Won from the Waves — Page 2

Vocabulary

တစ်ခုသော

tit khu thaw — a certain one; a particular (thing)

သင်္ဘောတစ်စီး

thin-baw tit si: — one ship or vessel

၏

e — possessive or attributive particle (of, 's)

တမျိုးကို

ta myou: go — a certain type or kind (object marker)

တွေ့မြင်နိုင်သည်

twè myint naing thì — can see or observe something

မဟုတ်ဘဲ

ma-hout bè — not being; rather than; instead of

သင်္ဘောဆိုင်ရာ

thin-baw hsaing ya — relating to or concerning ships or vessels

ဆန်သော

hsàn thaw — resembling; having the character of something

တစ်ခုသည်

tit khu thì — one thing (subject marker attached)

ဒတ်ချ်

dat ch' — Dutch; relating to the Netherlands

လက်ရာများ

let ya mya: — works of craftsmanship; artistic pieces

ဖြင့်

hpyint — with; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

တည်ဆောက်ထားသည်

tì hsout hta: thì — has been built or constructed

အမှန်မှာ

a-hmàn hma — in truth; actually; in reality

ကြာကြာ

kya: kya: — for a long time; at length

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

tit kha tit yan — sometimes; occasionally; once in a while

၎င်းတို့

din do — they; those (plural third-person pronoun)

အန္တရာယ်ကြီးသော

an-ta-yè kyi: thaw — very dangerous; posing great risk or peril

ကမ်းရိုးတမ်း

kàn yo: tàn — coastline; coastal area or shoreline

သို့

thò — to; toward; in the direction of

တိုက်မိခဲ့သော

tite mi khè thaw — having struck or crashed into something

ကံမကောင်းသည့်

kàn ma-kaung: thì — unfortunate; unlucky; having bad fortune

သင်္ဘောများ

thin-baw mya: — ships; vessels (plural)

အများအပြား

a-mya: a-pya: — many; a large number; in great quantity

မှ

hmâ — from; out of (ablative/source particle)

တစ်ချို့

tit chó — some; certain ones; a few

အစိတ်အပိုင်းများကို

a-seit a-paing mya: go — the parts or components (object marker)

မိမိ

mi mi — oneself; one's own (reflexive pronoun)

ပိုင်ဆိုင်ရန်

paing hsaing yan — to own; to possess; to have ownership of

မအောင်မြင်ခဲ့သော

ma-aung myint khè thaw — having failed; unsuccessful in achieving something

ပိုင်ရှင်

paing shin — owner; proprietor; one who possesses something

ပေါင်း

paung: — combined total; together; added up

မှာ

hma — at; in; on (locative particle); topic marker

နည်းလှသည်

nè hlâ thì — is very few or very little in number

နှင့်

hnint — and; with; together with (conjunction/comitative)

မြစ်

myit — river; large flowing body of water

ကြားရှိ

kya: shi — situated between; existing in the middle of

မြေညီပြင်

myè nyi pyint — flat ground; level plain or flat land

ပေါ်တွင်

paw htwint — on top of; upon; on the surface of

အခြားသော

a-khya: thaw — other; another; different (adjective modifier)

အိမ်ငယ်

ain ngè — small house; cottage; little dwelling

နှစ်သုံးလုံး

hnit thoun: loun: — three (buildings/structures counted with loun:)

ရပ်တည်နေသည်

yat tì nè thì — is standing; remains upright or established

အကြီးဆုံး

a-kyi: zoun: — the largest; the biggest; the greatest

ဖြစ်သော

hpyit thaw — being; which is; that is (relative clause marker)

တစ်လုံး

tit loun: — one (building, structure, or round object)

သည်

thì — subject/topic marker particle; sentence copula

သင်္ဘောပျက်

thin-baw pyat — shipwreck; wrecked or ruined vessel

သစ်သားများ

thit tha: mya: — woods; timbers; pieces of wood (plural)

ဖြင့်သာ

hpyint tha — only with; solely by means of

ဟု

hu — quotative particle; that (as said/thought)

ထင်ရသည်

hting ya thì — it seems; appears to be; is thought to be

နံရံများ

nàn yan mya: — walls; the wall surfaces (plural)

