Wuthering Heights — Page 8

Vocabulary

ကံကောင်းထောက်မစွာ

kan kaung htauk ma swa — fortunately; luckily, by good fortune

၊

(comma pause mark) — Burmese punctuation mark indicating a short pause

မီးဖိုချောင်မှ

mi hpo chaung hma — from the kitchen

လူတစ်ဦးက

lu ta oun ge — a certain person; one person (subject marker)

ပိုမိုလျင်မြန်စွာ

po mo lyin myran swa — more quickly; faster than before

ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည်

saung ywet khe thi — carried out; performed an action previously

။

(full stop mark) — Burmese punctuation mark indicating end of sentence

ဝတ်စုံ

wut soon — a set of clothing; an outfit or suit

လက်ဗလာနှင့်

let bala hnin — with bare hands; empty-handed

မီးကြောင့်

mi gyaung — because of fire; due to the fire

နီဖြန်းနေသော

ni phyan ne thaw — glowing red; flushed bright red in color

ပါးမျက်နှာ

pa myat hna — cheeks and face; facial appearance

တို့ဖြင့်

to phyin — with; by means of (plural marker + instrumental)

ကြံ့ခိုင်သော

khyin khine thaw — sturdy; robust; strong and firm in build

အမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးသည်

a myo tha mi ta oun thi — a certain woman (subject marker)

လှည့်ပတ်ကာ

hhleh pat ka — twisting around; rotating and wrapping around

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya naw to — we; us (formal first person plural)

အလယ်သို့

a leh thoe — toward the middle; into the center

ဝင်ပြေးလာပြီး

win pyay la pyi — came running in; rushed inside and arrived

ထို

hto — that; those (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

လက်နက်နှင့်

let net hnin — with weapons; armed with a weapon

သူမ၏

thu ma ei — her; belonging to her (possessive)

လျှာတို့ကို

hsha to ko — the tongues (object marker, plural)

မုန်တိုင်း

mone tine — storm; tempest; violent weather

မှိတ်သွားသည်

hmite thwa thi — blinked; eyes suddenly closed momentarily

အထိ

a hti — until; up to; as far as

အသုံးချကာ

a thone cha ka — making use of; utilizing something as a tool

သခင်

tha khin — master; lord; owner or superior person

ဝင်လာသော

win la thaw — that came in; entering (relative clause form)

အချိန်တွင်

a chein twing — at the time; during the moment when

မြင့်မားသော

myint ma thaw — high; tall; elevated in height or status

လေပြင်း

le pyin — strong wind; gust; powerful air current

ပြီးနောက်

pyi nauk — after; afterward; following that event

ပင်လယ်

pin leh — sea; ocean; large body of salt water

ကဲ့သို့

ke thoe — like; similar to; in the manner of

ဟိုဟိုသည်သည်

ho ho thi thi — here and there; back and forth aimlessly

ရင်ကြပ်နေသည့်

yin kyut ne thi — feeling breathless; chest tight with anxiety

သူမ

thu ma — she; her (third person feminine pronoun)

တစ်ဦးတည်းသာ

ta oun teh tha — only one person; alone by oneself

ကျန်ရှိနေသည်

kyan shi ne thi — remains; is left over; still exists

အဘယ်အရာကြောင့်

a beh a ya gyaung — because of what; for what reason

မလိုမုန်းထားသည်

ma lo mone hta thi — dislikes; feels hostility toward without reason

မသိ

ma thi — does not know; unknown; unaware

ဟု

hu — quotative particle meaning 'saying that'; thus

သူက

thu ge — he; she (subject marker, emphasizing the subject)

မေးလိုက်ပြီး

may lait pyi — asked and then; having asked a question

ဤ

i — this (formal demonstrative adjective/pronoun)

ဧည့်ဝတ်

e wut — hospitality; courtesy shown to guests

မပြုသော

ma pyu thaw — not showing; failing to perform or demonstrate

ဆက်ဆံမှု

set san hmu — treatment; manner of dealing with others

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya naw — I; me (formal first person singular pronoun)

ခံနိုင်ရည်

khan nine yeh — endurance; capacity to tolerate or withstand

မရှိသော

ma shi thaw — lacking; not having; without (relative clause)

ပုံစံဖြင့်

pone san phyin — in the manner of; in the form or style of

မျက်စောင်းထောင်

myat saung htaung — glaring sideways; looking with a sharp sidelong glance

ကြည့်လိုက်သည်

kyi lait thi — looked at; glanced; observed momentarily

အမှန်ပင်

a hman pin — truly; indeed; in actual fact

တိုးတိုးမြည်သည်

toe toe myi thi — mutters softly; makes a low murmuring sound

နတ်ဆိုးဝင်သော

nat so win thaw — possessed by evil spirits; demonically inhabited

ဝက်များ

wet mya — pigs; swine (plural)

၏

ei — possessive particle meaning 'of'; belonging to

သင်၏

thin ei — your; belonging to you (possessive)

တိရစ္ဆာန်များ

ta yit san mya — animals; creatures; beasts (plural)

ထက်

htet — than; more than (comparative particle)

