The Ballad of the White Horse — Page 1

Vocabulary

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; conjunction linking nouns.

တို့မှ

tote hma — From; by (plural subject marker with ablative).

ထုတ်လုပ်သည်။

htote lote thi — Produces; manufactures; publishes something.

ဖြူသောမြင်းတို့၏

phyu thaw myin tote ei — Of the white horses; possessive plural form.

ဘယ်လက်

beh let — Left hand; the left side.

ရေးသည်

yay thi — Writes; composes written text.

နိဒါန်းမှတ်ချက်။

nei dan hmat chet — Introductory note; prefatory remark or comment.

ဤ

ee — This; demonstrative pronoun indicating nearby thing.

သည်

thi — Is; topic/subject marker particle in Burmese.

သမိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ

tha myine hsine ya — Historical; relating to history or past events.

မှတ်စု

hmat su — Notes; written record or memorandum.

များ

mya — Many; plural marker for nouns.

မလိုအပ်

ma lo ut — Not necessary; unnecessary; not needed.

ပေ

pay — Indeed; emphasis particle affirming a statement.

အကြောင်းမှာ

a kyaung hma — The reason is; as for the matter of.

၎င်း

da gin — It; that; third-person pronoun or demonstrative.

သမိုင်းဝင်

tha myine win — Historic; entering history; historically significant.

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thi — Is; exists; to be something.

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle meaning 'saying that'.

တောင်းဆို

taung hsoe — To demand; claim; request formally.

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; turns verb into noun form.

မပြု

ma pyu — Does not do; not performing an action.

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which; that (adjective marker).

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; therefore.

အတိတ်

a tate — The past; former times; history.

ပတ်သက်သော

pat hset thaw — Related to; concerning; connected with something.

ဂဏာသရုပ်

ga na tha yote — Symbol; figure; allegorical representation or emblem.

ကဲ့သို့

keh thoe — Like; similar to; as if.

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic particle.

ရင်းရင်းနှီးနှီး

yin yin hni hni — Intimately; familiarly; in a close friendly manner.

မကောင်း

ma kaung — Not good; bad; undesirable.

မဟုတ်သော

ma hote thaw — Which is not; that is not; non-.

အရာများ

a ya mya — Things; matters; multiple objects or subjects.

အားလုံး

a lone — All; everything; everyone.

သမိုင်း

tha myine — History; historical record or account.

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle.

ရိုးရာဓလေ့

yo ya da leh — Tradition; custom; conventional cultural practice.

ကို

ko — Object marker; to; directional particle.

အလေးပေး

a lway pay — To emphasize; give importance to something.

ရန်

yan — In order to; purpose particle; for the sake.

ရည်ရွယ်

yi yweh — To intend; aim; have a purpose.

မင်းကြီး

min ji — Great king; senior ruler or monarch.

ဒဏ္ဍာရီ

dan da yi — Legend; myth; traditional story or tale.

ဖြစ်နိုင်

phyit nine — Possible; can be; might happen.

သည့်

thi — Relative clause marker; which; that (variant form).

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a di pa yeh — Meaning; significance; definition of a word.

ဖြင့်

phyin — By means of; with; using (instrumental particle).

မဟုတ်

ma hote — Is not; negation of being or identity.

ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ

hso lo thi hma — What is meant is; that is to say.

မုသာ

mu tha — Lie; falsehood; untruth.

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; nevertheless.

ပို

po — More; to a greater degree.

ကျယ်ပြန့်

kyeh pyan — Wide; broad; expansive in scope.

၍

yway — And so; therefore; connective conjunction particle.

လူသားဆန်

lu tha hsan — Humane; human-like; having human qualities.

ပတ်သက်

pat hset — To relate; concern; be connected with.

အရေးအကြီးဆုံး

a yay a ji zone — Most important; of greatest significance or priority.

အရာ

a ya — Thing; matter; object or subject.

၏

ei — Possessive particle; of; belonging to.

ကိုးကွယ်မှု

ko kweh hmu — Worship; religious devotion or veneration.

နဝမ

na wa ma — Ninth; the ordinal number nine.

ရာစုနှစ်

ya su hnit — Century; a period of one hundred years.

မှောင်မိုက်

hmaung mite — Dark; darkness; obscurity or ignorance.

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative case particle.

နှစ်ဆယ်

hnit hsay — Twenty; the number twenty.

