ပဟိုရ်

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali pahāra (“blow, strike”), Sanskrit प्रहार (prahāra).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဗ'ဟို
• IPA^(key): /bəhò/
• Romanization: MLCTS: pa.huir • ALA-LC: pahuirʻ • BGN/PCGN: băho • Okell: băhou

Noun

ပဟိုရ် • (pa.huir)

1. (archaic) traditional Burmese measure of time spanning 7.5 နာရီ (nari) or three hours

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)}

References

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