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Burmese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
ပြန် • (pran)
- to go back, return
- to translate
Descendants
- → Lü: ᦔᦊᦱᧃᧈ (ṗẏaan¹, “to translate”)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath, used also as a measure of time”).
Noun
ပြန် • (pran)
- (archaic) A Myanmar measure of time equivalent to four seconds or ten ခရာ (hka.ra)
See also
- (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)
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