The Expedition of Humphry Clinker — Page 1

Vocabulary

လွန်ခဲ့သော

lun khɛ̀ ðɔ̀ — Past; that which has already elapsed or passed

လပိုင်းက

la paing ga — A few months ago; some months back

ရက်နေ့စွဲဖြင့်

yɛʔ nḛ zwɛ̀ pjɪ̀ɴ — Bearing the date of; dated on a specific day

ချီးမြှောက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

tʃí mjauʔ pʰwɛ̀ kauɴ ðɔ̀ — Worthy of praise; commendable and deserving recognition

သင်၏

θɪɴ ḛ — Your; belonging to you (second person possessive)

စာပေးစာယူကို

sà pé sà ju̯ gò — Correspondence; letters exchanged between parties

ကျွန်တော်

tɕənɔ̀ — I; first-person pronoun used by male speakers

လက်ခံရရှိခဲ့ပြီး၊

lɛʔ kʰàɴ ya ʃḭ kʰɛ̀ bjí — Have received; have already obtained something sent

ထိုစာ၌

tʰo sà nḛʔ — In that letter; within that written correspondence

သင်သည်

θɪɴ ðɪ̀ — You; second-person subject marker in formal writing

ကျွန်တော်၏

tɕənɔ̀ ḛ — My; belonging to me (male first-person possessive)

မိတ်ဆွေ၊

meiʔ swe — Friend; a close acquaintance or companion

တော်တော်ဝါကြီးသော

tɔ̀ tɔ̀ wà tɕí ðɔ̀ — Quite senior; considerably older or more experienced

မစ္စတာ

mɪʔ sə tà — Mister; formal honorific title for a man

မှ

hmɑ̀ — From; indicating source or point of origin

သင့်ထံ

θɪ̰ɴ tʰàɴ — To you; directed toward you specifically

ပို့ဆောင်ပေးခဲ့သော

pouʔ sʰauɴ pé kʰɛ̀ ðɔ̀ — That which was delivered or sent to someone

ထိုစာများကို

tʰo sà mjá gò — Those letters; referring to previously mentioned correspondence

ဖတ်ရှုခဲ့ကြောင်း

pʰaʔ ʃù kʰɛ̀ tɕauɴ — That one has read; indicating reading was completed

ပေါ်ပေါက်လာပါသည်၊

pɔ̀ pauʔ là bà ðɪ̀ — It has emerged; it becomes apparent or evident

ထုတ်ဝေပါက

tʰouʔ wé bà ga — If published; in the event of publication

အောင်မြင်မှုရရှိနိုင်ခြေကောင်းမည်ဟု

auɴ mjɪɴ hmù ya ʃḭ naɪɴ tɕʰɛ̀ kauɴ mɪ̀ hù — That there is a good chance of achieving success

သင်ထင်မြင်ကြောင်း

θɪɴ tʰɪɴ mjɪɴ tɕauɴ — That you think or believe; your expressed opinion

သိရ၍

θì ya jwɛ̀ — Having come to know; upon learning or finding out

ဝမ်းသာပါသည်၊

wáɴ θà bà ðɪ̀ — I am glad; expressing happiness or satisfaction

သင်ဖော်ပြသော

θɪɴ pʰɔ̀ pjà ðɔ̀ — That which you have indicated or presented clearly

ကန့်ကွက်ချက်များသည်

kaɴ gweʔ tɕʰɛʔ mjá ðɪ̀ — The objections; points raised in opposition or protest

လုံးလုံးဖယ်ရှားနိုင်ခြင်းမရှိသော်လည်း၊

lóuɴ lóuɴ pʰɛ̀ ʃá naɪɴ tɕʰɪɴ ma ʃḭ ðɔ̀ lɛ̀ — Although cannot be entirely eliminated or removed

ခုခံပြောဆိုနိုင်ဖွယ်ရာ

kʰù kʰàɴ pjɔ̀ so naɪɴ pʰwɛ̀ jà — Capable of being defended or argued against effectively

