The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Page 8

Vocabulary

အာရပ်

a-rap — Arab; relating to Arab people or culture

လူမျိုး

lu-myò — ethnic group, race, nationality

တို့

tò — we, us; plural marker for pronouns

၏

i — possessive or linking particle (formal)

ကျင့်

kyaɪɴ — to practice, exercise, or observe a habit

ဝတ်

wut — to wear clothing; to dress oneself

နှင့်

hnɪɴ — and, with; conjunction connecting nouns

ဓလေ့

da-lɛ — custom, tradition, habitual practice

ထုံး

tʰóʊɴ — custom, convention, established practice

တမ်း

tàɴ — tradition, longing; used in compounds for custom

များ

myà — many, plural marker; more, a lot

သူ

θù — he, she, they; third-person pronoun

ရင်း

yɪɴ — source, origin; while doing (particle)

နှီး

hnì — familiar with, accustomed to, intimate

မှု

hmù — matter, affair, case; nominalizing suffix

သည်

θɪ̀ — topic marker or present-tense verb particle

သူ့

θù — his, her, their; possessive of third person

အား

à — to, for; object marker or free time

အကြမ်း

a-kjàɴ — rough, coarse, violent; in general terms

ဆုံး

sʰóʊɴ — end, finish; to die; most (superlative marker)

သော

θɔ — relative clause marker (that, which, who)

အမှား

a-hmà — mistake, error, fault

အယွင်း

a-jwɪɴ — error, flaw, defect, imperfection

မှ

hma — from, since; ablative case marker

အမြဲ

a-mjɛ — always, constantly, forever

ကာ

kà — while, as; protective particle or shield

ကွယ်

kwɛ — to disappear, vanish; behind, hidden

ပေး

pé — to give, to provide something to someone

ရန်

yaɴ — in order to, for the purpose of; enemy

မ

ma — negative prefix; not, no (negation marker)

လုံ

lóʊɴ — to be safe, secure; whole (in compounds)

လောက်

laʊʔ — about, approximately; enough, sufficient

ခဲ့

khɛ — past tense marker; to have done previously

ဘဲ

bɛ — without doing; negative adverbial particle

ဘာသာ

bà-θà — language, religion, subject of study

ပြန်

pjàɴ — to return, to translate; back, again

ချက်

tɕɛʔ — point, item, cooking; immediately (in compounds)

_စတိုင်_

sa-taɪɴ — style, fashion (loanword from English)

ဖြင့်

phjɪɴ — by means of, with, using (instrumental particle)

တစ်ခု

tɪʔ-kʰù — one thing, one item, a single unit

လုံး

lóʊɴ — whole, entire, all; round shape classifier

ကို

ko — object marker; to, towards (accusative particle)

မှန်

hmàɴ — correct, true, right; glass, mirror

ဇာတ်

zaʔ — story, play, drama; caste, origin

သွင်

θwɪɴ — to pour into, enter; feature, appearance

ပြင်

pjɪɴ — to fix, repair, prepare; outside, exterior

ဖော်

pʰɔ — to reveal, show, express, dig out

ညွှန်း

ɲʷʰàɴ — to refer to, indicate, point out, cite

ထား

tʰà — to place, put, keep; resultative particle

ပြီး

pjí — after, finished, already done; completion marker

မူ

mù — policy, principle; as for (contrast particle)

အလုပ်

a-louʔ — work, job, task, occupation

တွင်

twɪɴ — in, at, within (locative particle)

အဖိုး

a-pʰó — price, value, cost; grandfather

အထား

a-tʰà — arrangement, placement, manner of keeping

ဖြစ်

phjɪʔ — to be, to become, to happen

သည့်

θɪ̀ — relative clause particle (which, that, who)

အနောက်

a-naʊʔ — west; the back, behind

နိုင်ငံ

naɪɴ-ŋàɴ — country, nation, state

သာ

θà — only, just; particle of contrast or emphasis

မက

ma-ka — not only, in addition to, beyond

အရှေ့

a-ʃɛ — east; the front, ahead

ပါ

pà — also, too; polite sentence particle

အခြား

a-tɕʰà — other, another, different

မည်

mɪ̀ — future tense marker; will, shall

မျှ

hmja — only, merely, as much as, equally

ခွဲ

kʰwɛ — to divide, separate, split apart

ခြား

tɕʰà — different, distinct, separate from others

ထူး

tʰù — special, unique, extraordinary, different

ပတ်

paʔ — around, surrounding; week; to encircle

သက်

θɛʔ — life, age; to affect, concern, relate to

၍

ywe — therefore, so, because (connective particle)

ကြိုး

kjó — rope, cord, string; to try hard, strive

စား

sà — to eat; to consume

သေ

θè — to die; dead; intensifying particle (very)

စွာ

swà — adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

စွန့်

swʰùɴ — to abandon, give up, renounce

လွှတ်

lʷʰuʔ — to release, let go, set free

လိုက်

laɪʔ — to follow, go along; directional verb particle

ရ

ya — to get, obtain; can, able to (possibility)

ဟု

hu — quotative particle meaning said that, called

ဆို

sʰo — to say, mean, call; quotative verb

လို

lo — to want, need; like, similar to

သဘော

θa-bɔ — meaning, idea, concept, intention, understanding

သဘာဝ

θa-ba-wɔ — nature, natural state, natural character

ကြောင့်

tɕaʊɴ — because of, due to, owing to (causal particle)

