The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Page 3

Vocabulary

ဤ

i — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

စာအုပ်

sa.ouq — Book; a bound written or printed work

သည်

thany — Is/are; subject marker or copula verb

ပညာရှင်

pyanya.shin — Expert, scholar, or learned person

တစ်ဦး

tit.u: — One person (counter for people)

အတွက်

a.twet — For; for the sake of; regarding

သာ

tha — Only; merely; just (restrictive particle)

ထုတ်ဝေ

htoq.we — To publish; to distribute officially

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that/which (particle)

မျှ

hmya — Only; merely; just (emphatic limiter)

မဟုတ်

ma.houq — Is not; negation of identity or fact

ဘဲ

bhe: — Without doing; negative adverbial particle

အရှေ့တိုင်း

a.shay.tine: — The East; Eastern regions or Orient

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsine.ya — Related to; concerning; pertaining to

ကျောင်းသား

kyaung:.tha: — Student; pupil attending school

တိုင်း

tine: — Every; each; all (distributive particle)

၎င်း

de.gin: — It; he/she; that (formal third-person pronoun)

ကို

ko — Object marker; direct object particle

မရှိမဖြစ်

ma.shi.ma.pyit — Indispensable; absolutely necessary; essential

လိုအပ်

lo.aq — To need; to require; to be necessary

သော်လည်း

thaw.leare: — However; although; even though (conjunction)

ကျဉ်းမြောင်း

kyin:.myaung: — Narrow; limited in scope or width

အုပ်စု

ouq.su — Group; cluster; category of people

ကျော်လွန်

kyaw.lwan — To exceed; to go beyond a limit

၍

yway — Therefore; so; thus (connective particle)

ကမ္ဘာ

kamba — World; earth; the globe

၏

e — Possessive particle; of (genitive marker)

နာမည်ကျော်

namè.kyaw — Famous; well-known; renowned

များ

mya: — Many; plural marker; more than one

အပြည့်အဝ

a.pyit.a.wa — Fully; completely; in full measure

တိကျမှန်ကန်

tikya.hmankan — Accurate; precise; correct and exact

ပုံဆောင်ချက်

pone.hsaung.chet — Representation; portrayal; depiction of something

ဖြင့်

hpyint — With; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

သိရှိ

thi.shi — To know; to be aware of something

လို

lo — To want; to need; to desire

ကျယ်ပြန့်

kyè.pyant — Wide; broad; extensive in scope

သည့်

thint — Relative clause particle; which/that (attributive)

စာဖတ်

sa.phat — To read; act of reading text

ပရိသတ်

pa.yi.that — Audience; readership; assembled public

အမြဲ

a.myè — Always; constantly; all the time

ဆွဲဆောင်

hswe:.hsaung — To attract; to captivate; to draw in

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker; did (auxiliary verb)

လက်ရှိ

let.shi — Current; present; existing at this time

အချိန်

a.chein — Time; period; moment or duration

ပြန်လည်

pyan.lè — Again; back; returning to a state

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

သင့်လျော်

thint.lyaw — Appropriate; suitable; fitting for purpose

တစ်ခု

tit.khu — One thing; a single item (counter)

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to become; to occur

အီဂျစ်

i.jit — Egypt; North African country on Nile

ယခုအခါ

ya.khu.a.kha — Nowadays; at the present time

မျက်မှောက်

myet.hmawq — Present; contemporary; current era

တွင်

twing — In; at; within (locative particle)

ထိပ်တန်း

hteit.tan: — Top-tier; leading; of the highest rank

နေရာ

ne.ya — Place; location; position; spot

ရယူ

ya.yu — To obtain; to acquire; to get

ထား

hta: — To keep; to place; to put aside

ပြီး

pyi: — After; finished; already done (particle)

_တစ်ထောင့်တစ်ညများ_

tit.htaung.tit.nya.mya: — One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights

က

ka — Subject marker; agent particle in sentences

အများဆုံး

a.mya:.zone — Most; the greatest in number or degree

ပြောဆို

pyaw.hso — To say; to speak; to discuss

မှာ

hma — At; in; on (locative/dative particle)

အကြောင်း

a.kyaung: — About; reason; subject matter

ပင်

ping — Indeed; even; emphasizing particle

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat.lan: — Story; narrative; plot of a tale

များစွာ

mya:.swa — Many; a great number of things

မူရင်း

mu.ying: — Original; source version; primary text

အိန္ဒိယ

ein.di.ya — India; South Asian country

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe.ma.houq — Or; otherwise; alternatively (conjunction)

ပါရှန်

pa.shan — Persian; relating to Persia/Iran

ဆန်

hsan — Rice (uncooked); raw rice grain

၎င်းတို့

de.gin:.doe — They; them; those (formal third-person plural)

