The Souls of Black Folk — Page 3

Vocabulary

နောက်ဆုံး

nauk hsone: — Last, final, most recent

အနေနှင့်၊

a.ne. hnyif, — As, in the capacity of, acting as

ကုလားကာ

ku.la:ka. — Curtain, drape used to cover windows

အတွင်း

a.twinn: — Inside, within, interior of something

နေထိုင်

ne. htaing — To live, reside, dwell somewhere

သူတို့၏

thu. toh. e. — Their, belonging to them (possessive)

အရိုး

a.yo: — Bone, skeletal structure of a body

ထဲမှ

hte: hma. — From inside, out of, from within

အသား

a.tha: — Flesh, meat, soft body tissue

ဖြစ်သော

hpyit. thaw. — Which is, that exists as, being

ကျွန်တော်

kjwan. taw. — I, me (formal male first-person pronoun)

သည်

thi. — Topic marker particle, also 'this'

ဤ

i. — This, these (formal demonstrative pronoun)

နေရာ

ne.ya. — Place, location, spot, position

တွင်

twinn — In, at, within (locative particle)

ပြောဆို

pyaw. hsoh. — To speak, say, talk, communicate verbally

နေသူ

ne. thu. — Person who lives or stays somewhere

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

hpyit. kjawng: — The fact that, indicating a reason/cause

ထပ်မံ

htat. mann — Again, once more, additionally, further

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw. pya. — To show, describe, indicate, express clearly

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of

လိုအပ်

loh. at. — To need, require, be necessary

ပါသေး

pa. the: — Still, yet (particle indicating continuity)

သလော။

tha.law. — Question particle implying doubt or wondering

ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ

hpe. hpaw. wa. ri. — February, second month of the year

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏

kjwa.not. toh. e. — Our, belonging to us (formal possessive)

ဝိညာဉ်ရေးရာ

winn.yan. ye: ya. — Spiritual, relating to spiritual matters

ကြိုးပမ်း

kjo: pan: — To strive, make effort, endeavor

မှုများ

hmu. mya: — Matters, affairs, issues (plural noun suffix)

အကြောင်း

a.kjawng: — About, concerning, reason, cause

အို

oh. — Oh! exclamation of emotion or address

ရေ

ye. — Water; also a vocative particle

သာ၊

tha, — Only, just, merely (limiting particle)

ငါ့

nga. — My, mine (informal first-person possessive)

နှလုံး၏

hna.lone: e. — Of the heart (possessive form)

အသံ

a.thann — Sound, voice, noise

သဲ

the: — Sand, fine granular earth material

ထဲ

hte: — Inside, within, into (locative particle)

ငို

ngo. — To cry, weep, shed tears

ကြွေး

kjwe: — Debt; also a crying sound, wail

နေသော၊

ne. thaw, — Which is staying, while remaining, being

ည

nya. — Night, nighttime

တစ်ည

ta. nya. — One night, a single night

လုံး

lone: — All, entire, whole; also round/spherical

စိုးရိမ်

so: yinn — To worry, be anxious, feel concern

ဝမ်းနည်း

wann: ne: — To be sad, sorrowful, grieve

သော

thaw. — Relative clause marker (that, which, who)

သံ

thann — Sound, metal; iron, steel

ဖြင့်

hpying. — With, by means of (instrumental particle)

ငါ

nga. — I, me (informal first-person pronoun)

လဲလျောင်း

le: ljawng: — To lie down, recline on a surface

ကာ

ka. — While, as (continuative particle); curtain

နား

na: — Ear; also to rest, stop briefly

ထောင်

htawng — To listen; also prison, thousand

နေသော်လည်း

ne. thaw. le: — Even though staying/being, nevertheless

မလည်

ma. le. — Not understanding, not rotating, not working

နိုင်

naing — To be able to, can, capable of

အခါ၊

a.kha, — Time, occasion, when (temporal marker)

ဘေး

be: — Side, beside, danger, hazard

ရှိသော

shi. thaw. — Which exists, that is present, having

ကို

go. — Object marker particle, to, at (direction)

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit. se. — Whether, causing to be, let it be

သမုဒ္ဒရာ၏

tha.mot.ta.ya. e. — Of the ocean (possessive form)

ဖြစ်စေ၊

hpyit. se., — Whether...or (correlative conjunction particle)

အနား

a.na: — Near, beside, close to, vicinity

ယူ

yu. — To take, get, receive, obtain

ရာ

ya. — Place; nominalizer suffix; hundred

တမ်း

tann: — Longingly, with yearning; craving

ထို

htoh. — That, those (demonstrative, formal)

သူ

thu. — He, she, that person (third person)

လော၊

law, — Question particle expressing uncertainty

လော။

law. — Question particle at sentence end

ဆီ

hsi. — Toward, in the direction of; oil

သို့

tho. — To, toward, in the direction of

မနား

ma. na: — Without rest, not resting, ceaselessly

ဆိုင်း

hsaing: — To delay, defer; a music ensemble

ဘယ်သော

be. thaw. — Which, what kind of (interrogative relative)

အခါ

a.kha. — Time, occasion, when, period

မှ

hma. — From, since, only then (particle)

ခွင့်

khwing. — Permission, right, opportunity, leave

မရှိ

ma. shi. — Does not exist, there is none

ပေ၊

pe, — Indeed, emphatic particle; foot (measure)

