The Ballad of the White Horse — Page 5

Vocabulary

ကြည့်ရှုသည်

kyi. hsu. shi. — To watch, observe, or look at something carefully

အမျိုးသမီးမင်း

a.myui: tha.mi: min: — Queen; a female ruler or monarch

၏

e' — Possessive or genitive particle meaning 'of' or 's

မျက်လုံးများမှ

mye'. loun: mya: hma. — From the eyes; originating from one's eyes

ငါတို့

nga. tou. — We; first person plural pronoun (informal)

ကြည့်မြင်သည်

kyi. myin. shi. — To see and perceive; to behold something

ပျက်စီးမှုများ

pye'. si: hmu. mya: — Destructions, ruins, or acts of damage

ကြားတွင်

kya: twin. — In between; amid; in the middle of

သူ

thu. — He, she, or that person; third person pronoun

မြင်ခဲ့သည်ကို

myin. khe. shi. go. — That which was seen; referring to a past sighting

သိသည်

thi. shi. — To know; to be aware of something

သင်

thin. — You; second person pronoun (formal or polite)

လည်ပင်းတွင်

le'. pain: twin. — On or around the neck

ဆွဲလွှဲ

hswè: lhwè: — To hang or dangle something loosely

နေသော

ne. thaw. — That which is staying or existing; present participle

လက္ခဏာ

le'. hkha.na. — Sign, symbol, or characteristic mark

သင်္ကေတကို

thin.ge'. to. go. — The symbol or emblem (object marker applied)

ထက်ပင်

hte' pain. — Even more than; surpassing; even above

သာမြတ်

tha. mya' — Noble, excellent, or supremely virtuous

သောသူ

thaw. thu. — The one who; person that (relative clause marker)

သေဆုံး

the. hsoun: — To die; to pass away; death

ခဲ့သော်လည်း

khe. thaw le: — Although it happened; even though (concessive)

ဘယ်သောအခါမျှ

bè. thaw a.kha. hmya. — Never; at no time whatsoever

မသေနိုင်သော

ma. the. nain. thaw. — That which cannot die; immortal

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyi' shi. — Is; to be; to exist or occur

ထို့ကြောင့်

htou. kyaun. — Therefore; for that reason; consequently

ဤ

i. — This; demonstrative pronoun indicating proximity

ကဗျာများကို

ka.bya. mya: go. — The poems (object marker applied)

သင့်ထံ

thin. htan. — To you; toward you; in your direction

ငါ

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

ဆောင်လာသည်

hsaun. la. shi. — To bring here; to carry and come

လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်ကို

le'. wa: ka' tain. go. — The cross (object marker); crucifixion cross

ငါ့ထံ

nga. htan. — To me; toward me; in my direction

ဆောင်ကြဉ်း

hsaun. kyin: — To bring or carry toward (imperative form)

ပေးသော

pe: thaw. — That which gives or gave; giving

အပြစ်အနာအဆာ

a.pyi' a.na. a.hsa. — Sins, wounds, and blemishes; transgressions and flaws

မရှိ

ma. shi. — Does not exist; there is none; absence

လောင်ကျွမ်း

laun. kywan: — To burn fiercely; to be consumed by fire

သင့်

thin. — Your; belonging to you (possessive)

အပေါ်တွင်

a.pau. twin. — On top of; above; upon

မြင်ခဲ့သော

myin. khe. thaw. — That which was seen; having witnessed (past)

မြင်ခဲ့သည်

myin. khe. shi. — Did see; witnessed in the past

သူသည်

thu. shi. — He/she is; that person (topic marker applied)

မိမိ

mi. mi. — Oneself; reflexive pronoun meaning self

ကြောက်ရွံ့ဖွယ်

kyau' ywun. hpwe. — Fearful, dreadful, or terrifying in nature

သင်္ဘောများကို

thin.baw. mya: go. — The ships or boats (object marker applied)

ကျိုးပဲ့

kyou: pe. — To break apart; to shatter or be fractured

စေခဲ့သော

se. khe. thaw. — Caused to; made something happen (causative past)

အခါ

a.kha. — Time, occasion, or when; temporal marker

ပင်လယ်ပြင်

pain. le. pyain. — The open sea; expanse of ocean

ပေါ်တွင်

pau. twin. — On; upon; on the surface of

ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးကို

nyain: chan: ye: go. — Peace (object marker); tranquility and harmony

တည်ဆောက်

te. hsau' — To build, construct, or establish something

ခဲ့သည်

khe. shi. — Did (past tense auxiliary); completed action marker

သွားခဲ့သော

thwa: khe. thaw. — That which went; having gone away (past)

