The divine comedy — Page 2

Vocabulary

သစ်ကြောင်

thit kyaung — squirrel; small tree-dwelling rodent

တစ်ကောင်

ta kaung — one (animal); classifier for a single animal

လျင်မြန်

lyin myan — fast, quick, swift in movement

သော

thaw — relative clause marker; that, which, who

ပေါ့ပါး

paw pa — light in weight; nimble, agile

အစက်အပြောက်

a-set a-pyauk — spots, speckles, dotted pattern

နှင့်

hnin — and, with; connective conjunction

ပြည့်နှက်

pyi hnet — soaked, saturated, filled completely

အရေခွံ

a-ye khwan — skin; outer covering of body or fruit

ဖြင့်

hpyin — by means of, with; instrumental particle

ဖုံးလွှမ်း

phone lhwan — to cover over, to blanket completely

လျက်

lyet — while, in the act of; continuous particle

ထင်ရှား

htin sha — obvious, prominent, clearly visible

ပေါ်လာ

paw la — to appear, to emerge, to come up

၏

i — possessive or sentence-final formal particle

ငါ့ကို

nga ko — me; first-person singular object pronoun

မြင်

myin — to see, to perceive visually

အခါ

a-hka — time, occasion, when; temporal marker

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pyauk kwel — to disappear, to vanish from sight

သွား

thwa — to go; also teeth (context-dependent)

ခြင်း

chin — nominalizer suffix; act of, the fact that

မရှိ

ma-shi — does not exist, there is none

ဘဲ

bhe — without doing; negative connective particle

မည်သို့

ma nyi thoe — how, in what manner; interrogative adverb

မည်ပုံ

ma nyi pone — how, in what way; interrogative form

ကြိုးစား

kyo sa — to try hard, to make an effort

လေ

le — sentence particle indicating mild assertion

ငါ

nga — I, me; informal first-person pronoun

ရှေ့

shay — front, ahead, forward direction

သို့

thoe — to, toward; directional particle

ဆက်သွား

set thwa — to continue going, to proceed forward

ကို

ko — object marker; to, toward (directional)

တားဆီး

ta si — to block, to prevent, to obstruct

ရန်

yan — in order to; purpose marker, also enemy

ထို

htoe — that, those; demonstrative adjective

ကြောင့်

kyaung — because of, due to; causal particle

မကြာခဏ

ma-kya hka-na — often, frequently, many times

ခြေလှမ်း

chay lhwan — footstep, stride, step forward

များ

mya — plural marker; many, a lot of

နောက်

nauk — behind, after, back; following

ပြန်ဆုတ်

pyan sout — to retreat, to step back, to withdraw

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

ye-yway chet — purpose, intention, aim, objective

လှည့်

hleh — to turn, to rotate, to spin around

လိုက်

lite — to follow; aspectual particle of completion

အချိန်

a-chain — time, period, moment, duration

သည်

thi — topic marker; present tense sentence particle

နံနက်ခင်း

nan-net khin — morning time, in the morning

အထွတ်အထိပ်

a-thet a-htit — peak, summit, pinnacle, highest point

ဖြစ်

hpyit — to be, to become, to happen

နေ

ne — to stay, to live; sun; continuative particle

မိမိ

mi mi — oneself, self; reflexive pronoun

လမ်း

lan — road, path, way, route

တလျှောက်

ta-hlhauk — along, throughout, the whole length of

ကြယ်

kye — star; small bright object in the sky

အတူ

a-tu — together, along with, in company

အထက်

a-htet — above, upper, higher position

တက်လာ

tet la — to come up, to rise, to ascend

ဘုရားသခင်

paya tha-khin — God; the Lord (Christian usage)

မေတ္တာတော်

met-ta daw — divine love, grace, loving kindness (of God)

ပထမဦးဆုံး

pa-hta-ma u-zone — first of all, at the very beginning

လှုပ်ရှား

hlyut sha — to move, to be active, to stir

သူ

thu — he, she, they; third-person pronoun

ထွက်ပေါ်လာ

htwet paw la — to come out, to emerge, to appear

လှပ

hla pa — beautiful, pretty, lovely

လက်ရာ

let ya — work, handiwork, craftsmanship, creation

ထို့

htoe — that (same); emphatic demonstrative particle

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw shwin — to be happy, joyful, cheerful

