The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Page 5

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I, me (formal male first-person pronoun)

သည်

thì — Topic marker or present tense verb particle

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, one's own (reflexive pronoun)

၏

ei — Possessive or linking particle (formal/literary)

ချို့တဲ့မှု

chout-tè-hmu — Deficiency, shortcoming, lack of something

များ

myá — Plural marker; also means 'many' or 'more'

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with (conjunction/preposition)

သူ

thu — He, she, they (third-person pronoun)

ကျယ်ပြန့်

kje-pyan — Wide, broad, extensive in scope or area

သော

thaw — Relativizing particle linking adjective to noun

ဗဟုသုတ

ba-hu-thu-ta — Knowledge, general learning, wide information

တို့

dó — Plural marker for pronouns or nouns

ကို

go — Object marker (accusative case particle)

သိရှိ

thi-shi — To know, to be aware of something

နားလည်

ná-le — To understand, to comprehend something clearly

ကြောင့်

kjàun — Because of, due to (causal postposition)

မလုံ

ma-loun — Insufficient, not enough, insecure

မလောက်

ma-lau — Not enough, insufficient in amount or degree

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, feeling, mental state

ဖြင့်

pyin — With, by means of (instrumental particle)

ဤ

i — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

တာဝန်

ta-wun — Responsibility, duty, obligation

ထမ်းဆောင်

htàn-hsaun — To carry out, fulfill, perform a duty

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense auxiliary particle (done previously)

သို့သော်

thó-dhaw — However, nevertheless, but (formal conjunction)

စာသား

sa-dhá — Text, written content, wording of a passage

မှန်ကန်မှု

hmàn-kan-hmu — Correctness, accuracy, being right or proper

အနည်းဆုံး

a-hnì-zoun — At least, the minimum amount or number

အာမခံ

a-ma-khan — Guarantee, warranty, assurance of something

နိုင်

nain — Can, able to, capable of doing something

မည်

myi — Future tense marker (formal/written particle)

ဖြစ်ပြီး

pyi-bì — Being, having become, and therefore (connector)

ဆန္ဒ

sanda — Wish, desire, will, intention

တိကျ

ti-kja — Precise, exact, accurate, specific

စွာ

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

လိုက်နာ

lait-na — To follow, comply with, adhere to rules

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

ခံစား

khan-zá — To feel, experience, sense an emotion

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; also resultative particle

လက်ရှိ

let-shi — Current, present, existing at this time

ထုတ်ဝေမှု

htwet-wè-hmu — Publication, act of publishing or releasing

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-zoun — First of all, the very first one

ပြည့်စုံ

pyí-zoun — Complete, perfect, fully equipped or whole

မိတ္တူ

mit-tu — Copy, duplicate, reproduction of a document

မှ

hma — From, since, out of (ablative particle)

ပထမ

pa-hta-ma — First, primary, initial in order

ထုတ်ဝေ

htwet-wè — To publish, release, distribute officially

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment, period; to weigh or measure

စ၍

si-ywe — Starting from, beginning with (formal particle)

အခါ

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

အားလျော်

á-ljaw — In accordance with, corresponding to, befitting

ပြင်ဆင်ချက်

pyin-zin-chét — Amendment, revision, correction made to something

ဖြည့်စွက်ချက်

pyi-swet-chét — Supplement, addition, added content or clause

ကိုယ်တိုင်

go-dain — Oneself, personally, by one's own hand

မည်သည့်

myi-dhì — Any, whichever, whatever (interrogative/relative)

ပြောင်းလဲမှု

pjaun-lè-hmu — Change, alteration, transformation of something

မျှ

hmya — Only, just, as much as (limiting particle)

မပါ

ma-pa — Not included, without, not present

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing, not doing (negative adverbial)

ထို

htó — That, those (demonstrative, slightly distant)

သို့

thó — To, toward, in the direction of

မှတ်သား

hmat-thá — To note, take note of, remember carefully

ထား

htá — To keep, place, leave in a state

ပြီး

bì — After completing, done, finished (aspect marker)

ထံ

htan — To, toward (a person); in someone's presence

တင်ပြ

tin-pya — To present, submit, report to someone

လွဲ

lwè — Except for, other than; to miss or err

၍

ywe — And so, therefore (formal connective particle)

ရိုက်နှိပ်

yait-hnit — To print, type, press (text or document)

ဘာသာပြန်ချက်

ba-tha-pyan-chét — Translation, rendered version in another language

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-lout — To do, perform, carry out an action

ရာ

ya — Nominalization suffix; also means 'place' or 'hundred'

တွင်

twin — In, at, within (locative particle)

