“pain” in Sgaw Karen
ဆါ
hsah
pain
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“pain” is written ဆါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hsah. Knyaw helps you read and understand words, not say them out loud. Karen is a tone language, so the English-letter sounds are only a rough help.
This word in a story
ဖီအထံသ၀ံၤထီၣ်ဆံးဆံးဖိတဖၣ်န့ၣ် လဲၤစဲးဘုးဒီးကနဲအခီၣ်သ့ဒ်လဲၣ် ဖဲလၢကနဲကၠီၢ်လီၤလၢဖီလိၤဒ်သိးကကၠူသီၣ်ထံဆါ ဒီးဖိအသ၀ံၤတဖၣ်စဲးသုးဒီးကနဲအခီၣ်ဒီးကစၢ်လဲၤ၀ဲလီၤ
How do those tiny grains of pollen stick to the bees' feet? When bees sit on a flower to suck honey, the grains of pollen stick to their feet and bodies.
from “Why Do Bees Buzz?” →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.
from “Goodnight, Tinku!” →