Won from the Waves — Page 3

Vocabulary

၎င်းသည်

di thu — it is; referring to something previously mentioned

အထူး

a htu — special; particularly; especially notable

ဆွဲဆောင်မှု

hswe hsaung hmu — attraction; appeal; the quality of drawing interest

ရှိသည်တော့

shi deh taw — there is however; does exist though

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma hkout pay — it is not; expressing negation with emphasis

တကယ်တော့

ta kyay taw — actually; in truth; in reality though

ထို

hto — that; those; demonstrative pronoun referring to something

အချိန်တွင်

a chain dwin — at the time; during that moment or period

မည်သည့်

ma yeh — whichever; whatever; any given thing or person

မြင်ကွင်း

myin gwin — scenery; landscape; visual scene or view

မျှ

hma — only; just; as much as; equality particle

အားသာချက်

a tha chyet — advantage; strong point; beneficial feature over others

ရှိသည်ဟု

shi deh hku — said to have; reportedly exists or is present

ထင်ရပေမည်

htin ya pay meh — it seems; it appears to be so

မထင်

ma htin — do not think; unexpectedly; without expectation

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — however; although; even so; conjunction of contrast

နေရောင်ခြည်က

nay yaung ji ga — the sunlight; referring to rays from the sun

အပြာရောင်

a pya yaung — blue color; the color blue

လှိုင်းထ

hline hta — waves rising; surging waves on water surface

နေသော

nay thaw — living; staying; being in a state or place

ရေများကို

yay myah go — the waters; referring to bodies of water

လင်းထိန်

lin htain — glittering; shining brilliantly; sparkling with light

စေပြီး

say pyi — causing; making something happen and then continuing

ဖြတ်သွားသော

phyat thwa thaw — passing through; crossing past a particular point

တိမ်တိုက်

tain daik — cloud mass; a cluster or bank of clouds

များ၏

myah yay — of the many; possessive particle for plural nouns

အရိပ်

a yait — shadow; shade; silhouette cast by an object

များဖြင့်

myah phyin — with many; by means of multiple things together

မြင်ကွင်းကို

myin gwin go — the scenery; object marker on landscape or view

မျိုးစုံ

myoh sone — various kinds; diverse; many different varieties together

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaung leh — change; transform; alter from one state to another

