Treasure Island — Page 3

Vocabulary

လှည်းနှင့်

hhlany hnin — with a cart or carriage

လာသော

la thaw — that came; arriving

လူက

lu ka — the person (subject marker)

ရှေ့နေ့

shay nay — the day before; previous day

မနက်တွင်

ma-naet twinn — in the morning

သည်

thi — topic/subject marker particle

သူ့ကို

thu. ko — to him; him (object marker)

တွင်

twinn — in; at; inside (locative particle)

ချထားခဲ့ကြောင်း

chya htaa khay kyaung — reportedly placed or put down

သူသည်

thu thi — he; she (subject with topic marker)

ကမ်းရိုးတန်း

kaan yoe taan — coastline; shore area

တလျှောက်

ta-hlout — along; throughout a stretch

ဧည့်ခံဆောင်

ain khan saung — reception hall; guesthouse building

များ

myaa — plural marker; many

ဘယ်မှာ

beh hma — where; at what place

ရှိသလဲဟု

shi tha-leh ho — asking where something is located

မေးမြန်း

mey myann — to inquire; to ask questions

ခဲ့ကြောင်း

khay kyaung — reportedly did; evidential past marker

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya-naw toe — we; us (formal first person plural)

၏

e — possessive particle: of; belonging to

ကို

ko — object marker particle: to; towards

ကောင်းစွာ

kaung zwa — well; in a good manner

ပြောဆို

pyaw so — to speak; to say; to converse

သည်ဟု

thi ho — reportedly is; quotative marker

ကြားရ

kyaa ya — to hear; to get to hear

ပြီး

pyi — after; done; completing an action

သီးခြား

thi kyaa — separate; distinct; apart from others

ငြိမ်သက်

nyein thut — peaceful; calm; tranquil

သောနေရာဟု

thaw nay ya ho — reportedly a place that is (adjective)

ဖော်ပြ

pfaw pya — to describe; to indicate; to show

ထားသည့်

htaa thi — which has been placed; kept

အတွက်

a-twet — for; for the sake of

အခြားသော

a-khaa thaw — other; another; different

ထဲမှ

hteh hma — from within; out of

ဤနေရာ

i nay ya — this place; here

မိမိ

mi-mi — oneself; one's own (reflexive pronoun)

နေထိုင်ရာ

nay htine ya — place of residence; where one lives

အဖြစ်

a-pfyin — as; in the capacity of

ရွေးချယ်

yway chyay — to choose; to select

ပြောကြား

pyaw kyaa — to tell; to inform; to state

ခဲ့သည်

khay thi — past tense marker: did; has done

ထိုသည်ပင်

hto thi pinn — that very thing; exactly that

ဧည့်သည်

ain thi — guest; visitor

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — about; regarding; reason; cause

သိနိုင်

thi nine — able to know; can find out

သမျှ

tha-myha — all; everything; as much as

အားလုံး

aa lone — everyone; all; the whole

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyin thi — is; to be; to exist

လေ့ကျင့်

leh kyinn — to practice; to train; to exercise

ထုံးစံ

htone san — custom; habit; tradition

အားဖြင့်

aa pfyin — by means of; in terms of

အလွန်

a-lwun — very; extremely; excessively

တိတ်ဆိတ်

tait sait — quiet; silent; still

သောလူ

thaw lu — a person who; someone who (does something)

တစ်နေ့တာ

ta-nay da — the whole day; all day long

လုံး

lone — whole; entire; all of

ကြေးဝါ

kyay wa — brass; bronze (metal)

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; together with

ကမ်းချိုင့်

kaan kyine — cove; inlet; coastal hollow

တဝိုက်

ta-wite — around; surrounding; in the vicinity

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma-hote — or; otherwise; alternatively

ကျောက်တောင်

kyout taung — rocky hill; cliff; rocky mountain

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twinn — on top of; upon; on

လှည့်လည်

hhlyan lyan — to wander; to roam around

နေသည်

nay thi — lives; stays; is (present continuous)