လ

la. — Moon, month

ငိုက်မျဉ်း

ngaik. mjan: — To feel drowsy, doze, be sleepy

ကျ

kja. — To fall, drop down, descend

ပြီး

pyi: — After, finished, completed, already done

တိမ်းမြောင်

tein: mjawng — To drift, wander, be swept away

ကုန်ဆုံး

kone: hsone: — To end, finish, be exhausted, expire

အထိ၊

a.hti, — Until, up to, as far as

အဆုံး

a.hsone: — End, conclusion, termination, final point

သတ်

that. — To kill; to define; punctuation mark

မီး

mi: — Fire, light, flame

အနောက်

a.nauk. — West; behind, the back direction

ထွန်း

htwinn: — To light, kindle, turn on a light

ညှိ

hnji. — To adjust, tune, trim (a lamp/wick)

စတင်

sa.tinn — To start, begin, commence

နှလုံး

hna.lone: — Heart (physical and emotional)

ပင်ပန်း

pinn pan: — Tired, weary, fatigued, exhausted

အံ့အား

ann. a: — Amazement, wonder, astonishment

သင့်

thingg. — Should, ought to; your (second person)

သမုဒ္ဒရာ

tha.mot.ta.ya. — Ocean, sea, vast body of water

ကဲ့သို့

ke. tho. — Like, similar to, as if

မည်၊

mji, — Will, shall (future tense marker)

တစ်သက်

ta. thet. — A lifetime, all one's life, lifelong

တာ

ta. — Duration, matter; nominalizer particle

အကျိုး

a.kjo: — Benefit, result, consequence, fruit

မဲ့

me. — Without, lacking, devoid of

နေ

ne. — To stay, live, be; sun

ရင်း၊

ying:, — While doing, origin, source; chest

သကဲ့သို့။

tha.ke. tho.. — Just as, in the same manner as

အာသာ

a.tha. — Desire, longing, wish, craving

ဆိုင်မွန်း။

hsaing mone:. — Noon, midday (literary/poetic usage)

နှင့်

hnyif. — And, with, together with (conjunction)

အခြား

a.khja: — Other, another, different, else

ကမ္ဘာ

kan.ba. — World, earth, globe

ကြား

kja: — Between, among; to hear

မေးမြန်း

me: mjann: — To ask, inquire, question someone

ခြင်း

khying: — Nominalizer suffix creating abstract nouns

မခံ

ma. khann — Not receiving, not experiencing, refusing

ရသေး

ya. the: — Not yet received/achieved (negative aspect)

မေးခွန်း

me: khwinn: — Question, inquiry, problem to answer

တစ်ခု

ta. khu. — One thing, a single item

အမြဲတမ်း

a.mje: tann: — Always, constantly, permanently, forever

ရှိ

shi. — To exist, have, there is/are

နေသည်၊

ne. thi., — Is staying, continues to be (present)

အချို့

a.khjo. — Some, certain ones, a few

က

ka. — Subject marker particle, from, by

သိမ်မွေ့

thein mwe. — Subtle, delicate, refined, sensitive

ခံစားချက်

khann sa: khjet. — Feeling, emotion, sensation, sentiment

ကြောင့်

kjawng. — Because of, due to, owing to

မပြု

ma. pyu. — Not doing, not making, not performing

၍

ywe. — And so, therefore, thus (connective)

ကမူ

ka. mu. — As for, regarding (contrastive topic marker)

မှန်ကန်

hmnn kann — Correct, accurate, right, proper

စွာ

swa. — Adverbial suffix meaning properly, fully

စကား

sa.ka: — Word, speech, language, conversation

ဖွဲ့

hpwe. — To compose, form, put together, arrange

ဆို

hsoh. — To say, sing, state; that (quotative)

ခက်ခဲ

khjet. khe: — Difficult, hard, challenging, troublesome

ကြ၊

kja, — Plural verb marker (group action particle)

သို့သော်

tho. thaw. — However, but, nevertheless, yet

အားလုံး

a: lone: — All, everyone, everything, altogether

၎င်း

de.gin: — It, that, the same (formal pronoun)

ပတ်ပတ်လည်

pat. pat. le. — All around, surrounding, on all sides

လှည့်ပတ်

hlje. pat. — To go around, revolve, surround

သူတို့

thu. toh. — They, them (third person plural)

တစ်ဝက်

ta. wet. — Half, one half portion

တစ်ပျက်

ta. pjet. — A moment, an instant, briefly

ဝံ့ဝံ့

wan. wan. — Boldly, daringly, with courage

ဝြားဝြား

wja: wja: — Warily, cautiously, nervously hesitant

ကျွန်တော့်

kjwan. taw. — My (formal male first-person possessive)

ထံ

htann — To, toward (a person), at someone's place

ချဉ်းကပ်

khyin: kat. — To approach, draw near, come close

စူးစမ်း

su: sann: — To investigate, probe, explore, inquire

စိတ်

seit. — Mind, heart, feeling, spirit, thought

သနား

tha.na: — To pity, feel compassion, feel sorry for

ညှာတာ

hnja. ta. — To be considerate, merciful, show compassion

ကြည့်ရှု

kji. shu. — To look at, observe, watch, view

ပြီး၊

pyi:, — After, and then, having finished

ပြဿနာ

pya. hsa. na. — Problem, issue, difficulty, complication

ဖြစ်ရ

hpyit. ya. — To happen to be, to occur, to arise

သည်မှာ

thi. hma. — The fact is, what it is (emphasis)

မည်သို့

mji. tho. — How, in what way, by what manner

ခံစား

khann sa: — To feel, experience, sense, perceive

ရ

ya. — To get, receive, obtain; can, able

သနည်း

tha.ne: — How is it? question particle (rhetorical)

ဟု

hu. — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

တိုက်ရိုက်

taik. yaik. — Directly, straightforwardly, without detour

မပြော

ma. pyaw. — Not saying, not speaking, without saying

ဘဲ၊

be., — Without doing, not doing (negative adverb)