The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Page 4

Vocabulary

ဤ

i — This; a formal demonstrative pronoun in written Burmese.

ပုံ

pone — Shape, form, image, or picture.

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; a conjunction connecting nouns or clauses.

ပတ်သက်

pat-thate — To relate to; to be connected or concerned with.

သော

thaw — A relative clause marker; meaning 'which' or 'that'.

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle; meaning 'of' or belonging to.

နှစ်သက်

hnit-thathe — To like; to enjoy; to be fond of something.

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix turning verbs into abstract nouns.

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person; third-person pronoun.

မှတ်စု

hmat-su — Notes; a notebook or written memorandum.

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more than one.

တွင်

twin — In; at; inside; locative particle indicating location.

ထည့်သွင်း

hteh-thwin — To include; to insert; to put something into.

ထား

hta — To place; to keep; to leave something somewhere.

ရုပ်ပုံ

yote-pone — Illustration, portrait, or image of a person.

ဥပမာ

u-pa-ma — Example; illustration used to explain a concept.

ကြွယ်ဝ

kywe-wa — Rich; abundant; wealthy in resources or content.

တို့

toh — Plural pronoun suffix; 'we' or 'they' marker.

သည်

thì — Subject marker or present-tense sentence particle.

ထုတ်ဝေ

htoat-wè — To publish; to distribute; to release officially.

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; indicates direct object.

မူဆလင်

mu-za-lin — Muslim; a follower of the Islamic faith.

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life; existence; one's way of living.

ကျင့်ဝတ်

kjin-woot — Ethics; moral conduct; professional or social code.

ဘာသာတရား

ba-tha-ta-ya — Religion; a system of faith and worship.

စာပေ

sa-pè — Literature; written works of artistic or scholarly value.

အပေါ်

a-paw — On; above; regarding; concerning a topic.

ကျွန်ုပ်

kyano — I; me; formal first-person singular pronoun.

ပိုင်ဆိုင်

pine-sine — To own; to possess; to have ownership of.

အပြည့်စုံ

a-pyin-zone — Complete; comprehensive; fully equipped or detailed.

ဆုံး

zone — End; to finish; to come to a conclusion.

မှတ်ချက်

hmat-chet — Comment; remark; annotation or observation.

ချ

cha — To place down; to make; to issue or deliver.

အဖြစ်

a-pfyit — As; in the capacity of; in the role of.

ဖြစ်စေ

pfyit-se — Whether; causing to happen; making something occur.

ပြီး

pyi — After; already done; completion marker particle.

နာမည်ကျော်

na-meh-kyaw — Famous; well-known; having a celebrated reputation.

_ခေတ်သစ်

khet-thit — Modern era; new age; contemporary period.

အီဂျစ်

i-jit — Egypt; the country in northeastern Africa.

လူမျိုး

lu-myoh — Ethnicity; race; a group of people sharing heritage.

ဓလေ့

da-leh — Custom; tradition; habitual cultural practice.

ထုံးတမ်း

htone-dan — Tradition; convention; established social custom.

မှတ်တမ်း_

hmat-dan — Record; documentation; official or historical account.

မရှိမဖြစ်

ma-shi-ma-pfyit — Indispensable; absolutely necessary; cannot do without.

လိုအပ်

lo-at — To need; to require; to be necessary.

ဖြည့်စွက်

pfyi-swet — To supplement; to add; to fill in additional content.

ချက်

chet — Point; item; a distinct clause or moment.

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing; a single item or unit.

အရှေ့တိုင်း

a-sheh-tine — The Orient; the East; Eastern lands or cultures.

ကဗျာဆန်

ka-bya-zan — Poetic; resembling or having the quality of poetry.

ဥရောပ

u-yaw-pa — Europe; the continent in the Western hemisphere.

ယဉ်ကျေးမှု

yin-kje-hmu — Culture; civilization; refined social and artistic development.

ဖျက်ဆီး

pfyet-si — To destroy; to ruin; to demolish something.

တတ်

tat — To know how; to be able; skilled at something.

ထိတွေ့

hti-twe — To encounter; to come into contact with.

အောက်

awt — Below; under; beneath in position or rank.

