The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Page 1

Vocabulary

ဆိုင်ကလုန်း

saing-ka-loun: — A violent rotating windstorm; cyclone or tornado

သည်

thi — Topic marker particle; also 'this' or present tense marker

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present

ကျယ်ပြန့်

kjɛ-pjaN — Wide, broad, or expansive in area

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; 'which' or 'that'

သဲကန္တာရ

thɛ-kan-ta-ya — Desert; vast dry sandy wasteland region

လယ်ကွင်း

lɛ-gwin: — Open farmland; flat agricultural plain or field

များ

mya: — Plural marker; many or more than one

၏

i — Possessive or genitive particle; 'of' or 's

အလယ်

a-lɛ — Middle; center of something

တည့်တည့်

tɛ-tɛ — Directly; straight; right in the middle

တွင်

twìn — In; inside; within a place or time

လယ်သမား

lɛ-tha-ma: — Farmer; person who works agricultural land

တစ်ဦး

tit-u: — One person; a single individual (classifier)

ဖြစ်သော

hpjit-thaw — Who is; being; that which is (relative)

ဦးလေး

u:-le: — Uncle; father's or mother's brother

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction)

ဇနီး

za-ni: — Wife; a man's female spouse

အဒေါ်

a-daw — Aunt; an older female relative (respectful)

တို့

to — Plural pronoun marker; 'we' or 'they' group

အတူ

a-tu — Together; jointly; at the same place

နေထိုင်

ne-htaing — To live; to reside; to dwell somewhere

ခဲ့

khɛ — Past tense marker; indicates completed past action

သူတို့

thu-to — They; them; third person plural pronoun

အိမ်

ain — House; home; place of residence

သေးငယ်

thɛ-ŋɛ — Small; tiny; of little size

လှ

hla — Beautiful; pretty; attractive in appearance

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kjàuN-hma — The reason is; because of; due to

ဆောက်

hsauk — To build; to construct a structure

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of (infinitive marker)

သစ်သား

thit-tha: — Wood; timber used for construction

ကို

ko — Object marker; 'to' or 'for' (accusative particle)

လှည်း

hlɛ: — Cart; wagon pulled by animal

ဖြင့်

hpjin — By means of; with; using (instrumental particle)

မိုင်

maing — Mile; unit of distance measurement

ပေါင်း

pauN: — Adding together; combined total amount

များစွာ

mya:-zwa — Many; a great number or quantity

သယ်ဆောင်

thɛ-hsauN — To carry; to transport; to convey something

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker

ရ

ya — To obtain; can; to be able to

ကြောင့်

kjàuN — Because of; due to; owing to (causal)

ဖြစ်

hpjit — To be; to become; to occur

နံရံ

nan-yan — Wall; interior or exterior vertical surface

လေးဖက်

lɛ:-hpɛk — Four sides; all four directions around something

ကြမ်းပြင်

kjàN-pjìn — Floor; ground surface of a room

အမိုး

a-mo: — Roof; top covering of a building

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing; a single item (general classifier)

အခန်း

a-khaN: — Room; enclosed space within a building

သာ

tha — Only; merely; just; exclusive particle

ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေ

hpjit-pau-ne — Is occurring; is happening; currently existing

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun (distal)

ထဲ

htɛ — Inside; within; into a space

သံချေး

thaN-che: — Rust; iron oxide corrosion on metal

တက်

tɛk — To go up; to rise; to ascend

နေ

ne — To stay; to live; ongoing action marker

မီးဖို

mi:-hpo — Stove; fireplace; cooking hearth

တစ်လုံး

tit-louN: — One (round object classifier); one piece

ပန်းကန်

pan-gaN — Plate; dish used for serving food

သိမ်း

theim: — To keep; to store; to put away

ဗီဒို

bi-do — Cupboard; cabinet for storing items

စားပွဲ

sa:-bwɛ — Table; furniture surface for eating or working

ကုလားထိုင်

ka-la:-htaing — Chair; seat with back support for sitting

သုံး

thoun: — Three; also 'to use' depending on context

လေး

lɛ: — Four; also endearment particle or 'dear'

လုံး

louN: — Classifier for round objects; whole; entire

အိပ်ရာ

ait-ya — Bed; sleeping place or mattress

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To include; to be part of; to contain

ထောင့်

htauN — Corner; angle of a room or shape

ကြီးမား

kji:-ma: — Large; great; enormous in size

ပြီး

pji: — After; finished; completion marker or 'and then'

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle or future marker

အခြား

a-khja: — Other; another; different; remaining

အထက်ထပ်ဆောင်

a-htɛk-htat-hsauN — Upper floor; attic or upper story of building

လည်း

lɛ: — Also; too; as well (additive particle)

မရှိ

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

မြေအောက်ခန်း

mjɛ-auk-khaN: — Basement; underground room below ground level

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However; but; nevertheless (contrastive conjunction)

