The Scarlet Letter — Page 6

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော်၏

kyun-daw-yi — Possessive form of 'I/my' (formal, male speaker)

မွေးရပ်မြေ

mway-yat-myay — Birthplace; hometown; native land

အခြားတစ်ဖက်၌

a-hka-dha-tit-phek-hnit — On the other side; on another side

နှစ်ဝက်တစ်ရာခန့်က

hnit-wet-tit-ya-khan-ga — About one hundred and fifty years ago

ဟောင်းနွမ်းသော

houn-nwun-dthaw — Old and dilapidated; worn out; decrepit

ခေတ်ကာလတွင်

khet-ka-la-dwin — During the era or period of a time

လူစည်ကားသော

lu-si-ka-dthaw — Bustling; crowded with people; lively

ကမ်းဆိပ်တစ်ခု

kan-zait-tit-khu — A wharf; a single dock or quay

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သော်လည်း

phyit-khay-thaw-leh — Although it was; even though it had been

ယခုအခါ

ya-khu-a-kha — Now; at the present time; currently

ပုပ်သိုးနေသော

pout-tho-nay-dthaw — Rotting; decaying; in a state of decomposition

သစ်သားဂိုဒေါင်များဖြင့်

thit-tha-go-doun-mya-hpyin — With wooden warehouses; by means of timber stores

ဝန်ထုပ်ဝန်ပိုးများပြီး

wun-htout-wun-po-mya-pyi — Burdened and encumbered; loaded with cargo

ကုန်သွယ်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ

kun-thway-yay-sain-ya — Related to trade; pertaining to commerce

လှုပ်ရှားမှုများကို

hlyout-sha-hmu-mya-go — Activities; movements (object marker attached)

အနည်းငယ်မျှသာ

a-hnee-ngay-hmya-dtha — Only a little; merely a small amount

ပြသနိုင်သော

pya-dtha-naing-dthaw — Able to show; capable of displaying or demonstrating

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place; location; spot; area

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thi — Is; it is; becomes (affirmative present tense)

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; yet

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

tit-kha-tit-yan — Sometimes; occasionally; from time to time

ညောင်းညူသော

nyoun-nyu-dthaw — Aching; sore; worn and weary in structure

အလျားတစ်လျှောက်

a-sha-tit-hlout — Along the length; throughout the entire stretch

အလယ်ဝန်းကျင်တွင်

a-lay-wun-jin-dwin — In the middle area; around the center

သားရေများကို

tha-yay-mya-go — Hides; animal skins (as direct object)

ချထားသည့်

chay-hta-dthay-hnee — That has been placed down; laid out

လှေငယ်တစ်စီးနှင့်

hlay-ngay-tit-si-hnin — With a small boat; together with a skiff

သို့မဟုတ်

thoh-ma-hout — Or; alternatively; otherwise

ပိုနီးသောနေရာတွင်

po-ni-dthaw-nay-ya-dwin — In a place that is closer; nearer location

ထင်းကို

htin-go — Firewood (as direct object marker)

ဆောင်ယူလာသော

saung-yu-la-dthaw — That has brought; carrying and bringing along

သင်္ဘောငယ်တစ်စီး

thin-baw-ngay-tit-si — A small ship; one small vessel or craft

ရှိနေသည်

shi-nay-dhi — Is present; exists; there is something there

ဤပျက်စီးနေသော

i-pyit-si-nay-dthaw — This deteriorating; this currently ruined or damaged

ကမ်းဆိပ်၏

kan-zait-yi — Of the wharf; the dock's (possessive marker)

ထိပ်တွင်

hteit-dwin — At the top; at the tip or head of

ငါပြောမည်မှာ

nga-pyaw-myi-hma — What I will say; the thing I shall mention

အောက်ကြောင်းကျသော

out-kyoun-kya-dthaw — Sloping downward; low-lying; descending in grade

ကမ်းရိုးတန်းများသည်

kan-yo-tan-mya-dhi — The coastlines; shores or coastal stretches (subject)

မကြာမကြာ

ma-kya-ma-kya — Frequently; often; repeatedly; not infrequently

ရေဖုံးလွမ်းတတ်ပြီး

yay-phoun-lwun-tat-pyi — Tends to be submerged by water; often flooded

အဆောက်အဦ

a-sauk-a-u — Building; structure; construction; edifice

တန်းစုများ၏

tan-zu-mya-yi — Of the rows; of the groups of buildings (possessive)

ကျောဘက်နှင့်

kya-bek-hnin — With the back side; behind and alongside

အောက်ဖက်တစ်လျှောက်တွင်

out-phek-tit-hlout-dwin — Along the lower side; throughout the lower stretch

ကြွေတိကျာသော

kway-ti-kya-dthaw — Crumbling; fallen apart; in a state of ruin

မြက်ခင်းနယ်နိမိတ်ကြားတွင်

myat-kin-nyay-na-meit-kya-dwin — Amid the grassy border; between the grassy boundaries

နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာ၏

hnit-poun-mya-zwa-yi — Of many years; belonging to numerous years

ပင်ပန်းနွမ်းနယ်မှု

pin-pan-nwun-nyay-hmu — Weariness; exhaustion; fatigue over a long time

အရိပ်ကို

a-yeit-go — The shadow; the shade (as direct object)

မြင်တွေ့နိုင်ပြီး

myin-tway-naing-pyi — Can see and perceive; able to observe and find

ရှေ့တည့်တည့်

shay-tay-tay — Directly in front; straight ahead; right before

ဝင်းဒိုးများမှ

win-do-mya-hma — From the windows; through or from multiple windows

မျှော်လင့်ချက်မဲ့သော

hmyaw-lin-chet-may-dthaw — Hopeless; without hope or expectation; bleak

မြင်ကွင်းနှင့်

myin-gwun-hnin — With the view; along with the scenery or scene

ဆိပ်ကမ်းကို

zait-kan-go — The harbor; the port (as direct object)

