Won from the Waves — Page 7

Vocabulary

လူ

lu — Person; human being

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person; a single individual

သည်

thì — Topic marker or present tense verb particle

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun

အမိန့်

a-mein — Order; command; official directive

ကို

go — Accusative/directional particle marking object or direction

ကျန်

kjan — Remaining; left over; to be left behind

သူများ

thu-mya — Other people; they; those persons

ထံ

htan — To; toward a person; in someone's presence

သယ်ဆောင်

thè-hsaung — To carry; to transport something

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of; enemy

အလျင်စလို

a-ljin-za-lo — Hastily; in a hurry; rushing

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet-hkwa — To depart; to leave a place

နေ

nè — To stay; to live; to remain; sun

စဉ်

zin — While; during; throughout a period

အရင်က

a-yin-ga — Before; previously; in the past

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle

ပို

po — More; even more; to excess

ပြင်းထန်

pjin-htan — Intense; severe; fierce; powerful

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; which; that

လေပြင်း

lè-pjin — Strong wind; gale

တစ်ခု

tit-hku — One thing; a single item

သမုဒ္ဒရာ

tha-moad-da-ya — Ocean; vast sea

ဖြတ်ကျော်

phját-kjaw — To cross over; to traverse; to pass through

တိုက်ခတ်

tite-hkat — To strike; to hit against; to lash

လာ

la — To come; directional verb particle toward speaker

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun

မြူနှင်း

mju-hnin — Fog and frost; mist and dew

နှစ်ပိုင်း

hnit-pite — Two parts; split into two sections

စီးကွဲ

si-kjwe — To split apart; to be torn asunder

စေ

zè — Causative particle; to cause; to make someone do

ပြီး

pji — After; finished; completion particle

မိုး

mo — Rain; sky; rainy season

ရွာ

ywa — To rain; village

သွား

thwa — To go; to leave toward a destination

ရပ်တန့်

yat-tan — To stop; to halt; to come to a standstill

အခါ

a-hka — When; at the time of; occasion

ငါးဖမ်းသမား

nga-phan-tha-ma — Fisherman; one who catches fish

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; much

၏

ei — Genitive/possessive particle meaning 'of'

ချွတ်မှား

chut-hma — To make an error; to slip up; to blunder

မျက်စိ

mjet-si — Eye; eyes

ဝေးကွာ

wè-kwa — Far apart; distant; remote

ပင်လယ်ပြင်

pin-lè-pjin — Open sea; surface of the sea

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative particle

ကုန်း

goun — Land; dry land; hill; mound

ဆီ

hsi — Toward; direction particle; oil

သို့

thó — To; toward; directional particle

ဦးတည်

ú-ñì — To head toward; to aim at; to target

ပြေး

pje — To run; to flee; to escape

သည့်

thì — Relative clause particle modifying nouns

သင်္ဘော

thin-baw — Ship; large vessel

နှစ်စီး

hnit-si — Two vehicles or vessels

ခွဲခြား

khwè-cha — To distinguish; to separate; to differentiate

သိမြင်

thi-mjin — To perceive; to recognize; to understand

နိုင်

nite — Can; to be able to; to win

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense particle; did; went away

တစ်စီး

tit-si — One vehicle or vessel

အခြား

a-hkha — Other; another; different

ရှေ့

shè — Front; ahead; forward

အနည်းငယ်

a-ni-ngwei — A little; a small amount; slightly

ခြားနား

hkha-na — To be different; to differ; distinction

ကာ

ka — Continuative particle; while doing; blocking

နောက်

nout — Behind; back; after; next

မှ

hmà — From; since; ablative particle

လိုက်

lite — To follow; to go along; directional particle

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third person pronoun

ဦးပိုင်း

ú-pite — Front part; bow of a ship; initial section

ပေါ်မှ

paw-hmà — From on top of; from upon

အမြောက်

a-mjout — Cannon; artillery gun

ဖြင့်

phji — By means of; with; using; instrumental particle

ပစ်ခတ်

pjit-hkat — To fire; to shoot; to open fire

ရှေ့ဆောင်

shè-hsaung — To lead; to guide; to go in front

သင်္ဘောငယ်

thin-baw-ngwei — Small boat; small vessel

နောက်ပိုင်း

nout-pite — Rear part; stern; later section

ပြန်လည်

pjan-lè — To return; to go back; again

ကျဆုံး

kja-zoun — To fall; to sink; to be defeated

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; to be able to

မည့်

mì — Future tense particle; will; shall

အစား

a-za — Instead of; in place of; replacement

ကာကွယ်

ka-kjwe — To protect; to defend; to guard

ရာ

ya — Hundred; place; nominalizing particle

ဆိပ်ကမ်း

seit-kan — Harbor; port; dock

ရောက်

yout — To arrive; to reach a place

သို့မဟုတ်

thó-ma-hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively

ကမ်း

kan — Shore; bank; coast

ပေါ်

paw — On top of; upon; to appear; emerge

တိုးဝင်

to-win — To enter; to move into; to advance in

မည်

mì — Future tense auxiliary particle; will

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်

zoun-phját-chet — Decision; resolution; determination

ချ

chja — To lower; to put down; to issue a decision

ထား

hta — To place; to keep; completive/resultative particle

ကဲ့သို့

kè-thó — Like; as; similar to; resembling

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present

သူမ

thu-ma — She; her; female third person pronoun

ကြည့်ရှု

kji-shu — To look at; to observe; to watch carefully

အား

a — Strength; to; object marker particle

ထုတ်ဖော်

htout-phaw — To reveal; to expose; to express openly

ပြသ

pja-tha — To show; to demonstrate; to display

အချိန်

a-chein — Time; period; hour

အခိုက်အတန့်

a-khite-a-tan — Moment; instant; brief period of time

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw-shi — Existing on top of; situated upon

