The Expedition of Humphry Clinker — Page 2

Vocabulary

မကြာသေးမီက

ma kjà thé mì ka — Recently; not long ago in the past

ခရီးသွားမှတ်တမ်းများ

kha yì thwà hmat tam myà — Travel writings; accounts of journeys

အကြောင်း

a kjáun — About; concerning; reason or cause

စာပေ

sa pè — Literature; written works of artistic value

များစွာ

myà zwà — Many; a great number of things

ထုတ်ဝေ

htout wè — To publish; to distribute publicly

ခဲ့သည်

khɛ̀ d̪ì — Past tense marker; did or have done

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction linking nouns

တို့၏

tó ei — Possessive plural marker; belonging to them

စာများ

sa myà — Letters; written correspondence or documents

၏

ei — Possessive particle; belonging to someone

တို့နှင့်

tó hnin — Together with them; plural inclusive connector

ပေါင်းလျှင်

páun shin — When added together; combined total

လူထု

lù htù — The public; general population of people

သည်

d̪ì — Present tense verb marker; is or does

ထို

htó — That; demonstrative pronoun pointing to something

အမျိုးအစား

a mjó a sá — Type; kind; category of something

ဖျော်ဖြေမှု

phjo phje hmù — Entertainment; amusement; recreational activity

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in Burmese grammar

ငြီးငွေ့

njì ngwɛ̀ — To be bored; fed up; weary of something

နေပြီ

nè bjì — Already in a state; currently so now

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit d̪ì — Is; to be; to become something

သို့သော်လည်း

tho dɔ lɛ — However; nevertheless; but even so

သင်

thin — You; second person singular pronoun

ကြိုက်လျှင်

kjáit shin — If you like; if one desires it

ထုတ်နှိပ်ခြင်း

htout hnaip chín — Printing; the act of printing something

ထုတ်ဝေခြင်း

htout wè chín — Publishing; the act of distributing content

အန္တရာယ်

an da yè — Danger; risk; hazard or peril

ကျွန်တော်

kjànó — I; first person singular pronoun (male)

ယူပေမည်

yù pè mɛ — Will take; shall accept something

ထုတ်ဝေမှု

htout wè hmù — Publication; act of publishing a work

အမြတ်

a myat — Profit; gain; benefit from something

တစ်ဝက်

tit wat — Half; one portion of two equal parts

ရပါမည်

ya pa mɛ — Must receive; will need to get

ကျွန်တော့်

kjànó — My; possessive form of first person male

အတွက်

a twɛt — For; for the sake of; regarding

သင်၏

thin ei — Your; belonging to you (second person)

ဓမ္မဒေသနာ

damma dèthana — Religious sermon; Dhamma discourse or preaching

များ

myà — Plural marker; many; more than one

ယူဆောင်

yù sáun — To bring; to take along with you

လာရန်

là yan — To come; in order to come here

အဆင်

a qin — Convenience; ease; smooth functioning

ခက်

khɛt — Difficult; hard; not easy to do

မည်

mɛ — Future tense marker; will or shall

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Not; is not; negation of being

မှတပါး

hma ta pà — Except; other than; apart from something

တစ်စုံ

tit soun — A pair; some; a certain number

တစ်ယောက်

tit yaùt — One person; a single individual

မျှ

hmja — Only; merely; just that much

မဖတ်

ma phat — Not read; does not read something

ကြ

kjà — Plural verb marker; they do together

ထိုမျှ

htó hmja — That much; to that extent only

မက

ma ka — Not only; more than just that

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tain — Oneself; personally; by one's own hand

မူ

mù — Topic emphasis particle; as for this

ဖတ်ခြင်း

phat chín — Reading; the act of reading text

လုံးဝ

lóun wà — Completely; absolutely; entirely; at all

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic particle in Burmese

မရင်းနှီး

ma yin hnì — Not familiar; unfamiliar with something

ကျွမ်းဝင်

kjàun win — Familiar with; acquainted; experienced in

ပေ

pè — Emphatic or softening sentence-final particle

ကိစ္စများ

keiq sa myà — Matters; affairs; issues to be dealt with

တွင်

twin — In; at; within a location or context

အားကိုး

à kó — To rely on; to depend on someone

နေသည့်

nè d̪ìn — Who lives; who stays; existing continually

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်

poudgòun — Person; individual; respected person

နှစ်ဦး

hnit ú — Two people; a pair of individuals

မှာ

hmà — At; in; locative or instructional particle

လက်လှမ်း

lɛt hlàn — Reach; range of access or influence

မမီ

ma mì — Cannot reach; beyond one's reach

သော

dɔ — Relative clause marker; that which is

နေရာ

nè yà — Place; location; position somewhere

သို့

tho — To; toward; directional particle

ရောက်

yaùt — To arrive; to reach a destination

နေကြ

nè kjà — Are (plural); they are living or staying

ပြီ

bjì — Already; completion marker; done now

တစ်ဦး

tit ú — One person; a single individual (formal)

