The Prince — Page 3

Vocabulary

သူ၏

thu yay — His; possessive pronoun referring to a male

လူငယ်ဘဝသည်

lu ngay baw thit — His youth/early life (topic marker attached)

၊

(comma pause mark) — Burmese punctuation mark indicating a short pause

၏

yay — Possessive or linking particle in Burmese grammar

လမ်းညွှန်မှုအောက်တွင်

lan nyun hmu aut twin — Under the guidance or direction of someone

ဣတလီနိုင်ငံ

i ta li naing ngan — Italy; European country known for Renaissance culture

အာဏာအဖြစ်

a na a phyit — As a power or authority figure

ဖလော်ရင်စစ်မြို့

phlaw yin sit myo — Florence; major Italian Renaissance city-state

ကြီးကျယ်ထွန်းကားမှု

kyi kyay thun ka hmu — Great flourishing or prominent prosperity of something

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction connecting words or phrases

တပြိုင်နက်တည်း

ta pyaing net ti — Simultaneously; at the same time as something else

ဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့သည်

phyit paw khe thit — Occurred; came about; happened in the past

။

(full stop mark) — Burmese punctuation mark indicating end of sentence

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative particle in Burmese

တို့

to — Plural marker or group indicator for nouns/pronouns

အကျဆုံး

a kya zone — The most fallen or worst decline of something

သည်

thit — Topic marker or present tense verb ending particle

ခုနှစ်

khu hnit — Year; used after numbers to indicate a calendar year

ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပြီး

phyit pwa khe byi — Occurred and then; happened previously and subsequently

ထိုနှစ်

hto hnit — That year; referring to a previously mentioned year

တွင်ပင်

twin pin — In that very place/time; emphatic locative particle

အစိုးရဝန်ထမ်း

a so ya wun htam — Government official; civil servant working for state

အဖြစ်

a phyit — As; in the role of; serving as something

ဝင်ရောက်ခဲ့သည်

win yaut khe thit — Entered into; joined; began participating in something

တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်

ta wun htam hsaung — To carry out duties; to fulfill responsibilities officially

သည့်

thit — Relative clause marker linking modifier to noun

ကာလ

ka la — Period; era; span of time during which something occurs

အတွင်း

a twin — Within; inside; during a period of time

သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ

tham ma ta naing ngan — Republic; a nation governed by elected representatives

အစိုးရ

a so ya — Government; the ruling authority of a country

အုပ်ချုပ်မှု

out kyut hmu — Administration; governance; the act of ruling

အောက်တွင်

aut twin — Under; beneath; below in hierarchy or position

လွတ်လပ်ခဲ့ပြီး

lwat lap khe byi — Was free or independent and then subsequently

၎င်း

dain ji — It; they; referring to previously mentioned subject

အထိ

a hti — Until; up to; as far as a point in time

တည်တံ့ခဲ့ကာ

ti tan khe ka — Lasted; remained stable; endured and then continued

ထိုအချိန်

hto a chain — At that time; referring to a specific past moment

အာဏာ

a na — Power; authority; political or administrative control

သို့

thoe — To; toward; directional particle indicating movement

ပြန်လည်ရောက်ရှိကာ

pyan leh yaut shi ka — Returned and arrived; came back to a place

ရာထူး

ya htu — Position; rank; official post or title held

ကို

ko — Object marker particle indicating direct object

ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့သည်

zone shone khe thit — Lost; suffered the loss of something important

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative particle indicating origin or source

ထပ်မံ

htat man — Again; once more; additionally repeating an action

အုပ်ချုပ်ခဲ့ကြပြီး

out kyut khe kyi byi — They ruled or governed and then subsequently

သူတို့

thu to — They; them; third person plural pronoun

တစ်ဖန်

ta phan — Once again; on another occasion; returning to previous state

နှင်ထုတ်ခြင်း

hnin htut jing — Expulsion; act of being driven out or exiled

ခံခဲ့ရသည်

khan khe ya thit — Was subjected to; suffered; received an action done

ဤ

i — This; demonstrative pronoun referring to nearby thing

စာပေလုပ်ငန်း

sa peh lut ngan — Literary work; writing career or literary endeavors

တိုးမြင့်လာ

toe myint la — Increased; grew; rose progressively over time

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle modifying a preceding noun

အကျိုးသက်ရောက်မှု

a kyo thet yaut hmu — Impact; effect; influence resulting from an action

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်

phyit khe thit — Was; became; occurred in the past tense

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; nevertheless; contrastive conjunction

