အနုခရာ

Burmese

Etymology

အနု (a.nu., “tender, small”) +‎ ခရာ (hka.ra, “unit of time”), perhaps borrowed from Pali aṇu or Sanskrit अणु (aṇu) + Sanskrit कला (kalā).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: အ'နုခ'ရာ
• IPA^(key): /ʔənṵkʰəjà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: a.nu.hka.ra • ALA-LC: ʼanukharā • BGN/PCGN: ănu.hkăya • Okell: ănúhkăya

Noun

အနုခရာ • (a.nu.hka.ra)

1. (archaic) base traditional Burmese measure of time, equal to about 32 milliseconds

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”)