The Adventures of Roderick Random — Page 2

Vocabulary

စာဖတ်သူ

sa hpat thu — A person who reads; a reader

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also 'is/are'

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun meaning 'one's own'

ကြိုက်

kyaik — To like; to be fond of something

နှစ်သက်

hnit thek — To enjoy; to feel pleased or satisfied

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; 'which' or 'that'

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person; third-person pronoun

တစ်ဦး

tit ù — One person; a single individual

၏

ê — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'

စွန့်စား

swun zá — To take a risk; to venture boldly

ခန်း

kháun — A chapter, room, or scene in a story

များ

myá — Plural marker; many or more than one

ကို

go — Object marker particle; indicates direct object

လိုက်လျှောက်

laik hlyauk — To follow along; to go along with something

ဖတ်ရှု

hpat shù — To read; to peruse written material

ရင်း

yìn — While doing; as; a connective particle

စူးစမ်း

sù zán — To explore; to investigate or probe curiously

လို

lo — To need or want; like or similar to

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, or feeling; emotional state

ဖြည့်ဆည်း

hpyi̤ sí — To fulfill; to satisfy a need or desire

ထို

htó — That; demonstrative pronoun pointing to something

အကြောင်းအရာ

a kyaun a ya — Subject matter; topic or content of discussion

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko bain — One's own; personal or private possession

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'said that' or 'as'

ခံယူ

khun yu — To accept; to adopt a belief or position

ကာ

ka — Connective particle; while doing or having done

ဒုက္ခ

douk kha — Suffering, hardship, or misery; distress

ရောက်

yauk — To arrive at; to reach a place or state

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment, or period; a point in time

တွင်

twìn — In, at, or within; locative particle

သနား

tha ná — To feel pity; to have compassion for someone

ကြည်ညိုစိတ်

kyì ñó seit — A feeling of devotion; reverent admiration

ဖြင့်

hpyi̤n — With, by means of; instrumental particle

ခံစား

khun zá — To feel or experience an emotion or sensation

မျှဝေ

myha wè — To share; to distribute among others

ဘေးဆိုး

bè zó — Evil misfortune; danger or harmful situation

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit sè — Whether or not; to cause to happen

အပေါ်

a páw — On top of; regarding or concerning something

ဒေါသ

daw tha — Anger, rage; a strong feeling of displeasure

ထွက်

htwet — To go out; to exit or emerge from somewhere

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix; turns verb into abstract noun

ပြင်းထန်

pyìn htan — Intense, severe, or strong; powerful in degree

လာ

la — To come; directional verb particle toward speaker

လူ့

lù — Human; relating to people or humanity

မေတ္တာ

meitta — Loving kindness; benevolent goodwill toward all

ရှိုး

shó — To show; to display or demonstrate something

မြောက်

myauk — To rise; to succeed or be accomplished

တက်ကြွ

tet kywa — Active, enthusiastic, or energetic in behavior

ညှိုးနွမ်း

hnyo̤ nwán — Withered, dejected, or wilted; feeling dispirited

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာ

goun theikhka — Dignity, honor, and prestige of a person

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; conjunction or comitative particle

