Ulysses — Page 7

Vocabulary

ငါ

nga — I, me (informal first-person pronoun)

အဲဒါကို

è-da-go — That thing (accusative); referring to that object

အိမ်သူငယ်ရဲ့

ein-thu-ngeh-yeh — Belonging to the housemaid or young servant

အခန်းထဲကနေ

a-khan-deh-ga-neh — From inside the room

ခိုးယူလိုက်တာ

kho-yu-lait-ta — Stole or took by theft

က

ga — Subject marker particle indicating the agent

ပြောသည်

pyaw-dhi — Says or speaks; third-person present tense

သူမအတွက်

thu-ma-a-tweh — For her; regarding or concerning her benefit

အဆင်ပြေပြေနဲ့

a-sin-pyeh-pyeh-neh — Conveniently, smoothly, without difficulty

ဖြစ်နေပါတယ်

phyit-neh-ba-deh — Is happening or existing (polite present continuous)

အရှေ့မမကြီးက

a-sheh-ma-ma-ji-ga — The older mistress of the house; lady employer

အတွက်

a-tweh — For, for the sake of, regarding

အမြဲတမ်း

a-myeh-dan — Always, at all times, invariably

ရုပ်ရည်မထူးချွန်တဲ့

yout-yeh-ma-htu-chun-deh — Not outstandingly attractive in appearance

အိမ်အကူတွေကိုပဲ

ein-a-ku-dwe-go-beh — Only the domestic helpers or housemaids

ထားလေ့ရှိတယ်

hta-leh-shi-deh — Has a habit of keeping or placing

သူ့ကို

thu-go — Him, to him (accusative pronoun)

သွေးဆောင်ခြင်းသို့

thweh-saung-jing-tho — Toward seduction or temptation

မဦးဆောင်နှင့်

ma-u-zaung-hnin — Do not lead or guide (negative imperative)

ပြီးတော့

pyi-daw — And then, after that, furthermore

သူမ၏

thu-ma-yeh — Her, belonging to her (possessive)

နာမည်ကတော့

na-meh-ga-daw — As for her name; speaking of the name

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-dhi — Is, exists, happens to be

တဖန်

ta-hpan — Again, once more, on the other hand

ရယ်မောနေရင်းနဲ့ပင်

yeh-maw-neh-yin-neh-bin — Even while laughing and smiling

သူသည်

thu-dhi — He, she; the subject of a sentence

မှန်ကို

hman-go — The mirror (accusative object marker)

၏

yeh — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'

ချောင်းကြည့်နေသော

chaung-kji-neh-dha — Peering or watching through stealthily

မျက်လုံးများမှ

myeh-lone-mya-hma — From the eyes; away from the eyes

ဖယ်ခွာယူလိုက်သည်

pheh-khwa-yu-lait-dhi — Removed and took away; pulled away

မှန်ထဲတွင်

hman-deh-dwin — Inside the mirror; within the mirror

မိမိ၏

mi-mi-yeh — One's own; self-possessive pronoun

မျက်နှာကို

myeh-hna-go — The face (accusative object marker)

မမြင်ရသောကြောင့်

ma-myin-ya-dha-jaung — Because (one) cannot see; due to inability to see

အမျက်ဒေါသ

a-myeh-daw-tha — Anger, wrath, rage, fury

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle meaning 'saying that'

သူ

thu — He, she, they (third-person pronoun)

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely (restrictive particle)

အသက်ရှင်နေ၍

a-theh-shin-neh-ywe — Because of being alive; while still living

သင့်ကို

thin-go — You (accusative); to you (polite)

မြင်နိုင်ခဲ့ပါလျှင်

myìn-naìng-kheh-ba-lyin — If (he/she) could have seen you

နောက်သို့

nauk-tho — Backward, toward the back, rearward

ဆုတ်ကာ

sout-ka — Stepping back, retreating, withdrawing

လက်ညှိုးထိုးရင်း

leh-hnyo-hto-yin — While pointing with the index finger

သည်

dhi — Sentence topic marker or present tense particle

နာကြည်းစွာ

na-ji-zwa — Painfully, with hurt feelings, resentfully

ပြောလိုက်သည်

pyaw-lait-dhi — Said, uttered, spoke (completed action)

