The Angel in the House — Page 1

Vocabulary

နိဒါန်း

ni.dan: — Introduction or preface of a literary work

ငါ့တွင်

nga. htwín — In me; within myself

အမြင့်ပိုင်းသို့

a.mjin. pine: thò. — Toward the higher regions or upper areas

ရောက်ရန်

yauk. yan — In order to reach or arrive somewhere

အတွက်

a.twɛ? — For the sake of; for a purpose

တောင်ပံပါသော

taun.pan. pa: thò — Having wings; winged

မြင်းမရှိ

mjin: ma.shí — Without a horse; having no horse

ကောင်းကင်ကွင်းဝိုင်း

kaun:kin kwín: wain: — Celestial or heavenly circle; sky ring

၏

e' — Possessive or linking particle in Burmese

သံစဉ်

θan zin — Melody; musical tune or progression

နယ်ပယ်

nɛ? pɛ? — Field, domain, or sphere of activity

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to, toward

သူသည်

θu: dhí — He or she is; that person is

ဆူညံ

su: ɲan — Noisy; loud and clamorous

နေသော

ne: thò — That which is staying or existing

လှည်းကြီး

lɛ: ji: — Large cart or big carriage

ဆွဲသာ

swɛ: θa: — Able to pull; only pulling

ဆွဲသည်

swɛ: dhí — To pull or drag something

ကဗျာ

ka.bja: — Poetry; a poem or verse

တွဲဖက်

twɛ: pɛ? — To pair with; companion or partner

သည့်

dhí. — Relative clause particle; that which

လောင်းသံ

laun: θan — Sound of pouring; resonant ringing sound

များ

mja: — Many; plural marker in Burmese

ဖြင့်

pjin. — With; by means of; using

နှစ်သိမ့်

hnasθein. — To console or comfort someone

ကာ

ka: — While; as; a connective verbal particle

ကျော်ကြားမှု

kjò: kja: hmu. — Fame; renown; being widely known

မောဟာစွဲသော

mò ha: swɛ: thò — Captivated by infatuation or delusion

ကြားလျှင်

kja: ljin — When one hears; upon hearing

ငါ့

nga. — My; belonging to me (informal)

ရိုးရှင်းသော

yo: shin: thò — Simple; plain and straightforward

မြင်း

mjin: — Horse; an equine animal

သည်

dhí — Verb particle indicating present or definite tense

နား

na: — Ear; organ of hearing

ထောင်

htaun — To listen; to erect; thousand

မိ

mi. — To catch; to attain successfully

လောက

lò ka. — World; realm of existence

လှည်းဆွဲ

lɛ: swɛ: — To pull a cart; cart-pulling

ကြိုး

kjo: — Rope; string; cord

သူ

θu: — He, she, or that person

လည်ပင်း

lɛ pan: — Neck; the part connecting head and body

ဆုပ်ကိုင်

sou? kain — To grip or hold firmly

ထား

hta: — To place; to keep; to put

ကုန်းသော်

kun: thò — Although bent or bowed down

ကော

kò — Rhetorical particle; and what about...?

ကန်သော်

kan thò — Although kicking or splashing

မလုပ်ရန်

ma. lou? yan — In order not to do something

သတိပညာ

θa.tí piñ ja: — Mindful wisdom; awareness and intelligence

မြောက်လွန်း

mjou? lwun: — Exceedingly beautiful or splendid

လှ

hlà — Beautiful; lovely; attractive

ဝမ်းနည်းစွာ

wun: nɛ: zwa: — Sadly; with grief or sorrow

ဗွန်း

bwun: — Vain; foolish; lacking substance

ဇနီး

za.ni: — Wife; a married woman

အမြဲ

a.mjɛ: — Always; constantly; at all times

ဤသို့

i. dhò. — In this way; thus; like this

ဖြေကြား

pjɛ: kja: — To answer or respond to a question

လေ့

lɛ. — Habit; tendency; customary practice

ရှိ

shí — To exist; to have; to be present

သူမ

θu: ma. — She; her (feminine third person)

