The Angel in the House — Page 1

Vocabulary

မှ

hma — From; indicates source or origin.

ခုနှစ်

khu. hna't — Year; used to indicate a specific year.

ထုတ်ဝေမှုမှ

hto't wè. hmu. hma — From the publication; originating from published source.

မိတ္တူကူးယူသည်

mei't tu: ku: yu. thi. — To copy or reproduce a document.

၊

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

အီးမေးလ်

i: mè: l — Email; electronic mail communication.

၏

e' — Possessive particle; of or belonging to.

အမျိုးသားစာကြည့်တိုက်

a.myui: tha: sa: kji. tai't — National library; repository of national books.

အိမ်ထဲရှိ

ein hté: shi. — Inside the house; existing within home.

နတ်သမီး

na't tha. mi: — Angel; fairy; celestial female spirit.

။

(full stop) — Burmese punctuation marking end of sentence.

ရေးသားသည်

yè: tha: thi. — To write; to compose or author something.

ကြီးမားသောကျေးဇူးတော်အားဖြင့်

kji: ma: dhò: kjè: zu: dò: a: hpyin. — By great grace or mercy; through immense blessing.

ဘုရားသခင်သည်

hpu. ya: tha. kin. thi. — God; referring to the divine being.

သူတို့ကို

thu: tó: go. — Them; referring to those people (object).

တစ်ပြိုင်နက်

ti'. pyain nei't — Simultaneously; at the same time together.

ဤလောကသို့

i. lau't thó. — To this world; into this earthly existence.

ထားခဲ့သည်

hta: khè. thi. — Placed or left; put something somewhere before.

လန်ဒန်

lan. dan. — London; the capital city of England.

ပါရီ

pa: yi: — Paris; the capital city of France.

နှင့်

hning. — And; with; conjunction connecting nouns or phrases.

မဲလ်ဘုန်း

mè l bun: — Melbourne; a major city in Australia.

၁၈၉၁

1891 — The year eighteen ninety-one in Burmese numerals.

ဤကဗျာကို

i. ka. bya: go. — This poem; referring to the present poem (object).

ကျွန်ုပ်အား

kjwa. no' a: — To me; directed toward the speaker.

ကဗျာဆရာဖြစ်စေသော

ka. bya: hsa. ya: hpyi't sè. dhò: — That which made me become a poet.

ကျွန်ုပ်

kjwa. no' — I; me; formal first-person pronoun.

ကဗျာဆရာဖြစ်ရန်

ka. bya: hsa. ya: hpyi't yan. — In order to become a poet; goal.

အကြောင်းဖြစ်သော

a. kjoun: hpyi't dhò: — That which is the reason or cause.

သူမ

thu. ma. — She; her; third-person female pronoun.

အမှတ်တရအဖြစ်

a. hma't ta. ya. a. hpyi't — As a memorial or in remembrance of.

ဆက်သသည်

hsè't tha. thi. — To dedicate; to present with reverence.

နိဒါန်း

nei. dan: — Preface; introduction to a book or poem.

သူ

thu. — He; him; third-person male pronoun.

သည်

thi. — Topic marker particle; also present tense marker.

ဤ

i. — This; demonstrative pronoun indicating nearby thing.

တွင်

twin. — In; at; within a place or context.

နေရာရှိသင့်သည်ဟု

nè. ya: shi. thin. thi. hu. — That it should have a place; ought.

အကြံပြုသည့်အတွက်

a. khan. pyu. thi. a. twe't — Because of suggesting; due to recommendation given.

တစ်ခုတည်းသောအဖြေသာ

ti'. khu. tè: dhò: a. hpyè. tha: — Only one answer; the sole possible response.

ရှိနိုင်သည်

shi. nain. thi. — Can exist; there can be; is possible.

ကျယ်ပြန့်၍

kjè. pyan. i. — Widely; broadly; in an extensive manner.

စျေးသက်သာသောဖြန့်ဝေမှုသည်

zjè: the't tha: dhò: hpyan. wè. hmu. thi. — Affordable distribution; cheap dissemination of works.

မူပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသောစာကြည့်တိုက်ထုတ်ဝေမှု

mu: pain. khwin. shi. dhò: sa: kji. tai't hto't wè. hmu. — Copyrighted library publication; officially owned published edition.

တန်ဖိုးကို

tan. bo: go. — Value; worth; the importance of something.

လျော့နည်းစေမည်မဟုတ်ဟု

lyò. nyi: sè. myi. ma. ho't hu. — That it will not diminish or reduce value.

ယုံကြည်မှုဖြင့်

youn. kji. hmu. hpyin. — With belief; through faith or conviction.

ထိုအကြံပြုချက်ကို

hto. a. khan. pyu. chei't go. — That suggestion; referring to the mentioned recommendation.