စစ်သင်္ဘော

sit thin bɔ — Warship; military naval vessel

ဆရာဝန်

hsaya wun — Doctor; physician; medical professional

အဖြစ်

a phyit — As; in the role of; being something

နိုင်ငံ

nain ngàn — Country; nation; state territory

ရပ်ခြား

yat kjà — Foreign land; abroad; overseas location

သွားရောက်

thwà yaùt — To go and arrive; to travel somewhere

အခြား

a khà — Other; another; different from this one

ဘာသာရေး

bàthà yè — Religious; pertaining to religion or faith

ကဲ့ရဲ့ခြင်း

kɛ̀ yɛ̀ chín — Criticism; mockery; act of ridiculing someone

ဆိုင်ရာ

sáin yà — Related to; concerning; pertaining to something

တရားစွဲဆိုမှု

ta yà zwɛ só hmù — Lawsuit; legal prosecution against someone

ရှောင်ရှား

shàun shà — To avoid; to evade; to stay away from

ရန်

yan — In order to; purpose marker; for the sake

မိုက်မဲ

mait mɛ — Foolishly; stupidly; in an unwise manner

စွာ

zwà — Adverb-forming suffix; -ly manner marker

ပြေးဝှက်

pyè hwɛt — To flee and hide; to run away secretly

သူ

thù — He; she; third person singular pronoun

သွားခြင်း

thwà chín — Going; the act of leaving or traveling

ကြောင့်

kjàun — Because of; due to; owing to something

အလွန်

a lwun — Very; extremely; excessively so

ဆုံးရှုံး

sóun shóun — To lose; to suffer loss or defeat

နေသည်

nè d̪ì — Is living; is staying; continuous existence

တစ်ခုလုံး

tit khu lóun — The whole thing; entirely one complete unit

ငွေ

ngwè — Money; silver; currency or funds

လက်ခံ

lɛt khàn — To accept; to receive; to welcome something

ပြီးနောက်

bjì naùt — After; afterward; following completion of something

ကိုးကွယ်မှု

kó kwɛ hmù — Worship; act of religious devotion

လက်စွဲ

lɛt zwɛ — Handbook; manual; reference guide book

စာအုပ်

sa oup — Book; a bound written publication

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or object

အလယ်

a lɛ — Middle; center; in between two things

ဆောင်ရွက်

sáun ywɛt — To carry out; to perform; to undertake

ချန်ထား

chan htà — To leave behind; to set aside something

သွားသည်

thwà d̪ì — Goes; went; to leave or depart somewhere

ကျွန်တော်၏

kjànó ei — My; mine; belonging to me (male speaker)

လူများ

lù myà — People; many persons; human beings

အားလုံး

à lóun — All; everyone; everything; the whole group

ထဲတွင်

htɛ twin — Inside; within; in the interior of

အကောင်းဆုံး

a káun zóun — The best; the finest; most excellent one

ဓမ္မ

damma — Dhamma; Buddhist teaching; religious doctrine

ပညာရှင်

pjìɲà shin — Scholar; expert; learned person in field

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit bjì — Being; having become; and also being

အသင့်တော်

a thin dɔ — Appropriate; suitable; fitting for purpose

ဆုံး

zóun — Most; superlative suffix; end or conclusion

ရေးသား

yè thà — To write; to compose written content

ပုံစံ

poun san — Format; style; form or pattern

ရှိသူ

shì thù — Person who has or possesses something

ဤ

ì — This; formal demonstrative pronoun (written)

အခြေအနေ

a khè a nè — Situation; condition; state of affairs

၎င်း၏

dí gin ei — Its; his/her; third person possessive formal

အသက်မွေးမှု

a thet mwé hmù — Livelihood; means of earning a living

စွန့်လွှတ်

swun lhut — To give up; to abandon; to sacrifice

ပြေးသွား

pyè thwà — To run away; to flee from something

ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်

zóun phyat chɛt — Decision; resolution; determined conclusion

မှားယွင်း

hmà ywín — Wrong; mistaken; erroneous; incorrect action

မသိ

ma thì — Do not know; unaware of something

ခဲ့ဖူး

khɛ̀ phù — Has done before; past experience marker

ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာ

ko khan da — Body; physical form; the human body

ကြောက်ရွံ့မှု

kjàut ywun hmù — Fear; dread; feeling of being frightened

မရှိ

ma shì — Does not exist; there is none

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker; said that; thus saying

ဝန်ခံ

wun khàn — To admit; to confess; to acknowledge something

သူ့

thù — His; her; possessive of third person

တည်းမြောင်း

tɛ mjáun — Strict; austere; disciplined manner of living

ထားရ

htà ya — Must keep; must maintain in place

သည့်

d̪ìn — Relative clause marker; which; that is

အကျိုးကျေးဇူး

a kjo kjé zù — Benefit; advantage; good result gained

ထက်

htɛt — Than; more than; comparative particle

ကောင်းသော

káun dɔ — Good; beneficial; which is positive

တရားလွှတ်မှု

ta yà lhut hmù — Acquittal; release from legal charges

ကိုလည်း

ko lɛ — Also; as well; additionally regarding something

ဖယ်ရှား

phɛ shà — To remove; to eliminate; to get rid of

လိုက်သည်

lait d̪ì — Follows; goes along; accompanies someone

မကြာသေးမီ

ma kjà thé mì — Recently; shortly before; not long past

စစ်ပွဲ

sit pwɛ — War; battle; armed military conflict

အတွင်း

a twin — Inside; within; during a period of time

ညနေပိုင်း

ɲa nè páin — Afternoon; evening time of the day

သတင်းစာ

tha tín sà — Newspaper; printed news publication

တိုက်ပွဲ

tait pwɛ — Battle; fight; military engagement or clash

တစ်ချို့

tit cho — Some; certain ones; a few of them

တပ်ရင်း

tat yin — Regiment; military battalion or unit

အပြုအမူ

a pyu a mù — Behavior; conduct; manner of acting

ဝေဖန်

wè phan — To criticize; to comment critically on something

စာတိုက်

sa tait — Post office; place for sending mail

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative case marker

ရောက်လာ

yaùt là — To arrive; to come to a place

ပိုဒ်

pout — Paragraph; passage; section of text

တစ်ပိုဒ်

tit pout — One paragraph; a single passage of text

ထည့်သွင်း

htɛ thwín — To insert; to include; to put something in

ဖော်ပြ

phɔ pya — To describe; to express; to present clearly