ဗီဇနာ

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विकला (vikalā).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဗီဇ'နာ
• IPA^(key): /bìzənà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bija.na • ALA-LC: bījanā • BGN/PCGN: bizăna • Okell: bizăna

Noun

ဗီဇနာ • (bija.na)

1. (archaic) measure of time spanning six ပြန် (pran) or 24 seconds

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

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