မာန

ma na — Pride, arrogance, or ego; sense of superiority

ထောင်လွှား

htaun hhlá — Arrogant, haughty; displaying excessive pride

ဆိုးညစ်

só nyit — Wicked, vile, or morally corrupt behavior

တို့

to̤ — Plural pronoun suffix; 'we' or 'they' group

ကြား

kyá — Between; among; to hear something

ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်

san kyìn bet — Opposite side; contrary or opposing direction

ပို

po — More; comparative particle indicating greater degree

၍

yway — Therefore, so; connective particle of consequence

ထင်ရှား

htin shá — Clear, evident, or well-known; prominent and visible

ပေါ်လွင်

páw lwìn — To stand out; to be obvious or apparent

စိတ်ကူးစိတ်သန်း

seit kù seit thán — Imagination; creative thoughts or mental images

နှစ်ဆ

hnit hsa — Double; twice the amount or degree

တိုး

tó — To increase; to grow or advance in amount

အာနိသင်

a ni thin — Effect, influence, or power of something

မှတ်ဉာဏ်

hmat nyan — Memory; the ability to recall information

အဖြစ်အပျက်

a hpyit a pyit — Events, happenings, or incidents that occur

ထိန်းသိမ်း

htein thein — To preserve, maintain, or keep safely

ထား

htá — To place; to keep or leave in a state

ပြီး

pyí — After; already done; completion marker

ဥပမာ

u pa ma — Example; an instance used for illustration

နှလုံးသား

hnalóun thá — Heart; the seat of feelings and emotions

တိုးတက်

tó tet — To progress, develop, or improve over time

မြင့်မား

myìn má — High, tall, or elevated; lofty in stature

အာရုံ

a youn — Attention, sense, or focus on something

ရိုးရိုး

yo̤ yo̤ — Simple, plain, or ordinary; uncomplicated manner

စာရင်း

sa yìn — List, account, or register of items

သာ

tha — Only, just; emphasizing exclusivity or contrast

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be or become; to happen or occur

ဇာတ်ကောင်

zat gaun — Character in a story, play, or film

ကြောင့်

kyaun — Because of; due to; causal particle

ငြီးငွေ့

nyì ngwè — Bored, weary, or fed up with something

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizing suffix creating abstract nouns from verbs

မ

ma — Negative prefix; 'not' or 'do not'

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have or be present

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing; negative connective particle

မျိုးစုံ

myó zoun — Various kinds; diverse or of many types

ဖန်တီး

hpan tí — To create, invent, or produce something new

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw shwin — Happy, joyful, or delighted; feeling pleasure

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning 'in a manner of'

လွဲ့

lwè — To swing, sway, or deviate; also 'except'

