The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 3

Vocabulary

သို့ဖြစ်၍

thoh hpyit yway — therefore; consequently; for this reason

ပညာရှင်များသည်

pyin-nya-shin myar thit — scholars; experts (plural subject marker)

ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့်

ye-bho-yah ar-hpyin — generally; in general; broadly speaking

ကျွန်ုပ်၏

kyun-noh ei — my; belonging to me (formal possessive)

နိဂုံးချုပ်ချက်များကို

ni-gone-chout-chet myar goh — conclusions; final summary points (object marker)

သဘောတူညီကြသည်ဟု

tha-baw tu-nyi kya-thit hoh — agree; are in agreement (reported speech)

တစ်ခဏတာပင်

tit-kha-na-ta pin — even for a moment; just briefly

ဟန်ဆောင်

han-zaung — to pretend; to feign; to act falsely

မထင်မှတ်ဘဲ

ma-htin-hmat beh — unexpectedly; without anticipating; by surprise

ကျွန်ုပ်သည်

kyun-noh thit — I; me (formal first person subject)

သူတို့သည်

thu-doh thit — they; them (third person plural subject)

ကျွန်ုပ်ကို

kyun-noh goh — me; to me (formal first person object)

ဆန့်ကျင်ကြဖွယ်ရာ

san-kyin kya hpweh-ya — likely to oppose; inclined to contradict

မရှိသဖြင့်

ma-shi tha-hpyin — because there is not; since there is none

ကျွန်ုပ်

kyun-noh — I; me (formal polite first person pronoun)

တုံ့ပြန်ရန်

tone-pyan yan — to respond; to reply; to react (purpose)

မဖြစ်မနေ

ma-hpyit-ma-ne — must; inevitably; absolutely necessary

လိုအပ်မည်

loh-ut myi — will need; will be required; will be necessary

မဟုတ်ဟု

ma-hout hoh — is not; it is not the case (reported)

ထင်မြင်သကဲ့သို့

htin-myin tha-keh-thoh — as one thinks; as it appears; seemingly

ဆောင်ရွက်မည်

zaung-ywet myi — will carry out; will act; will proceed

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit-pyi — having become; being; and also (connector)

ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုရာ၌

ba-tha-pyan-soh ya-hnit — in translating; in the act of translation

အဂ်္ဂလိပ်

in-ga-leit — English; of England; the English language

စာဖတ်သူများ

sa-hpat-thu myar — readers; those who read (plural)

အတွက်

a-twet — for; for the sake of; on behalf of

အသုံးဝင်မည်ဟု

a-thone-win myi hoh — will be useful; will be of use (reported)

ထင်မြင်သော

htin-myin thaw — thinking; believing; of the opinion that

မှတ်စုများဖြင့်သာ

hmat-su myar hpyin-tha — only with notes; limited solely to notes

ကန့်သတ်

kan-thut — to limit; to restrict; to confine

ဖြစ်သည်။

hpyit-thit — is; it is (statement-ending copula)

ဤ

di — this; these (formal demonstrative pronoun)

မှတ်စုများ

hmat-su myar — notes; written annotations (plural)

ထဲတွင်

hteh-dwin — inside; within; among

အခန်း

a-khan — chapter; section; room; compartment

ကို

goh — to; object marker (direct/indirect object)

ပါ၀င်သော

pa-win-thaw — containing; including; which is included

မှတ်စု

hmat-su — note; annotation; written record

တစ်ခုကို

tit-khu goh — one (item); a single one (object marker)

အထူး

a-htoo — especially; particularly; special

သတိပြု

tha-ti pyu — to pay attention; to take note; be careful

စေလိုပြီး

se-loh-pyi — wanting to cause; wishing to make (causative)

၎င်းကို

da-jin goh — it; that (formal pronoun, object marker)

ကျွန်ုပ်အား

kyun-noh ar — to me; toward me (formal indirect object)

ထုတ်ဖော်

htout-hpaw — to reveal; to disclose; to make known

ကြေညာ

kye-nya — to announce; to declare; to proclaim

ခွင့်

khwin — permission; right; opportunity; leave

ကြင်နာစွာ

kyin-na-zwa — kindly; with kindness; affectionately

ပြုခဲ့သည်။

pyu-kheh-thit — did; has done; performed (past tense)

တွင်

dwin — in; at; within (locative particle)

အသုံးပြု

a-thone-pyu — to use; to make use of; to employ

ခဲ့သော

kheh-thaw — which was used; past tense relative marker

ဥပမာ

u-pa-ma — example; illustration; for instance

ပုံများ

pone myar — images; figures; illustrations (plural)