ထက်

htɛ? — Than; more than; above

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; emphatic particle

ပို

po: — More; increasingly; even more so

၍

jwi. — Connective particle meaning and then, so

ဆန္ဒပြု

sañ.da pju. — To wish; to express a desire

သို့သော်

θò thò — However; but; nevertheless

နှလုံးသား

hna. loun: θa: — Heart; the seat of emotions

ထဲတွင်

htɛ: twín — Inside; within something

တွေးခေါ်မှု

twɛ: khò: hmu. — Thinking; thought process or contemplation

ပြည့်နှက်

pji. hnɛ? — Filled with; saturated; overflowing

နေ

ne: — To live; to stay; sun

နာမည်

na: mɛ. — Name; title of a person or thing

တစ်ခု

ti? khu. — One thing; a single item

ရရှိ

ya. shí — To obtain; to receive; to get

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

မည်သို့

mji. dhò. — How; in what way or manner

လုပ်ဆောင်

lou? saun — To carry out; to perform an action

မည်နည်း

mji. nɛ: — How; what will it be (question)

ဟု

hu. — Quotation particle meaning thus or saying

ဆု

su. — Prize; award; blessing or reward

ပြီး

pji: — After; finished; completion marker

သုံးကြိမ်

θoun: kjain — Three times; on three occasions

သရဖူ

θa.ya. phu: — Crown; a royal headpiece or wreath

ဆောင်းရ

saun: ya. — To wear on the head; to obtain

ကောလိပ်

kò lɛ? — College; an institution of higher education

ဂုဏ်ထူး

goun htú: — Honors; distinction or special academic merit

ကိုလည်း

ko lɛ: — Also; as for; even that (object)

ခဲ့

khɛ. — Past tense marker; went and did

ကြိုက်

kjou? — To like; to be fond of

လျှင်

ljin — If; when; conditional particle

နာမည်ကျော်

na: mɛ. kjò: — Famous; well-known by name

တစ်ဦး

ti? ú: — One person; a single individual

ဖြစ်နိုင်

pji? nain — Possible; able to be; might be

သံသယ

θan θa ya. — Doubt; suspicion; uncertainty

နည်းနည်း

nɛ: nɛ: — A little; slightly; just a bit

သာ

θa: — Only; merely; emphatic limiting particle

မူ

mu: — As for; topic-marking contrastive particle

လုံးဝ

loun: wà — Completely; entirely; absolutely

မရှိ

ma. shí — Does not exist; there is none

ပိုမို

po: mo: — More; increasingly; to a greater degree

သိမ်မွေ့သော

θein mwɛ. thò — Refined; delicate; subtle and graceful

စကား

za.ga: — Speech; words; language or conversation

ပြောဆို

pjò zo: — To speak; to say; to talk

နှင့်

hnin. — And; with; together with

သူတို့

θu: do. — They; them; those people

မင်္ဂလာနေ့

miñ.ga.la: nɛ. — Auspicious day; wedding day or celebration

တွင်

twín — In; at; within (location particle)

အဋ္ဌမ

a? hta. ma. — The eighth; eighth in ordinal sequence

လယ်ကွင်း

lɛ? kwín: — Open field; paddy field or meadow

ဖြတ်

pja? — To cross; to cut through; to pass

လမ်းလျှောက်

lan: ljou? — To walk; strolling along a path

နေစဉ်

ne: zin — While living; during the course of

သားသမီး

θa: θa mi: — Children; sons and daughters

လမ်း

lan: — Road; path; way or route

တလျှောက်

ta ljou? — Along; throughout the length of

အော်ဟစ်

ò hsi? — To shout; to cry out loudly

လိုက်ပါ

lou? pa: — To follow; to accompany; come along

ကြ

kja — Plural verb particle; to do together

သီချင်း

θi. chin: — Song; a musical vocal composition

ဒါန

da: na. — Donation; generosity; charitable giving

မသတိမဲ့

ma. θa.tí mɛ. — Carelessly; without mindfulness or attention

ဘဲ

bɛ: — Without doing; not doing (negative particle)

မြင့်မြတ်သော

mjin. mja? thò — Noble; lofty and virtuous

မမုန်း

ma. moun: — Not to hate; without hatred

ငါ

nga. — I; me (informal first person pronoun)

အချိန်

a. chein — Time; a period or moment

ကြာရှည်

kja: shɛ. — Long duration; for a long time

စွာ

zwa: — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

တွေးဆမျော

twɛ: sa. mjò — Wondering; pondering and contemplating idly

တွေးဆ

twɛ: sa. — To ponder; to think and wonder

မည်သည်

mji. dhí — Whatever; whichever; that which will be

သီကုံး

θi. koun: — To compose poetry or song; to weave

ရမည်

ya. mji. — Will receive; must obtain; shall get

ဆိုသည်

zo: dhí — Says; is called; refers to

မည်သည့်

mji. dhí. — Whatever; whichever (relative modifier)