ဆိုးသော

so thaw — evil; bad; wicked (relative clause form)

ဝိညာဉ်များ

win nyan mya — spirits; souls; supernatural beings (plural)

မရှိနိုင်ပေ

ma shi nine beh — cannot exist; there cannot possibly be

ခင်ဗျားရေ

kha bya yay — hey you; informal address to a person

သင်သည်

thin thi — you (subject marker, formal second person)

ကျားများ

kya mya — tigers; large wild cats (plural)

အုပ်နှင့်

ote hnin — with a pack or group of animals

အတူ

a tu — together; along with; in company

ဧည့်သည်

e thi — guest; visitor; one who is hosted

တစ်ဦးကို

ta oun ko — one person (object marker)

ထားခဲ့သည်

hta khe thi — left behind; placed and departed

နှင့်ပင်

hnin pin — even with; just as; along with (emphatic)

တူသည်

tu thi — is similar; resembles; is the same as

ဘာမှ

ba hma — nothing; anything at all (negative context)

မထိသော

ma hti thaw — not touching; not affecting; untouched by

သူများနှင့်

thu mya hnin — with others; together with other people

၎င်းတို့

ti tway to — they; those; them (third person plural)

ဝင်ရောက်

win yaut — to enter; to go inside; to intrude

မစွက်ဖက်ဘူး

ma swet phet bu — does not interfere; never meddles in affairs

သူ

thu — he; she; that person (third person pronoun)

ဆိုကာ

so ka — saying; having said (sequential verbal particle)

ဘူးကို

bu ko — the bottle or container (object marker)

ရှေ့တွင်

shay twing — in front; ahead; in the forward position

ထားလိုက်ပြီး

hta lait pyi — placed it and then; having put it down

စားပွဲကို

sa bwe ko — the table (object marker)

ပြန်ထားလိုက်သည်

pyan hta lait thi — put back; returned it to its place

ခွေးများသည်

khway mya thi — the dogs (subject marker, plural)

သတိကြပ်ထားရန်

tha ti kyut hta yan — to be careful; to keep watch vigilantly

မှန်ကန်သည်

hman kan thi — is correct; is right; accurate and proper

ဝိုင်

wine — wine; alcoholic grape beverage

တစ်ခွက်

ta khwet — one cup; a single glass of drink

သောက်မည်လော

thaut myi law — will you drink; shall one drink (question)

မသောက်ပါ

ma thaut pa — I will not drink; polite refusal of drink

ကျေးဇူးပါ

kyay zu pa — thank you; please; expression of gratitude

မကိုက်ခဲ့ဘူး

ma kite khe bu — did not bite; has never bitten before

နော်

naw — sentence-final particle seeking confirmation or agreement

ကိုက်ခဲ့လျှင်

kite khe shin — if it had bitten; in the event of biting

ကိုက်သော

kite thaw — that bites; the one who bit (relative)

သူပေါ်တွင်

thu baw twing — on him; upon that person

ကျွန်ုပ်၏

kya naw ei — my; belonging to me (formal possessive)

တံဆိပ်ကို

tan zet ko — the mark or stamp (object marker)

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thi — is; exists; it is (copula verb)

မျက်နှာသည်

myat hna thi — the face (subject marker)

ဖြင့်

phyin — with; by means of (instrumental particle)

ပြေလျော့သွားသည်

pyay shaw thwa thi — relaxed; softened; tension eased away

လာပါ

la pa — come; please come (polite imperative)

ဆိုသည်

so thi — says; said; states (quotative verb)

သင်

thin — you (second person pronoun, formal)

ထိတ်လန့်နေသည်

htate lan ne thi — is frightened; is startled; feeling alarmed

မစ္စတာ

mit ta — mister; Mr. (honorific title for a man)

ဤနေရာတွင်

i ne ya twing — at this place; here in this location

အနည်းငယ်

a nay ngeh — a little; a small amount; slightly

သောက်ပါ

thaut pa — please drink; drink this (polite imperative)

အိမ်တွင်

ain twing — at home; inside the house

ဧည့်သည်များသည်

e thi mya thi — guests (plural, subject marker)

အလွန်

a lwun — very; extremely; excessively

ရှားပါးသော

sha pa thaw — rare; scarce; seldom encountered

ကြောင့်

gyaung — because of; due to; owing to (causal particle)

ကျွန်ုပ်နှင့်

kya naw hnin — with me; together with me (formal)

သူတို့ကို

thu to ko — them; those people (object marker, plural)

ကြိုဆို

kyo so — to welcome; to greet arriving guests

နည်းကို

nay ko — the way; the method (object marker)

ကြောင်း

gyaung — that; the fact that (nominalizing complement particle)

ဝန်ခံလိုသည်

wun khan lo thi — wants to admit; wishes to confess honestly

ကျန်းမာရေးကို

kyan ma yay ko — health; to one's health (object marker)

ဆုမွန်ကောင်း

su mone kaung — good wishes; blessings; favorable prayer

တောင်းပါရစေ

taung pa ya zay — may I offer; let me wish (polite optative)

ခင်ဗျား

kha bya — you (polite second person pronoun for men)