The Expedition of Humphry Clinker — Page 2

Vocabulary

နောဆုံး

naw hsone: — Final, last, at the end

တွင်

twìn — In, at, within a place or context

သင်

thin — You (second person pronoun)

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with

ကျွန်တော်

kjʊ̀n daw — I, me (formal male first person pronoun)

သဘောတူညီမှု

tha baw tu nyi hmu — Agreement, consensus, mutual understanding between parties

တစ်ခု

tɪʔ kʰu — One thing, a single item or unit

သို့

thò — To, toward, in the direction of

ရောက်ရှိ

yauʔ shi — To arrive at, to reach a destination

ပါက

pa ga — If, in the case that (conditional marker)

အရ

a ya — According to, based on, in accordance with

ကြေညာ

kje nja — To announce, declare, proclaim publicly

အပ်ပါသည်

aʔ pa thì — To submit, hand over, entrust to someone

ထို

tʰò — That, those (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

ကဲ့သို့သော

kɛ̀ thò thaw — Such as, like, similar to something

တရားစွဲဆိုမှု

ta yà zwɛ́ hsò hmu — Legal prosecution, filing a lawsuit against someone

တစ်ခုခု

tɪʔ kʰu kʰu — Something, anything, some particular thing

ဖြစ်ပွား

pjɪʔ pwà — To occur, happen, take place

လာပါက

la ba ga — If it comes, if it should arrive

သည်

thì — Topic marker, verb ending particle

ငွေဒဏ်

ŋwè daɴ — Monetary fine, financial penalty imposed legally

ထောင်ဒဏ်

tʰaùɴ daɴ — Imprisonment, jail sentence as punishment

ပါ

pa — Polite particle, also 'please' or 'included'

ဆိုသော်လည်း

hsò thaw lɛ̀ — Even though, although, however (concessive)

အားလုံး

à lóuɴ — All, everyone, everything, the whole

ကို

go — Object marker, toward (accusative particle)

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko daìɴ — Oneself, personally, by one's own self

တာဝန်ယူ

ta wuɴ yu — To take responsibility, be accountable for something

မည်

mɪ̀ — Future tense marker, will, shall

ဖြစ်ပြီး

pjɪʔ pjì — Having become, after becoming, and then

သို့သော်

thò thaw — However, but, nevertheless (contrast conjunction)

ဝန်ခံ

wuɴ kʰaɴ — To admit, confess, acknowledge something done

ရမည်

ya mɪ̀ — Must get, will receive, obligatory outcome

ဆိုလျှင်

hsò ljɪ̀ɴ — If one says, if that is the case

ကြိမ်ဒဏ်

kjèiɴ daɴ — Punishment by flogging, corporal caning penalty

ခံရ

kʰaɴ ya — To receive, undergo, suffer a consequence

ကား

kà — Topic/contrast particle; also car (vehicle)

ဆန္ဒ

saɴ da — Desire, wish, will, intention

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist, there is none, absent

ပေ

pè — Emphatic particle indicating obviousness or certainty

ဒုတိယ

du ti ya — Second, the second in order or rank

အချက်

a tɕɛʔ — Point, item, fact, key detail

မှာ

hmà — At, in, location marker or command particle

တရားသူကြီးဦး

ta yà thu kjì ú — Honorific title for a judge or magistrate

၏

ì — Possessive particle, of, belonging to someone

ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာ

ko yè ko ta — Personal, private, relating to one's own affairs

အမျက်ထွက်မှု

a mjɛʔ tʰwɛʔ hmu — Anger, outrage, expression of personal fury

ပတ်သက်၍

paʔ thɛʔ ywè — Regarding, concerning, in relation to something

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle, saying that, as said

ဆိုနိုင်

hsò naìɴ — Can say, able to state or assert

ပါသည်

pa thì — Polite sentence-ending affirmative particle

မည်သည့်

mɪ̀ thìn — Whatever, whichever, any (interrogative modifier)

ခရစ်ယာန်

kʰa yɪʔ jaɴ — Christian, follower of Christianity

မျှ

mjà — Only, merely, just, as much as

နှိမ့်ချ

hnèiɴ tɕa — To humble, demean, belittle someone or oneself

လိုသော

lo thaw — That which is needed, desired, required

တကယ်ပင်

ta kɛ̀ pɪ̀ɴ — Truly, really, indeed, in reality

ထိုက်တန်

tʰaɪʔ taɴ — Worthy, deserving, suitable for something

ပါမူ

pa mu — If it is, conditional polite marker

ဘာပဲဆိုဆို

ba pɛ́ hsò hsò — Whatever it may be, regardless of what

အလွန်

a lwuɴ — Very, extremely, excessively, beyond normal degree

အံ့ဩ

àɴ ɔ̀ — To be amazed, astonished, filled with wonder

မိသည်

mɪ̀ thì — To catch, grasp; auxiliary indicating accidental action

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kjʊ̀n daw do — We, us (formal inclusive first person plural)

