A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...

Bull, a; ချီဖၫထံ -- ချီဖၫထံ ကဒု ၩ
Bullock, a; ချီဖၫ -- ဆၧမံ ၩ့ -- ချီဖၫကဒု ၩ -- ဆၧမံ ၩ့ကဒု ၩ
Bullock, to toss with his horns; ဘျၧၫ့
Bund, a; တမၧၩ့ -- တမၧၩ့လဘီၩ့
Burman; Burmese; ဒီၩ့ဂိၩ -- ပယၩ့
Burn with fire, to; ဆူၭထၪ့လၧမ့ ၪ
Burnt to death by fire, to be; မ့ ၪအၪ့ၥံ ၫ
Bury, to; ဘၧၩ့လၩ့
Bury the dead, to; ခၧၫ့လၩ့ဘၧၩ့
But; လါနၫ့ -- မွဲလါနၫ့ဘိၩ -- လါနၫ့ဘိၩ
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But I; အ့ ၪမွဲယဝ့ ၫဒၪ
Buttocks, the; ခဲၫ့ -- ခဲၫ့ပၪ
Button up a coat, to; ထၪ့ဘု ၬထၪ့ -- ထၪ့ဘု ၬထၬ
Buy, to; ဎွ ့ၩ -- ဎွ ့ၩန့ -- အၪ့ဎွ ့ၩ
By accident; By chance; လဘၪန့ဘၪ -- လဘၪအခၨၭ
By degrees; လၧယၫလခီၫထူၩထူၩ
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Cage, a; An enclosure, (used for birds or animals) ဖီၩ့ -- ဖီၩ့ကဖီၩ့
Calf of the leg, the; ခၪ့ဒူၪၥၪ
Call, to; ကိၭ -- ကိၭလၩ့
Call a person, to; ကိၭန့ -- ကိၭ
Call back, to; ကိၭန့ထဲၩ့ -- ကိၭထဲၩ့
Call inside, to; ကိၭနု ၬ To call inside the house; ကိၭနု ၬလၧယံ ၪ့အဖၧၩ့
Call to a person, to; ကိၭၡီၩ့
Call together, to; ကိၭကီၪ့
Cannon, a; မျိၬ -- မျိၬကခိၪ
Careful, to be; ထု ၪ့လၩ့
Carry with the hands, to; ဆိၬ
Carry back, to; ထဲၩ့ဆိၬန့ -- ထဲၩ့ဆိၬထဲၩ့
Carry away, to; ထဲၩ့ဆိၬ -- ဆိၬခွ ံ ၬ
Carry on the head, to; ယု ၩ -- ယု ၩလၩ့ -- ယု ၩထၪ့
Carry on the shoulders, to; ယိၭ
Cart, a; လဲၪ့ -- လဲၪ့ကခိၪ Two carts လဲၪ့နံၫခိၪ
Cartridge, a; ကျီၩ့အၥၪ -- ကျီၩ့အၥၪကဖျိၪ့
Case in Court, a; အမူၭ
Cat, a; မံ ၫယီၩ -- မံ ၫယီၩကဒု ၩ
Catch, to; ဖီၪ့န့
Catch hold of, to; To arrest, (judicially); ဖီၪ့ထၬ
Catch up with, to; ချုၭန့
Cause or reason, a; အဂဲးအကၠ ီၩ့ --- မၩအၥၭ
Certainly not; လါလါအ့ ၬ.
Certificate, a; လဲၬမၬ -- လဲၬမၬကဘံ ၪ့
Chair, a; ခဲၫ့ဆၧၫ့နၩ့ -- ခဲၫ့ဆၧၩ့နၩ့ကဖျိၪ့ -- လးဆၧၫ့နၩ့ -- လးဆၧၫ့နၩ့ကဖျိၪ့
Change, to; To move; ၥု ၭထၪ့ၥု ၭလၩ့
Change, to; To alter; အၪ့လဲၩ
Channel, a; ချိၬ -- ချိၬကဖျိၪ့