သူ

thu — He; him; third person singular pronoun

ထုတ်နှင်ခြင်း

htut hnin jing — Expulsion; act of being exiled or banished

ခံရပြီး

khan ya byi — Having received or suffered something and then

သီတင်းပတ်

tha din bat — Week; a period of seven days

အနည်းငယ်

a nyi ngeh — A few; a small number or amount of something

ဇွန်လ

zun la — June; the sixth month of the Gregorian calendar

ရက်

yet — Day; date; used when specifying a day of month

အသက်

a thet — Age; life; one's years of living

ငါးဆယ့်ရှစ်နှစ်

nga hseh shit hnit — Fifty-eight years; age of fifty-eight

အရွယ်

a yweh — Age; stage of life; maturity or age level

၌

hnit — At; in; locative particle indicating specific location

ပြန်မရဘဲ

pyan ma ya beh — Without returning; unable to come back again

ကွယ်လွန်ခဲ့သည်

kweh lwun khe thit — Passed away; died; departed from life permanently

လူငယ်ဘဝ

lu ngay baw — Youth; early life; period of being young

ပတ်သက်ပြီး

pat thet byi — Regarding; concerning; in relation to something

မှတ်တမ်းတင်ထားသည်

hmat tan tin hta thit — Has been documented or recorded for reference

မှာ

hma — At; in; topic or locative particle in sentences

နည်းပါး

nyi pa — Scarce; few; little in quantity or amount

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — Although; even though; concessive conjunction

ထိုကာလ

hto ka la — That period; that era of time referred to

လူသိများ

lu thi mya — Well-known; widely recognized by many people

သောကြောင့်

thaw kyaung — Because of; therefore; causal connective particle

ကိုယ်စားပြု

ko sa pyu — To represent; to stand in for someone or something

နိုင်ငံသား

naing ngan tha — Citizen; national; person belonging to a country

တစ်ဦး

ta u — One person; a single individual (counter word)

အစောပိုင်း

a saw pine — Early period; earlier stage; initial phase of something

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်

pat wun kjin — Surroundings; environment; circumstances around someone

လွယ်ကူစွာ

lweh ku zwa — Easily; without difficulty; in a simple manner

စိတ်ကူးယဉ်နိုင်သည်

sate ku yin naing thit — Can imagine; able to visualize or conceive mentally

ဘဝ

baw — Life; existence; one's personal life circumstances

ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်

hsant kjin bet — Opposite; contrary; opposing side or direction

စီးကြောင်း

si kyaung — Current; flow; trend or stream of events

နှစ်ခု

hnit khu — Two things; a pair; two of something

ရှိသော

shi thaw — That exists; which has; relative clause with existence

မြို့

myo — City; town; urban settlement or municipality

တစ်မြို့

ta myo — One city; a single town or urban settlement

ဖော်ပြထားပြီး

phaw pya hta byi — Having described or shown and then subsequently

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One thing; a single item (general counter word)

တက်ကြွပြင်းထန်

tat kywa pyin htan — Vigorous; intense; energetically active and fervent

ပြီး

byi — And then; after; completion marker in Burmese grammar

တင်းကျပ်

tin kyat — Strict; tight; rigid; stern in manner or rules

ဦးဆောင်ပြီး

u hsaung byi — Having led or headed something and then continued

အခြား

a hkha — Other; another; different from the one mentioned

ဘဝင်ကျ

baw win kya — Pleasurable; enjoyable; satisfying one's taste or liking

ခမ်းနားမှု

khan na hmu — Splendor; grandeur; pomp and magnificent display

ချစ်မြတ်နိုး

chit myat no — To love and admire deeply; hold dear with reverence

ဦးဆောင်ခဲ့သည်

u hsaung khe thit — Led; headed; guided in the past tense

လူငယ်

lu ngay — Youth; young person; someone of a young age

အပေါ်

a paw — On; upon; toward; concerning a subject or person

သက်ရောက်မှု

thet yaut hmu — Influence; impact; effect exerted upon something

မျှသာ

hmya tha — Only; merely; just; limiting particle of extent

ဖြစ်ခဲ့ရမည်

phyit khe ya mi — Must have been; would have occurred necessarily

အကြောင်းမှာ

a kyaung hma — The reason is; because; as for the cause

တစ်ချိန်

ta chain — At one time; once; at a certain point in time

ကံကြမ္မာ

kan kyam ma — Fate; destiny; fortune or karmic circumstances

ကြီးမားသော

kyi ma thaw — Great; large; significant; of considerable magnitude

ကိုင်တွယ်ခဲ့

kite tweh khe — Handled; dealt with; managed a situation or matter

_မင်းသား_

min tha — The Prince; title of Machiavelli's famous political treatise

ကျမ်း

kyam — Treatise; scripture; authoritative text or written work

အား

a — Object marker; emphasis particle; to; for someone

ကသောင်းကနင်းပြောဆိုမှု

ka thaung ka nin pyaw so hmu — Controversial or provocative speech; outspoken controversial statements

အကြောင်းအရာ

a kyaung a ya — Subject matter; topic; content of discussion or text

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; limiting or emphasis particle

ဖြစ်ပေးခဲ့ပြီး

phyit peh khe byi — Caused to happen; brought about and then subsequently

ဆိုးရွားသော

so ywa thaw — Terrible; severe; wretched; extremely bad or grave

အဆုံး

a zone — End; conclusion; the final point of something

ရောက်ရှိသည့်

yaut shi thit — That reaches; which arrives at; attaining a point

လက်နက်မဲ့

let net meh — Unarmed; without weapons; lacking military force

ပရောဖက်

pa yaw phet — Prophet; one who foretells or proclaims divine messages

ဥပမာ

u pa ma — Example; for instance; illustration of a point

ကိုးကားထားသည်

ko ka hta thit — Has been cited or referenced as a source