ဖွယ်

hpwe — worthy of, likely to; potential suffix

မျှော်လင့်

hmyaw lin — to hope, to expect, to look forward

အရာ

a-ya — thing, matter, object, affair

ခပ်သိမ်း

khut thein — all, every, everything without exception

တို့

toe — plural pronoun suffix; we, they, you (plural)

ငါ့

nga — my; first-person singular possessive pronoun

ဖြည့်ဆည်း

hpyi si — to fulfill, to supply, to provide for

ပူးပေါင်း

pu paung — to cooperate, to join together, to unite

သကဲ့သို့

tha-keh thoe — just as, in the same way as

ဖြစ်ခဲ့

hpyit kheh — was, happened, occurred (past tense)

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ta-yet-san — animal, beast, creature

မြန်မြန်

myan myan — quickly, rapidly, hurriedly

ဝင်းဝါ

win wa — to shine brightly, to glow brilliantly

သွက်လက်

thet let — agile, energetic, lively, nimble

နံနက်ယံ

nan-net yan — dawn, early morning, break of day

အ႐ုဏ်တက်

a-yon tet — sunrise, dawn, breaking of morning

ချိန်

chain — time, moment; to weigh, to aim

နှစ်လို

hnit lo — to be pleased with, to favor, to like

ရာသီဥတု

ya-thi u-du — weather, climate, season

မကြာမီ

ma-kya mi — soon, before long, in a short time

ပျော်ရွှင်မှု

pyaw shwin hmu — happiness, joy, gladness (noun form)

လိုက်လာ

lite la — to come following, to follow along

၌

hnit — at, in; locative particle (formal)

ဖျောက်ဖျက်

hpyauk hpyet — to destroy, to eliminate, to erase

ခံရ

khan ya — to receive, to suffer, to undergo

အသစ်

a-thit — new, fresh, recently made or obtained

ကြောက်ရွံ့

kyauk ywun — to fear, to be afraid, to dread

က

ka — subject marker; agent particle in sentences

နောက်ဆက်တွဲ

nauk set twe — continuation, sequel, follow-up attachment

ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာ

hpyit paw la — to arise, to come about, to occur

မျက်စိ

myet si — eye; the organ of sight

တွင်

twine — in, at, within; locative particle

လာ

la — to come; directional or aspectual particle

ခြင်္သေ့

chin-the — lion; large wild cat

ဆီ

si — toward, near; oil (context-dependent)

ဦးတည်

u-nyi — to aim toward, to head in direction of

ခေါင်း

khaung — head; top part of body

မြင့်မြင့်မားမား

myin myin ma ma — very high, tall, at great height

ချီဆောင်

chi zaung — to carry aloft, to bear up high

ကာ

ka — continuous action particle; while doing

ဆာလောင်မှု

za laung hmu — hunger, starvation, strong craving

ကြမ်းတမ်း

kyan dan — harsh, rough, fierce, cruel

စွာ

zwa — adverb-forming suffix; in a ... manner

ပင်မျှ

pin hmya — even, as much as; emphatic particle

တုန်လှုပ်

tone hlyut — to tremble, to shake with fear or cold

ခဲ့ရ

kheh ya — had to, was compelled to (past)

