The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere — Page 3

Vocabulary

စပိန်

sa-pain — Spain; the country in southwestern Europe

လူမျိုး

lu-myoh — Ethnic group, race, or nationality of people

တို့

toh — We, us; plural marker or emphasis particle

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle; of, belonging to

ပေါ့

paw — Light, casual; softening particle expressing ease

ပါး

pa — Thin; cheek; also a politeness particle

မှု

hmu — Abstract noun-forming suffix; matter, affair, action

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; connective or accompaniment particle

တက်

tat — To go up, rise, attend, or board something

ကြွ

kyu — To rise, come, go (honorific movement verb)

သဘာဝ

tha-ba-wa — Nature; natural state or characteristic of something

၎င်း

da-gin — He, she, it, they; formal third-person pronoun

အရှေ့

a-shay — East; the eastern direction or front side

တိုင်း

tine — Every, each; region, state; throughout an area

ဆန်

hsan — Rice (uncooked); to go against, oppose

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that, which, who (formal)

သွေး

thway — Blood; lineage or bloodline of a person

သား

tha — Son; child; flesh, meat; softening particle

အတူ

a-tu — Together, jointly, at the same time with

အခြေ

a-chay — Foundation, base, basis, or fundamental condition

အနေ

a-nay — State, situation, condition, or manner of being

သစ်

thi — New; wood, timber; fresh or newly made

များ

mya — Many, much; plural marker for nouns

ရင်

yin — Chest, heart; if, when (conditional particle)

ဆိုင်

hsine — Shop, store; to relate or pertain to something

ရာ

ya — Hundred; place; suffix indicating score or extent

တွင်

twin — In, at, within; locative particle for location

အရင်း

a-yin — Origin, source, capital, or close friend basis

အမြစ်

a-myit — Root, foundation, origin of something fundamental

ပြည့်

pyay — Full, complete, filled to capacity or entirety

ဝ

wa — Full, round, plump; zero numeral in Burmese

ပိုမို

po-mo — More, increasingly, to a greater degree

နွေး

nway — Warm, cozy; gentle warmth of temperature

ထွေး

htway — Warm and affectionate; to embrace or cuddle

ဒေသ

day-tha — Region, area, locality, or geographic district

နေ

nay — To live, stay, reside; the sun

ထိုင်

htine — To sit, be seated; Thailand (colloquial reference)

သူ

thu — He, she, they; third-person pronoun for people

ဆက်

hset — To continue, connect, follow, or maintain contact

ဆံ

hsan — Hair (of head); to deal with or treat

၌

hnit — At, in; formal locative particle in writing

လိုက်

lite — To follow, accompany, go along with someone

လျော

lyaw — To suit, match, fit, be appropriate for

ညီ

nyi — Equal, same; younger sibling (male); level

ထွေ

htway — Various, diverse, general, or miscellaneous in nature

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, or occur

နိုင်

nine — To be able to, can; to win or defeat

သည်

thi — Present tense marker; topic marker (formal)

အခြား

a-chah — Other, another, different, or separate thing

အနိုင်

a-nine — Victory, winning; superior or dominant position

ယူ

yu — To take, bring, fetch, or obtain something

ကဲ့

kay — Like, similar to; used in comparisons

သို့

thoh — To, toward; directional particle indicating destination

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, just; tree; emphasis particle

ဤ

e — This; formal demonstrative pronoun in written Burmese

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place, location, spot, or position somewhere

လည်း

leh — Also, too, as well; additive particle

မိမိ

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

အခန်း

a-khan — Room, chamber, section, or chapter of text

ကဏ္ဍ

kan-da — Section, field, sector, or domain of activity

ကို

go — Object marker; to, toward; accusative case particle

ထမ်း

htan — To carry on shoulder; to bear responsibility

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry, bring about, perform, or bear

ခဲ့

khay — Past tense marker; went away (verb complement)

ကြ

kya — Plural verb marker; to do together collectively

မနီလာ

ma-ni-la — Manila; capital city of the Philippines

ဝန်း

wan — Circle, surrounding area; orbit around something

ကျင်

kyin — To practice, be accustomed; to drop, fall

တစ်

tit — One; a, an; indefinite article or numeral

ဝိုက်

wite — Around, encircling, surrounding in a circular path

ဆန့်

hsan — To stretch, extend, oppose, or resist against

တော့

taw — Now, then; particle indicating shift or conclusion

မူ

mu — Policy, principle; as for (topic contrast particle)