ညနေ

nya nay — evening; late afternoon

တစ်ခါတည်း

ta-kha-deh — at once; at the same time

မီးဖို

mee pfo — fireplace; hearth; stove

နားရှိ

naa shi — near; beside; next to

ဧည့်ခန်း

ain khan — living room; parlour; sitting room

ထောင့်တွင်

htaung twinn — in the corner; at the corner

ထိုင်ကာ

htine kaa — sitting; while seated

ရေကို

yay ko — water (object marker)

ပြင်းစွာ

pyinn zwa — strongly; intensely; vigorously

သောက်

thout — to drink

အများ

a-myaa — many; a lot; majority

သည့်အခါ

thi a-khaa — when; at the time that

သူ

thu — he; she; that person

မပြောချင်ဘဲ

ma-pyaw chinn beh — not wanting to speak; without saying anything

ရုတ်တရက်

yote ta-yet — suddenly; abruptly; all at once

ကြမ်းတမ်းစွာ

kyaan taan zwa — rudely; harshly; in a rough manner

မျက်နှာ

myet hna — face; facial expression

ထောင်ကာ

htaung kaa — raising up; while lifting upward

တိမ်ငုံး

tein ngonn — overcast; covered with clouds

မှုတ်

hmote — to blow (as wind or breath)

ကဲ့သို့

keh thoe — like; as; similar to

နှာခေါင်း

hna khone — nose

မှ

hma — from; out of (ablative particle)

ဖုံးမှုတ်

pfone hmote — to cover; to wrap over; to obscure

လိုက်တတ်

lite tat — tends to follow; is prone to do

အိမ်သို့

ain thoe — towards home; going home

သူများ

thu myaa — other people; they; those people

မကြာမီ

ma-kyaa mee — soon; before long; shortly

ထားခဲ့

htaa khay — left behind; kept; placed previously

တတ်ကြောင်း

tat kyaung — reportedly knows how to; can do

သင်ယူ

thinn yu — to learn; to study; to acquire knowledge

ခဲ့ကြ

khay kya — past tense plural: they did (together)

နေ့တိုင်း

nay tine — every day; daily

လမ်းလျှောက်

laan hlout — to walk; to take a walk

ပြန်လာ

pyan la — to come back; to return

သောအခါ

thaw a-khaa — when; at the time of doing something

လမ်း

laan — road; path; way

သင်္ဘောသား

thin-baw thaa — sailor; seaman; ship crew member

ဖြတ်သွား

pfyat thwaa — to pass by; to cut across

ခဲ့သလားဟု

khay tha-laa ho — asking whether something happened previously

မေးလေ့

mey leh — habitually asks; tends to inquire

ရှိသည်

shi thi — there is; exists; has

အစပိုင်း

a-sa pine — at first; in the beginning; initially

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့က

kya-naw toe ka — we (subject marker); from our side

သူ၏

thu e — his; her; belonging to him/her

မျိုးတူ

myoe tu — same kind; of similar type

ပေါင်းသင်း

paung thinn — to associate; to socialize; to mix with

ချင်သော

chinn thaw — wanting to; desiring to (modifier)

ဆန္ဒကြောင့်

san-da kyaung — because of desire; due to wanting

ထို

hto — that; those (demonstrative)

မေးခွန်း

mey khwann — question; inquiry

မေး

mey — to ask; to question

ထင်ခဲ့

htinn khay — thought; believed previously

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — however; but; although; nevertheless

နောက်ဆုံး

nout zone — finally; last; at the end

ထိုသူများ

hto thu myaa — those people; they (referring to specific people)

ရှောင်ရှား

shaung shaa — to avoid; to evade; to steer clear of

ချင်သည်ဟု

chinn thi ho — reportedly wanting to; desire (quotative)

မြင်လာ

myinn la — to come to see; to begin to perceive

ကြသည်

kya thi — plural present marker: they do (together)