လျင်မြန်

ljin-myan — Fast; quick; rapid in movement or action.

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning 'in a ... manner'.

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pyawt-kwel — To disappear; to vanish; to become lost.

လျက်

ljet — While; in the process of; ongoing action particle.

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to be; to have or be present.

သို့မဟုတ်

thoh-ma-hote — Or; otherwise; presenting an alternative option.

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw-shwin — Happy; joyful; feeling pleasure and delight.

ကာ

ka — While doing; ongoing action connector between clauses.

ဟာသ

ha-tha — Humor; comedy; something funny or amusing.

ပြော

pyaw — To say; to speak; to tell or communicate.

အောင်မြင်

awt-myin — Successful; to succeed; to achieve a goal.

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker; indicates a completed past action.

လက္ခဏာရပ်

let-kha-na-yat — Characteristic; feature; distinguishing quality or trait.

လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်း

lu-a-pfwe-a-si — Society; human community or organized social group.

အတွေ့အကြုံ

a-twe-a-kyone — Experience; personal encounters and practical knowledge.

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative marker in sentences.

သမိုင်းဝင်

tha-mine-win — Historic; historically significant; recorded in history.

ကိစ္စ

kit-sa — Matter; affair; issue or concern to be addressed.

ခရီးသွား

kha-yi-thwa — Traveler; tourism; to travel or go on a journey.

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; on behalf of.

မဟုတ်

ma-hote — Not; is not; negation of identity or state.

ဘဲ

be — Without doing; negating the completion of an action.

ရှေးဟောင်းသုတေသီ

sheh-hawn-thu-te-thi — Archaeologist; a scholar who studies ancient artifacts.

နယ်ပယ်

neh-pel — Field; domain; an area of activity or knowledge.

ဖြစ်လာ

pfyit-la — To become; to come to be; to develop into.

နေ

ne — To live; to stay; ongoing state or action marker.

ကွန်ပိုင်လာ

kone-pine-la — Compiler; one who collects and organizes information.

သည့်

thìh — Relative clause particle modifying a preceding noun.

၎င်း

da-jin — It; that; a formal third-person or demonstrative pronoun.

ရွှေ

shwe — Gold; the precious yellow metal; also a term of endearment.

ကာလ

ka-la — Period; era; a span of time.

မြင်တွေ့

myin-twe — To see; to witness; to visually encounter something.

_ညတစ်ထောင့်တစ်ရာ_

nya-tit-hthawn-tit-ya — One Thousand and One Nights; famous Arabian literary collection.

စာမျက်နှာ

sa-myet-hna — Page; a single face of a leaf in a book.

ပြန်လည်

pyan-leh — To return; to do again; reversal or repetition.

တည်ဆောက်

ti-zawt — To build; to construct; to establish something.

နိုင်

nine — Can; to be able to; potential or possibility marker.

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix creating verbal nouns or gerunds.

မှာ

hma — At; in; on; locative or indirect object marker.

ကောင်း

kaun — Good; nice; excellent in quality or character.

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; an object or abstract subject.

ဖြစ်

pfyit — To be; to happen; to occur; existential verb.

ထို့အပြင်

htoh-a-pfyin — Furthermore; in addition; besides that point.

မည်သည့်

meh-thìh — Whichever; any; used in questions or conditions.

အသက်အရွယ်

a-thet-a-ywe — Age; a person's life stage or years lived.

အခြေအနေ

a-che-a-ne — Situation; condition; the state of affairs.

မဆို

ma-zo — Any; whatever; regardless of which thing or case.

စာဖတ်သူ

sa-pfat-thu — Reader; a person who reads books or texts.

မောဟ

maw-ha — Enchantment; fascination; a state of being captivated.

ထောင်ချ

htown-cha — To captivate; to enchant; to hold spellbound.

ဆွဲဆောင်

swè-zawn — To attract; to allure; to draw someone in.

ရိုမန်တစ်ဆန်

yo-man-tit-zan — Romantic; having a romantic or dreamy quality.

ဂုဏ်သတ္တိ

gon-thaddi — Quality; virtue; a commendable characteristic or attribute.