ဇာတ်ခင်း

zat.khin: — Scene; setting; dramatic scenario

ခြွင်းချက်

chwin:.chet — Exception; exemption; special case

မရှိ

ma.shi — Does not exist; there is none

နီးပါး

ni:.pa: — Nearly; almost; approximately

ဘဂ္ဂဒက်

bag.ga.det — Baghdad; capital city of Iraq

အလှမ်း

a.hlan: — Distance; span; how far away

ဝေးသော

we:.thaw — Distant; far away; remote

တရုတ်

ta.yoq — Chinese; relating to China

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that (quote marker)

ခေါ်ဆို

khaw.hso — To call; to refer to by name

အာရေဗျ

a.ye.bya — Arabia; Arab region of Middle East

ညများ

nya.mya: — Nights; multiple nighttime periods

မင်္ဂလာပွဲ

mingala.bwe: — Wedding; auspicious ceremony or celebration

တကယ်

ta.kè — Really; truly; in fact

ဆိုလျှင်

hso.lshin — If; supposing; in the case that

မမ်လူခ်

mam.loq — Mamluk; medieval Islamic soldier-slave dynasty

ခေတ်

khet — Era; period; age; historical epoch

ကိုင်ရိုမြို့

kine.yo.myoe — Cairo city; capital of Egypt

ရာဇဝင်

ya.za.wing — History; chronicle; historical record

ကာလ

ka.la — Period; time span; duration

ဖြန့်ကြက်

hpyan.kyat — To spread; to disseminate; to distribute widely

ခြင်း

ching: — Nominalizer particle; act of doing something

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw.pya — To describe; to express; to indicate

ထားသော

hta:.thaw — That which has been placed/kept (attributive)

လူများ

lu.mya: — People; many persons; human beings

ဟိန္ဒူ

hin.du — Hindu; relating to Hinduism or its followers

လူမျိုး

lu.myoe: — Ethnic group; nationality; race of people

ဆယ့်ငါးရာစု

hsè.nga:.ya.su — Fifteenth century; 1400s time period

နေထိုင်

ne.htine — To live; to reside; to dwell somewhere

ကြွလှည့်

kyw.hle — To visit; to come and go (honorific)

ခဲ့သော

khe.thaw — Which happened; past attributive marker

အာရဗ်

a.yaq — Arab; relating to Arabic people or culture

နှင့်

hnint — And; with; together with (conjunction)

ထို

htoe — That; those (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

ယနေ့

ya.ne — Today; this present day

တိုင်

tine — Until; up to; as far as

ကိုင်ရို

kine.yo — Cairo; capital city of Egypt

အနုပညာရှင်

a.nu.pya.shin — Artist; a person skilled in fine arts

အပျော်ရိုင်း

a.pyaw.ying: — Entertainment; amusement; recreation (informal fun)

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit.se — Whether; causing to be; making happen

လှပ

hla.ba — Beautiful; lovely; attractive in appearance

မြေသဂြိုဟ်ရာ

mye.tha.gyoe.ya — Burial ground; cemetery; place of burial

တည်ဆောက်

ti.hsauq — To build; to construct; to establish

နေဆဲ

ne.zwe: — Still; continuing; ongoing at present

အော်တိုမန်

aw.ti.man — Ottoman; relating to Ottoman Empire

တူရကီ

tu.ya.ki — Turkey; Turkic people or nation

ဖျက်ဆီး

hpyet.hsi: — To destroy; to demolish; to ruin

တတ်သော

tat.thaw — Which is able; that tends to do

လက်

let — Hand; arm; also used for era/time

တို့

doe — Plural marker; we/they (group particle)

ဖာရာအိုများ

pha.ya.o.mya: — Pharaohs; ancient Egyptian kings

ပြည်

pyi — Country; nation; land; state

ပေါ်

paw — On; above; upon; appearing (particle)

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; able to (particle)

အလယ်ခေတ်

a.lè.khet — Middle Ages; medieval historical period

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present

ခဲ့သည့်

khe.thint — Which did; past relative clause marker

အတိုင်း

a.tine: — According to; as; in accordance with

လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်း

lu.a.hpwe.a.si: — Society; community; human social organization

အသေးစိတ်

a.thay:.seit — Detail; in detail; minute particulars

ပုံဖော်ချက်

pone.hpaw.chet — Description; depiction; portrayal of something

ယှဉ်ပြိုင်

shin.pyine — To compete; to rival; to contend with

နိုင်

nine — Can; able to; capable of (auxiliary)

အရာ

a.ya — Thing; matter; object; item

မစ္စတာ

mis.sa.ta — Mister; Mr.; title of address for men