မိန်းမ

mein ma — woman, wife, female person

ဝံပုလွေ

won pu lwe — wolf; large wild canine predator

ကပ်ပါ

kat pa — to attach closely, to stick alongside

သူမ

thu ma — she, her; third-person female pronoun

ပိန်ချောင်း

pein chaung — thin and bony, scrawny, very slender

ကိုယ်ဆောင်

ko zaung — to carry on one's person, to bear personally

လိုအင်

lo ain — desire, want, need, longing

ဆင်းရဲ

sin ye — poor, poverty-stricken, destitute

အပြည့်အဝ

a-pyi a-wa — fully, completely, to the fullest extent

ဖြည့်နှက်

hpyi hnet — to fill completely, to saturate fully

မြေ

mye — earth, ground, land, soil

များစွာ

mya zwa — many, a great deal, in large numbers

ပြုလုပ်

pyu lyut — to do, to make, to perform an action

ခဲ့ဘူး

kheh bu — experienced before, has done previously

ယခု

ya khu — now, currently, at present

ထက်

htet — more than, above, compared to

ဦးက

u ka — before, previously, at first

ငိုကြွေး

ngo kwe — to cry, to weep, to wail in sorrow

ဝေဒနာ

we-da-na — pain, suffering, anguish, affliction

ခံစားစေ

khan za ze — to cause to feel, to make experience

ထိုသို့

htoe thoe — thus, in that way, like that

လွှမ်းမိုး

lhwan mo — to dominate, to overwhelm, to overshadow

တွေ့မြင်

twe myin — to see and encounter, to come across

ရ

ya — to get, to obtain; modal of ability

သော်

thaw — although, but, however; concessive particle

ထိတ်လန့်

hteit lan — to be startled, to be frightened suddenly

မြင့်

myin — high, tall, elevated in position

နေရာ

ne ya — place, location, spot, position

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

hmyaw lin chet — hope, expectation, anticipation (noun form)

အားလုံး

a-lone — all, everyone, everything, the whole

ဆုံးရှုံး

zone shone — to lose, to suffer loss, to be ruined

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yauk — one person; alone, by oneself

ကဲ့သို့

keh thoe — like, similar to, as if

ရရှိမှု

ya shi hmu — attainment, acquisition, getting something

မြင်ရ

myin ya — to be able to see, to manage to see

သတိ

tha-di — awareness, mindfulness, caution, attention

မမူမိ

ma mu mi — unaware, not noticing, failing to perceive

ပျောက်ဆုံး

pyauk zone — to be lost, to go missing, to vanish

အတွင်း

a-twine — inside, within, during a period

နှလုံးသား

hnalone tha — heart; seat of emotions and feelings

ညှစ်ပြာ

hnit pya — crushed, squeezed flat, broken down

ငိုယို

ngo yo — to weep and sob, to cry tearfully

ပင်

pin — emphatic particle; even, indeed, also

ရက်စက်

yet set — cruel, ruthless, merciless, brutal

ခြောက်လှန့်

chout hlun — to threaten, to intimidate, to frighten

ခံ

khan — to bear, to endure, to receive, to suffer

ဘယ်သော

bhe thaw — which, what kind of; interrogative adjective

မှ

hma — from, only then; ablative or emphatic particle

ငြိမ်းချမ်းမှု

nyein chan hmu — peace, tranquility, harmony (noun form)

မရ

ma ya — cannot, unable to get or do

ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်

san kyin bet — opposite side, contrary, opposition

တဖြည်းဖြည်း

ta-hpyi hpyi — gradually, little by little, slowly

ချဉ်းကပ်

chin kat — to approach, to draw near, to get close

တိတ်ဆိတ်

teit sait — quiet, silent, still, peaceful

အနားယူ

a-na yu — to rest, to take a break, to relax

တွန်းပို့

twon poe — to push forward, to drive, to propel

အောက်မြောက်

auk myauk — excellent, impressive, accomplished, outstanding

ဆင်း

sin — to descend, to go down, to come down

စဉ်

zin — while, during, in the course of

ကျဆင်း

kya sin — to fall down, to decline, to decrease

ဉာဏ်

nyan — wisdom, intelligence, knowledge, insight

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — one person; individual person counter

တည်း

de — only, alone; emphatic or restrictive particle

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

pone than-dan — shape, form, appearance, figure

ခွဲခြား

khwe cha — to distinguish, to separate, to differentiate

သိမြင်

thi myin — to know and understand, to perceive clearly

နိုင်ခဲ့

nain kheh — was able to, managed to (past tense)

အသံ

a-thone — sound, voice, noise, audio

ကြာမြင့်

kya myin — to take long, to last a long time

စကား

za-ga — words, speech, language, conversation

မပြော

ma pyaw — not saying, without speaking, silent

အားနည်း

a-ni — weak, feeble, lacking strength or power

လျပ်ရစ်

lyet yit — lightning; flash of electric light in sky