ရှိသည်ဟု

ʃḭ ðɪ̀ hù — That there is; asserting the existence of something

နှိမ့်ချစွာ

hnɪ̰ɴ tɕʰà swà — Humbly; with modesty and deference in manner

ယုံကြည်မိပါသည်--

yoɴ tɕì mì bà ðɪ̀ — I sincerely believe; holding a firm personal conviction

ပထမဆုံးအချက်အနေဖြင့်၊

pa tʰa ma soúɴ ʔa tɕʰɛʔ ʔa né pjɪ̀ɴ — As a first point; to begin with firstly

အသက်ရှင်သေးသောသူများ၏

ʔa θɛʔ ʃɪɴ θé ðɔ̀ θù mjá ḛ — Of those who are still living; living persons' possessive

ပုဂ္ဂလိကစာပေးစာယူများကို

pouʔ ga la̰ɪʔ sà pé sà ju̯ mjá gò — Private correspondence; personal letters not meant publicly

ထုတ်နှိပ်ခြင်းကြောင့်

tʰouʔ hnɪʔ tɕʰɪɴ tɕauɴ — Because of printing or publishing; due to publication

ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာနိုင်သော

pjɪʔ pɔ̀ là naɪɴ ðɔ̀ — That which may arise or potentially occur

တရားစွဲဆိုမှုများနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍

ta yá zwɛ̀ so hmù mjá nɪ̀ɴ paʔ θɛʔ jwɛ̀ — Regarding lawsuits; concerning potential legal proceedings or actions

လျောက်ပတ်သောနှိမ့်ချမှုဖြင့်

ljauʔ paʔ ðɔ̀ hnɪ̰ɴ tɕʰà hmù pjɪ̀ɴ — With appropriate humility; showing fitting deference respectfully

လျှောက်တင်ခွင့်ပြုပါ၊

ʃauʔ tɪɴ kʰwɪ̰ɴ pju̯ bà — Please permit me to submit or present respectfully

ဆိုင်ရာစာများသည်

sʰaɪɴ jà sà mjá ðɪ̀ — The relevant letters; the correspondence in question here

လျှို့ဝှက်ချက်တံဆိပ်ခပ်၍

ʃo̰ wɛʔ tɕʰɛʔ taɴ seɪʔ kʰaʔ jwɛ̀ — Stamped with a secrecy seal; marked as confidential

ရေးသားပေးပို့ခြင်းမဟုတ်ပါ၊

jé θá pé pouʔ tɕʰɪɴ ma houʔ bà — Were not written and sent as confidential documents

ထိုစာများသည်

tʰo sà mjá ðɪ̀ — Those letters; referring to the aforementioned correspondence

မည်သည့်ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ကိုမျှ

mɪ̀ ðɪ̰ pouʔ go̰ taʔ ú taʔ jauʔ go̰ mjɑ̀ — Not to any single person whatsoever; no individual

အဆိုးသင်္ကေတ

ʔa zo θaɪɴ ɡé da̰ — Evil omen or bad sign; negative symbolic meaning

သို့မဟုတ်

θo̰ ma houʔ — Or; otherwise; alternatively between two options

အကျိုးနစ်နာစေသော

ʔa tɕó nɪʔ nà sé ðɔ̀ — Causing harm or damage; detrimental to someone's interests

သဘောသဘာဝမရှိပါ၊

θa bɔ̀ θa bà wa ma ʃḭ bà — Does not have such a nature or character

အဖြစ်

ʔa pjɪʔ — As; in the capacity or role of something

မဟုတ်ဘဲ

ma houʔ bɛ̀ — Not being; rather than; instead of that thing

လူသားများ၏

lù θá mjá ḛ — Of humanity; belonging to human beings generally

သတင်းအချက်အလက်နှင့်

θa tɪ́ɴ ʔa tɕʰɛʔ ʔa lɛʔ nɪ̀ɴ — Information and data; news and factual content combined