ခုခံ

khu-khan — To resist, defend, oppose, or fight back

ကြုံ

kyun — To encounter, face, experience, or come across

တွေ့

tway — To meet, find, encounter, or discover something

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, receive; can, may (ability)

သည့်

thi — Relative clause marker (past/completed); that, which

အခါ

a-kha — Time, occasion, when; a particular moment or instance

မျိုး

myoh — Kind, type, sort, species, or variety of

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely; also an emphasizing particle

ထို

htoh — That, those; demonstrative adjective for distant things

ဌာနေ

hta-nay — Native, indigenous, original inhabitant of a place

ရင်း

yin — While doing; source, origin; close or intimate

အဆင့်

a-hsin — Level, grade, rank, or standard of something

အမြင့်

a-myint — Height, elevation, or high level of something

ဆုံး

zone — End, finish; most, utmost; to die (euphemism)

အစ္စလာမ်

it-sa-lam — Islam; the religion of Muslims worldwide

ပုံ

pone — Shape, form, picture, image, or manner

သဏ္ဍာန်

than-dan — Shape, form, figure, or outward appearance of

ယုံ

yone — To believe, trust, have faith in something

ကြည်

kyi — Clear, transparent; to look at with respect

ချက်

chet — Point, moment, factor; to cook, boil food

အချို့

a-choh — Some, a few, certain ones among a group

တည်

ti — To establish, found, be stable, or located

ထောင်

htaung — Thousand; prison; to erect or prop up

ထား

hta — To place, keep, put, or leave behind

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, done; completion marker particle

ခေါင်း

kaung — Head; leader; top or main part of something

ဖျက်

phyet — To destroy, cancel, break, or demolish something

ဆီး

hsi — Urine; to block, intercept, or obstruct passage

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of; enemy

အစား

a-sa — Instead of, in place of; food, diet

ဘာသာ

ba-tha — Religion, language, or subject matter of study

ပြောင်း

pyaung — To change, convert, shift, or transform something

သင်

thin — You (polite); to learn or teach something

ဆရာ

hsaya — Teacher, master, expert, or respected professional

ဖခင်

pha-khin — Father; male parent in a family unit

ခန့်

khan — Approximately, about; to appoint or assign someone

အကြမ်း

a-kyam — Violence, roughness; roughly or in broad outline

ဖက်

phut — Side, direction; to embrace, wrap, or align with

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; act of, the fact of doing

မဖြစ်

ma-phyit — Cannot help but; inevitably must do something

မနေ

ma-nay — Cannot stop; compelled to act without stopping

အားကိုး

a-go — To rely on, depend on, or trust in

လေ့

lay — Habit, custom; usually, tend to do often

ရှိ

shi — To have, exist, be present or available

ဖိလစ်ပိုင်

phi-lit-pine — Philippines; Southeast Asian archipelago country

သိမ်း

thein — To take over, seize, store, or consolidate

ပိုက်

pike — To hold, grip; pipe; net for catching fish

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said, called, known as (formal)

တင်စား

tin-sa — To represent, symbolize, or stand as metaphor

ခေါ်

khaw — To call, name, summon, or refer to as

ဆို

hso — To say, mean, sing; quotative verb particle

လူငယ်

lu-ngay — Young person, youth, young adult

ထိုး

htoh — To stab, pierce, inject, or play (drum)

