The Adventures of Roderick Random — Page 2

Vocabulary

မင်းကြီး

min-ji — high-ranking official; lord or noble person

၊

(comma pause mark) — Burmese punctuation mark indicating a short pause

ထိုသွားမရှိသော

hto thwa ma shi thaw — toothless; having no teeth

မေးရိုးမှာ

meh yo hma — on or at the jawbone

အလွန်

a-lwan — very; extremely; excessively

ရှက်စရာကောင်းသော

shek sa ya kaung thaw — shameful; embarrassing; worthy of shame

မသမာသော

ma tha ma thaw — dishonest; corrupt; unscrupulous

စွပ်စွဲချက်

swut swè jek — accusation; charge; allegation against someone

တစ်ခု

tit khu — one thing; a single item

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyit thì — is; to be; to exist

သို့သော်

tho thaw — however; but; nevertheless

ကျွန်ုပ်သည်

kyun-naw thì — I; formal first-person singular pronoun

အမျက်ဒေါသကို

a-myet daw tho go — anger; wrath; rage (object marker)

နှိပ်နှင်း

hneit hnin — to suppress; to oppress; to repress

နိုင်ခြင်းမရှိသောလောက်

naing jing ma shi thaw lout — to the extent of being unable to

စိတ်ဓာတ်

seit daat — spirit; morale; mental state

ကျသွားသည်ဟု

kya thwa thì hù — that (one's spirit) fell; became discouraged

မထင်မှတ်

ma hting hmut — do not think; do not expect or assume

ပါနှင့်

pa hnin — imperative particle meaning 'do not' or 'please don't'

။

(full stop) — Burmese punctuation mark indicating end of sentence

ဤနေရာတွင်

i nay ya twìn — in this place; here

ပညာတတ်သော

pyin-nya tat thaw — educated; learned; knowledgeable

ဆရာဝန်

sa-ya-wun — doctor; physician; medical professional

တစ်ဦး

tit u — one person; a single individual

ရောက်လာသောကြောင့်

yaout la thaw kyaung — because (someone) arrived; due to arrival

သူ၏

thu yei — his; her; belonging to that person

စကားကို

za-ga go — speech; words; conversation (object marker)

ဖြတ်တောက်

pfyat tout — to cut off; to interrupt; to sever

ခဲ့သည်

khè thì — past tense marker; did; has done

ထို

hto — that; those; referring to something mentioned

ဆရာဝန်သည်

sa-ya-wun thì — the doctor (subject marker); that physician

မျက်နှာပေါ်တွင်

myet hna baw twìn — on the face; upon one's face

အမျက်ဒေါသနှင့်

a-myet daw tho hnin — with anger; with wrath

အပြစ်ရှိသူ

a-pyit shi thu — guilty person; one who has wrongdoing

ဆီသို့

si tho — toward; in the direction of

ချဉ်းကပ်

chin kut — to approach; to draw near to someone

လာကာ

la ka — coming and then; having come

ကြွေးကြော်

kwè kyaw — to proclaim; to shout out; to exclaim

ကြီးထွား

ji thwa — to grow; to grow large; to enlarge

လာခြင်းသည်

la jing thì — the act of coming; coming (nominalized)

၏

yei — possessive particle; of; belonging to

နားရွက်

nà ywet — ear; the external ear flap

ကျုံ့သွားခြင်းကို

kyoun thwa jing go — the shrinking or shrinking away of (object marker)

သက်သေပြ

thet thay pya — to prove; to demonstrate; to show evidence

လိမ့်မည်

lein myi — will; future tense marker (prediction)

ဆိုပါကလော

so pa ka law — if one says so; what about saying...

မဟုတ်

ma hout — is not; not; negation of being

လိမ်ညာ

lein nya — to lie; to deceive; to tell falsehoods

ဖြောင့်ဖျား

pfyaung pfyà — to persuade; to coax; to sweet-talk

ခြင်းကို

jing go — nominalizing suffix with object marker

မရှာဖွေ

ma sha pfwè — do not search for; do not look for

မုတ်ဆိတ်မွေး

mout seit mwè — beard; facial hair on chin

အားဖြင့်

a pfyin — by means of; through; by way of

ကျမ်းဆို

kyam so — to swear on scripture; to take an oath

သည်

thì — subject marker particle; topic marker

ဤ

i — this; demonstrative pronoun for nearby thing

ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာ

ko yè ko ta — personal; private; individual matter

ရှုတ်ချမှု

shout cha hmù — condemnation; denunciation; act of denouncing

အတွက်

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

သင့်ကို

thin go — you (object marker); referring to the listener

တရားစွဲဆို

ta-ya swè so — to sue; to file a lawsuit; to prosecute

ရန်

yan — in order to; for the purpose of

ထောက်ထား

tout tha — to support; to hold up; to consider

မည်

myi — will; future tense auxiliary particle

မဟုတ်သော

ma hout thaw — that which is not; untrue; false

ဆံမျှင်

san myìn — a strand of hair; single hair

တစ်ချောင်းမျှ

tit chaung hmya — even a single strand; not even one

မရှိ

ma shi — there is not; does not exist; absent

ပေ

pè — emphatic sentence-final particle; indeed

ကပ်တိန်

kut tain — captain; military or ship officer rank

ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

wun nè pfwè kaung thaw — pitiable; sad; worthy of feeling sorry for

ကလေးငယ်သည်

ka-lay ngè thì — the small child; the young child (subject)

