The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 8

Vocabulary

၏

e — Possessive or linking particle in Burmese grammar

ကာလမှစ၍

ka-la hma si-yay — Starting from a certain time or period

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in Burmese sentences

ဝိုင်းရံထားသည့်

wine-yan-hta-dthe — Surrounded or encircled by something

မေးခွန်းများကို

may-khwun-mya-go — Questions or inquiries, object-marked

ယနေ့ခေတ်တွင်

ya-nay-khet-twin — In the present age or modern era

ဆွေးနွေးသူ

thway-nway-thu — A person who discusses or deliberates

မည်သူမဆို

ma-thu-ma-hso — Anyone at all, whoever it may be

သည်

dha — Subject marker or present tense particle

တစ်ခုတည်းသော

ta-khu-tway-dho — Being the only one single thing

ရပ်ကွက်

yat-kwet — A neighborhood or local ward district

တစ်ခုမှ

ta-khu-hma — From or out of a single one

ရေးသားခဲ့ကြောင်း

yay-tha-khay-kjoun — That someone wrote or composed something

သက်သေပြနိုင်ကြောင်း

thet-thay-pya-nine-kjoun — That one is able to prove or demonstrate

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto-kjoun — Therefore; for that reason or cause

အခြားဘာမျှ

a-khya-ba-hmya — Nothing else whatsoever of any kind

ဤကောက်ချက်သို့

i-kout-chet-hto — Toward or to this conclusion or inference

မညွှန်ပြသည့်တိုင်

ma-hnwan-pya-dthe-tine — Even though not pointing to or indicating

တစ်ဦးတည်းသော

ta-u-tway-dho — Being the sole single individual person

သူတစ်ဦးမှသာ

thu-ta-u-hma-tha — Only from one particular person alone

ရေးသားသည်ဟု

yay-tha-dha-hu — That he or she wrote or authored

ယူဆရကြောင်း

yu-hsa-ya-kjoun — That one should assume or believe something

၎င်းကို

din-go — It or that thing, object-marked

ဧကန်အမှန်

ek-kan-a-hman — Certainly true; without any doubt whatsoever

ဘီစီ

bi-si — BC; Before Christ, historical date marker

မတိုင်မီ

ma-tine-mi — Before a certain point or time

ဖြစ်နိုင်ချေအများဆုံးအားဖြင့်

phyit-nine-chay-a-mya-zone-a-phyin — Most probably; with the highest likelihood

ဤ

i — This; a demonstrative pronoun indicating nearness

အစောဆုံးကဗျာကို

a-so-zone-ka-bya-go — The earliest poem, marked as object

ရေးသားသူသည်

yay-tha-thu-dha — The person who wrote or authored something

ယခုကျွန်ုပ်တို့

ya-khu-kja-naw-to — We currently; us at the present time

ရရှိထားသည့်အတိုင်း

ya-shi-hta-dthe-a-tine — Just as we currently have received it

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; connecting word in Burmese

သိကျွမ်းနားလည်ကြောင်း

thi-kjwan-na-lay-kjoun — That someone is familiar with and understands

သက်သေပြနိုင်ပြီး

thet-thay-pya-nine-byi — Can prove and furthermore demonstrate something

စစ်မှန်မှုကို

sit-hman-hmu-go — Authenticity or genuineness, marked as object

အများဆုံး

a-mya-zone — The most; the greatest number or degree

သံသယဝင်ခဲ့ကြသော

than-tha-ya-win-khay-kja-dho — Those who had doubted or been skeptical

စာအုပ်များမှ

sa-owt-mya-hma — From books or written volumes

လည်းကောင်း

lay-koun — Also; as well; additionally in a list

ကဗျာဟု

ka-bya-hu — As or called a poem or poetry

လက်ခံထားသော

let-khan-hta-dho — That which has been accepted or acknowledged

တူညီစွာ

tu-nyi-zwa — Equally; in the same manner or way

ငှားရမ်းချေးယူထားကြောင်းတို့ကို

hnga-yan-chay-yu-hta-kjoun-to-go — That they have borrowed or taken from each other

မိမိ၏

mi-mi-e — One's own; belonging to oneself

စာဖတ်သူများ၏

sa-phat-thu-mya-e — Belonging to the readers or audience

စိတ်တွင်

seit-twin — In the mind or heart of someone

ထင်ရှားစွာ

htin-sha-zwa — Clearly; evidently; in a prominent manner

ထားပေးရန်

hta-pay-yan — In order to place or keep for someone

ပျက်ကွက်သူသည်

pyet-kwet-thu-dha — The person who fails or neglects to do

၎င်းတို့အတွက်

din-to-a-twet — For them; on their behalf or account

တရားမျှတစွာ

ta-ya-hmya-ta-zwa — Justly; fairly; in an equitable manner

ဆောင်ရွက်သည်ဟု

hsoun-ywet-dha-hu — That one acts or carries out something

ကျေနပ်နိုင်မည်

kjay-nat-nine-ma — Will be able to be satisfied or content

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma-howt-pay — It is not so; certainly not the case