အခါကို

a.kha. go. — The time or occasion (object marker applied)

မှတ်မိ

hma' mi. — To remember; to recall a memory

သေးသလား

the: tha.la: — Do you still remember? (interrogative ending)

နဂါး

na.ga: — Dragon or serpent; mythological creature

လဆိုင်ရာ

la. hsain. ya. — Related to the moon; lunar

လမင်း

la. min: — The moon (poetic or elevated register)

အောက်တွင်

au' twin. — Underneath; below; beneath something

မီးတောင်

mi: taun. — Volcano; fire mountain

ရောင်

yaun. — Color, light, or glow; radiance

ဆင်းသန်းသော

hsin: than: thaw. — That which flows or descends; streaming down

ညဥ့်

nyi. — Night; the nighttime hours

အရောင်အဆင်း

a.yaun. a.hsin: — Colors and hues; shades and tones

မသိသော

ma. thi. thaw. — That which is unknown or unrecognized

တိုက်ပွဲကို

tai' pwe: go. — The battle or fight (object marker applied)

တိုက်ခဲ့ရာ

tai' khe. ya. — Where fighting took place; having fought

နေရာသို့

ne. ya. tho. — To the place; toward that location

လမ်းလျှောက်

lan: lhau' — To walk; to travel on foot

ခဲ့ကြပြီး

khe. kyu pyi: — Having done and completed together (plural past)

တိုက်ပွဲ

tai' pwe: — Battle, fight, or armed conflict

ဖြစ်ပွားသော

hpyi' pwa: thaw. — That which occurred or broke out; happened

တောင်ကုန်း

taun. koun: — Hill or low mountain; elevated terrain

အမည်းရောင်

a.myi: yaun. — Black color; dark hue

သစ်ပင်များကို

thi' pain. mya: go. — The trees (object marker applied)

မြင်ခဲ့ကြသည်

myin. khe. kyu shi. — They saw; plural past tense of seeing

တွင်

twin. — In, at, or within a place or time

ဆူးပင်များကို

hsu: pain. mya: go. — The thorn bushes (object marker applied)

လည်း

le: — Also, too, or as well; additive particle

ဖြစ်သလော

hpyi' tha.law. — Is it so? Could it be? (interrogative)

တွေးမိသည်မှာ

twe: mi. shi. hma. — What came to mind; thinking and realizing

ငါသည်

nga. shi. — I am; I (topic marker applied, informal)

သင့်နှင့်

thin. hnin. — With you; together with you

အတူ

a.tu. — Together; in company with; alongside

သွားမည်

thwa: myi. — Will go; future tense of going

လူသားသည်

lu. tha: shi. — Humankind or a human being (topic marker)

ဘုရားသခင်

hpu.ya: tha.khin. — God; the Lord; divine being (Christian context)

နှင့်

hnin. — And, with, or together; connective particle

သွားခဲ့သ

thwa: khe. tha. — Went; traveled away (abbreviated past form)

ကဲ့သို့

ke. tho. — Like, as, or similar to; comparative particle

လည်သော

le. thaw. — That which revolves or wanders; traveling around

ကြယ်

kye. — Star; a luminous point in the night sky

တစ်စင်း

ta' sin: — One strand or one (of long/linear objects)

လှည့်လည်

lhyin. le. — To wander, roam, or revolve around

ကျင်လည်

kyin. le. — To move about; to circulate or roam

မည်

myi. — Will; future tense marker or auxiliary

ရှိနေသော

shi. ne. thaw. — That which is existing and present; being there

အရာများ

a.ya. mya: — Things, matters, or objects; various items

နှလုံးသား

hnha.loun: tha: — Heart; the inner emotional core of a person

ချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာ

chi' chin: me'. ta. — Love and compassion; affectionate loving-kindness

စစ်ပွဲ

si' pwe: — War; warfare; armed conflict between parties

မီးတောက်သော

mi: tau' thaw. — That which blazes or flames; burning brightly

လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်

le'. wa: ka' tain. — The cross; crucifixion cross (Christian symbol)

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko. tain. — Oneself; personally; by one's own self

