The Angel in the House — Page 5

Vocabulary

၊

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

နှင်းဆီပန်းများဖြင့်

hnin-zi-pan-mya-hpyin — With roses; decorated or accompanied by roses

အလှဆင်ထားသော

a-hla-hsin-hta-dho — Decorated or adorned beautifully

ပြတင်းပေါက်များအားလုံး

pya-tin-pauk-mya-a-lone — All windows; every window in a space

ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့်

kjeh-kjeh-pyan-pyan — Wide open; fully and broadly spread out

ဖွင့်ချထားလျက်

hpwin-hja-hta-lyat — Left open; kept in an opened state

လေ့လာရေးခန်းတွင်

leh-la-yay-khan-dwin — In the study room; inside a study

တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်သည်

ta-sone-ta-yauk-dhi — Someone; a certain unspecified person

၏

ei — Possessive particle; indicating belonging or association

မင်္ဂလာဆောင်တေး

min-gala-hsaung-tay — Wedding march; music played at a wedding ceremony

ကို

ko — Accusative particle; marks the object of a verb

တီးမှုတ်နေ

ti-hmut-nay — Playing music; currently playing an instrument

။

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

ထိုနေရာတွင်ပင်

hto-nay-ya-dwin-pin — Right in that very place; at that exact spot

ကျွန်တော်

kjaw-daw — I; first-person pronoun used by males formally

နောက်ဆုံးအကြိမ်

nauk-zone-a-kjin — The last time; the final occasion or instance

နှုတ်ဆက်ခဲ့သည်

hnout-hset-kheh-dhi — Said goodbye; bade farewell to someone

ခရစ္စမတ်ကာလ

kha-rit-hsa-mat-ka-la — Christmas season; the festive period around Christmas

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်

hpyit-kheh-dhi — It was; something occurred or happened in past

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at the present time or moment

မှတ်မိ

hmat-mi — To remember; to recall something from memory

စိတ်နာဟန်ဆောင်ကာ

seit-na-han-hsaung-ga — Pretending to be hurt or offended emotionally

ငိုကြွေးကြသော

ngo-kjway-gja-dho — Those who weep; those who cry or sob

ကြမ်းတမ်းသော

kjan-dan-dho — Rough or harsh; having a rude or crude manner

မိန်းကလေးများ

main-ka-lay-mya — Girls; young female children or young women

အမြဲစိမ်းသောအပင်များ

a-mjeh-zain-dho-a-pin-mya — Evergreen plants; plants staying green all year

ချတင်ခဲ့ကြသည်

hja-tin-kheh-gja-dhi — Laid or placed down together; arranged collectively

ကြောင့်

kjoun — Because of; due to; a causal particle

ပြင်းထန်သော

pyin-htan-dho — Intense or severe; strong and forceful in nature

မီးတောက်

mi-dauk — Flame; a burning blaze of fire

အတွင်း

a-dwin — Inside; within a space or period of time

မီးပြာသာ

mi-pya-tha — Embers; glowing remains of a dying fire

ပေါ်ပေါက်လာသည်

pau-pauk-la-dhi — Appeared; came into existence or became visible

မီး

mi — Fire; flame or light from burning

သည်

dhi — Topic or nominative marker particle in Burmese

ကျယ်ဝန်းသော

kjeh-wan-dho — Spacious or wide; large in area or extent

နိမ့်ကျသော

nain-kjah-dho — Low; situated at a low level or position

ခန်း

khan — Room; an enclosed space within a building

အလင်းပေးကာ

a-lin-pay-ga — Giving light; illuminating or lighting up a space

ဟောင်းနွမ်းသော

haung-nwan-dho — Old and worn; dilapidated or shabby in appearance

မှိန်ဖျော့သော

hmain-hpjaw-dho — Dim and faded; lacking brightness or clarity

ကြွယ်ဝသော

kjway-wa-dho — Rich or abundant; full of wealth or resources

တောက်ပမှု

dauk-pa-hmu — Brightness; the quality of shining or gleaming

ဖန်တီးသည်

hpan-ti-dhi — To create; to make or produce something new

နီရဲသော

ni-yeh-dho — Bright red; deeply or vividly red in color

တောက်ပသော

dauk-pa-dho — Bright or shining; emitting or reflecting strong light

မှောင်မိုက်မှု

hmaung-maik-hmu — Darkness; the state of being dark or dim

နှင့်အတူ

hnin-a-tu — Together with; along with or in company of

ပြောင်းလဲမှု

pyaung-leh-hmu — Change; the process of becoming different or altered

မည်သည့်အရာမျှ

myi-dhi-a-ya-mja — Nothing at all; not any thing whatsoever

မထိတွေ့ခဲ့

ma-hti-tway-kheh — Did not touch; had no contact with something

ကရုဏာကြွယ်ဝသူ

ka-ru-na-kjway-wa-thu — A compassionate person; one full of mercy

ဆောင်းရာသီများ

hsaung-ya-thi-mya — Winter seasons; the cold seasons of the year

ထက်ပင်

htet-pin — Even more than; emphasizing a greater degree

မုဆိုးမဘဝ

mu-hso-ma-ba-wa — Widowhood; the state of being a widow

ပို

po — More; to a greater extent or degree

၍

yway — And so; connective particle linking clauses or actions

ကုန်ညှင်းနွမ်းနယ်နေသော်လည်း

kone-hnyin-nwan-neh-nay-dho-leh — Although worn out and exhausted; despite fatigue

