Ulysses — Page 3

Vocabulary

အကြင်မကို

a-kyin ma ko — To one's wife; addressing or referring to wife

ပေါင်

paung — Thigh; leg; also a unit of weight

နှစ်ဆယ်

hnit hsay — Twenty; the number twenty

ထုတ်

htoat — To take out; to produce; to extract

ပေးစေ

pay say — Cause to give; make someone give something

နိုင်ရင်

naing yin — If able; if one can manage to do

လာ

la — To come; to arrive at a place

မလား

ma la: — Question particle implying doubt or negation

သူသည်

thu dhi — He/she is; subject marker for third person

ဘေး

bay: — Side; beside; danger; peril

ချကာ

hca ga — Having lowered; putting down and then

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw shwin — Happy; joyful; feeling delight and pleasure

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

ရယ်မော

yay maw — To laugh; to chuckle with amusement

လျက်

lyet — While doing; simultaneous action connective particle

အော်ဟစ်

aw hit — To shout; to cry out loudly

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional verb complement showing motion

သည်

dhi — Topic or subject marker; present tense particle

သူ

thu — He; she; third person singular pronoun

ငယ်ရွယ်

ngay yway — Young; youthful in age or appearance

သော

dthaw — Relative clause marker; that which; adjectival connector

ရပ်

yat — To stop; to stand still; to halt

လိုက်ကာ

lite ga — Following along; having followed and then continuing

သေချာ

thay cha — Certain; sure; definite; to be careful

မုတ်ဆိတ်

moat hsait — Beard; facial hair on chin and cheeks

ရိတ်ရန်

yeit yan — In order to shave; to shave or cut hair

စတင်

sa tin — To begin; to start doing something

လေသည်

lay dhi — Sentence final particle indicating mild assertion or habit

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; to say; to tell someone

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; please; also inclusive marker

က

ka — Subject or agent case marker particle

တိတ်ဆိတ်

teit hsait — Silent; quiet; still; free from noise

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

hoat keh — Yes; that is correct; affirmative response

ချစ်သူ

chit thu — Loved one; darling; sweetheart; beloved person

ရေ

yay — Water; also a familiar address particle

ဟိန်း

hain: — To make a loud noise; to thunder; roar

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun for near object

မျှော်စင်

hmyaw zin — Watchtower; lookout tower for observation

တွင်

dwin — In; at; within; locative case marker

မည်မျှ

myi hmya — How much; how many; to what extent

ကြာ

kja — Long time; duration; how long something takes

နေ

nay — To stay; to live; to be; sun

မည်

myi — Future tense marker; will; shall do something

နည်း

nyi: — Method; way; how; interrogative particle for manner

ဘတ်

bat — Baht; Thai currency unit; also bus (loanword)

၏

ei — Genitive possessive particle; of; belonging to

ညာဘက်

nya bet — Right side; the right-hand direction

ပခုံး

pa khoun: — Shoulder; the joint connecting arm to body

ပေါ်မှ

paw hma — From on top of; off from a surface

ရိတ်

yeit — To shave; to cut hair or grass

ထားသော

hta: dthaw — That which has been placed or kept

ပါး

pa: — Cheek; thin; also polite verb suffix

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of; instrumental case marker

လှည့်

hlyeh — To turn; to rotate; to face another direction

ကြည့်

kji — To look; to watch; to observe something

အိုး

o: — Oh!; exclamation of surprise or realization

ဟာ

ha — Colloquial emphasis particle; thing; that item

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kjout met phway — Terrifying; dreadful; causing fear and horror

မဟုတ်

ma hoat — Is not; negative copula; that is wrong

လား

la: — Question particle for yes/no questions

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning saying that; thus

ပွင့်လင်း

pwint lin: — Open; clear; transparent; frank in communication

ဝိုင်းဝန်း

wain: wan: — Surrounding; encircling; all around something

ထိုင်းမိုင်း

htain: main: — Hazy; gloomy; overcast; dim and murky atmosphere

ဆက်ဆင်

hset hsin — To connect; relate; associate with something

တစ်ယောက်

ta yout — One person; a single individual

သင်

thin — You; second person pronoun; also to learn

ထင်

htin — To think; to believe; to suppose something

နေသည်

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

ဒီ

di — This; here; colloquial demonstrative pronoun

သွေးသားရဲ

thway: tha: yay — Bold by blood; brave by nature; daring

အင်္ဂလိပ်

in-ga-leit — English; relating to England or English language

တွေ

tway — Plural marker; those; indicating multiple items

ငွေကြေး

ngway kjay: — Money; currency; finances; monetary funds

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with; connective particle

အစာမကြေ

a-za ma kjay — Indigestion; unable to digest food properly

ခြင်း

chin: — Nominalization suffix; the act of doing something

ပြည့်လျှံ

pyeh hlyam — Overflowing; full to excess; brimming over

နေကြ

nay kja — Are staying; plural present continuous verb form

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a-beh kjoun — Why; for what reason; on what account

