နၤလၢအဂ့ၤ ထံကူး

တၢ်တမိၢ်မံယသးဒ်ဘၣ်မိဧၢ"ထံကူးကဒူးကဒ့ၣ်တၢ် ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ထံကူးအမိၢ်တနၢ်ဟူဘၣ် မ့ၢ်လၢအမံယီာ်လံ ထံကူးဃာ်အသးလၢအကၠ့ၣ်တပၤဃာ်လၢအထွဲတပၤမံကျၢၢ်လီၤသးဝံၤကၢရံးသးအီထီခိၣ် ဘၣ်ဆၣ်မံတန့ၢ်ဒ်ဘၣ်

"I am not sleepy, Ma," murmured Tinku. But Ma did not hear him. She was fast asleep. He turned left, and he turned right. He lay on his tummy, and rolled on his back. But he could not sleep!

ထံကူးပ၁်လီၤသးလဲၤထီၣ်ကွၢ်ကီတၢ်ဆူအံၤဆူနုၤ ကွၢ်ထီၣ်တၢ်မူကပိာ်လိၤ ထံကူးထံၣ်လါကဝီၤဖးဒိၣ် ကပီၤဖျါဆှံမး ဆှၢန့ၣ်အီၤတၢ်နံၤကမှံမၤမု၁်အသးဒိၣ်မး မုၢ်နၤခါအံၤဃံလၤမးလီၤ ထံကူးဆိမိၣ်ဝဲလၢအသးပူၤ

So he set off into the night to see what he could find. Up in the sky, Tinku saw the moon, white and round, smiling down at him. He felt very happy. ‘Night is beautiful,’ thought Tinku.

လၢသ့ၣ်ဖးထီအကၠီးခံ ထံကူးထံၣ်တၢ်ကပီၤဒီဖျၢၣ်ဖိအိၣ်ပှဲၤသ့ၣ်ခံ ဖဲန့ၣ်အခါတၢ်ကပီၤတဖျၢၣ်ဖိယူၤလီၤ"ယမ့ၢ်နါပံၢ်လ့"တၢ်ကပီၤဒီဖျၢၣ်ဖိန့ၣ်စံးဝဲဒၣ် ဒီးလ့ကပီၤတၢ်ကပီၤကပြုၢ် လၢမုၢ်နၤခါ "ပဒီတံၤသကိးလိ၁်သးမီၤ"ထံကူးစံးကွၢ် "န့ၢ်"နါပံၢ်လ့ ထံၣ်ဃုၥ်အီၤလီၤ

Far away on the top of a tree, there were some tiny lights. One spot of light flew down! "I’m a firefly," said the spot of light. "I glow in the dark!" "Will you be my friend?" asked Tinku. "Yes, I will!" said the firefly.

တၢ်အိၣ်တမံၤ ယူၤလဲၤကပ၁်ထံကူးအမဲာ် ဝံၤထိၣ်ကၠဲၤလီၤအခိၣ်လၢသ့ၣ်လိၤ "ထိၣ်ဖိဧၢ နမံၤဒ်လဲၣ်"ထံကူးသံကွၢ် "ယတမ့ၢ်ထိၣ်ဘၣ် ယမ့ၢ်ဘျါ ဒီးယကွၢ်တၢ်ထံၣ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခါန့ၣ်လီၤ ဘျါစံးဆၢ န အဲၣ်ဒီးကဲဲယသကိးစ့ၢ်ဧါ ထံကူးစံး န့ၢ်သၢၢ် ဘျါစံးဆၢ

Something flew by and hung upside down on a tree. "What is your name, bird?" asked Tinku. "I am not a bird, I am a bat. I can see during the night!" said the bat. "Will you be my friend?" asked Tinku. "Yes, I will!" said the bat.

သ့ၣ်လၣ်ဟူးဝ့ၢ်ဝီၤလၢကသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံ ပှၤကဘၣ်အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်သပှၢ်တၢၢ်လီၤ"နမ့ၢ်မတၤတဂၤလဲၣ်"ထံကူးသံကွၢ် ယမ့ၢ်ထွံၣ်မံၤ ထွံၣ်စံးဆၢ ယဟးလိ၁်ကွဲမု၁်လၢမုၢ်နၤခါ ပဒီတံၤသကိးလိ၁်သးမီၢ် ထံကူးသံကွၢ် အိ န့ၢ်သၢၣ် ထွံၣ်စံးဆၢ

A few leaves moved in the bushes. Someone was hiding! "Who are you?" asked Tinku. "I am a fox," said the fox. "I go strolling out at night." "Will you be my friend?" asked Tinku. "Yes, I will!" said the fox.