တိကျမှု

ti-kja-hmu — Precision, exactness, accuracy of information

မှတ်ချက်

hmat-chét — Comment, remark, note, annotation

ပြည့်ဝမှု

pyí-wa-hmu — Completeness, fullness, being fully sufficient

၎င်း

dín-ji — It, he, she, they (formal referential pronoun)

အလွန်

a-lwun — Very, extremely, excessively (intensifier)

များပြား

myá-byá — Numerous, plentiful, occurring in large quantities

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not, not (negation of 'to be')

ပေ

pè — Emphatic or assertive sentence-final particle

အကြောင်း

a-kjàun — About, regarding, reason, topic of discussion

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, just (emphatic particle)

လည်း

lè — Also, too, as well (additive particle)

နည်းပါး

hnì-pá — Few, scarce, small in number or amount

သွား

thwá — To go; directional particle indicating away

ဦးလေး

ú-lé — Uncle (term of address for older male)

သူ့

thú — His, her, its (genitive form of 'he/she')

ဖာသာ

pha-tha — Language, religion, own business (colloquial variant)

ယုံကြည်

youn-kji — To believe, trust, have faith in someone

ရှားပါး

shá-pá — Rare, scarce, uncommon, hard to find

ခြွင်းချက်

chwin-chét — Exception, exemption, special case excluded

မလိုအပ်

ma-lo-ap — Unnecessary, not needed, not required

ဖြည့်စွက်မှု

pyi-swet-hmu — Supplementation, addition of extra content

ဘက်

bét — Side, direction, toward (directional noun)

တစ်ခါ

ta-kha — Once, one time, on one occasion

တစ်ရံ

ta-yan — Sometimes, occasionally, at times

အမှား

a-hmá — Mistake, error, fault, incorrect act

ဖြစ်

pyi — To be, to become, to happen

မိ

mi — To catch, manage to do (resultative verb)

စာရေးဆရာ

sa-yé-hsaya — Author, writer, literary professional

ကြီးကြပ်မှု

kji-kjap-hmu — Supervision, oversight, management of work

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist, there is none, absent

စာအုပ်

sa-out — Book, printed volume, written publication

တစ်အုပ်

ta-out — One book, a single volume or copy

မယုံကြည်

ma-youn-kji — To disbelieve, distrust, lack faith in

ဖွယ်ရာ

phwè-ya — Likely to, worthy of, apt to (modal suffix)

သတ်မှတ်

that-hmat — To define, designate, set, specify officially

ကြ

kja — Plural action marker; to do together collectively

ထို့

htó — That (emphatic demonstrative, often in compounds)

ကိစ္စ

kit-sa — Matter, affair, issue, concern to address

စာဖတ်သူ

sa-phat-thu — Reader, person who reads written material

စာနှိပ်

sa-hnit — Printing press, typography, printing of text

ပုဒ်ဖြတ်မှု

pout-pjat-hmu — Punctuation, division of text into segments

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, upon, above (locative particle)

မှီခို

hmi-kho — To rely on, depend upon, seek support from

ကြောင်း

kjàun — That (complementizer introducing reported clause)

လို

lo — Need to, want to, like (modal verb)

လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်

lout-ngan-zi — Process, procedure, series of operations

ကြီးမား

kji-má — Great, huge, enormous in size or importance

နှောင့်နှေးမှု

hnoun-hnè-hmu — Delay, hindrance, slowness in progress

စေ

sè — To cause, let, make someone do something

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — Although, even though, nevertheless (concessive)

ရေး

yé — To write; suffix indicating concern or matter

အစွမ်း

a-swan — Ability, power, capability, skill

ကုန်

koun — To run out, finish, used up completely

နှိုင်း

hnain — To compare, contrast with another item

ယှဉ်

shin — To compete with, compare, be alongside

စစ်ဆေး

sit-sè — To check, inspect, verify, examine carefully

ခေါ်ဝေါ်

khaw-waw — To call, name, refer to by a term

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; also an imperative particle

သို့မဟုတ်

thó-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively (disjunctive conjunction)

အရှေ့တိုင်း

a-shè-dain — The East, Eastern lands, Oriental region

စကားလုံး

za-ká-loun — Word, vocabulary item, term in language

ရေးသား

yé-thá — To write, compose, author a written work

ပုံ

poun — Picture, image, shape; also 'as if' particle

နည်းလမ်း

hnì-lán — Method, way, approach to doing something

စံ

san — Standard, norm, criterion, benchmark

အခြား

a-chá — Other, another, different, else

ကွဲလွဲချက်

kwè-lwè-chét — Discrepancy, difference, variation between things

နှစ်ခု

hnit-khu — Two things, a pair, both items

ခွဲခြား

khwè-chá — To distinguish, differentiate, separate into categories

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of (purposive)