ခေါင်းစဉ်

khoun: zin — Title; heading; topic of a work

မသီချင်း

ma. θi. chin: — Not a song; lacking musical composition

ရသေး

ya. θé: — Not yet received; still not obtained

အကြောင်း

a.kjoun: — Reason; about; cause or subject matter

တန်ဖိုး

tan bó: — Value; worth; importance

ထိုက်တန်

htou? tan — Worthy; deserving; worth the effort

ကောင်းစွာ

kaun: zwa: — Well; properly; in a good manner

ဆင်ခြင်

sin. chin — To reflect carefully; to deliberate wisely

ကဗျာဆရာ

ka.bja: sa ya: — Poet; a person who writes poetry

လျှာ

lja: — Tongue; the organ used for speech

ဖြေလွှတ်

pjɛ: hlwa? — To release; to set free; to let go

ကျန်ရှိ

kjan shí — Remaining; still existing; left over

ဤ

i. — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

နောက်ဆုံးသော

naou? zoun: thò — Last; final; occurring at the end

နေ့ရက်

nɛ. yɛ? — Days; dates; period of time

နှိုင်းနေသော

hnain: ne: thò — Comparing; in the process of comparing

ဤမျှ

i. mja. — This much; to this extent

နောက်ကျ

naou? kja — Late; delayed; coming after expected time

မှ

hma. — From; since; starting point particle

မွေးဖွားသော်လည်း

mwé: pwa: thò lɛ: — Although born; even though having been born

ကား

ka: — Car; vehicle; also a topic particle

အထူး

a.htú: — Special; particularly; especially

ကျေးဇူးတော်

kjé: zú: dò — Divine grace; sacred blessing or kindness

ကြောင့်

kjoun. — Because of; due to; owing to

ကျရောက်

kja. yaou? — To befall; to descend upon; to fall to

လာသည်

la: dhí — Comes; to come; is coming

သိလော့

θi. lò. — Know this; be aware (imperative form)

ကြီးမြတ်သော

ji: mja? thò — Great and noble; majestic and revered

ကံကောင်း

kan kaun: — Lucky; fortunate; having good fortune

ဖြစ်စေ

pji? zé — Let it be; may it become; causing

ပါစေ

pa: zé — May it be so; let there be (blessing)

အားလုံး

a: loun: — Everyone; all; everything

ပထမဆုံး

pa. hta. ma. zoun: — First of all; foremost; very first

နောက်ဆုံး

naou? zoun: — Last; finally; at the very end

သီဆို

θi. zo: — To sing; to perform a song

သော

thò — Relative clause particle; which, that

အကြောင်းအရာ

a.kjoun: a.ya: — Subject matter; topic; content of something

စိမ်းလန်း

sein: lan: — Green and lush; verdant and thriving

လှပ်

hlà? — Beautiful; lovely; attractive in appearance

မရှာဖွေ

ma. sha: bwɛ: — Not searching; without seeking or looking

တွေ့ရှိ

twɛ. shí — To find; to discover; to encounter

သေးသော

θé: thò — Small; tiny; still not yet (small)

မြေပြင်

mjɛ: pyin — Ground; surface of the earth; terrain

အခြားသူ

a.hkja: θu: — Another person; someone else

အများ

a.mja: — Many; the majority; most people

နေရာ

ne: ya: — Place; location; spot or position

နီးနား

ni: na: — Nearby; close to; in the vicinity

ရေတွင်း

yé twín: — Well; a source of water underground

ခေါင်း

khoun: — Head; the uppermost part of the body

တိတိကျကျ

ti. ti. kja kja — Precisely; exactly; with accuracy

ရှာဖွေ

sha: bwɛ: — To search; to look for something

ပြီးအောင်

pji: aun — Until completion; so as to finish

စမ်းရေ

san: yé — Spring water; fresh water from a spring

ဝေဝေဆာဆာ

wé wé sa: sa: — Dizzily; in a dazed or confused state

စီးထွက်

si: htwɛ? — To flow out; to stream forth

လာရာ

la: ya: — Coming from; the source from which it comes