တၢ်မဲၥ်ချံကပီၤကွၢ်လီၤထံကူးလၢသ့ၣ်ခံ နမ့ၢ်မတၤလဲၣ် "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" ယမ့ၢ်ဒိကအိ ယဃုအီၣ်ဆၣ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခါ နအဲၣ်ဒီးကဲယသကိးစ့ၢ်ဧါ "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" အဲၣ်ဒီး အဲၣ်ဒီး"ဒိကအိစံးဆၢ"

Two shiny eyes looked at him from a tree. "Who are you?" asked Tinku. "I’m an owl," said the owl. "I hunt for food during the night." "Will you be my friend?" asked Tinku. "Yes, I will!" said the owl.

စံးဒ် စံံးဒ် တၢ်အံၤမတၤလဲၣ် "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" ယမ့ၢ်သကံၤ "သကံၤစံးဆၢ" ယကိးသီၣ်ဖဲမုၢ်လီၤနုၥ် နအဲၣ်ဒီးကဲယသကီးစ့ၢ်ဧါ "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" န့ၢ်သၢၣ် "သကံၤစံးဆၢ"

"CHIRRRRRP! CHIRRRRRP!" "Who is here?" Tinku asked. "I’m a cricket," said the cricket. "I chirp when it is dark." "Will you be my friend?" asked Tinku. "Yes, I will!" said the cricket.

ထံကူးဒီးအသကိးလိ၁်ကွဲတခွံဝ့ၢ်တခွ့ဝီၤမုၥ်ဒိၣ်မး တုၤထံကူးတၢ်ဘှံးအသး "တၢ်မိၢ်မံယသးမံလံ ယကဘၣ်က့ၤလၢဒၢးလီၤ ထံကူးတဲဘၣ်အသကိး ထံကူးသးခုလၢအန့ၢ်ဘၣ်သကိးသီအါန့ၣ်လီၤ လၢဒၢးထံကူးကျူးလီၤသးမံဘူးဒီးအမိၢ် ဒီးစံးဝဲဒၣ် မိဖဲမုၢ်နၤန့ၣ်တၢ်တလီၤသယုၢ်ဘၣ် ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိသးဂ့ၤအိၣ်အါမး မ့ၢ်နတဲတၢ်ဘၣ်အမိၢ်တဲဆၢ နတံၤသကီးသီတဖၣ်မ့ၢ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိဃုအီၣ်ဆၣ်မုၢ်နၤခါဒ်သိးဒီးထွံၣ်မံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ

Tinku and his friends jumped and tossed and rolled until Tinku yawned. "I am sleepy. I have to go home now," said Tinku. He was happy that he had many new friends. Snuggling close to Ma, he said, "Night is not a lonely place, Ma. Night is full of wonderful beings." "Yes!" replied Ma. "Your new friends are nocturnal, just like wild dogs."

ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်န့ၣ်အီၣ်တၢ် လိ၁်ကွဲ မၤတၢ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခါ ဒီးအိၣ်ဘှံးလၢမုၢ်ဆါခါ နဘၣ်မံလံ နဂံၢ်ဘါကအိၣ်လိ၁်ကွဲဒီးနသကိးလၢဂီၤဆါန့ၣ်လီၤ နၤလၢဂ့ၤ"အမိၢ်တဲဘၣ်အီၤဒီးဖီးဟုထံကူး

"Nocturnal animals eat, play and work at night. They rest during the day. You must sleep now. Sleep will give you energy to play with your day-time friends tomorrow. Good night, little one!" she said, hugging him tight.

လါကဝီၤဖးဒိၣ်ဆဲးကပီၤလီၤဒီနၤ ထံကူးမံမုာ်ဒီနၤစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ

The bright round moon shone all night long, spreading her calm light all around. And Tinku slept all through the night!