White nights, and other stories — Page 6

Vocabulary

နှင်းကဲ့သို့

hnin: keh. tho. — like snow; resembling snow in appearance

ဖြူသော

phyu thaw — white; pale in color

နူးညံ့သိမ်မွေ့သည့်

nu nyanh thein mweh thnih — gentle and delicate; soft and refined in manner

လက်ချောင်းများသည်

leh chaung: mya: thih — (her/his) fingers; referring to slender fingers

မှန်ပြောင်းကို

hman pyaung: go — the mirror; glass object used for reflection

တို့ခဲ့ပြီးနောက်

to. kheh pri: nauk — after touching; following the act of touching

တံခါး

tan kha: — door; entrance or exit panel of a room

တစ်ပေါက်

tit pauk — one opening; a single hole or gap

ဖွင့်လိုက်သည်

phwing lait thih — opened; to open something with a motion

ချောမောလှပသော

chaw maw hla ba thaw — beautiful and attractive; charming in appearance

မိန်းကလေး

main ga lay: — girl; young female person

တစ်ဦး

tit u: — one person; a single individual

၏

eh — possessive particle; indicating belonging or association

ခေါင်းသည်

khaung: thih — the head; upper part of the body

အပြင်သို့

a pyin thoh — toward outside; in the direction of the exterior

ထိုးထွက်လာကာ

hto: thwet la ga — jutted out and came; protruded outward suddenly

ပန်းအိုးများ

pan: o: mya: — flower pots; containers used for holding flowers

သယ်ဆောင်သော

theh saung thaw — carrying; transporting something from one place

လမ်းပေါ်ရောင်းချသူ

lan paw yaung: cha thu — street vendor; person selling goods on the street

ထံ

htan — to; toward a person or destination

ခေါ်ဆိုနေသည်ကို

khaw so neh thih go — calling out; in the act of summoning someone

တွေ့သည်

tweh thih — found; encountered or discovered something

ချက်ချင်းပင်

chet chin bin — immediately; right away without any delay

ထို

hto — that; demonstrative pronoun referring to something

ပန်းများကို

pan: mya: go — the flowers; referring to multiple flowers (object)

ပိတ်ဆိုင်သော

peit saing thaw — closed; shut and not open for business

မြို့တွင်းနေရာတွင်

myoh twin neh ya twin — in an urban location; within the city area

ပန်းများ

pan: mya: — flowers; plural of flower

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; conjunction linking words or phrases

နွေဦးရာသီကို

nweh u: ya thi go — spring season; the early warm season (object)

ခံစားရန်

khan sa: yan — to experience; to feel or enjoy something

အတွက်သာ

a twet tha — only for; solely for the purpose of

ဝယ်ယူနေခြင်း

weh yu neh chin: — the act of buying; purchasing something ongoing

မဟုတ်ဘဲ

ma hout beh — not only; but rather; negating a prior idea

မကြာမီပင်

ma kya mi bin — very soon; before long; in the near future

၎င်းတို့

di gi do. — they; those people; third person plural pronoun

အားလုံး

a: lone: — all; everyone; the entirety of something

နေရပ်ဒေသသို့

neh yat deh tha thoh — to their home region; toward one's native place

ပြောင်းရွှေ့ကာ

pyaung: shweh ga — having moved; relocating and then doing something

ပါ

pa — also; too; polite particle or inclusive marker

ယူသွားနိုင်ရန်

yu thwa nain yan — in order to be able to take away

ဖြစ်သည်ဟု

phyit thih hoo — that it is so; reported or believed to be

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya noup — I; me; formal first-person singular pronoun

ထင်မှတ်မိသွားလေသည်

htin hmat mi thwa leh thih — came to realize; suddenly thought or concluded something

