White nights, and other stories — Page 8

Vocabulary

လမ်းဖြတ်သန်းသွားလာသူ

lann hpyat thann thwa la thu — Passerby; person walking along or crossing a street

အားလုံးသည်

a loun thit — All; everyone; referring to the entire group

ကျွန်တော့်ကို

kyun daw hko — Me; first-person object pronoun, formal male speaker

အလွန်ရင်းနှီးသော

a lwan yin nhi thaw — Very familiar; extremely intimate or close with someone

မျက်နှာများဖြင့်

myat hna mya hpyin — With faces; using or showing various facial expressions

ကြည့်ကြသောကြောင့်

kyi kya thaw kyaung — Because they looked; due to their act of looking

သူတို့သည်

thu do thit — They; third-person plural subject pronoun

နှုတ်ဆက်နေသကဲ့သို့ပင်

hnout hset ne tha ke. thlo pin — As if greeting; appearing to be saying farewell warmly

ထင်ရပြီး

htin ya byi — Seemed; appeared to be; gave the impression of

သူတို့အားလုံးသည်

thu do a loun thit — All of them; every single one of that group

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာကို

ta soun ta ya ko — Something; some unspecified thing or matter

ကျေနပ်နေကြသည်ဟု

kye nat ne kya thit hku — That they are all satisfied; reportedly content with something

ထင်ရသည်

htin ya thit — It seems; appears to be; gives that impression

စီးကရပ်များ

si ka yat mya — Cigarettes; sticks of tobacco for smoking

သောက်နေကြပြီး

thout ne kya byi — Were drinking or smoking; ongoing act by a group

တစ်ယောက်ချင်းစီ

ta yout chin si — Each one; every individual person separately

အားလုံးပင်

a loun pin — All indeed; everyone without exception, emphasised

သောက်နေကြသည်

thout ne kya thit — They are drinking or smoking; ongoing group action

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kyun daw thit — I; first-person subject pronoun, formal male speaker

ယခင်က

ya kin ga — Previously; in the past; formerly before now

ဘယ်တော့မှ

beh daw hma — Never; at no time whatsoever, negative emphasis

ခံစားဖူးသည်ထက်

hkan sa hpu thit htet — More than ever experienced before; beyond previous feeling

ပို၍

po yway — More; to a greater degree or extent than before

ကျေနပ်မှုကို

kye nat hmu ko — Satisfaction; contentment; the feeling of being fulfilled

ခံစားရသည်

hkan sa ya thit — To feel; to experience a particular emotion or sensation

တစ်ချက်တည်း

ta chet twe — All at once; at one moment; suddenly and completely

အီတလီနိုင်ငံတွင်

i ta li naing ngan twin — In Italy; located within the country of Italy

ရောက်နေသကဲ့သို့

yout ne tha ke. thlo — As if having arrived; feeling as though one is there

မြို့တန်းနံရံများကြားတွင်

myo tan nan yan mya kya twin — Between city walls; amid the walls lining city streets

ဆုတ်ကပ်နေသည့်

hsout kat ne thit — Clinging close; pressing tightly against a surface or place

ကျွန်တော်ကဲ့သို့

kyun daw ke. thlo — Like me; in a manner similar to the speaker

ကျန်းမာရေး

kyan ma ye — Health; physical wellbeing and medical condition

သဘာဝ၏

tha ba wa e — Of nature; belonging to or characteristic of the natural world

သက်ရောက်မှုသည်

thet yout hmu thit — The impact or effect; influence exerted upon something

ထိုမျှ

hto mya — That much; to such a degree or extent

အားကောင်းသောကြောင့်ပင်

a kaung thaw kyaung pin — Precisely because it is so strong; due to its great power

သဘာဝတွင်

tha ba wa twin — Within nature; in the natural environment or world

နှုတ်ဖြင့်

hnout hpyin — By mouth; verbally; using spoken words to express

ဖော်ပြ၍မရသော

hpaw pya yway ma ya thaw — Indescribable; unable to be expressed or conveyed in words

