5.2. Destinations.

1. lesson

The list below gives the items presented on the tape. For a fuller list see the Topical Vocabulary for sites and places.       

làn  လမ်း  road, street   

Bo-jouq Làn  ဗိုလ်ချုပ်လမ်း  Bogyoke Street   

Mǎha Ban-dú-lá Làn  မဟာဗန္ဓုလလမ်း  Maha Bandoola Street   

Ănaw-yǎt’a Làn  အနော်ရထာလမ်း  Anawrahta Street   

88 Bo-jouq Làn  ၈၈ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်လမ်း  88 Bogyoke Street   

45 Mǎha Ban-dú-lá Làn  ၄၅ မဟာဗန္ဓုလလမ်း  45 Maha Bandoola Street   

p’ǎyà  ဘုရား  pagoda  (also used to refer to Buddha images and the Buddha himself) 

Shwe-dǎgoun P’ǎyà  ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား  Shwedagon Pagoda   

S’ù-le P’ǎyà  ဆူးလေဘုရား  Sule Pagoda   

Ngà-daq-cì P’ǎyà  ငါးထပ်ကြီးဘုရား  Ngadatkyi Pagoda   

yoùn  ရုံး  office   

Myan-ma T’ǎreh-beh Yoùn  မြန်မာထရယ်ဗယ်ရုံး  Myanmar Travel office   

than-yoùn  သံရုံး  embassy   “envoy + office” 

Brí-tísh or Byí-t í-shá Than-yoùn  ဗြိတိသျှသံရုံး  British Embassy   

Ăme-rí-kan Than-yoùn  အမေရိကန်သံရုံး  American Embassy   

Àw-sǎtrè-lyá Than-yoùn  သြစတြေးလျသံရုံး  Australian Embassy   

le-yin-yoùn  လေယာဉ်ရုံး  airline office   

T’aìn Le-yin-yoùn  ထိုင်းလေယာဉ်ရုံး  Thai Airways office   

Bí-màn Le-yin-yoùn  ဘိမန်းလေယာဉ်ရုံး  Bangladesh Biman office   

Myan-ma Le-yin-yoùn  မြန်မာလေယာဉ်ရုံး  Myanmar Airways office   

Notes 

Bo-jouq: short for Bo-jouq Aun S’àn “General Aung San”, the national leader who won independence for Burma from the British, but was assassinated by a rival in 1947. 

Mǎha Ban-dú-lá: a talented general who commanded the king’s armies in campaigns against the British in 1824-1825. 

Ănaw-yǎt’a: a Burmese king who reigned at Pagan 1044-1077.