The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Page 6

Vocabulary

ဤ

i — This; demonstrative pronoun pointing to something nearby

မှတ်စု

hmat su — Notes; written record or memo

များ

myar — Many; plural marker or adjective meaning numerous

အပေါ်

a.pau — On; above; regarding; concerning something

ပြည်သူ

pyi thu — Citizens; the people of a nation

တို့

to — Plural pronoun marker; we/they (group marker)

၏

e — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

အသိအမှတ်ပြုမှု

a.thi a.hmat pyu hmu — Recognition; official acknowledgment of something

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction connecting words or phrases

မှန်ကန်

hman kan — Correct; accurate; right and proper

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner; properly

ရေးသား

yay thar — To write; to compose written text

ထားသော

htar thaw — That has been placed or kept; past participial marker

နိုင်ငံခြား

naing ngan kyar — Foreign; pertaining to another country

စကားလုံး

za.gar lone — Word; a unit of vocabulary or speech

အကျိုးကျေးဇူး

a.kyo kyay zu — Benefit; advantage; favorable outcome or result

သည်

thi — Grammatical topic marker; is/are (present tense)

လက်ရှိ

let shi — Current; present; existing at this time

ထုတ်ဝေမှု

htoat way hmu — Publication; act of publishing or distributing

အတွက်

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

တောင်းဆိုမှု

taung zo hmu — Request; demand; act of asking formally

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; causal particle

သက်သေပြ

thet thay pya — To prove; to demonstrate with evidence

နေသည်

nay thi — Is living; is staying; present continuous marker

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning said; thus; as follows

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya.noup — I; me; formal first-person singular pronoun

ယူဆ

yu hsa — To assume; to consider; to think or believe

အရှေ့တိုင်း

a.shay tine — The Orient; Eastern regions; the East

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to; at; accusative case

ဥရောပ

u.yau — Europe; the European continent

ဇာတ်လုံး

zat lone — Character; letter; written symbol or script character

ဖြင့်

hpyin — By means of; with; using; instrumental particle

သည့်

thi — Relative clause marker; that which; adjectival particle

နည်းလမ်း

nay lan — Method; way; approach or procedure

အကြောင်း

a.kyaung — About; concerning; reason; cause

တွင်

twin — In; inside; within; locative particle

အနည်းငယ်

a.nay ngay — A little; a few; small amount

သာ

tha — Only; just; exclusive restrictive particle

ပြောဆို

pyaw zo — To speak; to say; to talk about

ရန်

yan — In order to; purpose marker; for the purpose of

လို

lo — To want; to need; to be like

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a.bhe kyaung — Why; for what reason; interrogative word

ဆိုသော်

zo thaw — If one says; speaking of; that is to say

ငြင်းခုံမှု

nyin khon hmu — Argument; debate; dispute or controversy

ခြုံငုံ

khyon ngun — Overview; summary; encompassing the whole

၍

yway — Therefore; and so; connective particle showing result

ကုန်ဆုံး

kon zone — To be exhausted; to run out; to end

သွား

thwar — To go; directional particle indicating away

ပြီ

pyi — Already; completion marker; done; finished

ဖြစ်သော

hpyit thaw — That is; being; which is; relative copula

ဖြစ်သည်။

hpyit thi — Is; it is; copular sentence-final verb

မျိုးဆက်

myo set — Generation; lineage; successive generation of people

ခေတ်မမီ

khet ma mi — Outdated; old-fashioned; not keeping up with times

အမှား

a.hmar — Mistake; error; something incorrect

ကလေး

ka.lay — Child; children; young person

ဘဝ

ba.wa — Life; existence; one's life circumstances

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative particle indicating origin

ရင်းနှီး

yin nhi — Familiar; intimate; well-acquainted with something

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; which; that; adjectival

အမည်

a.myi — Name; title; designation of a person or thing

အဖြစ်

a.hpyit — As; in the capacity of; in the role of

မမှတ်ယူ

ma.hmat yu — Not to consider; not to regard; to disregard

ဘဲ

be — Without; not doing; negative adverbial particle

မည်သည့်

myi thi — Whatever; whichever; any kind of

အရာ

a.ya — Thing; matter; object; something

မဆို

ma.zo — Whatever; regardless of; any (with negative)

တိကျမှန်ကန်မှု

ti kya hman kan hmu — Accuracy; precision; correctness and exactness

ရရှိ

ya shi — To obtain; to receive; to get or acquire

ကြိုးပမ်း

kyo pan — To strive; to make effort; to endeavor

ထို့ပြင်

hto pyin — Furthermore; in addition; moreover

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma.hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively

ယင်း

yin — That; those; referring to previously mentioned item

ကိုင်တွယ်

kine tway — To handle; to deal with; to manage something

နေသော

nay thaw — Which is living; which is situated; ongoing particle

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third-person pronoun

စစ်သူကြီး

sit thu kyi — Military commander; general; high-ranking officer

စစ်ပွဲ

sit pwe — War; battle; military conflict

မေ့ပျောက်

may pyauk — To forget; to lose memory of something

တသမတ်တည်း

ta.tha.mat tay — Consistently; uniformly; without variation throughout

နှိုးဆွ

hnoe hswa — To evoke; to stir up; to arouse memory or feeling

သင့်

thine — You; your; second-person pronoun (informal)