ပျော်ရွှင်သော

pyaw-shwin-dho — Happy or joyful; feeling or showing great pleasure

စိတ်

seit — Mind or heart; inner feelings and thoughts

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With or by means of; an instrumental particle

တည်ငြိမ်နေကာ

teh-njain-nay-ga — Remaining calm and stable; staying composed peacefully

ကောင်းကင်ဘုံ

kaung-gin-bone — Heaven; the divine realm above the earthly world

အကျိုးစီးပွား

a-kjo-si-bwa — Benefits or interests; advantageous gains or welfare

ဆက်လက်

hset-let — Continue; to carry on or proceed further

မျှော်လင့်သည့်အလား

mjaw-lin-dhi-a-la — As if hoping or expecting something earnestly

သူ

thu — He or she; third-person singular pronoun

စိတ်ကူးများ

seit-ku-mya — Ideas or imaginations; thoughts and mental concepts

မြင့်မြင့်မားမားသော

myin-myin-ma-ma-dho — Very high or elevated; of great height or stature

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place or location; a specific spot or position

သို့

dho — To or toward; directional particle indicating destination

တည်တည်မြဲမြဲ

teh-teh-mjeh-mjeh — Firmly and steadfastly; in a stable and resolute manner

ရောက်ရှိနိုင်ချေ

yauk-shi-nain-hjeh — Possibility of reaching or attaining something

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to be present or located somewhere

ယခုတော့

ya-khu-daw — Now then; at this current point in time

သူမ

thu-ma — She; third-person feminine singular pronoun

ထိုနေရာတွင်

hto-nay-ya-dwin — In that place; at that particular location

ရှိနေပြီ

shi-nay-pi — Is already there; currently exists or is present

မျက်နှာ

mjet-hna — Face; the front part of a person's head

တွင်

dwin — In or at; locative particle indicating location

နှိမ့်ချမှု

hnain-hja-hmu — Humility; the quality of being modest or humble

နှင့်

hnin — And or with; a conjunction or comitative particle

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာ

gon-thei-hkha — Dignity or honor; personal integrity and respectability

တို့

do — Plural particle; marks a group or collective

အချိုဆုံးသော

a-hjo-zone-dho — The sweetest; most pleasant or endearing in quality

ဖက်တွယ်မှု

hpet-tweh-hmu — An embrace; the act of holding or hugging

တွေ့ဆုံကြ

tweh-hzone-gja — Meet together; to encounter one another in person

တိကျစွာ

ti-kjah-zwa — Precisely or exactly; in an accurate and definite manner

ကမ္ဘာ

kam-ba — World or earth; the entire globe or universe

ပေးပို့ခြင်းခံရသည်

pay-po-hjin-khan-ya-dhi — Was sent or delivered; received something dispatched

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; marks reported speech or thought

ထင်ရ

htin-ya — Seems or appears; gives the impression of something

လမ်းလွဲနေသော

lan-lweh-nay-dho — Going astray; on the wrong path or misguided

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kjaw-no-do — We; first-person plural pronoun in formal speech

သင်ကြားပေးရန်

thin-kja-pay-yan — To teach; for the purpose of providing instruction

အချိန်

a-hjain — Time; a particular period or moment in time

လျင်မြန်သော

ljin-myan-dho — Fast or swift; moving with great speed

စီးဆင်းမှု

si-hsin-hmu — Flow; the movement of liquid or continuous motion

လှိုင်းညီသော

hlain-nyi-dho — Even-flowing or uniform; having consistent wave-like rhythm

တည်ငြိမ်သော

teh-njain-dho — Calm or stable; not easily disturbed or agitated

ထာဝရဘဝ

hta-wa-ya-ba-wa — Eternal life; everlasting existence beyond earthly death

တစ်စိတ်တစ်ဒေသ

ta-seit-ta-day-dha — A portion or part; one section of a whole

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As; in the role or capacity of something

မြင်နိုင်ရန်

myin-nain-yan — In order to see or perceive something clearly

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life; the condition of being alive or existence