ထိုမျှ

hto mya — not only that; just that much is not all

သာမက

tha ma ket — not only; besides; in addition to that

ထူးဆန်းသော

htu: san: thaw — unusual; strange; remarkable or peculiar in nature

စုံစမ်းရှာဖွေမှု

son: san: sha: phweh mu — investigation; inquiry or search for information

အသစ်တွင်

a thit twin — in the new (context); within something new

ကျွန်ုပ်သည်

kya noup thih — I (subject); formal first-person subject marker

တစ်ဦးစီ

tit u: si — each person; one by one; individually

အမူအရာ

a mu a ya — gesture; behavior; manner or expression of a person

မှ

hma — from; by; source or origin particle

တစ်ဆင့်သာ

tit hsin tha — only through; by just one step or means

နေထိုင်သည့်

neh htaing thih — residing; living in a particular place

နွေရာသီ

nweh ya thi — summer season; the hot season of the year

ဗီလာကို

vi la go — the villa; a large residential house (object)

မှန်ကန်စွာ

hman kan zwa — correctly; accurately; in a proper manner

ခွဲခြားသိရှိနိုင်လောက်အောင်

khweh cha thi shi nain lauk aung — enough to be able to distinguish and recognize

တိုးတက်မှုများကို

to: tet mu mya: go — the progress; improvements or advancements (object)

ရရှိခဲ့လေသည်

ya shi kheh leh thih — had obtained; managed to receive or achieve

ကျွန်းများ

kyun: mya: — islands; plural of island

သို့မဟုတ်

thoh ma hout — or; otherwise; alternative conjunction

လမ်းမှ

lan hma — from the road; along the street

နေထိုင်သူများသည်

neh htaing thu mya: thih — the residents; those who live in a place

ဂရုတစိုက်

ga yu ta sait — carefully; attentively; with great care and attention

ကျင့်သုံးသော

kyint thone: thaw — practicing; applying or exercising a custom

ယဉ်ကျေးသိမ်မွေ့မှု

yin kyeh thein mweh mu — refinement; cultural sophistication and elegant manner

ခေတ်မီသော

khet mi thaw — modern; up-to-date; contemporary in style

နွေဦးဝတ်စုံများ

nweh u: wut son mya: — spring outfits; clothing worn during spring season

မြို့သို့

myoh thoh — to the city; toward the town

မောင်းနှင်သွားသည့်

maung hnin thwa thih — drove away; traveled by vehicle to somewhere

ထည်ဝါသော

the wa thaw — magnificent; grand and impressive in appearance

ရထားများ

ya hta: mya: — carriages; trains or horse-drawn vehicles

ဖြင့်

phyin — with; by means of; instrumental particle

ထင်ရှားကြသည်

htin sha: kya thih — were prominent; stood out or were well known

ပို

po — more; to a greater degree or extent

၍

yway — therefore; and so; connective particle showing result

ဝေးသော

weh thaw — far; distant; remote in location

နေရာများသို့

neh ya mya: thoh — to various places; toward multiple locations

သွားလည်သူများသည်

thwa leh thu mya: thih — those who go to visit; travelers or excursionists

ကျိုးကြောင်းဆီလျော်

kyo kyaung: si lyaw — reasonable; logical and appropriate in reasoning

ပြီး

pri: — finished; after; completion particle

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာရှိသော

gon thikka shi thaw — dignified; having honor and respectability

ပထမ

pa hta ma — first; the initial one in order

တစ်ချက်

tit chet — once; one glance or one moment

ကြည့်ရုံ

kyi youn — just by looking; merely glancing at something

နှင့်ပင်

hnin bin — even with; just by; emphatic conjunction

မိတ်ဆက်

meit hset — introduction; presenting oneself or someone to another

ဝင်ရောက်လာသည်

win yauk la thih — came in; entered and arrived at a place

ကျွန်းသို့

kyun: thoh — to the island; toward an island destination

ပျော်ပွဲစား

pyaw pweh sa: — reveler; one who goes out to have fun

လာသူကို

la thu go — the one who came; person who arrived (object)

ထိန်မနိုင်သိမ်မရ

htein ma nain thein ma ya — uncontrollable; unable to contain or restrain oneself

ဖြစ်သည့်

phyit thih — which is; that is; relative clause connector

ရွှင်လန်းမှု

shwin lan mu — joy; cheerfulness; feeling of happiness and delight

ကြည့်ရှုပုံ

kyi shu pon — the way of looking; manner of observing something

သိမှတ်နိုင်သည်

thi hmat nain thih — can recognize; able to identify and acknowledge