အခြားတစ်ဖက်တွင်

a-khya-ta-phet-twin — On the other hand or side

မူ

mu — Topic emphasis particle; as for; however

အထက်တွင်

a-htet-twin — Above; in the above-mentioned section

ကိုးကားထားသော

ko-ka-hta-dho — That which has been cited or referenced

ဗြိတိသျှ

byi-ti-ish — British; relating to Great Britain

ပြတိုက်ရှိ

pya-tite-shi — Located at or in a museum

မိတ္တူများမှ

mit-tu-mya-hma — From copies or duplicate manuscripts

တို့ကို

to-go — Plural object marker for multiple items

မှတ်သားသူ

hmat-tha-thu — A person who notes or remembers something

ထိုကဗျာနှစ်ပုဒ်လုံးတွင်

hto-ka-bya-hnit-pot-lone-twin — Within both of those two poems

တူညီသော

tu-nyi-dho — That which is identical or the same

စကားရပ်များ

sa-ka-yat-mya — Phrases or expressions; units of language

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; a great number or quantity

ရှိနေခြင်းမှ

shi-nay-kjin-hma — From the existence or presence of something

သာမန်နားလည်မှုမှ

tha-man-na-lay-hmu-hma — From ordinary or common understanding alone

ဆွဲထုတ်နိုင်သော

hsway-htowt-nine-dho — That which is able to be drawn out

ကောက်ချက်ကို

kout-chet-go — A conclusion or inference, marked as object

ဆွဲထုတ်မည့်

hsway-htowt-ma — Who will draw out or extract a conclusion

သူသည်

thu-dha — He or she; that person as subject

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at the present time currently

ဤနေရာတွင်

i-nay-ya-twin — In this place; here at this location

တိုက်ကြီးများ၌

tite-kji-mya-hnait — In the large continents or great buildings

သိသာထင်ရှားသော

thi-tha-htin-sha-dho — That which is clearly evident and notable

ဂုဏ်သတင်းကောင်းများကို

gon-tha-din-koun-mya-go — Good reputations or fame, marked as object

ခံစားနေရသော

khan-sa-nay-ya-dho — That which is currently being experienced

မြောက်မြားသော

mjout-mya-dho — Numerous; a great many in number

စာအုပ်များ၏

sa-owt-mya-e — Belonging to the books or volumes

တကယ့်တန်ဖိုးကို

ta-khe-tan-pho-go — The real or true value, object-marked

သတ်မှတ်ရာတွင်

thet-hmat-ya-twin — In the act of determining or defining something

ဘာမျှ

ba-hmya — Nothing at all; not anything whatsoever

အခက်အခဲ

a-khet-a-khay — Difficulty; hardship or obstacle encountered

မတွေ့ဘဲ

ma-tway-bey — Without encountering or finding any difficulty

ရပ်တည်နိုင်မည်ဟု

yat-tay-nine-ma-hu — That one will be able to stand firm

ကျွန်တော်

kja-naw — I; first-person pronoun used by males

ယုံကြည်သည်

yone-kji-dha — Believes or trusts; has confidence in something

ထို့အပြင်

hto-a-pyin — Furthermore; in addition to that point

ဤအချက်သည်

i-a-chet-dha — This point or fact as the subject

ထိန်းသိမ်းထားရန်

htain-thain-hta-yan — In order to preserve or maintain something

ပိုမိုတန်ဖိုးရှိသော

po-mo-tan-pho-shi-dho — Having more value; being more worthwhile

အားသာချက်

a-tha-chet — An advantage or superiority over something else

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing; a single item or unit

ဖြစ်နိုင်သည်

phyit-nine-dha — Is possible; may or could be so

ရှုပ်ထွေးနားမလည်မှု

shote-htway-na-ma-lay-hmu — Confusion; state of misunderstanding or bewilderment

များစွာသည်

mya-zwa-dha — Many things as the subject of sentence

အလွန်အကျွံ

a-lwan-a-kjwan — Excessively; to an extreme or surplus degree

ပြည့်နှက်နေခြင်းကြောင့်

pyi-hnet-nay-kjin-kjoun — Because of being saturated or filled excessively

ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာသည်ဟု

phyit-paw-la-dha-hu — That it has arisen or come about

ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိသောအခါ

sha-phway-tway-shi-dho-a-kha — When one finds or discovers through searching

ထိုရှုပ်ထွေးနားမလည်မှုများသည်

hto-shote-htway-na-ma-lay-hmu-mya-dha — Those confusions or misunderstandings as the subject

ရှုပ်ထွေးစေခြင်း

shote-htway-say-kjin — The act of causing confusion or complexity

ရပ်တန့်သွားသည်ကို

yat-tan-thwa-dha-go — That it has stopped or ceased, object-marked

သူ

thu — He or she; a third-person pronoun

တွေ့မြင်ရလိမ့်မည်

tway-myin-ya-lain-ma — Will surely come to see or find