၎င်းသည်

di-jin-dhi — It is; this/that is (formal demonstrative subject)

အိုင်းရစ်ရှ်

ain-yit-shi — Irish; relating to Ireland or its culture

အနုပညာ၏

a-nu-pyin-nya-yeh — Of art; belonging to the arts

သင်္ကေတ

thin-keh-ta — Symbol, sign, emblem, representation

တစ်ခုပင်ဖြစ်သည်

ta-khu-bin-phyit-dhi — Is indeed one thing; is exactly one

အိမ်အကူတစ်ယောက်၏

ein-a-ku-ta-yauk-yeh — Of one domestic servant; a maid's

အက်ကွဲနေသော

eh-kweh-neh-dha — Cracked, split, showing cracks on surface

မှန်ဘီလူး

hman-bi-lu — Hand mirror; a small looking glass

တစ်ခဏတာ

ta-kha-na-da — For a moment, temporarily, briefly

လက်မောင်းနှင့်

leh-maung-hnin — With the arm; along with the arm

လက်မောင်းကို

leh-maung-go — The arm (accusative); toward the arm

ချိတ်ကာ

chait-ka — Hooking, linking, connecting together

မျက်နှာသစ်ဓားနှင့်

myeh-hna-thit-da-hnin — With a razor; along with the shaving blade

မှန်တို့သည်

hman-doh-dhi — The mirrors (plural subject marker)

ထည့်သွင်းထားသော

hteh-thwin-hta-dha — Having been put in; placed inside

အိတ်ကပ်ထဲတွင်

eit-kah-deh-dwin — Inside the pocket; within the pocket

တဒုန်းဒုန်း

ta-done-done — Clattering, banging, making loud knocking noise

ထိကွေးမြည်နေသည်ဖြင့်

htit-kweh-myi-neh-dhi-phyin — By clinking and rattling together noisily

သူနှင့်အတူ

thu-hnin-a-tu — Together with him; alongside him

မျှော်စင်ကြီးကို

myaw-sin-ji-go — The large tower; toward the tall watchtower

ပတ်လည်

pat-leh — Around, surrounding, in a circle

လမ်းလျှောက်သည်

lan-shauk-dhi — Walks, strolls, moves on foot

ဒီလို

di-lo — Like this, in this way, thus

ဒုက္ခပေးတာ

doke-kha-peh-da — Causing trouble or suffering to someone

မတရားဘူး

ma-ta-ya-bu — Unfair, unjust, not right or proper

မဟုတ်လား

ma-hout-la — Isn't it? Right? Don't you agree?

ကြင်နာစွာ

kyin-na-zwa — Kindly, affectionately, with tenderness

ဘုရားသိသည်

pha-ya-thi-dhi — God knows; heaven knows (expression)

သင်သည်

thin-dhi — You are; you (formal subject with marker)

သူတို့

thu-doh — They, them (third-person plural pronoun)

ထဲက

deh-ga — From among, out of, from inside

မည်သူထက်မဆို

meh-thu-deh-ma-hso — More than anyone; compared to everyone else

စိတ်ဓာတ်ပိုမြင့်မားသည်ကို

seit-dat-po-myint-ma-dhi-go — That (one's) spirit is much higher and nobler

လှည့်ဖြားပြန်ပြီ

hleh-phya-pyan-pyi — Has deceived again; tricked once more

ငါသည်

nga-dhi — I am; I (informal subject with marker)

သူ၏

thu-yeh — His, hers; belonging to him or her

ဓားစဉ်ကို

da-sin-go — The blade or edge of a knife/razor

ကြောက်သကဲ့သို့ပင်

kjout-tha-keh-tho-bin — Just as if afraid; exactly as one fears

ငါ၏

nga-yeh — My, mine; belonging to me (informal)

