The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself — Page 1

Vocabulary

သော

thaw — Attributive particle linking adjective to noun

စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

seit win sa phway kaung thaw — Interesting, worthy of attention or curiosity

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat lam — Story, narrative, or plot of events

တစ်ပုဒ်

tit pout — One piece, one item (literary or musical)

၏

ei — Possessive or genitive particle (formal register)

ဘဝ

bawa — Life, existence, or state of being

၊

(comma pause) — Burmese comma; marks a short pause in text

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma hout — Or, otherwise; presents an alternative option

အာဖရိကန်

A-phya-ri-kan — African; relating to the continent of Africa

လူသား

lu tha — Human being, mankind, humanity

။

(full stop) — Burmese period; marks the end of a sentence

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person (third person pronoun)

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tine — Oneself, personally, by one's own hand

ရေးသား

yay tha — To write, to compose a written work

ကြည့်လော့

kji law — Look! Behold! (imperative, directing attention)

ဘုရားသခင်

phaya tha khin — God, the Lord (used in Christian context)

သည်

thi — Subject marker particle; indicates topic of sentence

ငါ

nga — I, me (informal or emphatic first person pronoun)

ကယ်တင်ရှင်

kei ting shin — Savior, one who rescues or delivers others

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, to become, to occur or happen

ထာဝရဘုရား

htaw-wa-ra phaya — The Eternal God, the LORD (religious title)

ခွန်အား

khun a — Strength, power, physical or spiritual force

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; connects nouns or clauses together

သီချင်း

thi chin — Song, a musical composition with lyrics

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to; indicates cause or reason

ယုံကြည်

yone kji — To believe, to have faith or trust in

၍

yway — And so, therefore; connective particle in formal writing

မကြောက်ရွံ့

ma kyout ywun — Not afraid, without fear or dread

ပေ

pay — Emphatic or assertive sentence-final particle

လည်း

leh — Also, too, as well; additive particle

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit la — To come to be, to become over time

ထို

htoe — That, those (demonstrative pronoun, formal usage)

နေ့

nay — Day, daytime; a unit of time

၌

hnait — At, in; locative particle (formal written register)

သင်တို့

thin doe — You all, you (plural second person pronoun)

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; indicates direct object

ချီးမွမ်း

chi mwun — To praise, to glorify or honor someone

ကြ

kja — Plural or collective action particle for verbs

လော့

law — Imperative particle urging an action be done

နာမ

na-ma — Name, title; used in religious and formal contexts

ခေါ်ဆို

khaw so — To call out, to invoke or proclaim a name

လူများ

lu mya — People, many persons, the general public

တို့

doe — Plural marker for pronouns and nouns

တွင်

twing — In, at, within; locative particle (common usage)

ကျေးဇူးတော်

kjay zu daw — God's grace or mercy (reverential religious expression)

များ

mya — Many, plural; indicates plurality of nouns

ကြေညာ

kja nya — To announce, to declare or proclaim publicly

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'thus'

ဆို

so — To say, to state; quotative verb particle

လိမ့်မည်

lain myi — Will, shall; future tense modal particle

၁၂

(twelve) — The number twelve in Burmese numeral script

း

(colon/tone mark) — Punctuation or tone marker used in Burmese text

၂

(two) — The number two in Burmese numeral script

၄

(four) — The number four in Burmese numeral script

စာရေးဆရာ

sa yay saya — Author, writer, one who composes written works

ပုံနှိပ်

pone hnit — To print; related to printing or publishing

ရောင်းချ

yaung ja — To sell, to offer for sale commercially

အမှတ်

a hmut — Number, mark, sign; used in addresses

၁၀

(ten) — The number ten in Burmese numeral script

လမ်း

lam — Road, street, path or way

ဆေးရုံ

say yone — Hospital, a medical treatment facility

ဘောင်း

baung — Bond or bounds; also trousers in common usage

အဆောက်အအုံ

a-sout a-oun — Building, structure, constructed physical edifice

ကုမ္ပဏီ

kum-pa-ni — Company, a business or commercial organization

တောင်ဘက်

taung bet — Southern direction, the south side

တံတိုင်း

tan tine — Wall, fence, or enclosing barrier structure

ရွေ့ကျ်

yweh kja — To slide, shift or move from a position

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaung leh — To change, to transform or alter something

မှု

hmu — Nominalization suffix; turns verbs into abstract nouns

တံတား

tan ta — Bridge, a structure spanning water or gap

ရင်း

yin — Origin, source; also informal connecting particle

မြို့

myo — Town, city; an urban settlement or municipality

နယ်ပြင်

nei pyin — Area, territory, surrounding region or district

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to have, to be present somewhere

စာအုပ်ဆိုင်

sa out sine — Bookshop, a store selling books

အားလုံး

a lone — All, everyone, everything without exception

ဝယ်ယူ

wei yu — To purchase, to buy something

နိုင်

nine — Can, to be able to; ability modal verb

မှတ်ပုံတင်

hmut pone ting — To register, to officially record or enroll

ထား

hta — To place, to keep; resultative verb particle

ပုံ

pone — Picture, image, shape or form

ပါလီမာန်

Pa-li-man — Parliament, the legislative governing assembly

ဘာသာရေး

ba-tha-yay — Religious, pertaining to religion or faith

လောကီ

law-ki — Worldly, secular, relating to earthly matters

အောက်လွှတ်တော်

awt hlut daw — House of Commons, lower house of Parliament

သို့

thoe — To, toward; directional particle in formal Burmese

ကျွန်တော်

kja-naw — I, me (formal male first person pronoun)

မင်းကြီး

min ji — Great lord, high-ranking noble or official

ဘုရားကျောင်းသား

phaya kyaung tha — Church member, religious student or congregant

အကြီးဆုံး

a-ji-zone — The greatest, the largest, the most important

လေးစားမှု

lay za hmu — Respect, esteem, high regard for someone

ရိုသေမှု

yo thay hmu — Reverence, showing humble deference to others

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

အောက်ပါ

awt pa — The following, as stated below hereafter

စစ်မှန်

sit hmun — Genuine, true, authentic, not fake

ခြေရင်း

chay yin — Foot of something, base end, lower portion

တင်

ting — To present, to submit or place formally

ခွင့်ပြု

khwin pyu — To permit, to allow or grant permission

ပါ

pa — Polite request particle; also 'please' or inclusion marker

၎င်း

dain — It, he, she, they (formal referential pronoun)

အဓိက

a-di-ka — Main, principal, primary, most important

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

yi yweh chet — Purpose, intention, aim or objective

မှာ

hma — At, in; locative or imperative particle

ကျွန်

kja — Slave, servant; humble first person reference

ကုန်သည်မှု

kone thi hmu — Trade, commerce, mercantile activity

ကံမကောင်း

kan ma kaung — Misfortune, bad luck, unfortunate circumstance

ပြည်သူ

pyi thu — Citizen, the people, the general public

ကြုံတွေ့

kyun tway — To encounter, to face or come across

နေရ

nay ya — Must remain, forced to stay or endure

ဒုက္ခ

dote kha — Suffering, hardship, misery, distress

အတွက်

a twet — For, for the sake of, on behalf of

ဂုဏ်သိကျ္ဆာ

goun thi-kja — Honor, dignity, reputation, prestige

လွှတ်တော်

hlut daw — Parliament, legislative assembly or council chamber

သနားကရုဏာ

tha-na ka-yu-na — Compassion, mercy, deep sympathetic feeling

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, feeling, emotion or intention

ပေါ်ထွက်

paw thwet — To appear, to emerge or come into view

စေရန်

say yan — In order to cause, so as to make happen