Wuthering Heights — Page 7

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle in Burmese sentences

မြေအောက်ခန်း

mye-aouk-kăn — Underground room or basement of a building

၏

ì — Possessive or linking particle in formal writing

နက်မှောင်

nèk-hmaung — Dark, deeply shadowed or gloomy place

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, meaning 'which' or 'that'

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place, location, or position somewhere

တွင်

twìn — Locative particle meaning 'in' or 'at'

မရေရာ

ma-yay-ya — Uncertain, unclear, or indefinite situation

အသံ

a-thàn — Sound, voice, or noise made by someone

ဖြင့်

hpyìn — Instrumental particle meaning 'with' or 'by'

မြည်တမ်း

myì-dàn — To moan, groan, or make lamenting sounds

လျက်

lyèk — Simultaneous action particle meaning 'while doing'

ရှိ

shì — To exist, be present, or have something

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — Concessive conjunction meaning 'although' or 'however'

တက်လာ

tèk-la — To come up, rise, or approach upward

မည့်

mì — Future tense marker for upcoming actions

အရိပ်အယောင်

a-yèik-a-yaung — Shadow, silhouette, or vague ghostly figure

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

tit-soun-tit-ya — Something, anything at all, any matter

မျှ

hmyà — Particle meaning 'only', 'even', or 'as much as'

သော်ငြား

thaw-nyá — Conjunction meaning 'nevertheless' or 'even so'

ထို့ကြောင့်

htó-jàun — Therefore, for that reason, consequently

သူ

thu — Third-person pronoun meaning 'he' or 'she'

သခင်

tha-khìn — Master, lord, or owner of someone or something

ထံ

htàn — Directional particle meaning 'to' a person

ဆင်းသက်

sìn-thèk — To descend, come down from above

သွား

thwá — To go away, depart, or move toward somewhere

ကာ

ka — Verb particle indicating ongoing or sequential action

ကျွန်မ

kjùn-ma — Female first-person pronoun meaning 'I' (humble)

ကို

ko — Object marker particle indicating direct object

ညစ်ညမ်း

nyìk-nyàn — Filthy, obscene, morally dirty or corrupt

မသမာ

ma-tha-ma — Dishonest, unscrupulous, or morally improper

ခွေးမ

khwé-ma — Female dog, also used as a strong insult

နှင့်

hnìn — Conjunction or particle meaning 'and' or 'with'

ကြမ်းကြုတ်

jàn-jòuk — Rough, coarse, harsh in manner or texture

အမွေးရှင်း

a-mwé-shìn — Hairless or short-haired, lacking fur

သည့်

thì — Relative clause particle modifying a noun

သိုးစောင့်ခွေး

tho-zaung-khwé — Sheepdog, dog bred to guard and herd sheep

နှစ်ကောင်

hnìk-kaung — Two animals, a pair of creatures

တို့

tó — Plural marker for pronouns or nouns

မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်

myèk-hna-jìn-hsaìn — Face to face, directly opposite each other

ချန်ထား

chàn-htá — To leave behind, set aside intentionally

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker indicating completed action

ထို

htó — Demonstrative meaning 'that' referring to something distant

ခွေး

khwé — Dog, domestic canine animal

များ

myá — Plural marker meaning 'many' or indicating plurality

လှုပ်ရှားမှု

hlòuk-shá-hmù — Movement, activity, or motion of something

တိုင်း

táin — Every, each time, or throughout entirely

အပြည့်အဝ

a-pyì-a-wa — Fully, completely, to the full extent

ကြည့်ရှု

jì-shu — To watch, observe, or look at carefully

စောင့်ကြပ်

saung-jàk — To supervise, monitor, or keep close watch

ရာ

ya — Particle indicating completeness or general scope

သူမ

thu-ma — Third-person feminine pronoun meaning 'she'

အတူ

a-tu — Together, along with, in company of

မနာလို

ma-na-lo — Jealous, envious, resentful of another's good fortune

စောင့်ကြပ်ခြင်း

saung-jàk-chìn — The act of supervising or closely monitoring someone

မျှဝေ

hmyà-way — To share, distribute equally among others

ကြ

já — Plural verb particle or marks collective action

သူတို့

thu-tó — Third-person plural pronoun meaning 'they'

