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Anyeint, Zat, Pwe: these are terms associated with classical music, dance, and drama, sometimes performed in respected public halls but more often in open spaces and fields, under makeshift tents and on temporary stages lit with torches or dangling lightbulbs. What kind of instruments can you expect to hear in these performances? What is the role of the comedians dressed in large gaung baungs, or headdresses? And what is the proper protocol for summoning a dancer to the stage?

In this episode, my cohost Mol Mol from Burmese Language Academy of Yangon (BLAY) and I talk about B-Drama -- Burmese drama. For the key words and phrases in our chat, please check the vocabulary below.
Vocabulary

ဇာတ်၊ ဇာတ်သဘင်၊ ဇာတ်ပွဲ drama, theatrical performance
အငြိမ့် a mixture of song and dance performed by a theatrical group
ကိုယ်တွေ့ အတွေ့အကြုံ personal experience
အမျိုးသားပြဇာတ်ရုံ national theater
ရာမဇာတ် the epic of Rama
ဘုရားပွဲ pagoda festival
ဇာတ်စင်ထိုးတယ် to put up a stage for a performance
ညလုံးပေါက် all-night long
တူရိယာပစ္စည်း musical instrument
ပတ်ဝိုင်း drum circle
ဆိုင်းဝိုင်း gong circle
နှဲ a Burmese wind instrument
ဗုံ drum
လင်းကွင်း၊ လကွင်း၊ ယကွင်း၊ ခွက်ခွင်း shell
လူရွှင်တော်၊ လူပျက် comedian
ပျက်လုံး joke
ပျက်လုံး ပျက်တယ်၊ ပျက်လုံးထုတ်တယ် to crack a joke
မင်းသမီးခေါ်တယ် to summon the dancer
တစ်ခန်းရပ်ပြဇာတ် one-act play
ဗုဒ္ဓဝင်ဇာတ်လမ်း a Buddhist fable
လေးချိုး a four-syllable verse
လေးချိုး ချိုးတယ် to recite a four-syllable verse
မင်းသား leading male dancer
မင်းသမီး leading female dancer
တစ်ပင်တိုင်အက a solo dance
နှစ်ပါးသွားအက a duet dance
ဆီမီးခွက်အက a dance with small oil lamps
ဇာဂနာ a renowned political activist and comedian
တိုက်ပုံ man’s formal jacket
တောင်ရှည်ပုဆိုး man’s formal sarong
ခေါင်းပေါင်း headdress
မဏ္ဍပ် pavilion
ယိမ်းအက synchronized group dance
အင်္ကျီဆင်တူ in matching outfits
သံချပ်ထိုးတယ် to put on a call-and-response routine
ထမင်းချိုင့် a multi-tiered food carrier, a tiffin
အိပ်ချင်ပြေတယ်၊ အိပ်ငိုက်ပြေတယ် to prevent sleepiness
၅၅၀ ဇာတ်နိပါတ် stories rooted in Buddhist teaching
ဇော်ဂျီ the alchemist
ဝေဿန္တရာဇာတ် the story of Prince Waythandaya (Vessantara)
ဇာတ်တော်ကြီး ဆယ်ဘွဲ့ the ten birth stories of Buddha
ကွမ်းယာ betel quid
ဘီလူး mythical demon, ogre
ဘီလူးဆိုင်းတီးတယ် to announce the demon’s entrance with music
ဗျော a drum-focused composition
ဇာတ်ရုံ a theater
ပန်းကုံးစွပ်တယ် to place a wreath on someone
ချိတ် a clip, a pin
ကဗျာလွတ်အက a dance repertoire for learners
စည်းနဲ့ဝါး beat counting in Burmese music, a bamboo clapper and a pair of shells for keeping time in music

Have a question about a Burmese word or phrase you heard here? Send us a message.

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Anyeint, Zat, Pwe: these are terms associated with classical music, dance, and drama, sometimes performed in respected public halls but more often in open spaces and fields, under makeshift tents and on temporary stages lit with torches or dangling lightbulbs. What kind of instruments can you expect to hear in these performances? What is the role of the comedians dressed in large gaung baungs, or headdresses? And what is the proper protocol for summoning a dancer to the stage?

In this episode, my cohost Mol Mol from Burmese Language Academy of Yangon (BLAY) and I talk about B-Drama -- Burmese drama. For the key words and phrases in our chat, please check the vocabulary below.
Vocabulary

ဇာတ်၊ ဇာတ်သဘင်၊ ဇာတ်ပွဲ drama, theatrical performance
အငြိမ့် a mixture of song and dance performed by a theatrical group
ကိုယ်တွေ့ အတွေ့အကြုံ personal experience
အမျိုးသားပြဇာတ်ရုံ national theater
ရာမဇာတ် the epic of Rama
ဘုရားပွဲ pagoda festival
ဇာတ်စင်ထိုးတယ် to put up a stage for a performance
ညလုံးပေါက် all-night long
တူရိယာပစ္စည်း musical instrument
ပတ်ဝိုင်း drum circle
ဆိုင်းဝိုင်း gong circle
နှဲ a Burmese wind instrument
ဗုံ drum
လင်းကွင်း၊ လကွင်း၊ ယကွင်း၊ ခွက်ခွင်း shell
လူရွှင်တော်၊ လူပျက် comedian
ပျက်လုံး joke
ပျက်လုံး ပျက်တယ်၊ ပျက်လုံးထုတ်တယ် to crack a joke
မင်းသမီးခေါ်တယ် to summon the dancer
တစ်ခန်းရပ်ပြဇာတ် one-act play
ဗုဒ္ဓဝင်ဇာတ်လမ်း a Buddhist fable
လေးချိုး a four-syllable verse
လေးချိုး ချိုးတယ် to recite a four-syllable verse
မင်းသား leading male dancer
မင်းသမီး leading female dancer
တစ်ပင်တိုင်အက a solo dance
နှစ်ပါးသွားအက a duet dance
ဆီမီးခွက်အက a dance with small oil lamps
ဇာဂနာ a renowned political activist and comedian
တိုက်ပုံ man’s formal jacket
တောင်ရှည်ပုဆိုး man’s formal sarong
ခေါင်းပေါင်း headdress
မဏ္ဍပ် pavilion
ယိမ်းအက synchronized group dance
အင်္ကျီဆင်တူ in matching outfits
သံချပ်ထိုးတယ် to put on a call-and-response routine
ထမင်းချိုင့် a multi-tiered food carrier, a tiffin
အိပ်ချင်ပြေတယ်၊ အိပ်ငိုက်ပြေတယ် to prevent sleepiness
၅၅၀ ဇာတ်နိပါတ် stories rooted in Buddhist teaching
ဇော်ဂျီ the alchemist
ဝေဿန္တရာဇာတ် the story of Prince Waythandaya (Vessantara)
ဇာတ်တော်ကြီး ဆယ်ဘွဲ့ the ten birth stories of Buddha
ကွမ်းယာ betel quid
ဘီလူး mythical demon, ogre
ဘီလူးဆိုင်းတီးတယ် to announce the demon’s entrance with music
ဗျော a drum-focused composition
ဇာတ်ရုံ a theater
ပန်းကုံးစွပ်တယ် to place a wreath on someone
ချိတ် a clip, a pin
ကဗျာလွတ်အက a dance repertoire for learners
စည်းနဲ့ဝါး beat counting in Burmese music, a bamboo clapper and a pair of shells for keeping time in music

Have a question about a Burmese word or phrase you heard here? Send us a message.

  continue reading

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