The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself — Page 7

Vocabulary

စောင်

saung — A volume or copy of a publication.

မစ္စတာ

mis-ta — Mister; a title of address for men.

လွှတ်တော်အမတ်

hlut-taw a-mat — Member of parliament; a legislative representative.

ဆရာဝန်

sa-ya-wan — Doctor; a medical physician who treats patients.

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး

phoun-daw-ji — Reverend; a title for a religious clergyman.

လာ

la — To come; movement toward the speaker.

မစ္စက်စ်

mis-kes — Missus; a title of address for a married woman.

ဟော်နာရဘယ်

haw-na-ra-bel — Honourable; a title of respect for officials.

လော်ဒ်

lord — Lord; a title for a British nobleman.

ဘစ်ရှပ်

bit-sha — Bishop; a senior Christian church official.

ယင်

yin — A fly or insect; small flying pest.

မာတိကာ

ma-ti-ka — Table of contents; an index listing book chapters.

အခန်း

a-khan — Chapter or room; a section of a book.

စာရေးသူ၏

sa-yay-thu yay — Of the author; belonging to the writer.

မိမိနိုင်ငံ၊

mi-mi naing-ngan — One's own country; the author's homeland.

၎င်းတို့၏

di-ga-do yay — Their; belonging to those previously mentioned people.

အကျင့်စရိုက်နှင့်

a-kyin sa-yait hnin — Character and conduct; moral habits and behavior.

ဓလေ့ထုံးတမ်းများ

da-leh htoun-tan mya — Customs and traditions; established cultural practices.

စသည်တို့အကြောင်း

sa-dhi-do a-kyaung — About such things; concerning the aforementioned topics.

ဖော်ပြချက်

phaw-pya-chet — Description; an account or explanation of something.

မွေးဖွားမှုနှင့်

mway-phwa-hmu hnin — Birth and; relating to one's origin and birth.

မိဘဇာတ်ကြောင်း

mi-ba zat-kyaung — Parental background; the story of one's parents.

၎င်း၏

di-ga yay — His or her; belonging to that person.

ညီမနှင့်အတူ

nyi-ma hnin a-tu — Together with his/her sister; alongside a sibling.

ပြတ်မြောက်ခဲ့ရပုံ

pyat-myauk-khe-ya poun — How they managed to escape; account of liberation.

ကျွန်သင်္ဘောပေါ်ရှိ

kyun thin-baw paw shi — On board a slave ship; aboard a slaving vessel.

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ရာများ

kyauk-met phwe-ya mya — Terrible events; frightening and horrifying occurrences.

စာရေးသူအား

sa-yay-thu a — To the author; directed at the writer.

ခေါ်ဆောင်သွားခြင်း

khaw-saung thwa chin — Being taken away; transported or led to a place.

အင်္ဂလန်သို့

in-ga-lan thoe — To England; toward the country of England.

ရောက်ရှိခြင်း

yauk-shi chin — Arrival; reaching or arriving at a destination.

နှင်းကျသည်ကို

hnin-kya-dhi ko — Seeing snow fall; witnessing snowfall for first time.

တွေ့မြင်၍

tway-myin yway — Having seen; upon seeing or witnessing something.

အံ့သြခြင်း

an-thaw chin — Amazement; feeling of wonder and astonishment.

အဒ်မိုရယ်

at-mo-yel — Admiral; a high-ranking naval military officer.

မောင်စီယာ

maung-si-ya — Monsieur; a French title of address for men.

တို့အကြား

do a-kya — Between them; in the space separating two parties.

နာမည်ကျော်

na-myi kyaw — Famous; well-known and celebrated by many people.

တိုက်ပွဲအကြောင်း

tite-pwe a-kyaung — About the battle; concerning a military engagement.

အသေးစိတ်

a-thway-seit — In detail; with specific and thorough information.

နှိပ်စက်မှု၊

hnit-set hmu — Oppression; cruel treatment and persecution of others.

ရက်စက်မှုနှင့်

yet-set hmu hnin — Cruelty and; brutal and inhumane treatment of others.

လုယက်မှုတို့၏

lu-yet hmu do yay — Of robberies; relating to acts of plunder and theft.

စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်

seit-win-sa phwe — Interesting; worthy of attention and curiosity.

ဖြစ်ရပ်အမျိုးမျိုး

phyit-yat a-myo-myo — Various incidents; different types of events that occurred.

အခြေအနေ

a-che-a-ne — Situation or condition; the state of circumstances.

ကောင်းမွန်သောဘက်သို့

kaung-mun thaw bet thoe — Toward the better side; improving in circumstances.

ပြောင်းလဲလာခြင်း

pyaung-le la chin — Change coming; a transformation or shift in conditions.

၎င်းသည်

di-ga dhi — He or she is; referring to that person as subject.

ပင်စီသုံးပြားဖြင့်

pin-si thoun pya hpyin — With three pennies; starting with very little money.

ကုန်သည်ဘဝ

koun-dhi ba-wa — Merchant life; the life of a trader or businessman.

စတင်ခြင်း

sa-tin chin — Beginning; the start of an activity or endeavor.

ဝက်စ်အင်ဒီးစ်ကျွန်းများအပေါ်

wet-sa in-di kywun mya a-paw — Regarding the West Indies islands; concerning Caribbean territories.

စက်ဆုပ်ရွံ့မုန်းမှု

set-hsout yun moun hmu — Disgust and hatred; strong feelings of loathing and contempt.

လွတ်လပ်ရေးရရှိရန်

lwat-lat yay ya shi yan — In order to attain freedom; to achieve independence.

အစီအစဉ်များ

a-si a-sin mya — Plans; organized schemes or arrangements for action.

ချမှတ်ခြင်း

cha-hmat chin — Laying down plans; formulating or establishing strategies.

ထူးခြားသော

htu-cha thaw — Remarkable; unusual and distinctly noteworthy or special.

အိပ်မက်သုံးခု

et-met thoun khu — Three dreams; a trio of significant dream visions.

စာရေးသူသည်

sa-yay-thu dhi — The author is; the writer as subject of a sentence.

သင်္ဘောပျက်ခြင်း

thin-baw pyat chin — Shipwreck; the destruction or sinking of a vessel.