သွား

thwá — To go; directional verb moving away from speaker

ဘဝ

ba wa — Life, existence, or one's state of being

ဖြစ်ပြောင်း

hpyit pyaun — To transform or change into something different

ပိုင်ဆိုင်

bain saìn — To own, possess, or have ownership of

သီးခြား

thí chá — Separate, distinct, or independent from others

အခြေအနေ

a chè a nè — Situation, condition, or current state of affairs

ဉာဏ်

nyan — Wisdom, intelligence, or cognitive ability

ကောင်း

kaun — Good, fine, or excellent; positive quality

ရသ

ya tha — Aesthetic taste; flavor or literary enjoyment

ဘော

baw — Feeling, thought, or notion; mental impression

တရား

taya — Dharma, law, or justice; righteous principle

အတွက်

a twet — For the sake of; for the purpose of

ကျယ်ပြန့်

kyè byan — Wide, broad, or expansive in scope or area

လယ်ပြင်

le pyìn — Open field; a wide flat expanse of land

ဖွင့်

hpwin — To open; to unlock or start something

ပေး

pè — To give; to provide something to someone

ရောမန်တစ်

yaw man tit — Romantic; relating to love and romance

ဝတ္ထု

wotthu — A novel or prose fiction; literary work

သံသယ

thun tha ya — Doubt, suspicion, or uncertainty about something

သိ

thi — To know; to understand or be aware of

မဉ်း

mán — Spell, incantation, or charm; magical formula

ကြီး

kyí — Big, large, great; older or senior in rank

ဘာသာရေး

ba tha yè — Religious; relating to religion or faith matters

ယုံကြည်

youn kyì — To believe, trust, or have faith in

မှ

hma — From; ablative or source marker particle

ဆင်းသက်

sin thet — To descend or originate from; to derive from

ကမ္ဘာ

gamba — The world, earth, or universe; global scope

မှောင်မိုက်

hmaun maik — Dark, gloomy, or morally corrupt; in darkness

ခေတ်ကာလ

khet ka la — Era, age, or period of time; an epoch

တစ်စုံ

tit soun — One set; a pair or some unspecified thing

တစ်ယောက်

tit yauk — One person; a single individual

ပညာ

pañña — Knowledge, education, or wisdom; learning

သို့မဟုတ်

thó ma hout — Or; otherwise; alternative conjunction between options

သတ္တိ

thatti — Courage, bravery, or moral strength

နာမည်

na mì — Name; the title by which someone is known

အခါ

a kha — Time, occasion, or when something happens

မိသားစု

Family; a group of related household members

လိုက်နာ

laik na — To follow, comply with, or obey rules

ထူးချွန်

htù chwan — Outstanding, exceptional, or excellent in ability

ဂုဏ်အင်

goun in — Prestige and power; authority and dignity combined

အသုံးချ

a thoun cha — To utilize, make use of, or apply something

ဂုဏ်သတ္တိ

goun thatti — Virtuous quality; noble character or meritorious trait

ချီးမြှောက်

chí hmyauk — To exalt, elevate, or promote someone's status

ကိုယ်ရည်ကိုယ်သွေး

ko yì ko thwé — Personal character; individual qualities and traits

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်

pouk gol — Individual person; a specific distinguished individual

သန့်မြတ်

thun myat — Pure, holy, or sacred; morally clean

သဘာဝ

tha ba wa — Nature; natural state or characteristic quality

ထက်

htet — Than; comparative particle for comparison

လွန်

lwun — To exceed, surpass, or go beyond a limit

တင်ဆက်

tin zet — To present, introduce, or offer something formally

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; indicates completed past action

ကြ

kyà — Plural verb marker; indicates group action

အများသူငှာ

a myá thu nga — The general public; people in general

သွားဆွဲ

thwá swè — To attract or draw in; to pull toward something

လွယ်ကူ

lwè ku — Easy, simple, or convenient to do

မျိုချ

myó cha — To swallow down; to suppress or gulp something

ကာကွယ်

ka kwè — To protect, defend, or guard against harm

တောင်းလျောက်

taun lyauk — To request, petition, or apply for something

ရိုသေ

yo̤ thè — Respectful, deferential; showing proper reverence

ဂုဏ်ပြု

goun pyu — To honor, pay tribute, or show respect to

ချီးကျူး

chí kyú — To praise, commend, or compliment someone warmly

ဝါဒင်

wa din — Musician; one who plays a musical instrument

ဆပ်ကပ်

sat kap — To devote oneself; to serve with dedication

ချက်

chet — A point, instance, or moment; a distinct item

ဘုရား

hpaya — God, Buddha, or a revered religious figure

ကဲ့သို့

kèhthó — Like, similar to; in the manner of something

ကိုးကွယ်

kó kwè — To worship; to venerate a deity or religion

အထိ

a hti — Up to, until, as far as; a limit marker

ဆောင်ကြဉ်း

saun kyín — To avoid; to refrain from or abstain carefully

ရဲရင့်

yè yin — Bold, courageous, or daring in facing challenges

စွမ်းဆောင်

zwun saun — To accomplish, perform, or achieve a task

သောင်းကျော်

thaun kyaw — More than ten thousand; exceeding in large number

အတိုင်းအတာ

a tain a ta — Measure, extent, or degree of something

ချဲ့ကား

chè ká — To expand, enlarge, or magnify; to exaggerate

သားစဉ်မြေးဆက်

thá zin myè zet — Generations; successive descendants across family lines

သို့

thó — To, toward; directional particle indicating destination

၎င်း

thingín — He, she, it; formal third-person pronoun reference

ထူထောင်

htù htaun — To establish, found, or build up an institution

ရေး

yè — To write; also suffix meaning matters relating to

တိုက်တွန်း

taik twun — To urge, encourage, or push someone to act

အဖြစ်

a hpyit — As, in the capacity of; in the form of

ထပ်ခါ

htat kha — Again, repeatedly; occurring once more

တလဲလဲ

ta lè lè — Repeatedly, over and over; continuously recurring

ဆင်နှင်

sin hnin — To manage, guide, or conduct affairs carefully

ဝတ်ပြု

wut pyu — To worship; to perform a religious observance

အမှတ်တရ

a hmat ta ya — Memorable; a keepsake or souvenir remembrance

ယဇ်ပလ္လင်

yat pa lin — Altar; a sacred table used for offerings

တည်ဆောက်

tì sauk — To build, construct, or establish something permanent

တုပ

tu pa — To imitate, copy, or follow as a model

အား

á — Strength, energy; also object or dative marker

အနေ

a nè — Situation, position, or state of being

ဤ

ì — This; demonstrative pronoun for nearby reference

တဆင့်

ta hsin — Through, via, step by step; by means of

မကောင်း

ma kaun — Not good; bad, evil, or unwell

နတ်ဘုရား

nat hpaya — Spirit deity; a supernatural divine being

သမိုင်းဝင်

tha maìn win — Historic; worthy of entering the historical record

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat lán — Story, plot, or narrative of a literary work

ပေါ်ထွန်း

páw htun — To emerge, arise, or come into being brightly

စုဆောင်း

su zaun — To collect, gather, or accumulate over time

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or unit

မျှ

hmya — Only, just, equally; particle of measure or limit