The Scarlet Letter — Page 9

Vocabulary

နောက်ထပ်

nauk htat — another; additional; furthermore

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်

puggoal — a person; an individual; a personality

တစ်ဦး

tit oo — one person; a single individual

မှာ

hma — at; in; to; particle indicating location or instruction

ခုခံ

khu khan — to resist; to defend against something

ကာကွယ်မှု

ka kwè hmu — protection; defense; act of guarding

စာရွက်

sa ywet — a piece of paper; a document

ကို

ko — object marker particle; to; towards

ရှာဖွေ

sha phwè — to search; to look for; to investigate

နေသော

ne thaw — who is living; who is staying; present continuous marker

ပြင်ပ

pyin pa — outside; exterior; external area

သို့

thoe — to; towards; in the direction of

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet khwa — to depart; to leave; to go away

တော့မည့်

taw myi — about to; going to happen soon

ကုန်ပစ္စည်း

koun pyitsi — goods; merchandise; commodities

တင်

ting — to load; to carry; to present

သင်္ဘော

thimbaw — a ship; a vessel; a boat

သား

tha — son; a native of; softening particle

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — one person; someone; a single person

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thì — is; exists; to be something

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma hout — or; otherwise; alternatively

မကြာမီ

ma kja mi — soon; before long; in a short time

က

ka — subject marker particle; from

ရောက်ရှိ

yout shi — to arrive; to reach a place

လာသူ

la thu — one who comes; a visitor; an arrival

မျက်နှာ

myethna — face; countenance; facial expression

ဖျော့ပြာပြာ

phyaw pja pja — pale; washed out; lacking color in face

ဖြင့်

phying — with; by means of; using

ခန်းခြောက်

khan kyout — dried up; withered; desiccated

နွမ်းနယ်

nwan nè — exhausted; weary; fatigued

လျက်

lyet — while; in the state of; as

ဆေးရုံ

sè yone — hospital; medical facility

သွားရန်

thwa yan — in order to go; to go to

လက်မှတ်

let hmat — ticket; signature; document; certificate

သင်္ဘောသား

thimbaw tha — sailor; seaman; ship crew member

ဗြိတိသျှ

byititi — British; relating to Britain

နယ်မြေ

nè myè — territory; region; area; domain

များ

mya — plural marker; many; a lot of

မှ

hma — from; since; out of

ထင်းသစ်

hting thit — timber; lumber; firewood logs

သယ်ဆောင်

thè zaung — to carry; to transport; to convey

လာသော

la thaw — which came; arriving; coming from

သံချေး

thang chè — rust; iron oxide on metal surface

တက်

tet — to climb; to rise; to board

နေသည့်

ne thì — that lives; that stays; residing

သေးငယ်

thè ngè — small; tiny; little in size

သော

thaw — relative clause marker; that; which

ဒိုနီ

doni — a small local boat; a dinghy

၏

è — possessive particle; of; belonging to

သင်္ဘောမှူး

thimbaw hmu — ship captain; master of a vessel

လည်း

lè — also; too; as well; even

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kjanu toe — we; us; our group (formal)

မမေ့

ma mè — do not forget; unforgettable; remember

သင့်

thìng — you (polite); your; appropriate

ပေ

pe — emphatic particle; isn't it; you see

သဏ္ဌာန်

thanthdan — form; shape; physical appearance

လျင်မြန်

ljin myan — fast; quick; rapid; speedy

သွက်လက်

thwet let — agile; lively; energetic; nimble

မှု

hmu — nominalization suffix; act of; process of

မရှိ

ma shi — does not exist; there is none; absent

သော်လည်း

thaw lè — however; although; even though; but

ကြမ်းတမ်း

kjan dan — rough; harsh; rugged; coarse

ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်

pone thanthdan — shape; form; figure; physical appearance

ရှိသည့်

shi thì — that has; that exists; which is present

ဒီ

di — this; here; these (informal)