ချမ်းသာသော

tɕʰáɴ θà thaw — Prosperous, wealthy, comfortable, well-off

ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ

pwɛ̀ sí boùɴ — Constitution, structure, organizational framework

ဘာသာရေး

ba θà yè — Religious affairs, matters pertaining to religion

နိုင်ငံရေး

naìɴ ŋaɴ yè — Politics, political affairs, matters of state

ပုန်ကန်မှု

pòuɴ kaɴ hmu — Rebellion, insurrection, act of revolt

သင့်တင့်စွာ

tʰìɴ tɪ̀ɴ zwa — Appropriately, suitably, in a fitting manner

သံသယ

tʰaɴ θa ya — Doubt, suspicion, uncertainty about something

ဖြစ်နိုင်

pjɪʔ naìɴ — Possible, can happen, may be

သည့်

thìn — Relative clause marker, that which is

လှည့်လည်သွားလာ

lɛ̀ lɛ̀ θwà la — To travel around, wander, move about freely

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle, which, that (adjective marker)

နိုင်ငံခြားသား

naìɴ ŋaɴ tɕʰà θà — Foreigner, person from another country

များ

mjà — Many, plural marker, more than one

ကော်မရှင်

kɔ̀ ma ʃɪ̀ɴ — Commission, official board or committee

မှ

hmà — From, since, out of (source marker)

ဖယ်ထုတ်

pʰɛ̀ tʰoʊʔ — To remove, exclude, expel from a group

ရန်

yaɴ — In order to, for the purpose of

ပိုမို

po mo — More, even more, to a greater degree

သတိ

θa tì — Awareness, mindfulness, caution, attention

မထား

ma tʰà — Not keep, not place, not maintain attention

ကြသည်

kja thì — Plural action marker, they do, all do

ဖြစ်သည်

pjɪʔ thì — Is, am, are, to be (copula verb)

အဝတ်

a wuʔ — Clothing, garment, fabric worn on body

ဖုံးဝှက်

pʰóuɴ wɛʔ — To cover, conceal, hide something from view

ထားသော

tʰà thaw — That which has been placed or kept

ဂျက်ဆူးဝပ်

dʑɛʔ sú waʔ — Jesuit, member of the Society of Jesus

တစ်ဦး

tɪʔ ú — One person, a single individual

ထက်

tʰɛʔ — Than, more than, above (comparison particle)

မပို

ma po — Not more, no more than, not exceeding

အတိအကျ

a tɪʔ a kja — Exactly, precisely, with exactness

အတည်ပြု

a tɪ̀ pju — To confirm, verify, officially approve

ရလောက်အောင်

ya lauʔ àuɴ — Enough to get, sufficiently to obtain

ကရုဏာမဲ့

ka ru na mɛ̀ — Merciless, lacking compassion, cruel, heartless

ဖြစ်မည်

pjɪʔ mɪ̀ — Will be, will become, future tense of be

ဘုရားသခင်

pʰa yà θa kʰɪ̀ɴ — God, the Lord (Christian usage)

ကာကွယ်

kà kwɛ̀ — To protect, defend, guard against harm

ပါစေ

pa se — May it be, let it happen (optative particle)

ဤ

ì — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

ဆိုမည်

hsò mɪ̀ — Will say, shall call, intend to state

သူ

θu — He, she, that person (third person pronoun)

အရည်အချင်း

a yɪ̀ a tɕɪ̀ɴ — Qualification, competence, ability, quality

စမ်းသပ်

sáɴ θaʔ — To test, examine, try out someone

ခြင်း

tɕʰɪ̀ɴ — Nominalizer suffix, the act of doing something

ခံသည့်

kʰaɴ thìn — That which is received, undergone, endured

နေ့

nè — Day, daytime

မှစ၍

hma sɪ̀ ywè — Starting from, beginning with, since that point

သူ့

θu — His, her, that person's (possessive)

တနည်း

ta nɛ̀ — In other words, another way of saying

အားဖြင့်

à pjɪ̀ɴ — By means of, through, in terms of

ရပ်ကွက်

yaʔ kwɛʔ — Ward, neighborhood, local community block

ဘုရားကျောင်း

pʰa yà tɕáuɴ — Church, temple, house of worship

အတွင်း

a twɪ̀ɴ — Inside, within, during a period

တစ်ကြိမ်

tɪʔ kjèiɴ — Once, one time, a single occasion

မျှပင်

mjà pɪ̀ɴ — Even once, not even once (emphatic)

တွေ့ဖူး

twɛ̀ pʰú — Have met before, have encountered previously

ဟူ၍

hu ywè — Saying that, called, referred to as