Won from the Waves — Page 1

Vocabulary

။

(ပုဒ်မ) — Burmese full stop punctuation mark

ညစ်မှုန်သော

nyit-hmun-dho — murky, dingy, or gloomy in appearance

ညနေခင်း

nya-nay-khin — late afternoon or early evening time

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — one thing; a single item or instance

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit-shi — is; to be; exists as something

တံငါသည်

tan-nga-dhi — fisherman; person who fishes for livelihood

အုပ်စုငယ်

out-su-ngay — small group of people or things

တစ်ဖွဲ့

tit-phwè — a group; one cluster or band

သည်

dhi — topic marker particle; also means 'is'

ရေထဲသို့

yay-dè-dho — into the water; toward water

ထုတ်ၫွှတ်

htoat-hnwut — to extend or protrude outward

ထားသည့်

hta-dhi — that has been placed or left

ကြမ်းတမ်းသော

kyan-dan-dho — rough, harsh, or rugged in nature

သစ်သား

thit-tha — wood; timber used for construction

ဆိပ်ကမ်းတံတား

hsaik-kan tan-ta — harbor pier; dock extending over water

၏

(အပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု) — possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'

အဆုံး

a-hsone — end; conclusion; the final point

တွင်

dwin — in; at; within a place or time

မြစ်ငယ်

myit-ngay — small river; a minor waterway

တစ်စင်း

tit-sin — one long or linear object, e.g., river

ပါးစပ်ဝ

pa-zap-wa — mouth of a river; estuary opening

တောင်ဘက်ခြမ်း

taung-bek-chyan — southern side; the south-facing area

ကို

ko — object marker particle; toward, to

ဖွဲ့စည်း

phwè-si — to form or organize a group

ရင်း

yin — while doing; from; originating from

ရပ်တည်

yat-tè — to stand; to be positioned upright

နေကြ

nay-kya — living; staying; plural subject particle

ဖြတ်ကာ

hpyat-ka — cutting across; passing through something

တိုက်ခတ်

taik-hkat — to blow against; to strike or hit

ဝင်လာသော

win-la-dho — coming in; entering from outside

ထူသော

htu-dho — thick; dense; not thin or sparse

မြူ

myu — fog; mist; haze in the air

မိုးကောင်းကင်

mo-kaung-kyin — sky; the expanse above the earth

ဖုံးကွယ်

phon-kway — to cover; to hide or conceal something

ကာ

ka — covering; while; sequential action particle

ကမ်းခြေ

kan-chay — beach; shoreline; edge of the sea

မှ

hma — from; since; ablative case marker

အနည်းငယ်ရာ

a-nyi-ngay-ya — only a few; a small number away

ကျော်ကျော်

kyaw-kyaw — just beyond; slightly past a distance

အကွာ

a-kwa — distance; gap; space between two points

မည်သည့်

myi-dhi — whichever; any; whatever thing or person

အရာ

a-ya — thing; object; matter or affair

မျှ

hmya — even; at all; to the extent of

မမြင်နိုင်

ma-myin-nain — cannot see; unable to perceive visually

အောင်

aung — so as to; in order to achieve

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-loat — to do; to make; to perform an action

ခဲ့

khè — past tense marker; did; has done

၊

(ဒဝဲ) — Burmese comma; list separator punctuation

ထို

hto — that; those; referring to something distant

ပေါ်သို့

pau-dho — onto; toward the surface of something

မကြာမကြာ

ma-kya-ma-kya — frequently; often; happening repeatedly

ပြင်းထန်သော

pyin-htan-dho — severe; intense; powerful in force

မုန်တိုင်း

mon-tain — storm; severe weather with strong winds

နီးကြောင်း

ni-kyaung — indicating approach; signaling that something nears

သတိပေး

thadi-pay — to warn; to give caution or alert

တတ်သော

tat-dho — accustomed to; tending to; often does

စိတ်မကောင်းသည့်

sait-ma-kaung-dhi — sorrowful; sad; expressing unhappy feelings

အသံ

a-thun — sound; voice; noise made by something

ဖြင့်

hpyin — with; by means of; using something

မှောင်မိုက်သော

hmaung-maik-dho — dark; gloomy; lacking light or brightness

ခဲရောင်

khè-yaung — grey color; the color of lead

လှိုင်းများ

hlain-mya — waves; multiple waves of water

ပျင်းရိသော

pyin-yi-dho — sluggish; lazy; moving slowly without energy

ကမ်း

kan — shore; bank; edge of water

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; conjunction connecting two things