စေသော

say thaw — causing; making; that which causes something to happen

အခါ

a kha — time; occasion; when something occurs or happens

ပင်လယ်

pin leh — sea; ocean; large body of saltwater

ပန်းချီဆရာ

pan chi hsa ya — painter; artist who creates paintings or artwork

သည်

dhu — topic marker particle; also third-person pronoun

ပုံရိပ်လှ

pone yait hla — beautiful image; lovely picture or scenic reflection

သော

thaw — relative clause marker; that which; adjectival particle

တဲငယ်

teh ngeh — small hut; little cottage or simple dwelling

များ

myah — plural marker; many; multiple items or persons

၎င်းတို့၏

di doh yay — their; belonging to them; possessive of those mentioned

ကြံ့ခိုင်

kyan khaing — sturdy; strong; robust and resilient in character

နေထိုင်သူ

nay htaing thu — resident; inhabitant; one who lives in a place

တောကြမ်း

taw kyam — rough wilderness; rugged wild forest terrain

ကျောက်ဆောင်

kyout hsaung — rocky outcrop; large protruding rock formation

များနှင့်

myah hnin — with many; together with multiple things or people

ခွံ

khun — shell; husk; outer casing of an object

တောက်ပ

taut pa — bright; shining; luminous and radiant in appearance

အဝါရောင်

a wa yaung — yellow color; the color yellow

မြောင်းကမ်း

myaung kam — ditch bank; edge or bank of a channel

များကြားတွင်

myah kya dwin — among many; in between multiple things or places

မိမိ၏

mi mi yay — one's own; belonging to oneself; reflexive possessive

တံဆိပ်တုတ်

tan hseit tote — signpost; marker post or labeled stake in ground

အတွက်

a twet — for; for the sake of; concerning a purpose

ခေါင်းစဉ်

khaung zin — title; heading; subject or name of a work

များစွာကို

myah zwa go — many; a great number of things as object

တွေ့ရှိ

twe shi — find; discover; encounter something previously unknown

နိုင်ပေမည်

naing pay meh — should be able to; likely capable of doing

ကုန်းတွင်းပိုင်း

kone dwin pine — inland area; interior region away from the coast

ပိုဝေး

po way — farther away; more distant than something else

သည့်

dhi — relative clause particle; which; that modifies nouns

နေရာတွင်

nay ya dwin — in the place; at a particular location or spot

နယ်မြေ

neh myay — territory; region; area of land or jurisdiction

ပိုမို

po mo — more; increasingly; to a greater degree or extent

လှပ

hla pa — beautiful; pretty; pleasing to the eye

လာသည်

la deh — comes; to come; arrive at a place

တောင်ဘက်ရှိ

taung bet shi — located in the south; situated southward

မြင့်သော

myin thaw — tall; high; elevated in position or stature

မြေပေါ်တွင်

myay paw dwin — on the ground; upon the earth's surface

ချုံပင်

chon pin — bush; shrub; small woody plant in landscape

များကြားမှ

myah kya hma — from among many; emerging from between multiple things

ထထွက်

hta ttwet — rise up; come out; emerge from a position

သပ်ရပ်

thet yat — neat; tidy; well-ordered and clean in appearance

စတုရန်း

sa tu yan — square; rectangular shape with equal sides

မျှော်စင်

hmyaw zin — watchtower; lookout platform for observing surroundings

ရှိသော

shi thaw — that which exists; having; present in a place

ရပ်ကွက်

yat kwet — ward; neighborhood; small administrative residential area

ခရစ်ယာန်

kha yit yan — Christian; relating to the Christian faith or religion

ဘုရားကျောင်း

phaya kyaung — church; place of Christian worship and prayer

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; together with; conjunction linking nouns

