လ

လ U+101C, လ MYANMAR LETTER LA ← ရ Myanmar ဝ →

Translingual

Letter

လ

1. La, a letter of the Mon-Burmese script. Used in most, if not all, orthographies in that script.

Burmese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/ɡ-la (“moon; month”). Cognate with Tibetan ཟླ་བ (zla ba), Nuosu ꆪ (hlep), Pa'o Karen လာ, S'gaw Karen လါ (lah), Western Pwo လၩ, Eastern Pwo လာ, Western Kayah ꤜꤢꤧ꤭ (lāe).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: la. • ALA-LC: la • BGN/PCGN: la. • Okell: lá

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Letter

လ • (la.)

1. La, the 29th letter of the Burmese alphabet.

Noun

လ • (la.)

1. moon
2. month

   ဆယ့်သုံးလပြက္ခဒိန်

   hcai.sum:la.prakhka.din

   The thirteen-moon calendar

Synonyms

• မာသ (masa.)
• ရာသီ (rasi)

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)}

References

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

Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̤ʔ/

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Letter

လ (la)

1. La, the twenty-eighth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Noun

လ (la)

1. grandfather, elderly person.

Shan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la˨˦/

Noun

လ • (lǎ)

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