The Adventures of Roderick Random — Page 1

Vocabulary

နုပျိုသော

nu pyò dhaung — Young and youthful in appearance or age

နာမည်ကြီး

na myè jí — Famous, well-known, or renowned

ပန်းချီဆရာ

pán chì sa yà — A painter or visual artist

တစ်ဦး

tit ú — One person (counter for people)

သည်

dhì — Grammatical topic marker or present tense particle

ရွှင်မြူးဖွယ်ရာ

shwìn myú bwè yà — Something cheerful, delightful, or amusing

စိတ်ကူး

seitkú — An idea, imagination, or creative thought

များ

myá — Plural marker; many or numerous

ဖြင့်

hpyìng — With, by means of, using (instrumental particle)

ဝက်ဝံ

wèt wùn — A bear, large omnivorous mammal

တစ်ကောင်

tit kaung — One animal (counter for animals)

မျောက်

myauk — A monkey or ape

နှင့်

hnìng — And, with, together with (conjunction)

မြည်း

myí — A donkey or mule

တို့

dó — Plural pronoun suffix or group marker

ကို

go — Object marker particle (accusative case)

ကိုယ်စားပြုသော

ko sá pyù dhaung — Representing or symbolizing something else

စကားဝိုင်း

sa ká wáin — A conversation circle or group discussion

ပုံစံ

pùn sán — Form, style, format, or pattern

ပန်းချီပုံ

pán chì pùn — A painting or illustrated picture

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing (general object counter)

ဆွဲ

swé — To draw, pull, or attract

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense auxiliary verb marker

ထို့ပြင်

dó pyìng — Furthermore, in addition, besides that

ပုံ

pùn — Picture, image, shape, or figure

ပိုမို

po mo — More, even more, to a greater degree

ထင်ရှား

hting shá — Prominent, obvious, or well-known

စေရန်

sè yan — In order to cause or make happen

ဖြစ်စေရန်

hpyit sè yan — In order to make something become or occur

သင်ခန်းစာ

thìng khán zà — A lesson, moral, or teaching

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to have, to be present

လူ့ဘဝ

lú bawà — Human life or the human condition

၏

é — Possessive or genitive particle (of, 's)

သင်္ကေတ

thìng gèt — A symbol, sign, or emblem

တစ်ပုံ

tit pùn — One picture or one image

ချင်းစီ

chín zì — Each one, respectively, one by one

ခွဲခြား

khwé chá — To separate, distinguish, or differentiate

ဖော်ပြ

hpò pyà — To express, describe, or depict

ဖြစ်သော

hpyit thaung — Which is, being, that which exists as

သွား

thwá — To go; also tooth (context-dependent)

မရှိသော

ma shi dhaung — Without, lacking, not having something

အိုမင်း

o mín — Old, aged, elderly in appearance

၍

ywé — Therefore, so, and then (connective particle)

မူးယစ်

mú yit — Drunk, intoxicated, or under influence

နေသော

nè dhaung — Who is living or currently doing something

စစ်သား

sit thá — A soldier or military serviceman

အဝတ်အစား

a wut a sá — Clothing, garments, or attire

အနေအထား

a nè a htá — Situation, position, state of affairs

ထားသည်

htá dhì — To place, keep, or maintain in position

နှာ

hnà — Nose (part of the face)

တွင်

dwìng — In, at, within (locative particle)

မျက်မှန်

myèt hmán — Eyeglasses or spectacles

တပ်ကာ

tat ká — Wearing or attaching (accessories) on

ကော်ဖီဖိုး

kɔ̀ hpì hpo — A coffee mug or coffee cup

လက်ကိုင်

let kaing — A handle or handheld object

ပေါ်တွင်

pɔ̀ dwìng — On top of, upon (locative phrase)

နား

ná — Ear; also to rest or stop

နေ

nè — To live, stay, or be (progressive marker)

လျက်

lyèt — While doing, continuous action particle

သတင်းစာ

tha dìng zà — A newspaper or news publication

တစ်စောင်

tit saung — One copy of a newspaper or letter

ဖတ်ရှု

hpat shu — To read something carefully or study

စဉ်းစား

sín zá — To think carefully, consider, or ponder

နေသည့်

nè dhì — Who is currently doing or living

ပေါ်

pɔ̀ — On, above, upon (positional word)

သည်ကား

dhì ká — As for, this is (emphatic topic marker)

ကြီးမားသော

jí má dhaung — Large, great, or significant in size

ဆံပင်တု

sùn pin tu — A wig or artificial hair piece

ဝတ်ဆင်

wut sin — To wear or put on clothing

သို့သော်

tho dhaung — However, but, nevertheless (contrast conjunction)

၎င်း

dìng in — It, he, she, that (formal third-person pronoun)

ရှည်လျားသော

shè lyá dhaung — Long, lengthy, or extended in length

ဖုံးကွယ်

hpóun khwè — To cover up, hide, or conceal

နိုင်ခြင်း

naing chìng — Ability, capability, or being able to

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist, there is none

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing, not doing (negative particle)

ပန်းချီ

pán chì — Painting or the art of painting

ပစ္စည်း

pyit sí — Materials, equipment, or supplies

ကိုင်ဆောင်

kaing saung — To carry or hold an object

အား

á — Object or dative particle; strength, power

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself, one's own (reflexive pronoun)

