The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 4

Vocabulary

၏

i — Possessive or attributive particle in Burmese grammar.

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — My; first-person possessive pronoun (male speaker).

ဘာသာပြန်ချက်

batha-pyan-chyet — A translation; the result of translating text.

နိဒါန်း

nei-dan — Introduction or preface of a book or text.

တွင်

twin — In, at, within; locative particle.

ဘာသာပြန်သူ

batha-pyan-thu — Translator; a person who translates languages.

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual.

လိုက်နာ

lyte-na — To follow, comply with, or adhere to rules.

သင့်သည့်

thint-dint — Appropriate, suitable, or proper for something.

အဓိက

a-di-ka — Main, principal, or most important element.

မူများ

mu-mya — Principles, rules, or guidelines in general.

နှင့်

hnint — And, with; conjunction or comitative particle.

ပတ်သက်၍

pat-thut-yway — Regarding, concerning, or related to something.

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I, me; first-person pronoun used by males.

အမြင်

a-myin — View, opinion, or perspective on a matter.

များကို

mya-go — Plural accusative marker; referring to multiple things.

ဖော်ပြ

pfaw-pya — To express, describe, or indicate clearly.

ထားပြီး

hta-pyi — Having already done or placed something beforehand.

ဖြစ်သော

pfyit-thaw — Which is, being; attributive existential connector.

ကြောင့်

kyaunt — Because of, due to; causal particle.

ကဗျာ

ka-bya — Poetry; literary work written in verse form.

ကို

go — Accusative particle marking the direct object.

ဂဒ္ဒပဒ

gat-da-pat — Prose; ordinary written or spoken language.

သို့

thoe — To, toward; directional or dative particle.

ဘာသာပြန်

batha-pyan — To translate; convert text between languages.

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into noun phrases.

အစဦး

a-si-u — The very beginning or start of something.

လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်

lwut-lat-khwin — Freedom, liberty, or permission to act freely.

သည်

thi — Topic marker or present tense verb particle.

တစ်လျှောက်လုံး

ta-shout-lone — Throughout, all along the entire length or duration.

အနည်း

a-ni — Few, small amount; indicating limited quantity.

အများ

a-mya — Many, much; indicating a large quantity.

အဆက်မပြတ်

a-set-ma-pyat — Continuously, without interruption or stopping.

ယူရ

yu-ya — To take or obtain; must take something.

သက်ဆိုင်

thet-syne — To be relevant or related to; concerning.

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'as.'

ထောက်ပြ

htout-pya — To point out, indicate, or demonstrate something.

ရုံ

yone — Merely, only; limiting particle indicating sufficiency.

မှ

hma — From, since; ablative or source particle.

တပါး

ta-ba — Other, another; apart from what was mentioned.

၎င်းတို့

di-do — They, them, those; third-person plural pronoun.

ဤနေရာ

i-ne-ya — This place, here; referring to a specific location.

ထပ်မံ

htat-man — Again, additionally, once more; repetition marker.

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of doing.

မလိုအပ်

ma-lo-at — Not necessary, not needed, unnecessary.

ပေ

pay — Emphatic or assertive sentence-final particle.

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a-bhe-kyaunt — Why, for what reason; interrogative cause marker.

ဆိုသော်

so-thaw — If one says; introducing explanation or reason.

မှန်ကန်

hmun-kan — Correct, accurate, proper, or right.

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; adjectival connector particle.

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, or object; general noun marker.

များ

mya — Plural marker; many or multiple things or people.

စွာ

swa — Adverbial particle indicating manner or degree.

မှားယွင်း

hma-ywin — Wrong, incorrect, erroneous, or mistaken.

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; done, finished, and then.

ဖတ်ရှု

pfat-shu — To read; peruse written text carefully.

နိုင်သော

nyne-thaw — Which is able to; capable of doing something.

လိုအပ်ချက်

lo-at-chyet — Requirement, necessity, or what is needed.

ဦးစွာ

u-swa — First of all, firstly, at the outset.

ထည့်သွင်း

hte-thwin — To include, insert, or incorporate into something.

စဉ်းစား

sin-sa — To think, consider, or deliberate about something.

ရမည့်

ya-myi — Must obtain or must do; obligatory future action.

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyit-thi — Is, exists; copula verb indicating a state.

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However, but, nevertheless; adversative conjunction.

တင်းကျပ်သော

tin-kyat-thaw — Strict, tight, rigid; describing strict adherence.

ဘာသာပြန်မှု

batha-pyan-hmu — The act or process of translating languages.

မည်မျှ

myi-myar — How much, how far; interrogative degree marker.

ဝေးကွာ

way-kwa — Far away, distant, separated by great distance.

ခဲ့သည်

khe-thi — Past tense marker indicating completed action.

စာဖတ်သူ

sa-pfat-thu — Reader; a person who reads written text.

သိရှိ

thi-shi — To know, be aware of, or understand something.

နိုင်ရန်

nyne-yan — In order to be able to do something.

ကြောင်း

kyaun — That; nominalizing or complementizer particle for clauses.

ခြောက်ဆယ်

chout-she — Sixty; the number sixty.

ခန့်

khan — Approximately, about, around a certain quantity.

အတွက်

a-twet — For, for the sake of, regarding a purpose.

တို့

do — Plural marker for pronouns or nouns.

ရိုက်နှိပ်

rite-hnit — To print or type; press to produce text.

