White nights, and other stories — Page 1

Vocabulary

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; used to connect words.

တွင်ရှိသော

twinhshi thaw — That which exists or is located within.

အဖွဲ့တို့မှ

a-hpwe toe hma — From the group or organization; collective source.

ထုတ်လုပ်သည်

htout-loat thit — To produce, manufacture, or create something.

ဤဖိုင်ကို

i-hpaing go — This file; referring to the current document.

မှ

hma — From; indicating source or origin of something.

ကြည်ညိုဖွယ်

kyi-nyo-bwe — Worthy of admiration; inspiring respect and appreciation.

ရရှိနိုင်အောင်

ya-shi-naing-aung — So as to be able to obtain or access.

ပြုလုပ်ပေးသော

pyu-loat pay thaw — That which was done or made for someone.

ပုံများမှ

pone myar hma — From the images or pictures; source of visuals.

ထုတ်လုပ်ထားသည်

htout-loat htar thit — Has been produced or created; already manufactured.

ဖြူဖွေးသော

phyu-phwe thaw — White or pale; describing something of light color.

ညများနှင့်

nya myar hnin — Nights; referring to multiple nights with connector.

အခြားဝတ္ထုများ

a-hkhar wotthu myar — Other stories or novels; additional literary works.

၏

ei — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or belonging to.

ဝတ္ထုများ

wotthu myar — Novels or stories; works of fiction literature.

အတွဲ

a-twe — Volume or collection; a set grouped together.

ရေးသော

yay thaw — Written by; who wrote or authored something.

ရုရှားဘာသာမှ

yu-sha ba-tha hma — From the Russian language; translated from Russian.

ဘာသာပြန်သည်

ba-tha pyan thit — To translate; converting text between languages.

နယူးယောက်

nay-yout — New York; major American city name in Burmese.

ဗြိတိန်တွင်

byi-tain twin — In Britain; located within the United Kingdom.

ရိုက်နှိပ်သည်

yike-hnaik thit — To print; to press and produce printed material.

မာတိကာ

ma-ti-ka — Table of contents; index listing of topics.

ညများ

nya myar — Nights; plural form referring to multiple nights.

မြေအောက်မှ

mye-aut hma — From underground; below the earth's surface.

မှတ်စုများ

hmat-su myar — Notes or memos; written records for reference.

အပိုင်း

a-paing — Part or section; a division of a whole.

မြေအောက်

mye-aut — Underground; beneath the surface of the earth.

စိုစွတ်သော

so-swat thaw — Wet or damp; describing a moist condition.

နှင်းများနှင့်

hnin myar hnin — Snow or frost; referring to multiple snowflakes with connector.

ပတ်သက်၍

pat-thate yway — Concerning; related to; regarding a particular topic.

အားနည်းသော

a-nee thaw — Weak; lacking strength or power; feeble.

နှလုံးသား

hnalone-tha — Heart; the emotional center; one's inner feelings.

ခရစ်စမတ်

khayit-sa-mat — Christmas; the Christian holiday celebrated in December.

သစ်ပင်နှင့်

thit-pin hnin — Tree; referring to a tree with a connector.

မင်္ဂလာဆောင်တစ်ခု

min-gala-hsaung tit-khu — A wedding; one wedding ceremony celebration event.

သူရဲကောင်းလေး

thu-yay-kaung lay — Little hero; a small or young brave person.

ဦး

oo — Honorific title for a man; also means head.

အိပ်မက်မက်သူတစ်ဦး

aik-mat-mat thu tit-oo — A dreamer; one person who dreams frequently.

မှတ်တမ်းမှ

hmat-tan hma — From the record or account; from documentation.

စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားဖွယ်

seit-hloat-sha bwe — Exciting or thrilling; worthy of emotional excitement.

ဝတ္ထုတစ်ပုဒ်

wotthu tit-pout — One story or novel; a single literary work.

ပထမည

pa-hta-ma nya — The first night; the initial evening of events.

ထိုညသည်

hto nya thit — That night; referring to a specific night mentioned.

အံ့ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

an-bwe-kaung thaw — Wonderful; marvelous; worthy of amazement and wonder.

ညတစ်ညဖြစ်သည်

nya tit-nya phyit thit — It was one night; a single night it was.

ငါတို့

nga-to — We; us; first person plural pronoun informal.

ကြည်နူးဖွယ်သော

kyi-noo-bwe thaw — Touching or moving; causing pleasant emotional sensation.

စာဖတ်သူ

sa-hpat thu — Reader; a person who reads books or texts.

ငယ်ရွယ်ချိန်တွင်သာ

ngay-ywet-chein twin tha — Only during youth; exclusively in one's young time.

ဖြစ်နိုင်သည့်

phyit-naing thit — That which is possible; able to happen or occur.

ညမျိုးပင်

nya myou pin — Such a type of night; exactly that kind of night.

မိုးကောင်းကင်သည်

mo-kaung-kin thit — The sky; referring to the heavens above us.

ကြယ်များနှင့်

kyay myar hnin — Stars; referring to multiple stars with a connector.

ဝင်းပပြီး

win-pa pyee — Glittering and; sparkling brightly then continuing on.

အလင်းရောင်

a-lin-yaung — Light; illumination; the brightness from a light source.

