အပတ်

Burmese

Etymology

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ ပတ် (pat, “to encircle”).

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: အ'ပတ်
IPA^(key): /ʔəpaʔ/
Romanization: MLCTS: a.pat • ALA-LC: ʼapatʻ • BGN/PCGN: ăpat • Okell: ăpaʔ

Noun

အပတ် • (a.pat)

week (unit of time)
cycle of events or processes
cycle of seven days

Derived terms

အပတ်စဉ် (a.patcany)
အပတ်တကုတ် (a.patta.kut)
အပတ်ပြေ (a.patpre)
အပတ်လည် (a.patlany)
အလည်အပတ် (a.lany-a.pat)
အလှည့်အပတ် (a.hlany.a.pat)

See also

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”)

Further reading

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