ထက်ပင်

htet pin — even more than; surpassing a point of comparison

ပို

po — more; to a greater extent or degree

ဝေးသည့်

way dhi — that is far; distant; remote from a location

ဘုန်းကြီး

phone gyi — monk; Buddhist monk; a man of religious seniority

၏

yay — possessive particle; of; belonging to someone or something

နန်းတော်

nan daw — palace; royal residence of a king or ruler

၎င်း၏

di yay — its; of it; possessive referring to previously mentioned

ဥယျာဉ်မင်းကွင်း

u yin min gwin — deer park; parkland area where deer roam freely

အလယ်တွင်

a leh dwin — in the middle; at the center of something

တည်ရှိ

ti shi — situated; located; to exist in a particular place

ပြီး

pyi — finished; after; having completed an action already

ကျယ်ဝန်းသော

kyeh wan thaw — spacious; vast; wide and expansive in area

အိုင်

aing — lake; pond; small body of still water

စိမ်းလန်းသော

sein lan thaw — lush green; verdant; richly green in color

လယ်ကွင်း

leh gwin — paddy field; open agricultural rice-growing land

ကျယ်ပြန့်

kyeh pyan — wide; broad; spreading out over a large area

စွာ

zwa — adverbial suffix; in a manner; -ly in English

ကိုင်းငုတ်

kaing ngout — leaning; bent over; stooped stump or branch

သစ်ပင်

thet pin — tree; a large woody perennial plant

အုပ်

out — grove; group; a cluster of trees or plants

ဝန်းရံကာ

wan yan ga — surrounding; encircling; wrapping around something completely

တိမ်းကာရိုး

tain ga yo — fence; enclosure wall; barrier surrounding a property

မြင့်ဖြင့်

myin phyin — with height; by means of being tall or elevated

လူစိမ်း

lu zin — stranger; outsider; unknown person unfamiliar to one

ဝင်ရောက်

win yout — enter; go inside; gain access to a place

ခြင်းကို

jin go — the act of; nominalizer particle as object marker

တားဆီးကာ

ta zi ga — blocking; preventing; hindering entry or movement

တောရိုင်း

taw yaing — wild; untamed; relating to wild nature or animals

ကွင်း

gwin — field; open area; enclosed ground or ring

များကြား

myah kya — among many; between various things or persons

လှပြေး

hla pyay — run away; flee; escape quickly from a place

သမင်

tha min — deer; a hoofed mammal found in forests

တောသား

taw tha — forest dweller; wild animal or person of the forest

အုပ်ကို

out go — the group; object marker on a herd or flock

ကာကွယ်

ga kweh — protect; defend; guard from harm or danger

ထားသည်

hta deh — has placed; keeps; maintains something in a state

ငါးဖမ်း

nga pham — fishing; catching fish; the act of fishing

သမားများ

tha ma myah — fishermen; workers or practitioners of a trade

အနီရောင်

a ni yaung — red color; the color red

ကိုက်နေသော

kite nay thaw — biting; gnawing; that which is biting or stinging

ကုတ်အင်္ကျီ

kote ain ji — coat; jacket; outer garment worn over clothing

တောင်ဘက်

taung bet — south; southern direction or side

ဦးထုပ်

u htoat — hat; cap; headwear worn on the head

များပေါ်တွင်

myah paw dwin — on top of many; upon multiple surfaces or things

ကျရောက်ကာ

kya yout ga — falling upon; descending and landing on something

လေးသော

leh thaw — heavy; that which is weighty or burdensome

ချောင်း

chaung — stream; creek; small flowing body of water

စီးဆင်း

si hsin — flow; stream down; move continuously like water

မောင်းနှင်

maung hnin — drive; propel; push or drive something forward

မြူများကို

myu myah go — the mists; fog as object; referring to mist

မ

ma — negation prefix; not; used to negate verbs

သငဲ့ကွက်

tha ngeh kwet — chessboard pattern; grid or checkered pattern design

ဘဲ

beh — without; not doing; negative adverbial particle

ပင်လယ်ဘက်

pin leh bet — seaward; toward the sea; in the sea's direction

သို့

tho — to; toward; directional particle indicating movement

မျက်လုံး

myet lone — eye; eyeball; the organ of vision

များကို

myah go — the many; plural object marker particle in sentences

ဆက်လက်

set let — continue; proceed; carry on with an ongoing action

လှည့်ကာ

hleh ga — turning; rotating; looking around by turning head

တိုးမြင့်

to myin — increase; rise higher; go up in level or intensity

လာသော

la thaw — that comes; approaching; arriving from another place

မှောင်မိုက်

hmang mike — darkness; gloom; dark and obscure conditions

ကို

go — object marker particle; to; toward; accusative case

ထွင်းဖောက်

htwing phout — pierce through; break through; penetrate a barrier

ရန်

yan — in order to; for the purpose of doing something

ကြိုးစား

kyo za — try; make effort; strive to accomplish something

နေကြသည်

nay kya deh — are doing; ongoing plural action by multiple subjects

လာပြီ

la pyi — has come; has arrived; exclamation of arrival

ဟု

hu — quotative particle; said; marking reported speech

၎င်းတို့

di doh — they; them; those people or things previously mentioned

အနက်

a net — among; dark color; meaning or depth of something

တစ်ဦးက

ta u ga — one person; one of them as subject of sentence

လှည့်

hleh — turn; rotate; spin around or change direction

ကြည့်ကာ

kyi ga — looking; while looking; glancing at something nearby

ကြွေးကြော်

kwe kyaw — shout; exclaim; call out loudly to others

လိုက်သည်

lite deh — follows; does in response; accompanies an action

သူသည်

thu dhu — he; she; that person as subject of sentence

ရာသီဥတု

ya thi u tu — weather; climate; atmospheric conditions of a region

အကြောင်း

a kyaung — about; reason; cause; concerning a topic or matter

မည်သို့

ma yeh tho — how; in what way; interrogative about manner

ထင်မြင်

htin myin — think; opine; have an opinion or impression about

သည်ကို

dhu go — what one does; topic-object nominalizer combination particle

ငါတို့

nga doh — we; us; first-person plural informal pronoun

ကြားရ

kya ya — hear; get to hear; receive auditory information

ပေမည်

pay meh — it will; probably will; mild future probability marker

ဒီည

di nya — tonight; this evening; the current night

တွင်

dwin — in; at; within; locative particle for place or time

ထွက်ရန်

htwet yan — in order to go out; for the purpose of leaving

စိတ်ပိုင်း

sate pine — mental aspect; psychological side; the mind's domain

ဖြတ်ပြီး

phyat pyi — having cut through; after passing or crossing over

ပါက

pa ga — if; conditional particle meaning if something occurs

သူ့ကို

thu go — him; her; third-person singular as object of verb

အိမ်တွင်

ain dwin — in the house; inside the home or building

ထိန်းထား

htain hta — keep controlled; maintain; hold in a managed state

နိုင်ရန်

naing yan — in order to be able; for the purpose of succeeding

ယခု

ya khu — now; currently; at the present moment in time

ထက်

htet — than; comparative particle used in comparisons

များစွာ

myah zwa — many; a great deal; very numerous in quantity

ဆိုးသော

so thaw — bad; wicked; that which is poor or unpleasant

အခြေအနေ

a chay a nay — situation; condition; state of affairs or circumstances

ရောက်လာ

yout la — arrive; come to reach; get to a destination

ရမည်

ya meh — must get; will have to; obligatory future action

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit deh — is; it is; to be; indicates identity or existence