ကြောက်ရွံ့သည်

kjout-ywun-dhi — Is afraid of, fears, dreads something

အအေးစိမ့်သော

a-eh-seint-dha — Cold and penetrating; chillingly cold

သံမဏိ

than-ma-ni — Steel, iron; made of hard metal

ဘောပင်

baw-bin — Ballpoint pen; writing instrument

အောက်ထပ်က

auk-htah-ga — From downstairs, from the lower floor

ကောင်ကို

kaung-go — The guy, the fellow (accusative, informal)

ပြောပြပြီး

pyaw-pya-pyi — After telling or explaining to someone

သူ့ဆီကနေ

thu-zi-ga-neh — From him; coming from his direction

တစ်ကြွေ

ta-kjweh — One coin; a single currency unit

ရအောင်

ya-aung — So as to get; in order to obtain

တောင်းပါ

taung-ba — Ask for, request, beg politely

ငွေကြေးနှင့်

ngweh-kjeh-hnin — With money; along with currency or funds

ပုပ်နံနေပြီး

pout-nan-neh-pyi — Already stinking or rotting; smelling bad

ဘယ်မှ

beh-hma — Nowhere; from nowhere at all

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာရှိသောသူ

goun-theik-kha-shi-dha-thu — A person of dignity, honor, and integrity

မဟုတ်ဟု

ma-hout-hu — Saying that it is not; denying something

ထင်နေသည်

htin-neh-dhi — Thinks, believes, is of the opinion

အဘိုးကြီးသည်

a-pho-ji-dhi — The old man; the elderly gentleman

တို့ထံ

doh-htan — To them, toward those people (dative)

ရောင်းခြင်း

yaung-jing — The act of selling; selling goods

သို့မဟုတ်

tho-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively

အခြားသော

a-khja-dha — Other, another, different, else

သွေးများသော

thweh-mya-dha — Bloody, involving much blood, gory

လိမ်ညာမှု

lein-nya-hmu — Deception, fraud, lying, dishonesty

တစ်ခုခုဖြင့်

ta-khu-khu-phyin — By means of something; with something

ငွေကြေးရှာဖွေခဲ့သည်

ngweh-kjeh-sha-phweh-kheh-dhi — Earned or searched for money previously

ဘုရားသေး

pha-ya-deh — Good heavens! My God! (mild exclamation)

သင်နှင့်

thin-hnin — With you; together with you

အတူတကွ

a-tu-ta-kwa — Together, jointly, in unison

လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်ခဲ့လျှင်

lout-saung-naing-kheh-lyin — If (we) could have accomplished or done

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည်

kja-nout-doh-dhi — We are; we (formal first-person plural)

ကျွန်းအတွက်

kjun-a-tweh — For the island; regarding the island

တစ်ခုခု

ta-khu-khu — Something, anything, some thing

ပြုလုပ်နိုင်ကောင်းသည်

pyu-lout-naing-kaung-dhi — Could probably do or accomplish something

ဂရိဓလေ့

ga-yi-da-leh — Greek customs or traditions; Hellenistic practice

ထည့်သွင်းပါ

hteh-thwin-ba — Please add or include; put it in

လက်မောင်း

leh-maung — Arm; the upper or lower arm

ဒီဝက်တွေဆီကနေ

di-weh-dwe-zi-ga-neh — From these pigs; away from these fellows

သင်တောင်းဆိုနေရသည်ကို

thin-taung-so-neh-ya-dhi-go — That you have to beg or request from them

တွေးကြည့်ပါ

tweh-kji-ba — Please think about it; consider and reflect

ဘာဆိုတာ

ba-so-da — What it means; what something is called

သိသောသူ

thi-dha-thu — A person who knows; one who understands

တစ်ဦးတည်းမှာ

ta-u-deh-hma — Only one person; solely at one individual

ငါသာဖြစ်သည်

nga-tha-phyit-dhi — It is only I; I alone am that one