နက်နဲ

net neh — Deep; profound; complex or mysterious.

လာသော

la thaw — Coming; which came; that arrived.

ညနေခင်း

nya nay chin — Evening; late afternoon or dusk time.

အထိ

a hti — Until; up to; as far as.

လူကြိုက်များ

lu kyite mya — Popular; well-liked by many people.

နေရာ

nay ya — Place; location; spot or position.

တွင်

twin — In; at; locative case particle.

ကျွန်တော်

kya naw — I; me (formal male first-person pronoun).

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One; a single item or thing.

အဖြစ်

a phyit — As; in the capacity of; being.

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely (limiting particle).

ဆက်ဆံ

hset hsan — To treat; deal with; relate to someone.

မြေ

myay — Land; earth; ground; soil.

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On; on top of; upon.

ရှင်သန်

shin than — To live; survive; remain alive.

နေဆဲ

nay zeh — Still continuing; still going on; ongoing.

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

phyit kyaung — That it is; indicating factual statement or proof.

တွေ့ရှိ

tway shi — To find; discover; encounter something.

တပါး

ta pa — Another; other; different from mentioned one.

အရာရာ

a ya ya — Everything; all things; each and every thing.

မသိ

ma thi — Does not know; unaware; ignorant of.

နားမလည်

na ma leh — Does not understand; fails to comprehend.

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third-person pronoun.

တစ်ဦး

tit u — One person; a single individual.

ရေး

yay — To write; compose text or documentation.

ဆိုလိုသည့်

hso lo thi — Meaning; that means; intending to say.

တိုတောင်း

to taung — Short; brief; concise in length.

နမူနာ

na mu na — Example; sample; model or illustration.

သုံးခု

thone khu — Three items; three things; a trio.

ပေး

pay — To give; provide; offer something.

မည်

myi — Will; future tense marker particle.

နောက်ဆုံး

nauk zone — Last; final; most recent or ultimate.

အောင်ပွဲ

aung pweh — Victory; triumph; celebration of success.

ရှိ

shi — Exists; there is; to be present.

ချိုင့်ဝှမ်း

chite hwam — Valley; hollow; low-lying land between hills.

ခေါ်သော

khaw thaw — Called; named; which is referred to as.

ချိတ်ဆက်

chite hset — To connect; link; associate things together.

ထို

hto — That; those; distant demonstrative pronoun.

သံသယ

than tha ya — Doubt; suspicion; uncertainty or mistrust.

တွေ့မြင်

tway myin — To see; observe; encounter visually.

ဖူးပြီး

phu pyi — Having seen before; already experienced or encountered.

၎င်းတို့

da gin tote — They; them; those things (plural third person).

တရားဝင်

ta ya win — Official; legitimate; legally recognized or valid.

ပုံပြင်

pone pyin — Story; tale; narrative or fictional account.

အဘယ်

a beh — What; which; interrogative pronoun (formal).

အချိန်

a chain — Time; a period or moment in time.

မည်သည့်

myi thi — Which; whatever; any (interrogative/relative particle).

စတင်

sa tin — To begin; start; commence an action.

ခဲ့သည်

kheh thi — Did; past tense marker indicating completed action.

တစ်နေရာရာ

tit nay ya ya — Somewhere; some place; an unspecified location.

ပြီး

pyi — After; and then; having completed.

ထံတွင်

htan twin — At; in the presence of; with someone.

ဆုံးသွား

zone thwa — Lost; ended; disappeared or perished.

ဆိုလျှင်

hso shin — If one says; if that is the case.

လုံလောက်

lone lauk — Enough; sufficient; adequate amount.

ပြီ

pyi — Already; completion marker for finished action.

ဟောင်းနွမ်း

haung nwam — Old; worn out; decrepit or dilapidated.

ဘယ်လက်ဆရာ

beh let hsa ya — Left-handed person; one who uses left hand.

ပြုလုပ်

pyu lote — To do; make; perform or carry out.

ခဲ့သ

kheh tha — Did (past tense marker, incomplete form variant).

ကြားသိ

kya thi — To hear and know; learn by hearing.

စကား

za ga — Word; speech; language or conversation.

ရေးရန်

yay yan — In order to write; for the purpose of writing.

ရှာဖွေ

sha phweh — To search; look for; investigate or explore.