ခဏ
Burmese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Pali khaṇa, from Sanskrit क्षण (kṣaṇa). Cognate with Mon ခၞ, Khmer ខណៈ (khaʼnaʼ), Thai ขณะ (kà-nà), Lao ຂະນະ (kha na).
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ခ'ဏ
- IPA(key): /kʰəna̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hka.na. • ALA-LC: khaṇa • BGN/PCGN: hkăna. • Okell: hkăná
Noun
ခဏ • (hka.na.)
- a moment (very brief period of time), a short while
- (archaic) a measure of time spanning 0.16 seconds or four လယ (la.ya.), traditionally described as ten winks of the eyes or ten snaps of the fingers
Derived terms
See also
units of time (traditional)edit
- နှစ် (hnac, “year”)
- လ (la., “month”)
- အပတ် (a.pat, “week”)
- ရက် (rak, “day”)
- ဗဟို (ba.hui) ~ ပဟိုရ် (pa.huir, “3 hours”)
- နာရီ (nari, “24 minutes”)
- ပါဒ် (pad, “6 minutes”)
- ဗီဇနာ (bija.na, “24 seconds”)
- ပြန် (pran, “4 seconds”)
- ခရာ (hka.ra, “0.4 seconds”)
- ခဏ (hka.na., “0.16 seconds”)
- လယ (la.ya., “0.04 seconds”)
- အနုခရာ (a.nu.hka.ra, “32 milliseconds”)
Further reading
- “ခဏ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pali
Etymology 1
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Noun
ခဏ m
Declension
Declension table of "ခဏ" (masculine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ခဏော (khaṇo) | ခဏာ (khaṇā) |
| Accusative (second) | ခဏံ (khaṇaṃ) | ခဏေ (khaṇe) |
| Instrumental (third) | ခဏေန (khaṇena) | ခဏေဟိ (khaṇehi) or ခဏေဘိ (khaṇebhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | ခဏဿ (khaṇassa) or ခဏာယ (khaṇāya) or ခဏတ္ထံ (khaṇatthaṃ) | ခဏာနံ (khaṇānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ခဏသ္မာ (khaṇasmā) or ခဏမှာ (khaṇamhā) or ခဏာ (khaṇā) | ခဏေဟိ (khaṇehi) or ခဏေဘိ (khaṇebhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ခဏဿ (khaṇassa) | ခဏာနံ (khaṇānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | ခဏသ္မိံ (khaṇasmiṃ) or ခဏမှိ (khaṇamhi) or ခဏေ (khaṇe) | ခဏေသု (khaṇesu) |
| Vocative (calling) | ခဏ (khaṇa) | ခဏာ (khaṇā) |
Etymology 2
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Verb
ခဏ