ချပေးရန်

chà pè yan — In order to offer or provide to someone

ထိုင်

htaing — To sit or be seated

ဤ

ì — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

ဆန်းကြယ်သော

sán jè dhaung — Strange, mysterious, or wonderfully unusual

အုပ်စု

ouk su — A group or cluster of things or people

အနည်းငယ်သော

a ní ngè dhaung — A small amount or a few

ရွှင်မြူးမှု

shwìn myú hmu — Joy, cheerfulness, or feeling of delight

ဖြစ်ပေါ်စေ

hpyit pɔ̀ sè — To cause to arise or come about

ပြီး

pyí — After completing, done, finished (aspect marker)

အများ

a myá — Many, the majority, most people

အသိအမှတ်ပြုမှု

a thi a hmut pyù hmu — Recognition, acknowledgment, or official acceptance

ရရှိ

ya shi — To obtain, receive, or attain something

ကောက်ကျစ်သော

kauk kyit dhaung — Cunning, crafty, or sly in character

ဟာသသမား

hà thà tha má — A comedian, joker, or funny person

က

ga — Subject marker particle (nominative case)

ထို

dó — That, those (demonstrative adjective)

အရာ

a yà — Thing, matter, or subject

တစ်ခုလုံး

tit khu lóun — The whole thing, entirely, all of it

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit swè — A friend or close acquaintance

ကဲ့ရဲ့သော

kè yè dhaung — Criticizing, mocking, or ridiculing someone

ကဗျာ

ga byà — Poetry or a poem

တစ်ပုဒ်

tit pout — One piece of writing or a poem

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit dhì — Is, to be, to become (copula verb)

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

သိမ်မွေ့

thèin mwè — Subtle, gentle, delicate, or refined

စွာ

swà — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner

ဖော်ပြသည်

hpò pyà dhì — Expresses, describes, or represents clearly

အထိ

a hti — Until, up to, as far as

သံသယ

thùn tha ya — Doubt, suspicion, or uncertainty

ဖြန့်ဝေ

hpyán wè — To distribute, spread, or circulate widely

လိုက်သည်

laik dhì — To follow, accompany, or comply with

တပြိုင်နက်

ta pyaing net — Simultaneously, at the same time

ယခင်က

ya khìng ga — Previously, before, in the past

ချီးမွမ်း

chí mwún — To praise, compliment, or commend someone

ခဲ့သော

khè dhaung — Which has done, past action modifier

သူများ

thu myá — Those people, others, they (plural)

စိုးရိမ်

só yaing — To worry, fear, or be anxious

လာ

là — To come; directional verb toward speaker

မိမိတို့

mi mi dó — Ourselves, our own group (reflexive plural)

ကိုယ်စားပြု

ko sá pyù — To represent or act on behalf of

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, actually (emphatic particle)

ထင်မှတ်

hting hmut — To assume, suppose, or think mistakenly

ကြ

jà — Plural action marker or mutual action particle

အနက်

a net — Meaning, significance, or deep interpretation

တပ်မတော်

tat ma daung — The military or armed forces

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာ

gùn theikhà — Honor, dignity, or reputation

တာဝန်

tà wun — Duty, responsibility, or obligation

ထမ်းဆောင်

htán saung — To carry out or fulfill a duty

အသက်

a thet — Life, age, or years of living

ကြီးရင့်

jí yin — Mature, senior, or advanced in age

သည့်

dhì — Relative clause marker (modifying nouns)

ထူးချွန်သော

htú chwan dhaung — Outstanding, excellent, or exceptionally talented

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person (pronoun)

ထိုသို့

dó dho — In that way, like that, thus

ကဲ့ရဲ့

kè yè — To criticize, mock, or ridicule someone

ခြင်း

chìng — Nominalizer suffix making verbs into nouns

ဒေါသ

daw tha — Anger, rage, or wrath

နေအိမ်

nè ein — Home, residence, or dwelling place

သို့

tho — To, toward (directional particle)

သွားရောက်

thwá yauk — To go and arrive somewhere

သူ့

thu — His, her, of that person (possessive)

အိမ်

ein — House, home, or building

တွေ့ရ

twè ya — To find, encounter, or come across

သောအခါ

dhaung a khà — When, at the time that (temporal clause)

နားထောင်

ná htaung — To listen or pay attention to

ပါ

pà — Polite particle or inclusive marker

မျောက်ဆရာ

myauk sa yà — A monkey trainer or animal performer

ပြော

pyáw — To speak, say, or tell

ဆုံးရှုံး

sóun shóun — To lose or suffer a loss

သော်လည်း

dhaung lè — Although, even though, nevertheless

လက်သည်း

let thí — Fingernail or toenail

ကျန်ရှိ

kyàn shi — To remain, be left over, still exist

သေးသည်

thé dhì — Still, yet (continuative aspect marker)

လည်းကောင်း

lè kaung — Also, as well, likewise (additive particle)

သင်

thìng — You (second person pronoun)

မတင့်တယ်မှု

ma tìng tè hmu — Impropriety, indecency, or inappropriateness

သိမြင်

thi myìng — To perceive, understand, or comprehend

နိုင်

naing — To be able to, can (potential marker)

လောက်အောင်

lauk aung — Enough to, sufficiently so that

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Is not, not the case (negation)

ကြောင်း

jaung — That (complementizer for reported speech/thought)

သင့်

thìng — Your (possessive) or should (obligation)

နားလည်

ná lè — To understand or comprehend something

အောင်

aung — So that, in order to succeed

ပြောပြ

pyáw pyà — To tell, explain, or describe to someone

ချင်

chìng — To want or desire to do something

သွေးအမျိုး

thwé a myó — Bloodline, lineage, or racial heritage