စစ်

sit — War, military; true, genuine, or actual

ဆင်

hsin — Elephant; to dress, adorn, or prepare carefully

အနည်း

a-ni — Few, little, small amount; minority in number

ငယ်

ngay — Young, small, little; junior in age or rank

စဉ်

zin — During, while; sequence, order, or continuous period

က

ga — Subject marker; from; agent particle in sentences

ရေး

yay — To write; affair, matter, issue concerning something

နိုင်ငံ

nine-ngan — Country, nation, state, or political territory

ချီး

chi — To praise, commend, or lift up with honor

မွမ်း

mwan — To decorate, adorn, embellish, or praise gloriously

နှလုံး

hnalone — Heart; mind, spirit, or emotional center of being

ကျိုး

kyoh — Broken, snapped; benefit, advantage, or reason for

ပေါ်

paw — On, upon, above; to appear, emerge, surface

စေ

say — To cause, make, send; causative verb particle

ကြည်း

kyi — Land (as in land forces); army ground troops

တပ်

tat — Army, military unit; to attach or affix firmly

ကောင်း

kaung — Good, fine, nice, excellent, or morally right

လေး

lay — Four; dear, beloved; heavy; a softening particle

ထဲ

htay — Inside, within, into; interior of something

မှ

hma — From, since; only then; ablative or source marker

အရဲ

a-yay — Courage, bravery; daring to face danger boldly

အခိုင်

a-khine — Firmness, solidity, stability; strong or secure state

မျှ

hmya — Only, just, merely, as much as; equality particle

ကြံ

kyan — To plan, scheme, intend, or plot something

စည်

si — Drum; to be prosperous, lively, or bustling

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsine-ya — Related to, concerning, pertaining to a matter

အတွေး

a-tway — Thought, idea, thinking, or mental reflection

မကြာ

ma-kya — Not long, soon; before long in time

မီ

mi — Before, prior to; in time to catch something

ထိ

hti — Until, up to, as far as; to reach

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach, get to a destination

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix; in a manner of, -ly

နှိမ်

hnin — To suppress, look down on, or humble someone

ချ

cha — To put down, lower, lay, or dispense something

အများ

a-mya — Many, most, majority, or the general public

ဆိုရင်

hso-yin — If one says, if that is the case then

ရိုး

yoh — Simple, plain, ordinary; bone; a rod or stick

စင်း

sin — Classifier for elongated things; clean, pure, clear

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, feeling, thought, or intention

ကူး

ku — To cross over, copy, transfer, or transmit

ယဉ်

yin — Civilized, cultured; vehicle; gentle and refined

တတ်

tat — To know how to, be skilled at; habitually does

ကာ

ka — While, as; to protect; continuative verb particle

ကံ

kan — Fate, luck, fortune, or karma; chance outcome

ကြမ္မာ

kamma — Karma, fate, destiny; one's lot in life

လူ

lu — Person, human being, people, or individual

မ

ma — Negation particle; no, not; woman (informal)

ရှင်း

shin — To explain, clarify; clear, clean, or uncluttered

လင်း

lin — Bright, light, clear; to become illuminated

ဝိညာဉ်

win-nyan — Spirit, soul, essence of a living being

ဘုရား

pha-ya — God, Buddha, deity, or sacred religious figure

စနစ်

sa-nit — System, method, order, or organized structure

တကျ

ta-kya — Properly, correctly, in an orderly manner

ရုပ်

yote — Physical form, body, image, statue, or appearance

တု

tu — To imitate, copy, counterfeit, or mimic something

ကိုး

go — Nine; to worship, revere; source of reliance

ကွယ်

kwway — To disappear, hide, pass away; out of sight

အသေး

a-thway — Small, tiny, minor, or trivial in size

ရွက်

ywet — Leaf; to sail; to carry out or perform

ဓလေ့

da-lay — Custom, tradition, habit, or cultural practice

ထုံး

htone — Custom, tradition; plaster, lime; established practice

တမ်း

tan — Longing for; a layer or tier; degree of

ဆီ

hsi — Oil, grease; toward, in the direction of

ရွှေ့

shway — To move, shift, relocate, or transfer position

ပေး

pay — To give, provide, offer, or grant something

ကြီး

kyi — Big, large, great, senior, or important

မား

ma — Large, great; intensifier used with big adjectives

ဆွဲ

hsway — To pull, drag, attract, or draw toward

သုံး

thone — Three; to use, utilize, or apply something

လို

lo — To need, want, lack; like, similar to, as

အပ်

a-pat — To entrust, hand over; needle; to submit

ပေ

pay — Foot (unit); sentence-final softening particle

လ

la — Moon, month; come (imperative softening particle)

ဟုတ်

hote — True, correct, yes; to be right or accurate

ရော

yaw — Also, as well; mixed together; rhetorical particle

ဝါး

wa — Bamboo; to chew food with the teeth

လျာ

lya — To decrease, reduce, or lessen in amount

သတ်

that — To kill, punctuate; to define or determine

မှတ်

hmat — To remember, note, mark, or record something

ဒီ

di — This, here; informal demonstrative or locative word

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of, using; instrumental particle