တင်ပြခဲ့ပြီး

tin. pya. khè. pi: — Having presented or submitted; already put forward.

အိမ်

ein — House; home; a dwelling place.

သန့်ရှင်းသောချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာကို

than. shin: dhò: chyi't chin: mei't ta: go. — Pure love; holy affection directed toward someone.

ရည်ပြုသော

yi. pyu. dhò: — Dedicated to; intended for a purpose.

ကဗျာများကို

ka. bya: mya: go. — Poems; referring to multiple poems as object.

ဖြန့်ဝေခြင်းဖြင့်

hpyan. wè. chin: hpyin. — By distributing; through the act of dissemination.

ရေးသားခြင်း

yè: tha: chin: — The act of writing; composing or authoring.

အကောင်းဆုံးအသုံးချမှုကို

a. kaun: hsoun: a. thoun: chya. hmu. go. — The best use; optimal application of something.

ဖြည့်ဆည်းနိုင်သည်ဟု

hpyi. hsi: nain. thi. hu. — That it can fulfill or satisfy a purpose.

သဘောရသည်

tha. bò: ya. thi. — To agree; to understand and accept an idea.

ကဗျာ

ka. bya: — Poem; poetry; verse literature.

အပိုင်းနှစ်ပိုင်းသည်

a. pain: hna' pain: thi. — Two parts; referring to two sections of something.

ခုနှစ်များတွင်

khu. hna't mya: twin. — In the years; during specified multiple years.

ထွက်ပေါ်ခဲ့ပြီး

htwe't pò: khè. pi: — Having appeared or been published; came out before.

နောက်ပိုင်းတွင်

nau't pain: twin. — Later on; in a subsequent period of time.

အသေးစိတ်ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်ကာ

a. thè: sei't pyan. lyi. pyin. hsin. ka: — Having carefully revised in detail; thoroughly corrected again.

ထိုအချိန်မှစ၍

hto. a. chein. hma. sa. i. — From that time onward; since then continuously.

အင်္ဂလိပ်လူမျိုးများ

in. ga. lei' lu. myui: mya: — English people; the British ethnic group.

အိမ်တွင်ဖတ်စာများထဲတွင်

ein twin. hpa't sa: mya: htè: twin. — Among home readings; within household reading materials.

အမြဲတမ်းနေရာတစ်ခုရရှိခဲ့သည်

a. myè: dan: nè. ya: ti'. khu. ya. shi. khè. thi. — Has always had a place; permanently secured a spot.

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kjwa. no' tó: — We; us; first-person plural formal pronoun.

စာဖတ်သူများသည်

sa: hpa't thu: mya: thi. — Readers; those who read books or texts.

မူရင်းရေးသူ

mu: yin: yè: thu: — Original author; the person who originally wrote it.

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အား

kjwa. no' tó: a: — To us; directed toward the speaker's group.

ပေးလှူသောလက်ဆောင်အတွက်

pè: hlu: dhò: le't hsaun. a. twe't — For the gift generously given to us.

ကျေးဇူးတင်မှုတွင်

kjè: zu: tin. hmu. twin. — In gratitude; within the act of thanking.

ပါဝင်ကြလိမ့်မည်မှာ

pa: win. kja. lein. myi. hma: — Will surely join in; certain to participate together.

သေချာပေသည်

thè. cha: pè. thi. — It is certain; definitely; without any doubt.

မာတိကာ

ma: tei. ka: — Table of contents; index of a book.

စာအုပ်

sa: ou' — Book; a written or printed publication.

၁

1 — The number one in Burmese numerals.

နိဒါန်းကဗျာ

nei. dan: ka. bya: — Introductory poem; a poem serving as preface.

ကန္တို

kan. to. — Canto; a major division of a long poem.

ကာသီဒရယ်ဘုရားကျောင်းဝန်းကျင်

ka: thi. da. yè l hpu. ya: kjoun: wan: kjin. — Cathedral close; the area surrounding a cathedral.

နိဒါန်းကဗျာများ

nei. dan: ka. bya: mya: — Introductory poems; multiple poems serving as prefaces.

မဖြစ်နိုင်ခြင်း

ma. hpyi't nain. chin: — Impossibility; the state of being impossible.

၂

2 — The number two in Burmese numerals.

ချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာ

chyi't chin: mei't ta: — Love; affection; benevolent loving feeling.

အမှန်တကယ်

a. hman. ta. kjè l — Truly; really; in actual fact or reality.

၃

3 — The number three in Burmese numerals.

ကဗျာဆရာ

ka. bya: hsa. ya: — Poet; a person who writes poetry.

ယုံကြည်မှု

youn. kji. hmu. — Faith; belief; trust in someone or something.