နာရီ

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Burmese

နာရီ (Etymology 1)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nàjì/
Romanization: MLCTS: nari • ALA-LC: nārī • BGN/PCGN: nayi • Okell: nayi

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit नाडी (nāḍī, “a measure of time”).

Noun

နာရီ • (nari)

clock, watch (portable or wearable timepiece)
hour (time period of sixty minutes)
(archaic) A traditional Burmese measure of time equivalent to four ပါဒ် (pad) or 24 minutes

Derived terms

See also

(units of time) နှစ် (hnac, “year”), လ (la., “month”), အပတ် (a.pat, “week”), ရက် (rak, “day”) / နေ့ (ne., “day”), နာရီ (nari, “hour”), မိနစ် (mi.nac, “minute”), စက္ကန့် (cakkan., “second”),
(traditional units of time) 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”), ^{(Category: my:Units of measure)}

Etymology 2

From Pali nārī (“woman, wife, female”), from Sanskrit नारी (nārī, “woman, wife, female”).

Noun

နာရီ • (nari)

woman
traditional art technique of depicting the female figure

References

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

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