ပြန်

• IPA^(key): /pjàɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: pran • ALA-LC: pranʻ • BGN/PCGN: pyan • Okell: pyañ
• Homophone: ပျံ (pyam)

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bran (“to convalesce, recover, return”). Cognate with Old Chinese 般 (OC *praːn, *paːn, *baːn, “to rotate, go back and forth”) (STEDT).

ပြန် • (pran)

1. to go back, return
2. to translate
3. to recount, relate, recite
4. to reply
5. to read out (an order)
6. to reflect

ပြန် • (pran)

1. particle suffixed to verbs indicating repetition
2. particle suffixed to nouns denoting one who has returned from a certain place or life, or one who has returned to his former status

ပြန် • (pran)

1. numerical classifier indicating number of times

• → Lü: ᦔᦊᦱᧃᧈ (ṗẏaan¹, “to translate”)

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath, used also as a measure of time”).

ပြန် • (pran)

1. (archaic) A Myanmar measure of time equivalent to four seconds or ten ခရာ (hka.ra)

• (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)}

ပြန် • (pran)

1. used in ပြန့်ပြန့်ရန့်ရန့် (pran.pran.ran.ran., “flat and even; not crumpled, unwrinkled”)

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