ဆက်လက်

hse' le' — To continue; to proceed further; ongoing

ရှင်သန်

shin. than. — To live, survive, or remain alive

အို

o: — O! Oh! Exclamation of address or emotion

ဆက်ကြွ

hse' kyu — Go forward; proceed onward (imperative)

ပါ

pa. — Polite particle; please; also adds politeness

ရှိသော

shi. thaw. — That which exists or is present; existing

နေရာ

ne. ya. — Place, location, or position

၌

nai' — At, in, or within (locative particle, formal)

ဂုဏ်သရေ

gun. tha.ye. — Honor, glory, and prestige; good reputation

ရယ်မောခြင်းများ

ye. maw. chin: mya: — Laughters; acts of laughing or joyful mirth

ဖြစ်ပါစေ

hpyi' pa. se. — May it be so; let it happen (benediction)

ခရမ်းရောင်

kha.ran: yaun. — Purple color; violet hue

သစ်တောများ

thi' taw. mya: — Forests; many woodlands or wooded areas

ပုလဲ

pu. le: — Pearl; a lustrous gem from an oyster

ကဲ့သို့သော

ke. tho. thaw. — Such as; like; resembling (comparative modifier)

အမြုတေများကို

a.myu. te. mya: go. — The treasures or precious things (object marker)

ကျော်လွန်

kyaw. lun. — To surpass, exceed, or go beyond

ကာ

ka. — While doing; connective participle indicating continuity

အတောင်

a.taun. — Wing; a feathered limb used for flying

တဲတော်

te: taw. — Sacred tent or tabernacle; holy dwelling place

လွတ်လပ်စွာ

lwat la' swa. — Freely; in a free and independent manner

သွားလာ

thwa: la. — To come and go; to travel back and forth

နိုင်သော

nain. thaw. — That which is able or capable; can

မျက်နှာ

mye'. hna. — Face; the front of someone's head

ထို

htou. — That; those; demonstrative pronoun (distal)

မျက်နှာသည်

mye'. hna. shi. — The face (topic marker applied)

လှည့်လည်သော

lhyin. le. thaw. — That which wanders or roams around

အိမ်

ain. — House, home, or dwelling place

တစ်လုံး

ta' loun: — One whole unit (classifier for round or whole objects)

ငါ့

nga. — My; mine; first person possessive (informal)

အတွက်

a.twe' — For; for the sake of; on behalf of

ပျံသန်း

pyan. than: — To fly or soar through the air

တစ်ခု

ta' khu. — One thing; a single item or unit

တိတ်ဆိတ်သော

tai' hsei' thaw. — Silent, quiet, or still; peaceful and hushed

ငလျင်

nga.lyin. — Earthquake; seismic shaking of the ground

ရိုက်ခတ်

yai' kha' — To strike, beat, or hit forcefully

ခဲ့သော

khe. thaw. — That which happened; past action modifier

မြေများကို

mye. mya: go. — The lands or grounds (object marker applied)

ဖြတ်ကျော်

hpya' kyaw. — To cross over; to pass through something

စီးနင်း

si: nin: — To ride upon or mount; to traverse by riding

သွားပါ

thwa: pa. — Please go; go (polite imperative)

သဲကန္တာရ

the: kan. ta. ya. — Desert; a vast sandy wilderness

ကျယ်ပြန့်သော

kye. pyan. thaw. — Wide, broad, or expansive in extent

သဲကန္တာရများ

the: kan. ta. ya. mya: — Deserts; multiple vast barren wildernesses

နေ့ရက်များကို

ne. ye' mya: go. — The days (object marker applied)

အခါတွင်

a.kha. twin. — At the time of; on the occasion of

မာနအောင်မာမှု

ma.na. aun. ma. hmu. — Pride, arrogance, or haughtiness; puffed-up attitude

ရေးသော

ye: thaw. — That which wrote or draws; writing (past modifier)

တစ်ချောင်းသည်

ta' chaun: shi. — One (of long thin objects); a single one (topic)

လူများ

lu. mya: — People; many persons; human beings

နှလုံးများကို

hnha.loun: mya: go. — The hearts (object marker applied)

ခြောက်သွေ့

chau' thwe. — Dry, parched, or desiccated; lacking moisture

စေပြီး

se. pyi: — Having caused; making something happen (causative)

ကွဲအက်

kwe: a' — To crack, split, or fracture apart

စေခဲ့သည်

se. khe. shi. — Caused; made something happen (causative past)

သူရဲကောင်းများ

thu. ye: kaun: mya: — Heroes; brave warriors or courageous people