ဆက်လက်

set-let — To continue; to proceed further; ongoing action.

ထိန်းသိမ်း

htein-thein — To preserve; to maintain; to keep something intact.

ချိန်

chein — Time; moment; a specific period or point in time.

မူရင်း

mu-yin — Original; the source version of a text or work.

ဆရာ

hsaya — Teacher; master; a respected instructor or expert.

သိရှိ

thi-shi — To know; to be aware of; to have knowledge.

များ_

mya — Plural marker; indicates multiple items or people.

လည်း

leh — Also; too; as well; an additive particle.

ထိုသို့

htoh-thoh — In that way; thus; in such a manner.

ပူး

pu — Together; jointly; combining or collaborating with another.

နေ့

neh — Day; daytime; a calendar day.

ခုနှစ်

khu-hnit — Year; used after a number to specify a year.

တည်းဖြတ်

ti-pfyat — To edit; to revise; to cut and correct a text.

နိဒါန်း

ni-dan — Introduction; preface; opening section of a book.

စာအုပ်

sa-oat — Book; a printed or written literary volume.

အသစ်

a-thit — New; fresh; recently made or introduced.

လာ

la — To come; motion toward speaker; directional verb.

အခါ

a-kha — When; at the time of; occasion or circumstance.

မစ္စတာ

mis-ta — Mister; Mr.; a formal title for a male person.

စာနှိပ်

sa-hnit — Printing; a printing press or publishing operation.

စစ်ဆေး

sit-se — To inspect; to examine; to check for accuracy.

ပြင်ဆင်

pyin-zin — To prepare; to correct; to make ready or fix.

တာဝန်ယူ

ta-wan-yu — To take responsibility; to be accountable for something.

ဆောင်ရွက်

zawn-ywe — To carry out; to perform; to undertake a task.

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing something.

တောင်းဆို

dawn-zo — To request; to demand; to ask for something.

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; a contrastive conjunction.

ပြင်းထန်

pyin-htan — Intense; severe; strong in degree or force.

လုပ်ငန်း

loat-ngan — Work; business; an enterprise or professional task.

ကြောင့်

kyawn — Because of; due to; indicating a cause or reason.

အားလပ်ချိန်

a-lat-chein — Free time; leisure time; time without obligations.

မရ

ma-ya — Cannot; unable to obtain; negation of ability.

သဖြင့်

tha-pfyin — Therefore; thus; as a result; causal connector.

အာရဗီ

a-ya-bi — Arabic; the language of Arab peoples.

ဘာသာ

ba-tha — Language; religion; a specific tongue or faith.

သင်ကြား

thin-kja — To teach; to instruct; to impart knowledge to others.

ရာ

ya — Hundred; also a generalizing suffix in various contexts.

တပည့်

ta-pnyeh — Student; disciple; a learner under a teacher.

ရေးသား

yeh-tha — To write; to author; to compose written content.

ရင်းနှီး

yin-hni — Familiar; intimate; deeply acquainted with something.

ကျွမ်းဝင်

kjwan-win — Expert; proficient; having deep familiarity or skill.

ကိုင်ရိုမြို့

kine-yo-myoh — Cairo; the capital city of Egypt.

နှစ်ပေါင်း

hnit-pawn — Years combined; total number of years accumulated.

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; a great number; a large quantity of something.

အတူ

a-tu — Together; alongside; in the company of another.

နေထိုင်

ne-htine — To reside; to live; to dwell in a place.

ကျွန်တော်

kjandaw — I; me; formal male first-person singular pronoun.

တစ်ဖက်

tit-pfet — One side; on the other hand; another aspect.

တစ်နည်း

tit-hneh — In one way; alternatively; put another way.

ဖြင့်

pfyin — With; by means of; instrumental or manner particle.

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place; location; a specific spot or position.

ဖြည့်ဆည်း

pfyi-zi — To fulfill; to supply; to satisfy a need.

ကျွန်တော့်

kjandoh — My; mine; possessive form of male first-person pronoun.

နာမည်

na-meh — Name; a word by which a person is known.

ပေး

peh — To give; to provide; to offer something to someone.