ထိခိုက်နှိုးဆွဖွယ်ရာ

htet kite hnoe hswa hpway ya — Something that touches and stirs the heart deeply

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

ta soun ta ya — Something; some particular unspecified thing or element

ရှိသည်

shi thit — There is; exists; to be present or available

နွေဦးရာသီ

nwe u ya thi — Early spring season; the beginning of the spring period

ချဉ်းကပ်လာသောအခါ

chin kat la thaw a kha — When approaching; at the time of drawing near

သဘာဝသည်

tha ba wa thit — Nature; the natural world as subject of the sentence

မိမိ၏

mi mi e — Its own; one's own; possessive reflexive pronoun

အားအင်အားလုံး

a in a loun — All strength and energy; every bit of one's power

ကောင်းကင်ဘုံမှ

kaung kin boun hma — From the heavens; originating from the celestial realm above

ပေးအပ်သော

pay at thaw — Given; bestowed; granted from one source to another

စွမ်းအားအားလုံးကို

soan a a loun ko — All capability and power; every unit of granted ability

ထုတ်ဖော်ပြသလေ၏

htout hpaw pya tha le e — Reveals and displays; shows forth completely and openly

အရွက်များ

a ywet mya — Leaves; the foliage of plants and trees

ဖောင်းကြွလာပြီး

hpaung kywa la byi — Swelling and rising; becoming full and bursting outward

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi mi ko ko — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring back to the subject

ပန်းများဖြင့်

pan mya hpyin — With flowers; adorned or decorated using blossoms

တင့်တယ်အောင်

tin te aung — Becomingly; so as to look attractive and well-adorned

ဆင်ယင်ကာ

hsin yin ka — Adorning and decorating; dressing up beautifully with care

တောက်ပနေ၏

tout pa ne e — Is shining brilliantly; glowing with radiance and brightness

တစ်နည်းနည်းဖြင့်

ta ne ne hpyin — By some means or other; in some unspecified manner

ချောမွေ့ပြေလျာ့သော

chaw mwe pyay lyar thaw — Smooth and gentle; easy, graceful, and without roughness

ဆင်းရဲချောင်းဆိုးသော

hsin ye chaung so thaw — Poor and wretched; impoverished and in miserable condition

မိန်းကလေးတစ်ဦးကို

main ga lay ta u ko — A young girl; one female person as object of verb

သတိရမိမိနေမိသည်

tha ti ya mi mi ne mi thit — Found oneself remembering; recalled involuntarily without intention

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

ta kha ta yan — Occasionally; sometimes; once in a while

သနားညှာတာမှုဖြင့်

tha na nya ta hmu hpyin — With pity and compassion; showing sympathetic tenderness

ချစ်ခင်သနားမှုဖြင့်

chit kin tha na hmu hpyin — With affection and sympathy; feeling love and pity together

ကြည့်တတ်ပြီး

kyi tat byi — Habitually looked at; was accustomed to gazing upon

လုံးဝ

loun wa — Completely; entirely; absolutely; used for total negation

သတိမထားမိသော

tha ti ma hta mi thaw — Unnoticed; failed to pay attention to; overlooked entirely

မိန်းကလေး

main ga lay — Girl; young female; a woman or girl of young age

သို့သော်

thlo thaw — However; but; nevertheless; introduces a contrasting statement

ကြာမြင့်မြောက်မများ

kya myin myout ma mya — Not long; not many days; a short period of time

မရှိဘဲ

ma shi be — Without; lacking; in the absence of something

မမျှော်မှန်းသကဲ့သို့

ma hmyaw hman tha ke. thlo — Unexpectedly; as if not anticipated or foreseen at all