ဆိုသော်

hso dthaw — If one says; as for saying; speaking of

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative case marker particle

ကြောင့်

kjoun — Because of; due to; causal marker particle

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit dhi — Is; exists; it is the case that

သိ

thi — To know; to understand; to be aware of

သင့်

thin — Your; belonging to you; second person possessive

စစ်မှန်

sit hmyan — Genuine; authentic; real; truly sincere

အမူအရာ

a-mu a-ya — Manner; gesture; behavior; body language expression

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; there is or are

ကို

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

နား

na: — Ear; to rest; to stop and listen

မလည်

ma lyi — Does not understand; unable to comprehend something

နိုင်

naing — Can; to be able to; to win or succeed

အို

o — Oh; O; vocative exclamation addressing someone

အတွက်

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

ကျွန်တော်

kja-naw — I; me; first person pronoun (male formal)

ပေး

pay: — To give; to offer something to someone

နာမည်

na-myi — Name; title by which someone is known

အကောင်းဆုံး

a-kaung: zone: — The best; most excellent; superlative of good

ဓားချပ်

da: chat — Razor blade; thin sharp cutting blade

မေးစေ့

may: zeh — Chin; the lower front of the face

ပေါ်တွင်

paw dwin — On top of; upon; on a surface

သတိကြီး

tha-di kji: — Very careful; highly attentive; extremely cautious

မည်းမောင်း

myi: maung: — Dark and gloomy; overcast; murky atmosphere

ကျားသစ်

kja: thit — Leopard; a large spotted wild cat

အကြောင်း

a-kjoun: — Reason; matter; topic; about; concerning something

တညတာ

ta nya ta — Throughout one night; all night long

လုံး

loun: — Whole; entire; round; all of something

ရူးသွပ်

yu: thwat — Crazy; mad; insane; mentally unbalanced person

သေနတ်

thay nat — Gun; firearm; rifle; weapon that fires bullets

သေတ္တာ

Box; chest; case; container for storing things

ဘယ်မှာ

beh hma — Where; at what place; in which location

ကြောက်ရွံ့

kjout ywun — To fear; to be afraid; feeling fright

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker; did; went away and did

သလား

tha la: — Question particle asking whether something is so

ကြောက်

kjout — To fear; to be scared; afraid of something

စွမ်းအင်

swan: in — Energy; power; capability; force and strength

တိုးပွား

to: pwa: — To increase; to grow; to multiply in number

လာသော

la dthaw — That which came; coming; who has arrived

ကြောက်ရွံ့မှု

kjout ywun hmu — Fear; fright; the state of being afraid

ဒီမှာ

di hma — Here; at this place; right here

အမှောင်

a-hmoun — Darkness; the state of being dark

ထဲတွင်

hteh dwin — Inside; within; in the interior of something

မသိ

ma thi — Does not know; unaware; ignorant of something

အတူ

a-tu — Together; at the same time; jointly with others

ပစ်သတ်

pyit thet — To shoot dead; to kill by shooting

ပြောကာ

pyaw ga — Having said; after speaking; saying and then

ညည်းညူ

nyi: nyu — To moan; to groan; to complain repeatedly

လူများ

lu mya: — Many people; a crowd; people in general

နစ်မြုပ်

nit myoat — To sink; to be submerged; to drown

ကယ်တင်

keh tin — To rescue; to save; to deliver from danger

သို့သော်

thoe dthaw — However; but; nevertheless; despite that fact

သူရဲကောင်း

thu yay kaung: — Hero; brave person; courageous individual

ဒီနေရာ

di nay ya — This place; here; this location or spot

ဆက်

hset — To continue; to connect; to carry on doing

ပါက

pa ka — If; conditional particle; supposing that it happens

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet khwa — To depart; to leave; to go away from

ရိတ်သော

yeit dthaw — That which shaves or cuts; the shaving one

ဓား

da: — Knife; blade; sword; cutting instrument

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw shi — Existing on top of; located upon a surface

အမြှုပ်

a-hmyoat — Bubble; froth; foam; small air-filled sphere

မျက်နှာကြီး

myet hna kji: — Big face; audacious; shameless; brazen expression

ခြုပ်ကာ

hchoat ga — Having covered or wrapped; enclosing and then

ထိုင်ရာ

htain ya — Seat; place to sit; sitting position

ခုန်ဆင်းကာ

khoun hsin: ga — Having jumped down; leaping down and then continuing

ဘောင်းဘီ

baung bi — Trousers; pants; lower body garment with legs

အိတ်

eit — Bag; pocket; sack; container for carrying things

များ

mya: — Many; much; plural marker; more than one

အလျင်အမြန်

a-lyin a-myan — Quickly; speedily; in a hurried manner

ရှာဖွေ

sha phway — To search; to look for; to seek out

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing

ထူသော

htu: dthaw — That which is thick; dense or fat in nature

သံ

than — Sound; voice; tone; also iron or steel