; focus; sensory perception or awareness

ပေးကြပါ

pay kja ba — Please give; please pay attention (polite plural)

ရဲရင့်သော

yeh yin tho — Brave; courageous; bold and fearless

ကျန်

kjan — Remaining; left over; the rest of

စစ်သည်တို့

sit thi to — Soldiers; troops; military personnel (plural)

နှင့်အတူ

hnin a tu — Together with; along with someone or something

ရပ်တည်လျက်

yat thi lyat — Standing firm; maintaining a position steadfastly

သန့်ရှင်းသော

than shin tho — Clean; pure; holy and undefiled

တောင်ပေါ်

taung paw — On the mountain; atop a hill or mountain

ရှိ

shi — Exists; is present; there is or are

အကာအကွယ်

a ka a kwe — Protection; defense; a shield or cover

တပ်မှ

tat hma — From the army; from the military forces

စစ်မြေပြင်

sit mye pyin — Battlefield; field where military combat occurs

အင်္ဂလိပ်

in ga laik — English; British; pertaining to England

လူမျိုး

lu myoe — Nationality; ethnic group; race of people

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from (source particle)

သူတို့ကို

thu to ko — Them; those people (third person plural object)

ဟစ်ကြော်

hit kyaw — To shout; to cry out; to yell loudly

ခေါ်ဆိုသော

khaw hso tho — That which is called or referred to as

အခါ

a kha — When; at the time of; occasion or moment

လက်လျှော့

let hlyaw — To give up; to surrender; to quit trying

အညံ့ခံပါ

a nyan khan ba — Please yield; please submit or accept defeat

သတ္တိရှိသော

that ti shi tho — Courageous; having bravery or moral strength

ပြင်သစ်သားများ

pyin thit tha mya — French people; persons of French nationality

ထိုနေရာ

hto nay ya — That place; that location; there

နေ့

nay — Day; daytime; a single calendar day

ကုန်ဆုံးချိန်

kon hsone chein — Time of ending; moment of completion or expiry

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (locative postposition)

စစ်ပွဲကို

sit pwe ko — The battle; the war (object form)

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

myaw lin chit — Hope; expectation; anticipation of something positive

မဲ့စွာ

meh zwa — Without; lacking; in an empty or hopeless manner

ရှုံးနိမ့်ခဲ့ကာ

shone naing khay ka — Having been defeated; having lost and then continuing

တပ်မတော်

tat ma taw — Armed forces; national military or defense force

အဖြစ်မှ

a hpyit hma — From the state of; from being in a condition

ကျော်လွန်

kyaw lwan — To surpass; to go beyond; to overcome a limit

သွားပြီ

thwa pyi — Has gone; already left; has passed away

ဖြစ်သော

hpyit tho — That which is; being; existing as something

လူအုပ်ကြီး

lu out ji — Large crowd; a big gathering of people

များသည်

mya thi — Is many; there are many; plural in number

ကြီးကျယ်သော

kji kjay tho — Great; grand; vast or impressive in scale

ကွဲအက်သော

kweh at tho — Cracked; split; broken apart into pieces

တိမ်ချပ်များ

tein chat mya — Flat clouds; thin layers of cloud in sky

ကဲ့သို့

keh hto — Like; similar to; in the manner of

မှ

hma — From; out of; ablative or source particle

စီးဆင်း

si hsin — To flow; to stream; to move in a current

သွားကြကာ

thwa kja ka — Going away together; moving off (plural subject)

မုန်တိုင်း

mon tine — Storm; tempest; violent weather with strong winds

အတွင်း

a twin — Inside; within; during a period or space

မိုးကြိုး

mo kjo — Lightning; electrical discharge in a thunderstorm

တိမ်များ

tein mya — Clouds; masses of water vapor in the sky

ဖြစ်ကြသည်

hpyit kja thi — They are; they become; plural subject verb form

ကောင်းပြီ

kaung pyi — Good; alright; well done; that is fine

ကို

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

ပြောကြားခဲ့သည်မှာ

pyaw kja khay thi hma — As for what was spoken or stated previously

တို့

to — Plural marker; we or they (group particle)

မီးက

mi ka — The fire; fire as subject (with subject marker)

တောင်ကုန်း

taung kone — Hill; small mountain; elevated land formation

ထိပ်ကို

htit ko — The top; the peak or summit (object form)

ချောမော

chaw maw — Smoothly; gracefully; in a sleek or elegant manner

သောသွား

tho thwa — Going smoothly; moving along gracefully

စေမီ

say mi — Before causing; before making something happen

နေ၀င်ချိန်

nay win chein — Sunset; the time when the sun goes down

ညိုရောင်

nyo yaung — Purple-brown color; a dusky or dark hued color

အလင်းကို

a lin ko — The light; brightness or illumination (object form)

ဆန့်ကျင်

hsan kjin — Against; opposing; to resist or contradict

လျက်

lyat — While; continuing to; simultaneous action particle

သင်

thin — You (formal); second person singular pronoun

အားလည်းကောင်း

a le kauug — Also strong; also well; good in terms of strength

ကိုလည်းကောင်း

ko le kaung — Also (object); in addition to that object

ပြောသည်မှာ

pyaw thi hma — As for what is said; speaking of this matter

သင့်ကို

thin ko — To you; you (formal, object form)

အို

o — Oh; O (exclamation of address or emotion)

ကမ္ဘာကြီး

kam ba ji — The great world; the entire earth or universe

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; an emphasizing particle

အား

a — To; for; towards (dative/indirect object particle)

၎င်းကို

da jin ko — It; that thing (object form, formal pronoun)

ထွင်းထုရန်

htwing htu yan — In order to carve out; to engrave or chisel

တာဝန်ပေးသည်

ta wan pay thi — Assigns responsibility; gives a task or duty

ငါ

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

ကျောက်တိုင်

kyout tine — Stone pillar; memorial column made of stone

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On top of; upon; on the surface of