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Burmese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Pali laya, from Sanskrit लय (laya).
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: လ'ယ
- IPA(key): /ləja̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: la.ya. • ALA-LC: laya • BGN/PCGN: lăya. • Okell: lăyá
Noun
လယ • (la.ya.)
- (archaic) measure of time spanning 0.04 seconds or 1.25 အနုခရာ (a.nu.hka.ra), traditionally described as ten snaps of the fingers
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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