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)

1. (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

1. Burmese script form of kharā, ablative singular & nominative/vocative plural of ခရ (khara, “donkey”)
2. Burmese script form of kharā, ablative singular of ခရ (khara, “water”)

Sanskrit

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