ဖြတ်ကျော်၍

phyat-kyaw-yway — By crossing over; passing through or beyond

မြင်ရနိုင်သော

myin-ya-naing-dthaw — That can be seen; visible; able to be observed

ကြီးကျယ်သော

kyi-kyay-dthaw — Large; grand; extensive; great in size

အုတ်အဆောက်အဦ

out-a-sauk-a-u — Brick building; a structure made of brick

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One; a single (item or thing)

ထင်ရှားစွာ

htin-sha-zwa — Prominently; conspicuously; clearly and noticeably

တည်ရှိသည်

tay-shi-dhi — Exists; stands; is situated or located

အမိုးထိပ်ဆုံး

a-mo-hteit-zone — The very top of the roof; rooftop peak

နေရာမှ

nay-ya-hma — From the place; from that location or spot

နံနက်တိုင်း

nan-nat-tain — Every morning; each and every morning daily

အတိအကျ

a-ti-a-kya — Exactly; precisely; with complete accuracy

သုံးနာရီခွဲ

thoun-na-yi-khway — Three and a half hours; duration of 3.5 hours

ကြာသောအချိန်တွင်

kya-dthaw-a-chein-dwin — During the time that lasts; at the lasting duration

လေတိုးသည်

lay-to-dhi — The wind blows; wind is blowing strongly

ဖြစ်စေ

phyit-say — Whether it is; regardless; be it (conditional)

ငြိမ်သက်သည်

nyein-thet-thi — Is calm; is still; peaceful and undisturbed

သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ၏

tha-ma-da-naing-ngan-yi — Of the republic; the nation's (possessive form)

အလံတော်သည်

a-lan-daw-dhi — The national flag (subject marker); official banner

လွင့်မျောနေသည်

lwin-myaw-nay-dhi — Is floating and drifting; fluttering in the air

ညွတ်ကျနေသည်

nyout-kya-nay-dhi — Is drooping downward; hanging limply; sagging

ဆယ့်သုံးချောင်းသော

say-thoun-chaun-dthaw — Thirteen (stripes or lines); consisting of thirteen

လိုင်းများသည်

lain-mya-dhi — The lines (subject marker); stripes are present

အလျားလိုက်ထက်

a-sha-lait-htet — Rather than horizontally; more than lengthwise direction

ဒေါင်လိုက်ဖြင့်

daung-lait-hpyin — Vertically; in an upright or perpendicular direction

ကျနေပြီး

kya-nay-pyi — Has fallen; is hanging down; drooping already

ဤသည်မှာ

i-dhi-hma — This is; as for this; this here indicates

အစိုးရ၏

a-so-ya-yi — Of the government; the government's (possessive)

စစ်ရေးဌာနနှင့်

sit-yay-hta-na-hnin — With the military department; along with army affairs

မဟုတ်ဘဲ

ma-hout-bay — Not being; rather than; without being

အရပ်သားဆိုင်ရာ

a-yat-tha-sain-ya — Pertaining to civilians; civilian-related; non-military

ရုံးစိုက်ရာဌာန

yon-zait-ya-hta-na — Headquarters; the department where offices are based

ဤနေရာတွင်

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

တည်ရှိသည်ဟု

tay-shi-dhi-hu — That it exists; indicating that it is located here

ဖော်ညွှန်းနေသည်

phaw-hnwun-nay-dhi — Is indicating; pointing out; currently expressing or denoting

ရှေ့ဘက်တွင်

shay-bek-dwin — In the front; at the front side of something

သစ်သားတိုင်

thit-tha-tain — Wooden pillar; timber post or column

တစ်ဒါဇင်ခန့်ဖြင့်

tit-da-zin-khan-hpyin — With about a dozen; using approximately twelve

ဖွဲ့စည်းသော

phway-si-dthaw — That is formed; composed or constituted of parts

မုဒ်ဝင်ပေါက်

mout-win-pout — Archway; an arched entrance or gateway

တစ်ခုဖြင့်

tit-khu-hpyin — With one; by means of a single one

အလှဆင်ထားပြီး

a-hla-sin-hta-pyi — Has been decorated; adorned and embellished already

ထိုတိုင်များသည်

htoh-tain-mya-dhi — Those pillars (subject marker); those posts are

ဘောင်ကောင်း

baung-kaun — A good frame; a fine balcony or veranda rail

တစ်ခုကို

tit-khu-go — One thing (as direct object); a single one

ထောက်ကြပ်ပေးနေပြီး

htout-kyat-pay-nay-pyi — Is supporting and holding up; propping from below

အောက်တွင်

out-dwin — Below; underneath; at the lower level

ကျောက်ကြမ်းများဖြင့်

kyout-kyan-mya-hpyin — With stone slabs; using rough or hard stones

ပြုလုပ်ထားသော

pyu-lout-hta-dthaw — That has been made; constructed or built beforehand

ကျယ်ဝန်းသော

kyay-wun-dthaw — Spacious; wide and broad; expansive in area

လှောင်တန်းများသည်

hlaung-tan-mya-dhi — The storage rows; warehouse shelves or enclosures (subject)

လမ်းဘက်သို့

lan-bek-thoh — Toward the road; in the direction of the street

ဆင်းသက်နေသည်

sin-thet-nay-dhi — Is descending; slopes or extends downward continuously