အနက်

a-net — among; meaning; within a group

အချို့ကို

a-choh goh — some; certain ones (object marker)

ထပ်မံ

htat-man — again; additionally; once more

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw-pya — to show; to describe; to illustrate

ထားပြီး

htar-pyi — having placed; having done (resultative)

အိမ်၏

ein ei — of the house; house's (possessive)

ပြင်ပ

pyin-ba — outside; exterior; outer area

ဝင်းကို

win goh — yard; compound; enclosure (object marker)

စာဖတ်သူ၏

sa-hpat-thu ei — of the reader; reader's (possessive)

မျက်စိ

myet-si — eye; eyes; visual perception

ထဲ၌

hteh-hnit — inside; within; in the mind's eye

ပို၍

poh-yway — more; even more; to a greater degree

သဲကွဲစွာ

theh-kweh-zwa — clearly; distinctly; vividly

မြင်ယောင်

myin-yaung — to visualize; to imagine seeing; picture mentally

စေရန်

se-yan — in order to cause; so as to make

မျှော်လင့်သော

hmyaw-lin-thaw — hoping; expecting; in the hope that

ပုံ

pone — picture; image; illustration; diagram

နှစ်ပုံကို

hnit-pone goh — two pictures; two images (object marker)

ထပ်ဆောင်း

htat-zaung — to add additionally; to supplement; to append

ထည့်သွင်း

hteh-thwin — to insert; to include; to put into

ထားသည်။

htar-thit — has placed; has kept; resultative statement

တစ်ပုံ

tit-pone — one picture; one image; a single illustration

လူ

lu — person; human being; people

တစ်ဦး

tit-oo — one person; a single individual

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; together with (conjunction)

ခွေး

khweh — dog; canine animal

တစ်ကောင်

tit-kaung — one animal; a single creature

ပါရှိ

pa-shi — to be present; to be included; to exist with

နေခြင်းမှာ

ne-chin-hma — regarding being present; the fact of being

မတော်တဆ

ma-taw-da-sa — accidentally; by chance; unintentionally

ဖြစ်သွား

hpyit-thwar — happened; became; came about (inchoative)

ခြင်း

chin — nominalizer; the act of; the fact that

ဓာတ်ပုံ

dut-pone — photograph; photo; picture taken by camera

ဖွံ့ဖြိုး

hpone-hpyo — to develop; to grow; to flourish

တိုးတက်

toh-tet — to progress; to advance; to improve

မလာ

ma-la — not come; has not arrived; not yet developed

မချင်း

ma-chin — until; unless; before it happens

သတိ

tha-ti — awareness; mindfulness; attention; care

မပြုမိ

ma-pyu-mi — did not notice; failed to realize; unaware

ကြောင်း

kaung — that; the fact that (nominalizing particle)

ရှင်းပြ

shin-pya — to explain; to clarify; to make clear

လိုပါသည်။

loh-pa-thit — need to; it is necessary (polite statement)

နောက်ဆက်တွဲ

nauk-set-tweh — appendix; addendum; supplementary material

အစီအစဉ်ကို

a-si-a-sin goh — the arrangement; the plan; the order (object)

ရှင်းလင်း

shin-lin — to clarify; to explain clearly; clear

ဖော်ပြသော

hpaw-pya-thaw — describing; showing; that which explains

စာပိုဒ်များကို

sa-pout myar goh — paragraphs; passages (plural, object marker)

အစီအစဉ်

a-si-a-sin — arrangement; order; sequence; plan

ပုံမူ

pone-mu — original format; original layout; template

အတူ

a-tu — together; along with; in the same way

ပြန်လည်

pyan-le — again; back; returning to previous state

ထုတ်ဝေ

htout-weh — to publish; to distribute; to release

စာဖတ်သူသည်

sa-hpat-thu thit — the reader (subject marker)

ပုံကို

pone goh — the picture; the image (object marker)

အနည်းငယ်

a-nyi-ngeh — a little; slightly; a small amount

အာရုံစိုက်၍

a-yone-soit yway — by focusing attention; by concentrating carefully

လေ့လာ

leh-la — to study; to learn; to investigate

သင်ကြား

thin-kya — to teach; to learn; to instruct

ကြရန်

kya-yan — for all to; in order to (plural purpose)

တိုက်တွန်း

tite-twon — to encourage; to urge; to recommend strongly

အပ်သည်။

ut-thit — to entrust; to advise; to commend (closing)