The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 1

Vocabulary

ရုပ်ပုံ

yoke pone — Image, picture, or illustration

အိုဒစ်ဆီး

o dit hsi: — Odyssey, epic Greek poem by Homer

ဟိုမာ

ho ma — Homer, ancient Greek epic poet

ရေးသားသည်

yay: thaa: thì — To write or compose a text

မူရင်းကို

mu yain: go — The original (source text), object marker

မဖတ်နိုင်သူများအတွက်

ma hpat naing thu myaa: a twèt — For those who cannot read it

အင်္ဂလိပ်

in ga leik — English (language or nationality)

ဘာသာဖြင့်

batha hpyin̤ — In the language of, by means of language

ပြန်ဆိုထားသည်

pyan hso: hta: thì — Has been translated into another language

မာတိကာ

ma ti ka — Table of contents, index of a book

ပထမအကြိမ်

pa hta ma a kyim — First time, first edition or instance

ထုတ်ဝေမှုအတွက်

htoat wè hmu a twèt — For the publication or edition of

နိဒါန်း

ni dan: — Introduction or preface of a book

ဒုတိယအကြိမ်

du ti ya a kyim — Second time, second edition or instance

အခန်း

a khan: — Chapter or section of a book

၁

tit — Number one in Burmese numerals

။

poat ma — Burmese full stop, sentence-ending punctuation

၂

hnit — Number two in Burmese numerals

၃

thone: — Number three in Burmese numerals

၄

lay: — Number four in Burmese numerals

၅

nga: — Number five in Burmese numerals

၆

chauk — Number six in Burmese numerals

၇

khun it — Number seven in Burmese numerals

၈

shit — Number eight in Burmese numerals

၉

ko: — Number nine in Burmese numerals

၁၀

tit hsay — Number ten in Burmese numerals

မှတ်စုများ

hmat su myaa: — Notes, annotations, or remarks section

၊

a hset — Burmese comma, clause-separating punctuation mark

ပါမောက္ခ

pa mout kha — Professor, academic title at a university

အဖိုးတန်သော

a hpho: tan thaw — Valuable, precious, or highly esteemed

မဟာမိတ်အား

ma ha meit aa: — To a great ally or dear friend

ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိသော

kyay zu tin shi thaw — Grateful, thankful, or indebted to someone

စာရေးဆရာမှ

sa yay hsaya hma — From the author or writer of text

ဤ

i — This (formal or literary demonstrative pronoun)

ဘာသာပြန်ချက်သည်

batha pyan chet thì — This translation is (subject marker)

ကျွန်ုပ်

kyaw noke — I, me (formal or written first person)

ခုနှစ်တွင်

khu hnit twìn — In the year, during the year of

ထုတ်ဝေခဲ့သော

htoat wè gèh thaw — Which was published or released previously

အိုဒစ်ဆီးကို

o dit hsi: go — Odyssey, with object marker attached

ရေးသားသူမ

yay: thaa: thu ma — The female author or female writer

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'said' or 'called'

အမည်ရသည့်

a myi ya thìh — Named or titled, bearing the name of

လက်ရာကို

let ya go — A work or creation, with object marker

ဖြည့်ဆည်းရန်

hpyi hsin: yan — To supplement, complete, or fill in

ရည်ရွယ်သည်

yi ywè thì — To intend, aim, or purpose something

ထိုစာအုပ်တွင်

hto sa oat twìn — In that book, within that publication

တစ်ခုလုံးကို

tit khu lone: go — The entirety or whole of something

ကြောင်ကြောင်ကြမ်းကြမ်း

kyaun kyaun kyam: kyam: — Rough or crude manner, unpolished style

မဖြစ်စေဘဲ

ma hpyit say bèh — Without causing or making something happen

ထည့်သွင်းနိုင်မည်

htèh thwin: naing mi — Will be able to include or insert

မဟုတ်သောကြောင့်

ma hoat thaw kyaun̤ — Because it is not, since it isn't

ကျွန်ုပ်သည်

kyaw noke thì — I (formal subject), as for me

ဘာသာပြန်ချက်ကို

batha pyan chet go — The translation, with object marker attached

အကျဉ်းချုပ်ခဲ့ပြီး

a kyin: choat gèh bi: — Having summarized or abridged previously

ယခုအခါ

ya khu a kha — Now, at this present time

အပြည့်အစုံ

a pyi a sone — Complete, full, or in its entirety

ထုတ်ဝေလိုက်သည်

htoat wè lite thì — Publishes or releases now at this time

ယခုမှ

ya khu hma — Only now, from this point forward

တင်ပြခဲ့သော

tin pya gèh thaw — Which was previously presented or submitted

လက်ရာတွင်

let ya twìn — In the work or within the composition

ကိုင်တွယ်ထားသည့်

kaing twe hta: thìh — Which has been handled or addressed

အဓိကအချက်

a di ka a chet — Main point, key or principal matter

နှစ်ချက်ကို

hnit chet go — Two points or matters, object marker

ဤနေရာတွင်

i nay ya twìn — Here, in this place or location

မငြင်းဆိုပါ

ma nyin: hso pa — Do not deny or refuse, politely stated

ထိုနေရာတွင်

hto nay ya twìn — There, in that place or location

ရေးသားထားသည့်

yay: thaa: hta: thìh — Which has been written or composed

အရာများကို

a ya myaa: go — Things or matters, with object marker

ထပ်ပေါင်းရန်

htat paun: yan — To add additionally or combine further

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit say — Whether, either, or to cause something

ဖယ်ရှားရန်

phèh shaa: yan — To remove, eliminate, or get rid of

မည်သည့်အရာမျှ

mi thìh a ya mya — Not anything at all, nothing whatsoever

မရှိပါ

ma shi pa — There is not, does not exist (polite)