လှည့်

lɛɴ — to turn, rotate, spin; to deceive

ဖျား

pʰjà — tip, end, edge; to be sick with fever

ခံ

kʰàɴ — to endure, suffer, bear, receive, undergo

ပါရှား

pà-ʃà — Persia, Persian; relating to Iran or Persia

တူရကီ

tu-ya-ki — Turkey; relating to the country Turkey

အိန္ဒိယ

ɪɴ-dɪ-ja — India; relating to the country India

ရှိ

ʃɪ̀ — to have, exist, be present, there is

ခရီး

kʰa-yí — journey, trip, travel, distance

အာရေဗျ

a-yè-bja — Arabia; Arabian Peninsula region

နိဒါန်း

nɪ-dàɴ — introduction, preface, prologue of a text

ထို

tʰo — that, those; demonstrative pronoun (distal)

ဌာနေ

tʰa-nè — local, native, indigenous to a place

သား

θà — son, child; softening or affectionate particle

တိကျ

tɪ-tɕa — exact, precise, accurate, specific

မကြာ

ma-tɕà — soon, not long, before long

ခဏ

kʰa-na — a moment, a short while, briefly

ထင်

tʰɪɴ — to think, believe, assume, seem

မြင်

mjɪɴ — to see, perceive, observe visually

လေ့

lɛ — to be accustomed to, tend to; to study

ကြ

tɕa — plural verb particle; to do together

သို့

θo — to, towards, in the direction of

သော်

θɔ — although, however, but (concessive particle)

ဖတ်

pʰaʔ — to read text or written material

ရှု

ʃù — to look at, view, observe, perceive

နွှယ်

nʷɛ — related to, connected with, pertaining to

ဤ

ɪ — this (formal written demonstrative pronoun)

ယူ

ju — to take, carry, fetch, bring along

နိုင်

naɪɴ — can, able to, capable; to win, defeat

ပေ

pè — foot (unit of length); emphatic particle

၎င်း

da-gɪɴ — it, he, she, they; formal third-person pronoun

လူ

lu — person, human being, people

ဆင်

sʰɪɴ — elephant; to resemble; to decorate, arrange

အဆောက်

a-saʊʔ — building, structure, construction (in compounds)

အဦ

a-ù — beginning, start, initial stage

ဆုံ

sʰóʊɴ — to meet, converge, come together

မှာ

hmà — at, in, on; to order (food); locative particle

အထူး

a-tʰù — special, particular, especially, extraordinary

အီဂျစ်

i-jɪʔ — Egypt; relating to the country Egypt

ကွင်း

kwɪɴ — ring, hoop, open field, bracket

ဟုတ်

houʔ — yes, correct, true, right (confirmation)

တရုတ်

ta-youʔ — China, Chinese; relating to China

ချ

tɕʰa — to put down, lower, deposit; descend

အခါ

a-kʰà — time, occasion, when, moment

ပင်

pɪɴ — indeed, really, even; tree, plant

ဆောင်

saʊɴ — to carry, convey, perform, accomplish

အမှန်

a-hmàɴ — truth, fact, reality; truly, really

တရား

ta-yà — law, justice, dharma, doctrine, righteousness

ယုံ

jóʊɴ — to believe, trust, have faith in

ကြည်

tɕì — clear, transparent; to look at (formal)

ကိုင်

kaɪɴ — to hold, grasp, handle, manage

ရို

yo — to be respectful; simple, humble

နှစ်

hnɪʔ — year; two; to like, be fond of

အနည်း

a-nɪ — few, small amount, a little (in compounds)

ငယ်

ŋɛ — young, small, little; junior

နေ

nè — to live, stay, reside; sun; continuative particle

ထိုင်

tʰaɪɴ — to sit, be seated; Thailand (colloquial)

ဆက်

sɛʔ — to continue, connect, contact, link

ဆံ

sàɴ — hair (of head); to deal with, treat

စကား

sa-kà — words, speech, language, conversation

ပြော

pjɔ — to speak, say, talk, tell

ယေဘုယျ

jè-bu-ja — general, overall, in general terms

လာ

là — to come; directional particle (towards speaker)

အတိကျ

a-tɪ-tɕa — exactly, precisely, accurately, specifically

နာ

nà — to hurt, ache, feel pain; to listen

ကိုက်

kaɪʔ — to match, fit, bite; to be consistent with

ညီ

ɲì — equal, level; younger sibling

ပြည့်

pjɪ̀ — full, complete, sufficient, abundant

ဝ

wɔ — fat, round; to be full; zero (digit)

တန်း

tàɴ — grade, class, level, rank, row

တူ

tu — same, alike, similar, equal to

လူ့

lù — human, of people; possessive form of person

အဖွဲ့

a-pʰwɛ — group, organization, association, team

အစည်း

a-sɪ — meeting, organization; binding together

လက်

lɛʔ — hand, arm; current, present (in compounds)

က

ka — subject marker; from (ablative); because

လုပ်

louʔ — to do, make, perform, carry out

ငန်း

ŋàɴ — business, work, task, enterprise (in compounds)

ကန်

kàɴ — lake, pond; to kick; to refuse

ပြည်

pjì — country, land, nation; full (in compounds)

မီ

mì — to reach, arrive in time; to be in time

စေ

sè — to cause, make someone do; causative particle

အဓိက

a-dḭ-ka — main, principal, primary, most important

အရည်

a-yɪ̀ — liquid, fluid; quality, standard

အချင်း

a-tɕɪɴ — among each other, between; diameter

ကိုယ်

ko — body, self; oneself; first-person reflexive

တိုင်

taɪɴ — to report, complain; pole, pillar; until

ပိုင်

paɪɴ — to own, possess, belong to

ဆိုင်

saɪɴ — shop, store; to be related or relevant to

ကျွန်

tɕwàɴ — slave, servant; humble first-person (male)

တော်

tɔ — skilled, able; royal (honorific); forest