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

• 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

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