ထီးတဘၣ်ဟဲနုာ်ဘၣ်
No Pigs Allowed
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တုၤထီးနၢ်ဟူဘၣ်ဃးတၢ်အီၣ်မၤတၢ်သူၣ်ဖှံသးဖှံ အဝဲဆိကမိၣ်ဝဲ ယနၢၤတအိၣ်ဘၣ် ယကမၤဒ်လဲၣ်
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When the pig heard about the party, he thought, "I want to go to the party, too. But I don't have horns. What can I do?"
မုၢ်ဆ့ၣ်ထီၣ်ထီးဆီကမိၣ်တၢ်ထီၣ် အဝဲဖှူကနဲဃီးလၢတၢ်နၢၤအလိၤဒ်သိးကထီထီၣ်တၢ်နၢၤလၢအခိၣ်လိၤ
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The next day, he had an idea. He stuck some horns to his head with beeswax!
တၢ်မၤကဲထီၣ်ဒီးထီးဆိကမိၣ်လၢအဝဲမ့ၢ်ပှၤကူာ်တၢ်သ့ဒိၣ်မး တုၤအဝဲန့ၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ခွဲးလၢကလဲၤနုာ်လၢတၢ်သးဖှံအလီၢ် တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲမ့ၢ်ဝဲတၢ်သးဖှံအလီၢ်န့ၣ်အီၣ်ဘူးဒီးမုၢ်စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
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It worked! The pig felt very clever when he was allowed into the party. But the party took place outside in the hot sun.
တုၤတၢ်မၤသးဖှံအလီၢ်ကိၢ်ထီၣ် ကနဲဃီးစးထီၣ်လီၤဘှ့း ထီးအနၢၤလီၤဖျု ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၢအိၣ်ဒီးအနၢၤတဖၣ်ဖုးဘၣ်အသး တၢ်တဒုလၢအနၢၤတအိၣ်အံၤမ့ၢ်မတၤလဲၣ် ဟဲဖဲအံၤဘၣ်မနုၤလဲၣ် အဝဲသ့ၣ်သံကွၢ်တၢ်
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Once the sun rose higher and the day grew warmer, Pig's horns fell off. The horned animals were shocked. "Who’s that with no horns? Why did you come here?" they asked. "I am just a pig," the pig said. "I just wanted to come to the party too."
ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိအစီၤပၤဟ့ၣ်လီၤအကလုၢ် ဖီၣ်ဃာ်ထီးတဒုန့ၣ်ဝံၤကွံာ်လီၤအီၤလၢတၢ်ဖီလာ် ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိအဂၤတဖၣ်ဖီၣ်ဃာ်ထီးဝံၤကွံာ်လီၤဝဲဆူတၢ်ဖီလာ်လီၤ
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"There are no pigs allowed here!" the king of the horned animals said. "No throw that pig out!"
ထီးလၢအလီၤသးကညီၤတဒု အဝဲလီၤတဲာ်အနးဒ့လီၤဘၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖျၢၣ် လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိအနးဒ့ဘံၣ်နာ်လီၤ
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Poor pig! When he fell, he landed on his nose. And his nose was flattened into a snout.
စးထီၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်ထီးအနးဒ့ဘံၣ်နာ်လီၤ
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Ever since then, the pig has had a flat snout for a nose. And still, no horns.
Words in this story
- တုၤto arrive
- နၢ်ဟူto hear
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ဃးpale (of a colour)
- တၢ်အီၣ်food
- မၤto cause
- တၢ်thing
- သူၣ်liver
- ဖှံto sow, scatter
- သးဖှံto be happy
- အဝဲhe, she
- ဆိကမိၣ်to think
- ယI, my
- နၢၤhorn
- တnot (negative prefix)
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- ကwill (future marker)
- ဒ်လဲၣ်how
- မုၢ်sun
- ထီၣ်to go up
- ဆီchicken
- ကနဲhoneybee
- လၢin, at
- အhis, her, its
- လိၤto be straight
- ဒ်သိးlike, as
- ထီto be tall
- ခိၣ်head
- တၢ်မၤwork, job
- ကဲထီၣ်to become
- ဒီးand
- မ့ၢ်to be
- ပှၤperson
- ကူာ်to chop
- သ့to wash
- ဒိၣ်to be big
- မးvery, really
- န့ၣ်that
- လဲၤto go
- နုာ်to enter
- လီၢ်field
- တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲdifficulty, trouble
- အီၣ်to eat
- ဘူးto be near
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- လီၤto go down
- ကိၢ်to be hot
- စးထီၣ်to start
- ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိanimal
- အိၣ်ဒီးto have
- ဖုးto burst
- ဘၣ်အသးto like, to approve
- ဒုto be muddy
- အံၤthis
- မတၤလဲၣ်who?
- ဟဲto come
- ဖဲအံၤhere
- ဘၣ်မနုၤwhy, for what reason
- အဝဲသ့ၣ်they
- သံကွၢ်to ask
- စီၤပၤking
- ဟ့ၣ်လီၤto hand over
- ကလုၢ်voice, word
- ဖီၣ်to catch, to hold
- ဝံၤto finish
- ကွံာ်လီၤto throw down
- အီၤit, him, her
- ဖီလာ်under
- အဂၤother
- ဆူto, towards
- သးကညီၤto pity, have mercy
- လီၤတဲာ်to fall off
- ဒ့to play (an instrument)
- ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်earth
- ဖျၢၣ်(classifier for round things)
- လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိtherefore
- နာ်to believe
- ဖဲန့ၣ်there
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 3.0.