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Burmese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *rak ~ tak/*dak ~ k-rak (LaPolla, 1987), possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tak ~ dak (“to weave, to knit”). Cognate with Tibetan འཐག ('thag, “to weave”) and Chinese 織 (OC *tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ, “to weave”).
Verb
ရက် • (rak)
- to weave
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Burmese ရျက် (ryak) (Bagan), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)ak (“day, full day; overnight”). Cognate with Mizo riak, riah (“to spend the night”), Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”), Nuosu ꉖ (hxot, “night”, classifier), Lisu ꓦꓬꓼ (h̃jɑ̱̀, “night”, classifier), and Chinese 夜 (OC *laːɡs, “night”).
Noun
ရက် • (rak)
- day (twenty-four hours)
- Synonym: နေ့ (ne.)
Usage notes
Used in compounds with numerals like a classifier, but without any noun preceding the compound, e.g. လေးရက် (le:rak, “four days”).
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 3
Unknown.
Adjective
ရက် • (rak)
- (usually in reduplicated form) quick, swift, violent, decisive
Particle
ရက် • (rak)
- particle placed after verbs to denote a lack of consideration
Derived terms
- ရက်စက် (rakcak, “cruel, pitiless, ruthless”)
- ရက်ရက် (rak-rak, “swiftly, immediately, boldly”)
Etymology 4
Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjak (“oil, fat, grease”). Cognate with Mizo (sa) hriak (“oil, grease”), Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “oil, fat, grease”), and Chinese 液 (OC *laːɡ, “liquid, fluid”). Alternatively, from အရက် (a.rak, “alcoholic drinks, liquor”), from Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq, “arrack, arak, an alcoholic drink”).
Noun
ရက် • (rak)
- extracted liquid, such as nectar
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