လယ

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali laya, from Sanskrit लय (laya).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: လ'ယ
• IPA^(key): /ləja̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: la.ya. • ALA-LC: laya • BGN/PCGN: lăya. • Okell: lăyá

Noun

လယ • (la.ya.)

1. (archaic) measure of time spanning 0.04 seconds or 1.25 အနုခရာ (a.nu.hka.ra), traditionally described as ten snaps of the fingers

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

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