သည်

thì — present tense marker; topic marker

ယိုယွင်း

yoe ywin — deteriorated; damaged; in bad condition

ဆုတ်ယုတ်

sout yout — declining; deteriorating; regressing; getting worse

ကုန်သွယ်ရေး

koun thwè yè — trade; commerce; trading activities

အတွက်

ahtwet — for; for the sake of; because of

အနည်းငယ်

ahni ngè — a little; a few; a small amount

မျှ

hmya — only; just; as much as; equally

သာ

tha — only; just; emphasis particle

ဟု

hu — quotation marker; saying that; called

မမှတ်ယူ

ma hmat yu — not to consider; not to regard as

သင့်သော

thìng thaw — appropriate; suitable; proper; fitting

အရေးပါ

ahyè pa — important; significant; matters greatly

သည့်

thì — relative marker; which; that (clause linker)

အကြောင်းအရာ

ahkjaung ahya — subject; topic; reason; matter; content

တစ်ခု

tit khu — one thing; a single item

ထည့်ဝင်

hteh win — to contribute; to add; to participate

ပေးနေ

pe ne — giving; providing; in the act of giving

ကြသည်

kja thì — plural action marker; they do; all do

ဤ

i — this (formal); the following; aforementioned

အားလုံး

ahlaung — all; everyone; everything; the whole

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

tit kha tit yan — sometimes; occasionally; now and then

ဖြစ်တတ်

phyit tat — tends to be; is apt to happen

အတိုင်း

ahtine — according to; as; in accordance with

အုပ်စု

out su — group; a cluster; a collective

မျိုးစုံ

myoe sone — various kinds; diverse; assorted; mixed

ဆန်

san — rice (uncooked); to oppose; to go against

စေရန်

se yan — in order to cause; to make someone do

အခြား

ahkha — other; another; different; else

သူများ

thu mya — other people; they; those persons

နှင့်

hnìng — and; with; together with

အတူ

ahtu — together; along with; jointly

စုစည်း

su si — to gather; to collect; to assemble

လိုက်

lout — to follow; to go along; directional verb marker

အခါ

ahkha — time; occasion; when; instance

ထို

hto — that; those; the said (demonstrative)

အချိန်

ahchain — time; period; moment; duration

အတွင်း

ahtwing — inside; within; during a period

အကောက်ခွန်

ahkout khun — customs duty; import tax; tariff

ရုံးကြီး

yone kji — main office; headquarters; large bureau

တက်ကြွ

tet kjwa — active; energetic; enthusiastic; dynamic

မြင်ကွင်း

myinkwin — scene; view; landscape; visual field

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit la — to become; to come about; to develop

ခဲ့သည်

khè thì — past tense marker; did; has done

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — however; but; nevertheless; yet

ပို

po — more; even more; increasingly

၍

ywè — therefore; so; and then; connective particle

မကြာခဏ

ma kja khana — often; frequently; many times

ဆိုသလို

so tha lo — as if to say; so to speak; like saying

လှေကားထစ်

hlèka htit — staircase step; rung of a ladder

ဂရု

ga yu — care; attention; heed; caution

တစိုက်

ta souk — steadily; fixedly; continuously; attentively

ကြည့်

kji — to look; to watch; to observe

လျှင်

hljing — if; when; conditional particle

နွေ

nwè — summer; hot season in Burma

ရာသီ

ya thi — season; period; time of year

ဆို

so — to say; quotation marker; called

ဝင်ပေါက်

win pauk — entrance; entry point; way in

တွင်

twing — in; at; within; location marker

ဆောင်း

zaung — winter; cool season; to wear; to carry

မကောင်း

ma kaung — not good; bad; unpleasant; poor quality

ရာသီဥတု

ya thi u tu — weather; climate; seasonal conditions

သင့်တော်

thìng taw — appropriate; suitable; proper; fitting

အခန်း

ahkhan — room; chapter; compartment; section

နောက်ဘက်

nauk bet — back side; rear; behind

နံရံ

nan yan — wall; partition; side of a structure

ဆီသို့

si thoe — towards; in the direction of

မှီ

hmi — to lean on; to depend; until; up to

နောက်

nauk — back; behind; after; next

ခြေထောက်

chjè htauk — leg; foot; lower limb

နှစ်ချောင်း

hnit chaung — two pieces; both legs; a pair

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twing — on top of; upon; on the surface

