ကြာ

See also: ကျ, ကျား, and ကြား

Burmese

FWOTD – 30 October 2016

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕà/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kra • ALA-LC: krā • BGN/PCGN: kya • Okell: ca

Etymology 1

Noun

ကြာ • (kra)

  1. water lily, lotus
  2. (on cattle and horses) star, blaze
  3. a come-hither look
Derived terms
  • ကြာကလပ် (kraka.lap)
  • ကြာခြည် (krahkrany)
  • ကြာခို (krahkui)
  • ကြာဆံ (krahcam)
  • ကြာဆံကြီး (krahcamkri:)
  • ကြာဆူး (krahcu:)
  • ကြာညို (kra-nyui)
  • ကြာနီ (krani)
  • ကြာနု (kranu.)
  • ကြာပစ် (krapac)
  • ကြာပြန် (kra-pran)
  • ကြာပေး (krape:)
  • ကြာဖက်နင်း (krahpaknang:)
  • ကြာဖြူ (krahpru)
  • ကြာမှောက် (krahmauk)
  • ကြာမုံ (kramum)
  • ကြာယပ် (krayap)
  • ကြာရင့် (krarang.)
  • ကြာလန် (kralan)
  • ကြာသင်္ကန်း (krasangkan:)
  • စလင်းကြာ (ca.lang:kra)
  • နေကြာ (ne-kra)
  • ပဒုမ္မာကြာ (pa.dumma-kra)
  • ပဲကြာဆံ (pai:krahcam)
  • မုန့်ကြာခွက် (mun.krahkwak)
  • မုန့်ကြာစေ့ (mun.krace.)
  • လေးကျွန်းကြာခိုင် (le:kywan:krahkuing)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gra (“long (time)”). Cognate with Old Chinese 遐 (OC *ɡraː, “far, distant, long (time)”) (STEDT: kra "long ( in doing, in time )"). Hill (2019) (p. 251) adduces 架 (OC *kraːls, “stand, support”) (which he mistakenly writes as 枷 (OC *ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl, “shackles”)) as a phonetically-sound cognate.

Verb

ကြာ • (kra)

  1. to take a long time, be a long time (since)
  2. to take, last, elapse
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Shan: ၵျႃႇ (kjàa)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-A Finals (13. Lotus; Water lily (Nelumbium; Nymphaea)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 1

Further reading

Mon

Noun

ကြာ (krā)

  1. brand seal stamp.
  2. tripod derrick from which winnowing sieve ကၞာဲဇာ (knāyjā) is suspended.
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