အစွယ်

a-swè — Fang, tusk, or sharp protruding tooth

ထိတွေ့

htì-twé — To touch, make contact with something physically

ရ

ya — Verb particle indicating ability or completion

မည်

mì — Future tense marker indicating something will happen

မကြောက်

ma-jàuk — Not afraid, fearless, showing no fear

ဟန်ဆောင်

hàn-zaung — To pretend, feign, or put on an act

ငြိမ်ငြိမ်

nyìm-nyìm — Quietly, still, in a calm manner

ထိုင်

htáin — To sit, to be seated somewhere

နေ

nay — To stay, live, or remain in a place

မဆိုင်းမတွ

ma-hsáin-ma-tu — Without delay, immediately, without hesitation

ကဲ့ရဲ့

kè-yè — To criticize, scold, or rebuke someone

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizer turning verbs into abstract nouns

ဖြေကြား

hpyay-já — To answer, respond, or reply to a question

နားလည်

ná-lè — To understand, comprehend, or grasp meaning

မဟုတ်

ma-hòuk — Is not, negation of identity or state

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying' or 'called'

ထင်မှတ်

htìn-hmàk — To think, suppose, or assume something incorrectly

ကံဆိုး

kàn-zo — Bad luck, unfortunate fate or misfortune

စွာ

swá — Adverbial particle meaning 'in a ... manner'

ပင်

pìn — Emphatic particle meaning 'indeed', 'even', 'still'

သုံးကောင်

thóun-kaung — Three animals or creatures counted together

မျက်နှာ

myèk-hna — Face, facial expression or front of head

ပြ

pyà — To show, display, or demonstrate something

မျက်လုံး

myèk-lóun — Eye, eyeball of a person or animal

ပွတ်

pwàk — To rub, wipe, or scrub a surface

နောက်မောင်း

nàuk-máun — Back leg or hind leg of an animal

ချ

chà — To put down, lower, or place below

ကြောင့်

jàun — Because of, due to, causal particle

ဆွဲဆန်

swè-hsàn — To resist, struggle against, or pull away

မှု

hmù — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or matter

တစ်ခု

tìk-khu — One thing, a single item or unit

မသား

ma-thá — Illegitimate child, bastard, used as insult

ဒေါသ

daw-tha — Anger, fury, or intense emotional rage

ဖြစ်

hpyìk — To be, become, happen, or occur

စေ

say — Causative particle meaning 'to cause' or 'let'

ထိ

htì — Up to, until, reaching a certain point

ပြီး

pyí — After completing, finished, then subsequently

ရုတ်တရက်

youk-ta-yèk — Suddenly, abruptly, without prior warning

ပြင်းပြင်း

pyìn-pyìn — Intensely, forcefully, with great strength

ဒူး

dú — Knee, the joint in the middle of the leg

ထက်

htèk — Comparative particle meaning 'more than'

သို့

thó — Directional particle meaning 'to' or 'toward'

