ခဏ

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali khaṇa. 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.)

1. a moment (very brief period of time), a short while
2. (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

• ခဏခဏ (hka.na.hka.na.)
• ခဏချင်း (hka.na.hkyang:)
• ခဏတစ်ဖြုတ် (hka.na.tachprut)
• ခဏပန်း (hka.na.pan:)
• တစ်ခဏချင်း (tachka.na.hkyang:)
• မကြာခဏ (ma.krahka.na.)

 

See also

• (traditional units of time) 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”), ^{(Category: my:Units of measure)}

Further reading

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

Pali

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• khaṇa (Latin script)
• 𑀔𑀡 (Brahmi script)
• खण (Devanagari script)
• খণ (Bengali script)
• ඛණ (Sinhalese script)
• ၶꧣ (Burmese script)
• ขณ or ขะณะ (Thai script)
• ᨡᨱ (Tai Tham script)
• ຂຓ or ຂະຓະ (Lao script)
• ខណ (Khmer script)
• 𑄈𑄕 (Chakma script)

Noun

ခဏ m

1. Burmese script form of khaṇa (“moment”)

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

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• khaṇa (Latin script)
• 𑀔𑀡 (Brahmi script)
• खण (Devanagari script)
• খণ (Bengali script)
• ඛණ (Sinhalese script)
• ၶꧣ (Burmese script)
• ขณ or ขะณะ (Thai script)
• ᨡᨱ (Tai Tham script)
• ຂຓ or ຂະຓະ (Lao script)
• ខណ (Khmer script)
• 𑄈𑄕 (Chakma script)

Alternative scripts

• khaṇa (Latin script)
• 𑀔𑀡 (Brahmi script)
• खण (Devanagari script)
• খণ (Bengali script)
• ඛණ (Sinhalese script)
• ၶꧣ (Burmese script)
• ขณ or ขะณะ (Thai script)
• ᨡᨱ (Tai Tham script)
• ຂຓ or ຂະຓະ (Lao script)
• ខណ (Khmer script)
• 𑄈𑄕 (Chakma script)

Verb

ခဏ

1. Burmese script form of khaṇa, imperative active second-person singular of ခဏတိ (khaṇati, “to dig”)