ခရာ
Burmese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कला (kalā).
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ခ'ရာ
- IPA(key): /kʰəjà/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hka.ra • ALA-LC: kharā • BGN/PCGN: hkăya • Okell: hkăya
Noun
ခရာ • (hka.ra)
- (archaic) traditional Burmese measure of time spanning 0.4 seconds or ten လယ (la.ya.)
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”)
References
- “ခရာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- kharā (Latin script)
- 𑀔𑀭𑀸 (Brahmi script)
- खरा (Devanagari script)
- খরা (Bengali script)
- ඛරා (Sinhalese script)
- ၶရႃ (Burmese script)
- ขรา or ขะรา (Thai script)
- ᨡᩁᩣ (Tai Tham script)
- ຂຣາ or ຂະຣາ (Lao script)
- ខរា (Khmer script)
- 𑄈𑄢𑄂 (Chakma script)
Noun
ခရာ
- Burmese script form of kharā, ablative singular & nominative/vocative plural of ခရ (khara, “donkey”)
- Burmese script form of kharā, ablative singular of ခရ (khara, “water”)
Sanskrit
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