ဝင်ကြိုးကန်

win-kyo-kan — to struggle against; to push or contend

မြစ်

myit — river; a large flowing body of water

မြောက်ဘက်ခြမ်း

myauk-bek-chyan — northern side; area facing north

သဲနေသော

thè-nay-dho — sandy; covered with sand

မြေကြီး

myay-ji — earth; ground; land surface

ကျယ်ပြန့်သော

kyay-pyan-dho — wide; broad; expansive in area

ဧရိယာ

ay-yi-ya — area; region; measured expanse of space

ရှိပြီး

shi-pi — there is; exists and furthermore

နေရာ

nay-ya — place; location; spot or position

၌

hnait — at; in; locative case marker particle

တိုတုတ်

to-toot — short and stubby; compact in size

နေသော

nay-dho — that is living; existing or staying

ချုံပင်

chon-pin — shrub; bush; low woody plant

များ

mya — plural marker; many; more than one

မြက်ပင်

myat-pin — grass; a type of grass plant

အပြား

a-pya — flat layer; flat piece or surface

အကြား

a-kya — between; among; in the middle of

ညိုဝါသော

nyo-wa-dho — brownish-yellow; dull yellowish-brown color

ပေါ့ပါးသော

pau-pa-dho — light; not heavy; lightweight in feel

အစိမ်းရောင်

a-sein-yaung — green color; the color green

ရွက်

ywet — leaf; leaves of a plant

ပါရှိသည့်

pa-shi-dhi — that contains or includes; possessing something

အပင်

a-pin — plant; a living botanical organism

ပေါက်ရောက်

pauk-yauk — to grow; to thrive in a place

အမြစ်

a-myit — root; the underground part of a plant

၎င်းတို့

de-do — they; those; referring to previously mentioned things

တိုက်ခတ်သော

taik-hkat-dho — that beats against; striking or blowing

ဆောင်းရာသီ

hsaung-ya-dhi — winter season; cold time of year

ကြောင့်

kyaung — because of; due to; owing to

သဲ

thè — sand; fine granular coastal or desert material

ပျံသွား

pyan-thwa — to fly away; to disperse into air

ခြင်း

chin — nominalizer suffix; the act of doing

တားဆီး

ta-hsi — to block; to prevent or obstruct something

ရာ

ya — place; context; nominalizing particle suffix

အထောက်အပံ့

a-htoat-a-pan — support; assistance; backing for something

ဖြစ်

hpyit — to be; to become; to occur

ပင်လယ်

pin-lay — sea; ocean; large body of saltwater

ဘက်သို့

bek-dho — toward; in the direction of something

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi-shu — to look at; to observe or view

စဉ်

sin — while; during; in the course of

သူတို့

thu-do — they; them; third person plural pronoun

လက်ျာဘက်

let-ya-bek — right side; the right-hand direction

အဆက်ဆက်

a-hset-hset — continuously; repeatedly; one after another

ရှိသော

shi-dho — that exists; which is present or there

ပြန့်ပြဲသော

pyan-pyè-dho — sprawling; spread out widely over area

ကျော်ကာ

kyaw-ka — going beyond; passing over or past

ရွှံ့

shwun — mud; soft wet earth or silt

ဖွဲ့စည်းသော

phwè-si-dho — that forms or constitutes something

မြင့်မားသော

myin-ma-dho — tall; high; elevated in height

ကျောက်ဆောင်

kyauk-hsaung — rock formation; large boulder or rocky outcrop

တန်း

tan — row; line; tier or level

တောင်ဘက်

taung-bek — southern direction; toward the south

သို့

dho — to; toward; directional particle

ဝေးဝေး

way-way — far away; at a great distance

ဆီ

hsi — toward; in the direction of something

ဆက်သွယ်

hset-thway — to connect; to communicate or link together

နေပြီး

nay-pi — being; living; existing and furthermore

အောက်ခြေ

auk-chay — bottom; base; the lowest part of

ကျဉ်းမြောင်းသော

kyin-myaung-dho — narrow; slim; not wide in extent

ထောင်မတ်ကနဲ

htaung-mat-ga-nè — abruptly vertical; rising steeply and suddenly

တက်လာ

tet-la — to come up; to rise upward

အပြိုင်

a-pyaing — parallel; side by side; competing alongside

ကမ်းနဖူး

kan-na-hpu — cliff face; the vertical face of a bank

၎င်း

de — it; that; referring to previously mentioned item

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit-hpek — both sides; two sides of something

တဲအိမ်ငယ်

tè-ain-ngay — small hut; tiny dwelling or cottage

များစွာ

mya-zwa — many; a great number of things

တည်ရှိ

ti-shi — to exist; to be located somewhere

ထားသော

hta-dho — that has been placed or stored

ပစ္စည်း

pyit-si — item; equipment; material or supplies

က

ka — subject marker particle; from; by

ဆားငန်

hsa-ngan — salty; saline; containing salt

ထဲ

htè — inside; within; into something

အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကြောင်း

a-thek-mway-wun-kyaung — livelihood; occupation; means of earning a living

ပြုသော

pyu-dho — that does; which performs or makes

ရင်ရဲတင်းမာသော

yin-yè-tin-ma-dho — bold; brave; courageous and resolute

လူ

lu — person; human being; people

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

hpyit-kyaung — that it is; indicating or stating a fact

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw-pya — to show; to indicate or describe something

နေသည်

nay-dhi — is living; currently staying or existing

ဝန်းရံ

wun-yan — to surround; to encircle or enclose

တိုင်ခြင်း

tain-chin — measuring; the act of measuring something

သိုလှောင်ရုံ

tho-hlaung-yone — warehouse; storage building for goods

နှင့်တောင်

hnin-taung — even; even with; including even something

အလှဆင်

a-hla-hsin — to decorate; to adorn with ornamentation

အလှဆင်ပစ္စည်း

a-hla-hsin-pyit-si — decorative item; ornament used for adornment

သဘောနစ်မြုပ်

tha-baw-nit-myoat — shipwreck; a sunken or stranded vessel

သည့်

dhi — relative clause marker; which; that does

သင်္ဘော

thin-baw — ship; large sea-going vessel or boat

အစိတ်အပိုင်း

a-sait-a-paing — part; portion; component of a whole

ထင်ရှားစွာ

htin-sha-zwa — clearly; evidently; noticeably visible or apparent

မြင်တွေ့နိုင်

myin-tway-nain — can see; able to perceive visually