ပါဒ်

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पाद (pāda).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ပတ်
• IPA^(key): /paʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: pad • ALA-LC: pādʻ • BGN/PCGN: pat • Okell: paʔ

Noun

ပါဒ် • (pad)

1. (archaic) measure of time spanning fifteen ဗီဇနာ (bija.na) or six minutes

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

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