မှောက်

hmout — face down; overturned; upside down

ထားသော

hta thaw — that is placed; kept; set aside

အဟောင်း

ah haung — old; worn out; used; antique

ကုလားထိုင်

kulatha htaing — chair; seat; a place to sit

ထိုင်

htaing — to sit; to be seated; to settle

ရိုသေ

yo thè — respectful; reverent; showing deference

လေးစားဖွယ်

lèza phwè — worthy of respect; admirable; venerable

ကောင်းသည့်

kaung thì — which is good; that is fine; excellent

တန်းတန်း

tan tan — straight; upright; in a line; level

တွေ့မြင်

twè myìng — to see; to encounter; to observe visually

ရမည်

ya myi — will get; must; shall obtain

အများ

ahmya — many; most; the majority; a lot

အားဖြင့်

ah phying — by means of; in terms of; through

သူတို့

thu toe — they; them; those people

အိပ်ပျော်

et pyaw — to fall asleep; to sleep soundly

နေကြ

ne kja — are living; staying together; plural continuous

ပုံမှန်

pone hman — normal; regular; usual; ordinary

စကားပြောသံ

zaga pyaw thang — sound of talking; voice of conversation

နားကြပ်သံ

na kjet thang — whispering sound; sound close to the ear

ကြားတွင်

kja twing — in between; in the middle; among

ရှိသော

shi thaw — that exists; which has; that is present

အသံ

ahthang — sound; voice; noise; audio

စကားပြော

zaga pyaw — to speak; conversation; talking

ကြားနိုင်

kja naing — able to hear; can listen to

မည်

myi — future tense marker; will; shall

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit pji — having become; being; after being

ဆွေးနွေး

swè nwè — to discuss; to deliberate; to converse

ရပ်တည်ချက်

yat tì chet — standpoint; position; stance; viewpoint

ရှိသူ

shi thu — one who has; person who exists; holder

လက္ခဏာ

lekhana — sign; characteristic; symptom; feature

ဖြစ်သည့်

phyit thì — which is; that is; being (relative clause)

ဆေးဂေဟာ

sè geha — clinic; sanatorium; medical establishment

နေသူ

ne thu — one who lives; a resident; a dweller

ကျန်သော

kjan thaw — remaining; leftover; the rest of

လူသား

lu tha — human being; humanity; mankind

ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ

so lo thì hma — what is meant is; that is to say

ကရုဏာ

kayuna — compassion; mercy; loving kindness

တော်

taw — royal; capable; skilled; worthy

အပေါ်

ahpaw — on top; above; upper; regarding

လက်ဝါးကြီး

let wa kji — palm of the hand; outstretched hand

အုပ်

out — to cover; to govern; to rule over

ငှားရမ်း

hnga yan — to hire; to rent; to lease

အလုပ်

ahlouq — work; job; occupation; employment

မည်သည့်

myi thì — whichever; whatever; any kind of

အရာ

ahya — thing; matter; object; position; rank

ပင်

ping — emphatic particle; even; indeed; itself

ဖြစ်စေ

phyit se — whether; let it be; causing to be

မိမိကိုယ်တိုင်

mimi ko tine — oneself; personally; by one's own self

လွတ်လပ်

lwat lat — free; independent; liberated; unrestrained

ကြိုးပမ်း

kjo pan — to strive; to make an effort; to try hard

အားထုတ်မှု

ah htout hmu — effort; exertion; act of trying hard

တပါး

ta pa — another; other; a different one

အသက်မွေး

ahshet mwè — to make a living; to earn a livelihood

ဝမ်းကျောင်းမှု

wan kjaung hmu — livelihood; means of living; subsistence

မှီခို

hmi kho — to depend on; to rely upon; to lean on

အားနည်း

ah ni — weak; feeble; lacking strength

စိတ်ဓာတ်

seit dat — morale; spirit; mental attitude; mindset

ပြောနေ

pyaw ne — is saying; is speaking; talking continuously

ကဲ့သို့

kè thoe — like; similar to; such as; as if

ရရှိသည့်

ya shi thì — which is obtained; that is received; acquired

နေရာ

ne ya — place; location; position; spot

သူ

thu — he; she; that person; they (singular)

တမန်တော်

taman taw — apostle; messenger; envoy; ambassador

လုပ်ငန်း

louq ngan — business; enterprise; work; operation

ခေါ်ဆောင်

khaw zaung — to lead; to bring along; to take someone