ခုန်တက်

khòun-tèk — To jump up, leap upward suddenly

လာ

la — To come, approach, or arrive at a place

နောက်

nàuk — After, behind, or the back side

ပစ်ချ

pìk-chà — To throw down, fling, or discard forcefully

ကြား

já — Between, among, or in the middle of

စားပွဲ

sá-bwè — Table, desk used for eating or working

အတားအဆီး

a-tá-a-hsí — Obstacle, barrier, or hindrance blocking progress

အဖြစ်

a-hpyìk — As, in the role or capacity of something

အမြန်ဆုံး

a-myàn-zóun — As fast as possible, at maximum speed

ဖြတ်ထား

hpyàk-htá — To cut across, block off, or intercept

လိုက်

laik — To follow, chase, or go along with

ဤ

ì — Formal demonstrative meaning 'this' in writing

ပြုမူ

pyù-mu — To behave, conduct oneself, act in a way

လုပ်ဆောင်

louk-hsaung — To carry out, perform, or execute an action

တိုက်ခန်း

táik-kàn — Apartment unit or flat in a building

လုံး

lóun — Whole, entire, or round shape counter word

နှိုးဆွ

hnó-swè — To stir up, provoke, or rouse someone

အရွယ်အစား

a-ywè-a-sá — Size, physical dimensions of an object

အသက်အရွယ်

a-thèk-a-ywè — Age, how old a person or animal is

မတူညီ

ma-tu-nyì — Different, not the same, varying from each other

လေးခြေရှင်

lé-chay-shìn — Four-legged creature, quadruped animal

မကောင်းဆိုးဝါး

ma-kaun-zo-wá — Evil, wicked, malicious, morally bad entity

ခြောက်ကောင်

chàuk-kaung — Six animals, six creatures counted together

ခန့်

khàn — Approximately, about, roughly estimated amount

လျှို့ဝှက်

hlyó-hwèk — Secret, mysterious, hidden from others

အကြောင်း

a-jàun — Reason, cause, or subject matter about something

မှ

hmà — From, out of, or starting point particle

ပေါ်ထွက်

paw-thwèk — To emerge, appear, or come out suddenly

မိမိ

mi-mi — Reflexive pronoun meaning 'oneself' or 'own'

ဖိနပ်ဒုတ်

hpa-nak-douk — Shoe horn or boot club used for footwear

အင်္ကျီ

èin-jì — Shirt, blouse, or upper body garment

နောက်ပတ်

nàuk-pàk — Back collar or rear lapel area of clothing

တိုက်ခိုက်

táik-kháik — To attack, assault, or strike against someone

ခံ

khàn — To endure, receive, or bear something upon oneself

ထူးဆန်း

htú-hsàn — Strange, unusual, extraordinary, out of the ordinary

ကြောင်း

jàun — Quotative or reason particle indicating reported speech

ခံစား

khàn-sá — To feel, experience, or sense an emotion

ရင်ဆိုင်

yìn-hsáin — To face, confront, or deal with directly

ပို

po — More, to a greater degree or extent

ကြီး

jí — Big, large, great, or elder in age

ဝင်ရောက်

wìn-yàuk — To enter, go inside, or come into a place

မီးပြောင်းတုတ်

mí-pyáun-touk — Fire poker, metal rod for stirring fire

တတ်နိုင်

tàk-náin — To be able to, capable of doing something

သမျှ

tha-hmyà — All, everything, whatever there is entirely

ထိထိရောက်ရောက်

htì-htì-yàuk-yàuk — Effectively, efficiently, with real impact

တားဆီး

tá-hsí — To prevent, stop, or block from happening

အိမ်သူ

èin-thu — Mistress of the house, female householder

အိမ်သား

èin-thá — Household member, person living in the home

တစ်ချို့

tìk-cho — Some, a few, certain ones among many

မြည်မြောက်

myì-myàuk — To succeed, accomplish, or achieve a goal

ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး

nyìm-chàn-yé — Peace, the state of harmony without conflict

တည်ဆောက်

tì-zauk — To build, construct, or establish something new

ရန်

yàn — In order to, for the purpose of doing

အကူအညီ

a-ku-a-nyì — Help, assistance, or support from others

တောင်းခံ

táun-khàn — To request, ask for, or solicit something

မဖြစ်မနေ

ma-hpyìk-ma-nay — Inevitably, must happen, absolutely necessary

မစ္စတာ

mìk-sa-ta — Mister, formal title for an adult man

ကျွန်

kjùn — Slave, servant, or bonded person under another

ကိုယ်တော်ငယ်

ko-daw-ngè — Young master, title for young man of status

ပြုစု

pyù-su — To take care of, look after, nurture someone

သဘော

tha-baw — Nature, attitude, disposition, or meaning of something

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry, bear, or perform a function

ပေါ့ဆ

paw-hsa — Careless, negligent, inattentive to important matters

လှေကား

hlay-ká — Staircase, set of steps in a building

တက်

tèk — To ascend, climb, or go upward

မီးဖို

mí-hpo — Fireplace, hearth, or cooking fire area

နား

ná — Ear, or to rest, pause near something

ကိုက်

káik — To bite, chomp with teeth or fangs

ချန်

chàn — To leave out, omit, or set aside

ဟောင်

háun — To bark, make a dog's barking sound

မုန်တိုင်း

móun-táin — Storm, tempest, or violent weather condition

ကဲ့သို့

kè-thó — Like, similar to, in the manner of

ဆူပွက်

su-pwèk — To boil up, rage, or become turbulent

ပုံမှန်

poun-hmàn — Normal, usual, regular, ordinary condition or state

တစ်စက္ကန့်

tìk-sèk-kàn — One second, a very brief moment in time

မြန်

myàn — Fast, quick, or speedy in action

မထင်မြင်

ma-htìn-myìn — Unexpected, unanticipated, surprising event or situation

ပေ

pay — Sentence final particle softening or affirming statement