မည်သို့

myi tho — how; in what way; by what means

ကူးယူ

ku yu — to copy; to reproduce; to take from

ထားသည်ကို

tha thì go — that (it) has been placed or done (object)

လေ့လာ

lè la — to study; to learn; to investigate

ကြည့်ပါ

kyi pa — please look; please observe; look at this

အရောင်မှာ

a-yaung hma — regarding the color; as for the color

မူ

mu — as for; however; topic contrast particle

ကွဲပြားသည်မှာ

kwè pyà thì hma — the difference is; where it differs

မှန်သည်

hmun thì — is correct; is true; that is right

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

pon than-dan — shape; form; appearance; physical structure

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; conjunction particle

ဆင်တူ

sin tu — similar; resembling; looking alike

သူသည်

thu thì — he; she; that person (subject marker)

ဤသို့

i tho — in this way; like this; thus

ကြွေးကြော်သံများဖြင့်

kwè kyaw than mya pfyin — with shouts; with proclamations; with outcries

ကန့်ကွက်

kan kwet — to object; to protest; to oppose

နေစဉ်မှာပင်

nè zin hma pin — even while; even during that time

လေးစားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

lè za pfwè kaung thaw — respectable; worthy of respect and admiration

ဆီးနိတ်

si-nit — Senate; legislative upper chamber or body

အမတ်

a-mut — member of parliament; legislative representative

ဝင်ရောက်

win yaout — to enter; to come in; to arrive inside

လာပြီး

la pyi — came and then; having arrived

လျှောက်ကာ

hlyout ka — walking and then; while walking

မိုက်မဲသောကောင်

mite mè thaw kaung — stupid fellow; idiotic creature; dumb person

ဟု

hù — quotative particle; saying; called

သူ

thu — he; she; that person; third person pronoun

ကြွေးကြော်ကာ

kwè kyaw ka — having shouted out; exclaiming and then

ဆက်ပြော

set pyaw — to continue speaking; to speak further

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kyun-daw thì — I; polite male first-person pronoun (subject)

သတင်းစာ

tha-din za — newspaper; news publication

အပြင်

a-pyin — outside; in addition to; besides

အခြားသော

a-khà thaw — other; another; different kind of

အရာများကိုလည်း

a-ya mya go lè — also the things; those matters too (object)

မျက်မှန်

myet hmun — eyeglasses; spectacles; reading glasses

မပါပဲ

ma pa bè — without; not having; lacking

ဖတ်တတ်

pfut tat — able to read; capable of reading

ကြောင်း

kyaung — that; nominalizer indicating fact or cause

ယခု

ya-khu — now; currently; at this moment

ပြပါမည်

pya pa myi — will show; will demonstrate; will display

ဤတွင်

i twìn — here; in this place; at this point

ငွေ

ngwè — money; silver; currency

သင်

thin — you; second person pronoun

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tain — yourself; oneself; personally

လက်မှတ်ထိုး

let hmut hto — to sign; to put one's signature on

ထားသော

tha thaw — that has been placed; previously done

ကတိစာရွက်

ka-ti sa-ywet — promissory note; written pledge or promise

ရှိသည်

shi thì — there is; exists; has; is present

မိုက်ကောင်

mite kaung — foolish fellow; stupid person; idiot

ရေ

yè — water; fluid; also a sentence-final particle

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I; polite male first-person pronoun

မကူညီ

ma ku nyi — did not help; did not assist

ခဲ့ပါက

khè pa ka — if (I/one) had not; conditional past

မိုးချုပ်မှသာ

mo jout hma tha — only when night falls; only at dusk

မျက်နှာပြ

myet hna pya — to show one's face; to appear before

ဝံ့သော

wun thaw — daring to; bold enough to; willing to

တူသွား

tu thwa — to become similar; to come to resemble

သင်ကဲ့သို့

thin kè tho — like you; similar to you; as you do

ကျေးဇူးမသိသော

kyè zu ma thi thaw — ungrateful; not appreciating kindness received

အနာတု

a-na tu — invalid; disabled person; one who is ill

ပြောဆိုတတ်သည့်

pyaw so tat thì — one who is able to speak; who talks