ဂုဏ်သတင်း

gon-tha-tin — Reputation or fame; one's standing and public recognition

အပြည့်

a-pyeh — Fully or completely; to the fullest extent possible

ကြည်ညိုလေးစားမှု

kji-nyo-lay-za-hmu — Reverence or deep respect; feeling of admiring veneration

ကြည့်ရှု

kji-shu — To look at or observe; to view attentively

ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်

hsan-kjin-bet — Opposite; contrary side or opposing direction

ဖြစ်သော

hpyit-dho — Which is or that is; being a certain thing

အတွေ့အကြုံများ

a-tweh-a-kjon-mya — Experiences; various encounters and lessons encountered in life

ပင်

pin — Emphatic particle; even, indeed, or itself

မပျက်ဆီးနိုင်သော

ma-pjet-hsi-nain-dho — Indestructible; cannot be damaged or ruined

ကြည်နူးမှု

kji-nu-hmu — Joy or delight; feeling of warm heartfelt happiness

လူသားအားလုံး

lu-tha-a-lone — All human beings; every person in mankind

ရှိကြသည်

shi-gja-dhi — All exist or are present; collectively being somewhere

ဟူသော

hu-dho — Called or known as; that which is named so

ခရစ်ယာန်

kha-rit-yan — Christian; relating to or following Christianity

တရားဥပဒေ

ta-ya-u-pa-day — Law; legal rules governing a community or nation

တည်ဆောက်မှု

teh-hsauk-hmu — Construction or building; the act of establishing something

လိုက်နာ

laik-na — To follow or comply; to obey rules or instructions

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto-kjoun — Therefore; for that reason or consequently

အပြုံး

a-pyone — A smile; a facial expression of happiness

တစ်ချိန်တည်းတွင်

ta-hjain-teh-dwin — At the same time; simultaneously at one moment

မြင့်မြတ်သော

myin-mjat-dho — Noble or exalted; of high moral or spiritual worth

ချီးမွမ်းမှု

hji-mwan-hmu — Praise; the act of expressing admiration or approval

နူးညံ့သော

nu-nyan-dho — Gentle or tender; soft and kind in manner

ကြိမ်းမောင်းမှု

kjain-maung-hmu — Threatening or scolding; act of intimidating someone harshly

ပေးအပ်လိုက်သည်

pay-at-laik-dhi — Handed over or gave away; delivered to someone

ကား

ka — Topical emphatic particle highlighting the subject

မယဉ်ကျေးသော

ma-yin-kjay-dho — Uncivilized or rude; lacking manners or refinement

ကောင်လေး

kaung-lay — Boy; a young male child or youth

ဆန်းကြယ်စွာ

hsan-kjeh-zwa — Wondrously or miraculously; in an amazing surprising manner

လှုပ်ရှားခံရပြီး

hlut-sha-khan-ya-pi — Having been moved or stirred emotionally by something

ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ်

ko-ko-ko — Oneself; referring reflexively to one's own self

ကျိုးအတွက်

kjo-a-twet — For the sake of; for the benefit or purpose

ယဉ်ကျေးသိမ်မွေ့လာ

yin-kjay-thain-mweh-la — Became refined and civilized; grew more cultured over time

နှစ်များ

hnit-mya — Years; multiple years of time passing

ထိခိုက်နစ်နာစေသည်

hti-kaik-net-na-zay-dhi — Causes harm or injury; inflicts pain upon someone

ထက်

htet — Than; comparative particle for making comparisons

အဆဝေးလှသော်မူ

a-hsa-way-hla-dho-mu — Though very far away in degree or distance

ကျေးဇူးနိုင်သော

kjay-zu-nain-dho — Capable of being gracious or kind-hearted to others

လိမ်းဆေး

lain-zay — Ointment or cosmetic cream; applied to skin topically

ဆင်ယင်ပေး

hsin-yin-pay — To adorn or beautify; to decorate someone or something

အမာရန်း

a-ma-yan — Scar; a mark left after a wound heals

နဖူး

na-hpu — Forehead; the part of the face above the eyebrows

နုပျိုလှပ

nu-pyo-hla-pa — Youthful and beautiful; young, fresh, and attractive

စေ

zay — Causative particle; causing or making something happen

ဤသူ

i-thu — This person; referring to a specific nearby individual

သားဦး

tha-u — Firstborn son; the eldest male child in a family

ဖြစ်ပါသလော

hpyit-pa-dha-law — Is it so? Polite question asking if something is true

တင်းကျပ်တတ်သော

tin-kjat-tat-dho — Strict or stern; inclined to be rigid or demanding

ဆွဲကစားခွင့်

hswe-ka-za-khwin — Permission to pull and play; right to play freely

မပေးခဲ့သော

ma-pay-kheh-dho — Did not give; withheld or failed to provide something

ခရစ္စမတ်

kha-rit-hsa-mat — Christmas; the Christian holiday celebrating Christ's birth