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On Travel in Burma, Prophetic Verses, and Cursed Trees

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In this episode, my cohost Mol Mol and I discuss the joy of travel. Mol Mol has just returned from a trip to Tarchileik, a city in the Shan State bordering the notorious Golden Triangle region. While I have not been back in Burma recently, I still have fond memories of my last pilgrimage to the temple-dotted ancient city of Bagan. Mol Mol recounts the taste of a local delicacy--grilled fish wrapped in banana leaf--and the oral history of a tree supposedly planted by the Konbaung Dynasty’s founder U Aung Zeya; I discuss the Bagan pagoda associated with a prophesy that foreshadows the fall of the first Burmese empire. For those and more, listen to our latest episode. (Music clips from Uppbeat.io)

Vocabulary

အချိန်သက်သာတယ် it saves time
မိုးသီး hailstone, ice pellets
မိုးသီးကြွေတယ် hails rain down
ရွှေတြိဂံနယ်မြေ The Golden Triangle
စာကြမ်းပိုး (pronounced စာဂျဘိုး) bookworm
နယ်စပ် border region
စေတီလေးဆူ four pagodas (ဆူ is the counting word for sacred objects)
မြင်းလှည်းဆရာ horse carriage driver
နေ့ကြေး day rate
ခလောက် bells for animals
လှုပ်တုပ်လှုပ်တုပ် to move in a jerky, shaky, wobbly fashion
ရှုခင်း scenery
နာရီပိုင်းနဲ့ငှားတယ် to rent by the hour
သစ်တစ်ပင်တောင် One-Tree Hill, a local attraction located in Kyaingtong (Kengtung)
လုံးပတ် circumference (of a tree or a pillar)
ဦးအောင်ဇေယျ U Aung Zeya, founder of the Konbaung Dynasty
အယုဒ္ဒယ ancient name of Thailand, Burmanized version of Ayutthaya
ကျိန်စာ curse
ကျိန်စာတိုက်တယ် to put a curse on something or someone
ပါးစပ်ရာဇဝင် oral history
အတည်ပြုတယ် to verify, to confirm
တစ်ဆင့်စကားတစ်ဆင့်နား stories transmitted by mouth, oral history
ရွာသူကြီး village headman
ကုန်းဘောင်မင်းဆက် Konbaung Dynasty
တဘောင် prophesy
ဘုရားလည်းပြီး ပြည်ကြီးလည်းပျက် when the pagoda is done, the kingdom will be ruined (a prophetic verse foretelling the fall of Bagan)
တိုက်ဆိုင်တယ် to coincide
ကျူးကျော်တိုက်ခိုက်တယ် to invade
ငှက်ပျောဖက် banana leaf
တစ်ခါပြင် a fixed meal for one customer (a way of calculating payment in some Burmese restaurants)
ပွဲတော်တည်တယ် to have a feast
အရံဟင်း side dishes
လေယာဉ်မူးတယ် to get sick from air travel
လေယာဉ်အစုပ် crappy planes
နားအူတယ် the ears are ringing
ခါးခါးသီးသီးငြင်းတယ် to refuse bitterly
ခရီးပမ်းတယ် to be worn out by a trip (to be jetlagged)
မြိတ် (also pronounced ဘိတ်) Myeik, a city in the Tanintharyi Region
တောင်ခြေ the foot of a hill
နတ် animist spirits
စကားပုံ proverb
ကျားကြောက်လို့ရှင်ကြီးကိုး၊ ရှင်ကြီးကျားထက်ဆိုး Threatened by the tiger, I turned to the spirit lord, but the lord turns out to be worse than the tiger (Burmese proverb)

Have a question about a Burmese word or phrase you heard here? Send us a message.

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In this episode, my cohost Mol Mol and I discuss the joy of travel. Mol Mol has just returned from a trip to Tarchileik, a city in the Shan State bordering the notorious Golden Triangle region. While I have not been back in Burma recently, I still have fond memories of my last pilgrimage to the temple-dotted ancient city of Bagan. Mol Mol recounts the taste of a local delicacy--grilled fish wrapped in banana leaf--and the oral history of a tree supposedly planted by the Konbaung Dynasty’s founder U Aung Zeya; I discuss the Bagan pagoda associated with a prophesy that foreshadows the fall of the first Burmese empire. For those and more, listen to our latest episode. (Music clips from Uppbeat.io)

Vocabulary

အချိန်သက်သာတယ် it saves time
မိုးသီး hailstone, ice pellets
မိုးသီးကြွေတယ် hails rain down
ရွှေတြိဂံနယ်မြေ The Golden Triangle
စာကြမ်းပိုး (pronounced စာဂျဘိုး) bookworm
နယ်စပ် border region
စေတီလေးဆူ four pagodas (ဆူ is the counting word for sacred objects)
မြင်းလှည်းဆရာ horse carriage driver
နေ့ကြေး day rate
ခလောက် bells for animals
လှုပ်တုပ်လှုပ်တုပ် to move in a jerky, shaky, wobbly fashion
ရှုခင်း scenery
နာရီပိုင်းနဲ့ငှားတယ် to rent by the hour
သစ်တစ်ပင်တောင် One-Tree Hill, a local attraction located in Kyaingtong (Kengtung)
လုံးပတ် circumference (of a tree or a pillar)
ဦးအောင်ဇေယျ U Aung Zeya, founder of the Konbaung Dynasty
အယုဒ္ဒယ ancient name of Thailand, Burmanized version of Ayutthaya
ကျိန်စာ curse
ကျိန်စာတိုက်တယ် to put a curse on something or someone
ပါးစပ်ရာဇဝင် oral history
အတည်ပြုတယ် to verify, to confirm
တစ်ဆင့်စကားတစ်ဆင့်နား stories transmitted by mouth, oral history
ရွာသူကြီး village headman
ကုန်းဘောင်မင်းဆက် Konbaung Dynasty
တဘောင် prophesy
ဘုရားလည်းပြီး ပြည်ကြီးလည်းပျက် when the pagoda is done, the kingdom will be ruined (a prophetic verse foretelling the fall of Bagan)
တိုက်ဆိုင်တယ် to coincide
ကျူးကျော်တိုက်ခိုက်တယ် to invade
ငှက်ပျောဖက် banana leaf
တစ်ခါပြင် a fixed meal for one customer (a way of calculating payment in some Burmese restaurants)
ပွဲတော်တည်တယ် to have a feast
အရံဟင်း side dishes
လေယာဉ်မူးတယ် to get sick from air travel
လေယာဉ်အစုပ် crappy planes
နားအူတယ် the ears are ringing
ခါးခါးသီးသီးငြင်းတယ် to refuse bitterly
ခရီးပမ်းတယ် to be worn out by a trip (to be jetlagged)
မြိတ် (also pronounced ဘိတ်) Myeik, a city in the Tanintharyi Region
တောင်ခြေ the foot of a hill
နတ် animist spirits
စကားပုံ proverb
ကျားကြောက်လို့ရှင်ကြီးကိုး၊ ရှင်ကြီးကျားထက်ဆိုး Threatened by the tiger, I turned to the spirit lord, but the lord turns out to be worse than the tiger (Burmese proverb)

Have a question about a Burmese word or phrase you heard here? Send us a message.

  continue reading

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