မဖော်ပြနိုင်အောင်

ma hpaw pya naing aung — Indescribably; beyond the ability to express in words

လှပပြီး

hla pa byi — Beautiful and then; having become lovely, and furthermore

နူးညံ့သိမ်မွေ့သောသူ

nu nyar thein mwe thaw thu — A gentle and delicate person; someone tender and refined

ဖြစ်လာကာ

hpyit la ka — Having become; after transforming into a new state

ထိုဝမ်းနည်းပူဆွေး၍

hto wun ne pu hswe yway — With that sadness and grief; feeling sorrow and distress

တွေးတောနေသောမျက်လုံးများကို

twe taw ne thaw myat loun mya ko — Those pensive eyes; the eyes full of deep thoughtful reflection

မြောက်မြားသော

myout mya thaw — Numerous; many; a great and abundant number of things

မီးရောင်ဖြင့်

mi yaung hpyin — With light; illuminated by or shining with radiant light

အဘယ်မည်သနည်းဟု

a beh myi tha ne hku — What could it be; asking what something is rhetorically

မေးမိမနေနိုင်

me mi ma ne naing — Cannot help but ask; compelled to wonder and question

ထိုဖျော့ဖျော့ဖျင်းဖျင်း

hto hpyaw hpyaw hpyin hpyin — That pale and limp quality; faint, weak, and wan appearance

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; along with; connective particle joining elements

ဖြူဖပ်ဖပ်

hpyu hpat hpat — Pale whitish; having a pallid, washed-out complexion

ပါးပြင်များသို့

pa jin mya thlo — Toward the cheeks; in the direction of the facial cheeks

သွေးကို

thwe ko — Blood; referring to blood as the object of a verb

အဘယ်နည်း

a beh ne — What is it; what could that be; a rhetorical question

ထိုနူးညံ့သော

hto nu nyar thaw — That gentle one; referring to that tender and soft quality

မျက်နှာဆင်ခြင်များကို

myat hna hsin chin mya ko — Those facial expressions; the various looks and countenances shown

စိတ်ကြွလှိုင်မှုဖြင့်

seit kywa hline hmu hpyin — With excitement and elation; feeling buoyant emotional uplift

ထိုရင်ဘတ်ကို

hto yin bat ko — That chest; the breast or heart area as object

ထိုဆင်းရဲသော

hto hsin ye thaw — That poor one; that impoverished or wretched particular person

မိန်းကလေး၏

main ga lay e — Of the girl; belonging to or pertaining to the young woman

မျက်နှာထဲသို့

myat hna hte thlo — Into the face; directed toward or entering into her face

အင်အား

in a — Strength; power; force; physical or vital energy

အသက်နှင့်

a thet hnin — With life; together with vitality and living energy

လှပမှုတို့ကို

hla pa hmu do ko — Beauty; the qualities of loveliness as object of verb

ခေါ်ဆောင်လာကာ

hkaw hsaung la ka — Having brought along; carrying and delivering to a destination

ပြုံးမောဖွယ်ဖြင့်

pyoun maw hpway hpyin — With something smile-inducing; in a manner that evokes smiles

တောက်ပစေပြီး

tout pa se byi — Having made it shine; causing brightness and then continuing

တောက်တောက်ပပ

tout tout pa pa — Brightly glowing; shining vividly and brilliantly throughout

လင်းလက်သောရယ်သံဖြင့်

lin let thaw ye than hpyin — With bright sparkling laughter; a clear and radiant laughing sound

သင်သည်

thin thit — You; second-person subject pronoun in a formal context

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ကို

pat wun kyin ko — The surroundings; the environment or area around one

ငေးကြည့်ကာ

nge kyi ka — Staring and gazing; looking fixedly at something for a while

တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်ကို

ta soun ta yout ko — Someone; a particular unspecified person as object

ရှာဖွေပြီး

sha hpwe byi — Having searched; after looking for and seeking something out

ခန့်မှန်းနေသည်

kan hman ne thit — Is estimating or guessing; making a conjecture about something