မြေပေါ်

mjɛ-pau — On the ground; above the earth surface

တူးဖော်

tu:-hpaw — To dig out; to excavate the ground

ထားသော

hta:-thaw — That which has been placed or kept

တွင်း

twìN: — Hole; pit; cavity dug in ground

၎င်း

di-ga-noun (ngar-gone) — It; that; aforementioned thing (formal pronoun)

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker; 'saying that'; thus called

ခေါ်

khaw — To call; to name; to summon someone

မည်သည့်

mji-dhi — Whichever; any; no matter which

အဆောက်အအုံ

a-hsauk-a-uN — Building; structure; constructed edifice

မဆို

ma-hso — Whatever; any (with မည်သည့် = whichever)

ဖြိုဖျက်

hpjo-hpjɛk — To destroy; to demolish; to tear down

နိုင်

naing — To be able to; can; to win

လောက်

lauk — Enough; about; approximately; sufficient degree

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kjàuk-mɛk-hpwɛ — Terrifying; dreadful; causing great fear

ကောင်း

kauN: — Good; fine; nice; well

သည့်

dhi — Relative clause marker (present/near); 'which is'

လေဆင်နှာမောင်း

lɛ-sin-hna-mauN: — Tornado; funnel-shaped violent rotating wind column

ပေါ်ပေါက်

pau-pauk — To appear; to emerge; to come into existence

ပါက

pa-ka — If; in the case that (conditional particle)

မိသားစု

mi-tha:-zu — Family; household members related by blood

သို့

thoe — To; toward; in the direction of

ဝင်ရောက်

win-yauk — To enter; to go inside; to access

ခိုလှုံ

kho-hluN — To take shelter; to seek refuge; to hide

မျက်နှာကျက်

mjɛk-hna-kjɛk — Ceiling; upper interior surface of a room

တံခါး

datkhà: — Door; gate; entryway to a building

တစ်ပေါက်

tit-pauk — One opening; one hole or passageway

မှ

hma — From; out of; since (source or origin marker)

လှေကား

hlɛ-ka: — Staircase; steps for going up or down

တစ်စီး

tit-si: — One vehicle or conveyance (classifier for vehicles)

မှောင်မိုက်

hmauN-maik — Dark; gloomy; lacking light

ဆင်း

hsiN: — To descend; to go down; to come down

သွား

thwa: — To go; to leave; directional away from speaker

တံခါးဝ

datkhà:-wa — Doorway; entrance threshold of a door

ရပ်ကာ

yat-ka — Stopping; standing still; halting briefly

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်

pat-waN:-kjìn — Surroundings; environment; area around something

ကြည့်

kji — To look; to watch; to observe

အခါ

a-kha — When; at the time of; occasion

ဘက်

bɛk — Side; direction; toward a certain side

မီးခိုးရောင်

mi:-kho-yauN — Gray; smoke-colored; ashen in color

မြင်

mjìn — To see; to perceive visually

ဦးတည်ရာ

u:-tji-ya — Destination; direction headed toward; goal

မိုး

mo: — Rain; sky; also used for cloudy weather

ကောင်းကင်

kauN:-gìn — Sky; the open air above the earth

တစ်ဖက်

tit-hpɛk — One side; one direction; on the other side

အထိ

a-hti — Until; up to; as far as

ဆက်သွယ်

hsɛk-thwɛ — To connect; to communicate; to link together

ပြန့်ပြော

pjaN-pjaw — Spread out; wide and expansive; sprawling

ချောပြန့်

chaw-pjaN — Smooth and flat; level and even surface

ပြည်

pji — Country; land; nation; also 'full'

သစ်ပင်

thit-pin — Tree; a woody plant with trunk and branches

တစ်ပင်

tit-pin — One tree; a single plant (classifier for plants)

မျှ

hmja — Only; even; as much as; equally

သော်

thaw — Although; but; even though (concessive marker)

လည်းကောင်း

lɛ:-kauN: — Also good; correlative particle 'both...and'

သော်လည်းကောင်း

thaw-lɛ:-kauN: — Even though; although; whether or not (concessive)

ဖြတ်တောက်

hpjat-tauk — To cut through; to chop off; to sever

ခြင်း

khjiN: — Nominalization suffix; turns verb into noun form

ရောင်ခြည်

yauN-chji — Ray of light; beam of light; radiance

ထွန်တုံး

htwaN-touN: — Plow; farming tool for turning soil

မြေ

mjɛ — Earth; ground; soil; land

လုပ်ပြောင်း

lout-pyauN: — To transform; to change; to convert something

ကာ

ka — Gerund connector; while doing; having done

တစ်လျှောက်

tit-hljàuk — Along; throughout; the whole length of

ကွဲကြောင်း

kwɛ-kjàuN: — A crack; a split line; a fissure

ငယ်လေး

ŋɛ-lɛ: — Little one; small dear (affectionate diminutive)