မည်

myi — Future tense marker indicating something will happen.

သူတို့

thu-do — They, them; third-person plural pronoun.

မှာ

hma — At, in; locative particle or command marker.

ဤသို့

i-thoe — In this way, thus, like this; manner adverb.

အို

o — O, oh; vocative exclamation addressing someone.

လိုအပ်

lo-at — To need, require, be necessary.

သည့်

dint — Relative clause marker linking modifier to noun.

အခါ

a-kha — When, at the time of; temporal marker.

အဆင်သင့်

a-sin-thint — Ready, prepared, all set to proceed.

ရှိပြီး

shi-pyi — Exists and then; having something already.

မြို့

myo — City, town; an urban settlement area.

သန့်ရှင်းသော

thant-shin-thaw — Clean, pure, holy; describing something spotless.

မြို့ရိုး

myo-yo — City walls; fortified walls surrounding a town.

ဖျက်ဆီး

pfyet-si — To destroy, demolish, or ruin completely.

နောက်

nout — After, behind, next; temporal or spatial marker.

ဝေးရာ

way-ya — Distant places; faraway locations.

နီးရာ

ni-ya — Nearby places; locations that are close.

လှည့်လည်

hle-le — To wander, roam, or travel around widely.

ခဲ့သော

khe-thaw — Past relative marker; that which previously occurred.

သူ

thu — He, she, him, her; third-person pronoun.

မြင်ကာ

myin-ga — Having seen; after seeing or observing something.

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, feeling, or mental state.

လေ့လာ

le-la — To study, learn, or explore knowledge.

လူ

lu — Person, human being, people.

များစွာ

mya-swa — Many, a great number of; abundantly.

တွေ့ဆုံ

tway-zone — To meet, encounter, or come across someone.

မှန်သည်

hmun-thi — Is correct, is true; affirming accuracy.

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, one's own; reflexive pronoun.

အသက်

a-thet — Life, age; the vital force of living.

အပေါင်းအဖော်

a-paung-a-pfaw — Companions, friends, associates traveling together.

ပြန်လာ

pyan-la — To return, come back to a place.

ရယူ

ya-yu — To obtain, acquire, or get something.

ကြိုးစား

kyo-sa — To try hard, make effort, strive.

ရင်း

yin — While doing, by means of; simultaneous action.

နက်နဲသော

net-ne-thaw — Deep, profound, complex, or difficult to understand.

ပင်လယ်ပြင်

pin-le-pyin — The open sea, ocean surface; vast waters.

နှလုံးသား

hnalone-tha — Heart; the emotional or spiritual center within.

ဖြင့်

pfyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle.

ဝေဒနာ

way-da-na — Suffering, pain, anguish experienced by someone.

ခံစား

khan-sa — To feel, experience, or undergo an emotion.

ခဲ့ရသော

khe-ya-thaw — That had to be endured or undergone.

အကြောင်း

a-kyaun — About, concerning; the reason or subject matter.

ကျွန်ုပ်

kyun-noe — I, me; formal first-person singular pronoun.

အား

a — To, for; dative particle or emphasis marker.

ပြောပြ

pyaw-pya — To tell, narrate, or explain to someone.

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; also 'please' or inclusion.

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not, not true; negation of identity.

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed; emphatic particle for emphasis.

၎င်း

di — It, that; third-person singular demonstrative pronoun.

တောင့်တ

taunt-ta — To long for, yearn, or desire something.

နေ

ne — To stay, live, or be in continuous action.

စေကာမူ

se-ga-mu — Even so, nevertheless, even though; concessive conjunction.

ကယ်တင်

kye-tin — To save, rescue, or deliver from danger.

နိုင်ခြင်း

nyne-chin — Ability, capability; the state of being able.

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist, not present, lacking.

ခဲ့ပေ

khe-pay — Emphatic past particle; indeed it was so.

နွား

nwa — Cattle, cow, ox; domesticated bovine animal.

ကျက်စား

kyet-sa — To graze; animals eating grass in pasture.

မိုက်မဲ

myte-me — Foolish, stupid, reckless; lacking wisdom or sense.

မိမိတို့

mi-mi-do — Ourselves, themselves; reflexive plural pronoun.

မမြင်နိုင်မှု

ma-myin-nyne-hmu — Blindness; inability to see or perceive.

ပျက်စီး

pyet-si — To be destroyed, ruined, or deteriorated.

သွား

thwa — To go; move away from current location.

ခဲ့ကြ

khe-kya — They did (past tense plural completed action).

နတ်ဘုရား

nat-pfaya — God, deity, divine being or spirit.

ထံ

htan — To, toward; dative particle for persons.

နေ့

ne — Day; a unit of time from sunrise to sunset.

သိမ်းယူ

thein-yu — To confiscate, seize, or take possession of.

ဤ

i — This; proximal demonstrative pronoun or adjective.

သမီး

tha-mi — Daughter; a female child of a parent.

နတ်မယ်တော်

nat-me-daw — Goddess; a female divine or supernatural being.

မည်သည့်

myi-dint — Whichever, whatever; indefinite relative determiner.

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place, location, spot, or position somewhere.

ကြားသိ

kya-thi — To hear and know; become aware by hearing.

ဖြစ်စေ

pfyit-se — Whether, either; allowing any possibility or option.

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kyun-noe-do — We, us; first-person plural formal pronoun.

လော့

law — Imperative particle urging action; please do it.