တစ်ထောင့်တစ်ညတာ

ta.htaung ta.nya ta — One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights

မူလ

mu la — Original; primary; fundamental; the source

ဇစ်မြစ်

zit myit — Origin; root; source of something

စာပေ

za.pay — Literature; written works; literary arts

သမိုင်း

tha.mine — History; historical record of events

ဘာသာပြန်သူ

ba.tha pyan thu — Translator; person who translates languages

အမြင်

a.myin — View; opinion; perspective; point of view

တတိယ

ta.ti ya — Third; the third in order

တွဲ

twe — Volume; pair; to attach; to combine together

အဆုံး

a.zone — End; ending; conclusion; the final part

ရှိသော

shi thaw — Which exists; which has; existential relative particle

သုံးသပ်ချက်

thone thut chet — Analysis; assessment; critical review or evaluation

အပြည့်အဝ

a.pyi a.wa — Fully; completely; in full; comprehensively

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw pya — To describe; to indicate; to present information

ထားသည်

htar thi — Has been placed; has been kept; retentive aspect

တွေ့နိုင်

tway nine — Can find; can encounter; able to meet

မည်

myi — Future tense marker; will; shall

နိဒါန်းစာ

ni.dan za — Introduction; preface; introductory text

က

ka — Subject marker particle; agent marker in sentence

ခဲ့သည်

khe thi — Did; past tense marker indicating completed action

နေရာ

nay ya — Place; location; position; spot

၌

hnit — In; at; within; formal locative particle

စာဖတ်သူ

za.phat thu — Reader; person who reads a text

ထံ

htan — To; toward a person; dative particle for people

တင်ပြ

tin pya — To present; to submit; to put forward formally

မှတ်ချက်

hmat chet — Comment; remark; annotation or note

အဓိက

a.di ka — Main; primary; most important; principal

ဆက်နွယ်

set nway — To relate; to connect; to be linked to

လုပ်ငန်း

lout ngan — Work; business; task; occupation or enterprise

သုံးပုံ

thone pone — Three parts; three portions or sections

တစ်ပုံ

ta.pone — One part; one portion or section

ပုံနှိပ်

pone hnit — To print; printing; typographic reproduction

ထုတ်ဝေ

htoat way — To publish; to distribute; to release publicly

ထားစဉ်

htar zin — While keeping; during the period of; at the time

နောင်

naung — Future; later; afterward; in the future

ကာလ

ka.la — Period; time; era; duration of time

အထိ

a.hti — Until; up to; as far as; extent marker

မိမ်

mein — Oneself; self; reflexive pronoun (variant form)

ထား

htar — To keep; to place; to put; retentive aspect marker

ဆိုပါက

zo pa ka — If one says; supposing that; conditional phrase

ဖြစ်နိုင်

hpyit nine — Possible; can be; able to happen

မည့်

myi — Future relative particle; that will; which will be

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle

အားနည်းချက်

ar nay chet — Weakness; shortcoming; point of inadequacy

ပို

po — More; even more; comparative degree adverb

မလွဲမသွေ

ma.lwe ma.thway — Inevitably; without fail; certainly; definitely

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to become; to occur; copular verb

ပေသည်။

pay thi — Evidential sentence-final particle; it seems; indeed

တိုးတက်မှု

toe tet hmu — Progress; advancement; improvement over time

အတွင်း

a.twin — Within; inside; during a period of time

ဘာသာပြန်ချက်

ba.tha pyan chet — Translation; a translated version of a text

ထိပ်

htet — Top; peak; apex; the highest point

သင့်တော်

thine taw — Appropriate; suitable; fitting; proper

အတိုင်း

a.tine — According to; in accordance with; as it is

ဆွေးနွေး

hsway nway — To discuss; to deliberate; to hold a discussion

အကြောင်းအရာ

a.kyaung a.ya — Topic; subject matter; content of discussion

များစွာ

myar swa — Many; a great deal; a large number of

ပိုမို

po mo — More; increasingly; to a greater degree

ရှင်းလင်း

shin lin — Clear; clarify; to explain clearly and plainly

ပြည့်စုံ

pyi zone — Complete; comprehensive; fully equipped or thorough

ဖော်ဆောင်

hpaw hsaung — To promote; to carry out; to bring about

နိုင်မည်

nine myi — Will be able to; future ability marker

ထင်

htin — To think; to appear; to seem; to believe

ပြီး၊

pyi — After; having done; completion particle with comma

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto kyaung — Therefore; for that reason; consequently

ပထမ

pa.hta ma — First; the first; primary in order

သို့

thoe — To; toward; in the direction of; dative particle

ရှေ့ဆက်

shay set — To proceed; to continue forward; to move ahead

ထည့်

hte — To add; to put in; to include something

ရည်ရွယ်

yi ywet — To intend; to aim; to have a purpose

ပူးတွဲ

pu twe — Attached; annexed; joined together with

ထည့်သွင်း

hte thwin — To incorporate; to insert; to include within

ခြင်း

khin — Nominalizer suffix turning verb into noun form

ကောင်း

kaung — Good; well; nice; positive quality

ထင်မြင်

htin myin — Opinion; view; to think and perceive something