မိုးမျှစ်

mo: myit — roof; the top covering of a building

တို့

do — plural particle for nouns or pronouns

မညီမညာသော

ma-nyi ma-nya thaw — uneven; irregular; not level or smooth

ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်

poun tha-dàn — shape; form; appearance; physical configuration

ဆင်ခြင်ရာ

hsint chint ya — consideration; reflection; something to ponder

ဗိသုကာ

bi-thu-ka — architect; one who designs buildings

ပညာရှင်

pyinya shin — expert; specialist; learned professional

လက်ဝင်သော

let win thaw — fitting; suitable; that fits into place

သစ်သားအတုံး

thit tha: a-toun: — block of wood; wooden chunk or piece

သင့်တော်သော

thint taw thaw — appropriate; suitable; fitting for the purpose

မပြောင်းလဲဘဲ

ma-pyaung lè bè — without changing; remaining unaltered or unchanged

ထည့်သုံးခဲ့သည်

htè thoun: khè thì — used; incorporated; put to use previously

သို့သော်

thò thaw — however; but; nevertheless; on the other hand

မီးခိုးပြွန်

mi: kho: pyun — chimney; flue for smoke from a fire

နံရံ

nàn yan — wall; side wall of a building

အောက်ပိုင်းများ

aut paing mya: — lower sections or lower parts (plural)

ကျောက်

kyout — stone; rock; mineral material

တည်ဆောက်ထားပြီး

tì hsout hta: pyi: — having already been built or constructed

၎င်း

din — it; that; the aforementioned (third-person pronoun)

လွန်ခဲ့သော

lwun khè thaw — past; ago; having elapsed (time reference)

နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာ

hnit paung: mya: zwa — many years; a great number of years

ကတည်းက

ga-tì ga — since; ever since a point in time

ဖျက်ဆီးပစ်ခဲ့သော

hpyat hsi: pyit khè thaw — having destroyed or demolished something entirely

ရှေးဟောင်း

shè: haung: — ancient; old; antique; from the distant past

အဆောက်အအုံ

a-hsout a-oun — building; structure; constructed edifice

တစ်ခု

tit khu — one thing; a single item or unit

ရှိသည်

shi thì — there is; exists; has; is present

လှေ

hlè — boat; small watercraft or vessel

ပါဝင်သော

pa win thaw — included; comprising; forming part of

အပြင်ပိုင်း

a-pyint paing: — outer part; exterior section; outside area

အနည်းငယ်

a-nè ngè — a little; a small amount; slightly

ကြမ်းတမ်းသော

kyàn tàn thaw — rough; harsh; rugged in nature or texture

ပုံ

poun — shape; form; image; picture

ပေါ်သော်လည်း

paw thaw lè — even though it appears; although it seems

စုစုပေါင်း

su su paung: — altogether; in total; all combined

ကြည့်လျှင်

kyi lhyin — if one looks; when viewed; upon seeing

ခိုင်ခန့်

khite khàn — sturdy; solid; strong and durable

ပြီး

pyi: — after; done; and then (sequential particle)

မနေမကောင်း

ma-nè ma-kaung: — cannot help but; compelled; inevitably must

မဆိုနိုင်သော

ma-hsò naing thaw — indescribable; cannot be said or expressed

ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်ကို

poun tha-dàn go — the shape or form (as object of verb)

ပေးနေသည်

pè nè thì — is giving; is providing; continues to give

ရှုခင်း

shu khìn: — scenery; landscape; a view or vista

ထဲတွင်

htè htwint — inside; within; in the interior of

အထင်ရှားဆုံးသော

a-hting sha: zoun: thaw — the most prominent or most notable thing

အရာ

a-ya — thing; object; matter; item

ထိပ်တွင်

htate htwint — at the top; at the peak or summit

တောင်ဘက်

taung bet — southern side; the south direction

ဆုတ်၍

hsout ywè — receding; pulling back; retreating and then

ရပ်တည်နေသော

yat tì nè thaw — standing; remaining upright or in position

လေသင်းကြိတ်စက်

lè thin kyite set — windmill; a mill powered by wind

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit thì — is; it is; to be (copula verb)

တဖြည်းဖြည်း

ta-hpyè hpyè — gradually; little by little; slowly over time

ဆုတ်ယွင်း

hsout ywin: — deteriorating; declining; falling into disrepair

အခြေအနေ

a-khyè a-nè — condition; situation; state of affairs

က

ga — subject marker particle; nominalizer

အတွင်းတွင်

a-twìn htwint — inside; within the interior of something

သီးနှံ

thi hnàn — crops; grain; agricultural produce

ပမာဏ

pa-ma-na — quantity; amount; measure of something

နည်းပါးလှ

nè pa: hlâ — very scarce; extremely small in quantity

ကြောင်း

kyaung: — that; the fact that (nominalizer/quotative particle)

ပြသနေသည်

pya thă nè thì — is showing; is demonstrating; is displaying

ယင်း

yin: — that; this; the said (formal demonstrative pronoun)

ပြီးခဲ့သော

pyi: khè thaw — past; just ended; that has already passed

ရာစုနှစ်

ya su hnit — century; a period of one hundred years

အဆုံး

a-hsoun: — end; conclusion; the final point

လောက်တွင်

lout htwint — around; approximately; at about the time of

ကျေးရွာငယ်

kyè ywa ngè — small village; a little rural settlement

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်

pat wun kyint — surroundings; environment; the area around something