“to spread out (a mat)” in Sgaw Karen
ဒါ
dah
to spread out (a mat)
“to spread out (a mat)” is written ဒါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as dah. 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
ဒီး, စီၤကါကး နၣ်ဟူတၢ်သီၣ်! ပး,ပး,ပး,! မ့ၢ်မတၤမၤသီၣ်တၢ်တဂၤလဲၣ် ဒါနိစါဧိဒံနိး! စီၤကါကးသူၣ်ခုသးခုဒိၣ်မး လၢထံၣ်ဘၣ် ဒံနိး
Kaka hears a sound! Dup, Dup, Dup! What makes this beat? It is Dinoo the dinosaur! Kaka is glad to see Dinoo.
from “Sing in the Rain” →မီးတအဲၣ်ဒီးဃာ်ကဒါအသးမ့ၢ်လၢပျံၤကထံၣ်ခွံၢ်ကဒီး အဃိအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်ဖဲသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအပူၤ ကထံၣ်ထဲအမဲာ်ချံဖျၢၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ပျံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ မီးဘၣ်တၢ်ပ၀ီၤဃာ်အီၤလၢမ့ၢ်အူ၀းတရံး
Mod was frightened of the hyena, but did not want to turn around and face the chameleon either, so she stayed hidden in the bushes. The fire came closer, and closer!
from “Mod the Toad” →