တရားဓမ္မအမြင်ဖွင့်ရေးအတွက်သာ

ta yá daɴ ma ʔa mjɪɴ pʰwɪ̰ɴ jé ʔa twɛʔ θà — Only for the purpose of enlightening moral understanding

ဖြစ်ပါသည်၊

pjɪʔ bà ðɪ̀ — It is; formal affirmative copula ending a statement

ထို့ကြောင့်

tʰo̰ tɕauɴ — Therefore; for that reason; consequently as a result

အများပြည်သူဆိုင်ရာ

ʔa mjá pjì θù sʰaɪɴ jà — Public; relating to the general public or community

အသုံးအတွက်

ʔa θóuɴ ʔa twɛʔ — For the use of; for the benefit or purpose

ကြော်ငြာဖြန့်ချိခြင်းသည်

tɕɔ̀ ɲà pʰjaɴ tɕʰì tɕʰɪɴ ðɪ̀ — The act of advertising and distributing publicly

တာဝန်တစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်လာပါသည်။

tà wùɴ taʔ jaʔ pjɪʔ là bà ðɪ̀ — Has become a duty; constitutes a responsibility now

ထိုမှတပါး၊

tʰo hmɑ̀ ta bá — Furthermore; besides that; in addition to the above

ကျွန်တော်သည်

tɕənɔ̀ ðɪ̀ — I; male first-person subject in formal register

ဤဒေသ၏

ʔì dèθa̰ ḛ — Of this region; belonging to this local area

နာမည်ကျော်

nà mɛ̀ tɕɔ̀ — Famous; well-known and renowned by name widely

တရားလွှတ်တော်ရှေ့နေ

ta yá l̥waʔ tɔ̀ ʃḛ né — Barrister or court advocate; a lawyer practicing in court

တိုင်ပင်ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ပြီး၊

taɪɴ pɪɴ swé nwé kʰɛ̀ bjí — Have consulted and discussed; having deliberated together already

သူသည်

θù ðɪ̀ — He or she; third-person singular subject marker

လုလောက်သောစစ်ဆေးမှုနှင့်

lu̯ lauʔ ðɔ̀ sɪʔ sé hmù nɪ̀ɴ — With sufficient examination; along with adequate investigation

သုံးသပ်မှုပြုလုပ်ပြီးနောက်

θóuɴ θaʔ hmù pju̯ louʔ bjí nɔʔ — After conducting analysis and review of the matter

ကြေညာလိုက်ပါသည်၊

tɕé ɲà laɪʔ bà ðɪ̀ — Has announced or declared; formally stated a conclusion

ဆိုင်ရာစာများ၌

sʰaɪɴ jà sà mjá nḛʔ — Within the relevant letters; in those related documents

ဥပဒေ၏

ʔṵ pa dè ḛ — Of the law; relating to legal statutes or legislation

မျက်နှာစာ၌

mjɛʔ hnà zà nḛʔ — In the face of; before or in front of

တရားစွဲဆိုနိုင်ဖွယ်ရာဟု

ta yá zwɛ̀ so naɪɴ pʰwɛ̀ jà hù — That it is actionable; potentially subject to legal prosecution

သတ်မှတ်မည့်

θaʔ hmɪʔ mɪ̀ — That would be deemed or classified as; defining

အကြောင်းအရာတစ်ခုမျှ

ʔa tɕauɴ ʔa jà taʔ kʰù mjɑ̀ — Not even a single matter or subject whatsoever

ပါဝင်သည်ဟု

bà wɪɴ ðɪ̀ hù — That it contains or includes; asserting the presence of

သူမထင်မြင်ကြောင်း

θù ma tʰɪɴ mjɪɴ tɕauɴ — That she does not think or believe so

ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

pjɪʔ bà ðɪ̀ — It is so; formal sentence-final affirmative copula