တောက်ပသောကြောင့်

taut-pa thaw kyaung — Because of shining; due to bright glowing brilliance.

၎င်းကို

de-gin go — It; referring to something previously mentioned; that thing.

ကြည့်လျှင်

kyi hlin — If one looks at; upon gazing or observing.

စိတ်ဆိုးတတ်ပြီး

seit-so tat pyee — Tends to be irritable and; prone to anger.

မတည်မငြိမ်သောသူများ

ma-tay-ma-nyeim thaw thu myar — Restless people; those who are unsettled and unstable.

ထိုကဲ့သို့သော

hto keh-tho thaw — Such as that; of that kind or similar nature.

မိုးကောင်းကင်အောက်တွင်

mo-kaung-kin aut twin — Under the sky; beneath the heavens above us.

နေနိုင်ကြမည်လော

nay-naing kya meh law — Will they be able to live; can they exist?

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'that' or 'saying that'.

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi-mi ko go — Oneself; referring reflexively to one's own self.

မေးမိမည်မလွဲ

may-mi meh ma-lwe — Will inevitably ask oneself; cannot help but wonder.

ထိုမေးခွန်းသည်လည်း

hto may-khwin thit leh — That question also; referring to the aforementioned question.

လူငယ်ဆန်သော

lu-ngay-hsan thaw — Youthful; having a young or juvenile character quality.

မေးခွန်းတစ်ခုပင်ဖြစ်သည်

may-khwin tit-khu pin phyit thit — Is indeed one question; it is exactly that question.

အလွန်ပင်

a-lwan pin — Very indeed; extremely so; emphasizing a high degree.

မေးခွန်းဖြစ်သည်

may-khwin phyit thit — Is a question; it is a question or inquiry.

သို့သော်

tho-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; a contrastive connector word.

ဘုရားသခင်

phaya-tha-kin — God; the supreme divine being in religious context.

သင်၏နှလုံးသားထဲသို့

thin ei hnalone-tha hteh tho — Into your heart; directed within your emotional center.

ပို၍

More; to a greater degree or extent than before.

မကြာမကြာ

ma-kya-ma-kya — Often; frequently; happening repeatedly at short intervals.

ထည့်သွင်းပါစေသော

hteh-thwin pa-say thaw — May it place within; let it be inserted inside.

မတည်မငြိမ်ပြီး

ma-tay-ma-nyeim pyee — Restless and; being unsettled then additionally something else.

စိတ်ဆိုးတတ်သောသူများအကြောင်း

seit-so-tat thaw thu myar a-kyaung — About people who tend to be irritable.

ပြောရလျှင်

pyaw-ya hlin — If speaking about; when it comes to discussing.

ထိုနေ့တစ်နေ့လုံး

hto nay tit-nay lone — That whole day; throughout the entirety of that day.

ကျွန်ုပ်၏

kjya-nout ei — My; belonging to me; first person formal possessive.

စိတ်ဓာတ်အခြေအနေကို

seit-dat a-chay-a-nay go — The mental state or condition; one's psychological situation.

သတိရမိမည်မလွဲ

tha-ti-ya-mi meh ma-lwe — Will inevitably remember; cannot help but recall that.

နံနက်အစောပိုင်းမှစ၍

nan-nat a-so-paing hma-si yway — Starting from early morning; beginning in the early hours.

ကျွန်ုပ်သည်

kjya-nout thit — I; me; formal first person singular subject pronoun.

ထူးဆန်းသော

htoo-hsan thaw — Strange or unusual; out of the ordinary; peculiar.

စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျမှုတစ်ခုကြောင့်

seit-dat kja hmu tit-khu kyaung — Because of one episode of depression or low spirits.

ညှစ်ပြားနေခဲ့သည်

nhit-pya nay geh thit — Was being oppressed or squeezed; suffered under pressure.

တစ်ယောက်တည်းကျန်ရစ်ခဲ့ပြီး

tit-yout-teh kjan-yit geh pyee — Was left alone and; remained by oneself then.

လူတိုင်းသည်

lu-daing thit — Everyone; every person; all people without exception.

ကျွန်ုပ်ကို

kjya-nout go — Me; the object form of the formal first person.

စွန့်ပစ်ကာ

swun-pyit ka — Having abandoned; leaving behind and discarding someone.

ကျွန်ုပ်ထံမှ

kjya-nout htan hma — From me; away from my presence or location.

ထွက်ခွာသွားကြသည်ဟု

twet-khwa thwa kya thit hu — That they all left and departed; went away together.

ရုတ်တရက်

yout-ta-yet — Suddenly; all at once; without warning or preparation.

ထင်မိလာသည်

htin-mi la thit — Came to think; suddenly realized or felt something.

မဆိုသာ

ma-so-tha — Not to mention; let alone; needless to say.

လူတိုင်း

lu-daing — Everyone; all people; every single person.

ဆိုသည်မှာ

so-thit hma — As for what is meant; meaning; that is to say.

မည်သူများကို

meh-thu myar go — Which people; referring to what persons or individuals.

ဆိုလိုသည်ဟု

so-lo-thit hu — That it means; that one intends to say.

မည်သူမဆို

meh-thu ma-so — Anyone at all; whoever it may be; any person.

မေးခွင့်ရှိပေသည်

may-khwin shi pay thit — Has the right to ask; is permitted to inquire.