ရက်

• IPA^(key): /jɛʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: rak • ALA-LC: rakʻ • BGN/PCGN: yet • Okell: yeʔ
• Homophone: ယက် (yak)

Inherited from Old Burmese ရျက် (ryak) (Bagan), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rV-jak (“day, full day; overnight”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo riak, riah (“to spend the night”), Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”), Nuosu ꉖ (hxot, “night”, classifier), Lisu ꓦꓬꓼ (h̃jɑ̱̀, “night”, classifier), and Chinese 夜 (OC *laːɡs, “night”).

ရက် • (rak)

1. day (twenty-four hours)

   Synonym: နေ့ (ne.)

Used in compounds with numerals like a classifier, but without any noun preceding the compound, e.g. လေးရက် (le:rak, “four days”).

• units of timeedit

  • နှစ် (hnac)
  • လ (la.)
  • အပတ် (a.pat)
  • ရက် (rak), နေ့ (ne.)
  • နာရီ (nari)
  • မိနစ် (mi.nac)
  • စက္ကန့် (cakkan.)
• 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”)

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *rak ~ tak/*dak ~ k-rak (LaPolla, 1987), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tək (“to weave, to knit”) (Hill, 2019). Cognate with Tibetan འཐག ('thag, “to weave”) and Chinese 織 (OC *tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ, “to weave”) (STEDT).

ရက် • (rak)

1. to weave

ရက် • (rak)

1. (usually in reduplicated form) quick, swift, violent, decisive, bold (of action)

ရက် • (rak)

1. particle placed after verbs to denote a lack of consideration

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjak (“oil, fat, grease”). Cognate with Mizo (sa) hriak (“oil, grease”), Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “oil, fat, grease”), and Chinese 液 (OC *laːɡ, “liquid, fluid”). Alternatively, from အရက် (a.rak, “alcoholic drinks, liquor”), from Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq, “arrack, arak, an alcoholic drink”).

ရက် • (rak)

1. extracted liquid, such as nectar

• “ရက်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.