ခန့်
See also: ခန်း
Burmese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kʰa̰ɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hkan. • ALA-LC: khanʻʹ • BGN/PCGN: hkan. • Okell: hkáñ
Verb
[edit]ခန့် • (hkan.)
- to assign, charge, appoint (someone to a post)
- to estimate (situation, time, or number and size of things)
- (commonly used in the negative) to be awed, show respect
- to compare
- to intend, aim
Particle
[edit]ခန့် • (hkan.)
- particle suffixed to nouns to indicate that quantity mentioned is an approximate number: about, around, approximately
Derived terms
[edit]- ခန့်ခွဲ (hkan.hkwai:)
- ခန့်စာ (hkan.ca)
- ခန့်ညား (hkan.nya:)
- ခန့်တွက် (hkan.twak)
- ခန့်ထား (hkan.hta:)
- ခန့်မှန်း (hkan.hman:)
- ခန့်မှန်းခြေ (hkan.hman:hkre)
- ခန့်အပ် (hkan.ap)
- ခန့်အပ်လွှာ (hkan.aphlwa)
- စစ်ရာထူးခန့်ချုပ် (cacrahtu:hkan.hkyup)
- ဆွဲခန့် (hcwai:hkan.)
- မခန့်တရန့် (ma.hkan.ta.ran.)
- မခန့်လေးစား (ma.hkan.le:ca:)
- မခိုးမခန့် (ma.hkui:ma.hkan.)
- မလေးမခန့် (ma.le:ma.hkan.)
- အစမ်းခန့် (a.cam:hkan.)
- အလုပ်ခန့် (a.luphkan.)
Further reading
[edit]- “ခန့်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.