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

မည်မျှ

mì-mjà — How much; how many; to what extent

နီးကပ်

ni-kap — Close; nearby; in close proximity

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — Although; even though; however

သူတို့

thu-do — They; them; those people

သစ္စာဖောက်

thit-sa-phout — To betray; traitor; disloyal

သဲဆောင်

thè-hsaung — Sandbank; shallow sandy area in water

အန္တရာယ်

an-da-yè — Danger; hazard; peril

မ

ma — Negation particle; not; no

သိရှိ

thi-shi — To know; to be aware of; to understand

ကြ

kja — Plural verb particle; to do together

သေး

thè — Still; yet; small; not yet done

မှာ

hma — At; in; on; locative particle

ထင်ရှား

htin-sha — Clear; obvious; prominent; well-known

ကြည့်

kji — To look; to see; to watch

ထိတ်လန့်

hteit-lan — To be frightened; startled; terrified

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix; act of; matter of

သနား

tha-na — To pity; to feel compassion for someone

ငြိမ်းချမ်း

njein-chan — Peace; tranquility; peaceful state

အော်ဟစ်

aw-hit — To shout; to yell; to cry out

သံ

than — Sound; voice; metal; iron

ထွက်ပေါ်

htwet-paw — To come out; to emerge; to appear

မြောက်ဘက်

mjout-bet — North; northern direction

မိုင်

mine — Mile; unit of distance

ဝက်

wet — Half; pig; hog

ခန့်

khan — Approximately; about; roughly

လျှင်

ljin — If; when; conditional particle

လုံခြုံ

loun-khun — Safe; secure; protected from danger

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from; agent marker

မှတ်ချက်

hmat-chet — Note; comment; remark; annotation

ပြု

pju — To do; to make; to perform an action

သို့သော်

thó-thaw — However; but; nevertheless

နေရာ

nè-ya — Place; location; position

သိ

thi — To know; to understand; to be aware

ဆို

hso — To say; to mean; quotative verb

သဲကုန်း

thè-goun — Sand dune; sandy mound or hillock

ရှောင်ရှား

shaun-sha — To avoid; to evade; to stay away from

အချိန်မီ

a-chein-mi — On time; in time; before it's too late

ဆုတ်ခွာ

hsout-hkwa — To retreat; to withdraw; to pull back

ခြေ

chè — Foot; leg; base; step

နည်းပါး

ni-pa — Few; scarce; small in number

လှ

hlà — Beautiful; pretty; attractive

ပြော

pjaw — To speak; to say; to tell

အနောက်ဆုံး

a-nout-zoun — Westernmost; the very last; furthest back

လေ

lè — Wind; air; sentence-final particle

လှည့်

hlè — To turn; to rotate; to face another direction

တွေ့မြင်

twè-mjin — To see; to encounter; to notice visually

ကား

ka — Car; vehicle; emphatic particle

သောင်း

thaun — Ten thousand; raging (of waves)

တင်းကြပ်

tin-kjap — Tight; strict; tense; under pressure

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning '-ly'; in a manner of

ချုပ်

choup — To sew; to conclude; to tighten; to end

ယခုအခါ

ya-khu-a-hka — Now; at this present time

ထင်ရ

htin-ya — Apparently; it seems; evidently

တိုး

to — To increase; to advance; to grow

မုန်တိုင်း

moun-tite — Storm; typhoon; cyclone

ကြိုးပမ်း

kjo-pan — To strive; to endeavor; to make effort

ဖြစ်နိုင်

phját-nite — Possible; can happen; may be

အောင်

aun — Successfully; in order to succeed; until achieved

ပြုလုပ်

pju-lout — To do; to perform; to carry out

မတိုင်မီ

ma-tite-mi — Before; prior to; not yet reaching

ဝေး

wè — Far; distant; remote

ထွက်

htwet — To exit; to go out; to leave

ကြိုးစား

kjo-za — To try hard; to make an effort

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; excessively

ဖိစီး

phì-si — To press down; to oppress; under pressure

ခံ

khan — To bear; to endure; to receive; to suffer

ပစ်မှတ်

pjit-hmat — Target; aim; objective

ချက်ချင်း

chet-chin — Immediately; at once; right away

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic particle; tree

နည်း

ni — Method; way; few; little; technique

ဥပမာ

u-pa-ma — Example; for instance; illustration

လိုက်နာ

lite-na — To comply; to follow rules; to obey