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Burmese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Pali khaṇa. Cognate with Mon ခၞ, Khmer ខណៈ (khaʼnaʼ), Thai ขณะ (kà-nà), Lao ຂະນະ (kha na).
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ခ'ဏ
- IPA(key): /kʰəna̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hka.na. • ALA-LC: khaṇa • BGN/PCGN: hkăna. • Okell: hkăná
Noun
ခဏ • (hka.na.)
- a moment (very brief period of time), a short while
- (archaic) a measure of time spanning 0.16 seconds or four လယ (la.ya.), traditionally described as ten winks of the eyes or ten snaps of the fingers
Derived terms
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)
Further reading
Pali
Etymology 1
Alternative scripts
- khaṇa (Latin script)
- 𑀔𑀡 (Brahmi script)
- खण (Devanagari script)
- খণ (Bengali script)
- ඛණ (Sinhalese script)
- ၶꧣ (Burmese script)
- ขณ or ขะณะ (Thai script)
- ᨡᨱ (Tai Tham script)
- ຂຓ or ຂະຓະ (Lao script)
- ខណ (Khmer script)
- 𑄈𑄕 (Chakma script)
Noun
ခဏ m
- Burmese script form of khaṇa (“moment”)
Declension
Declension table of "ခဏ" (masculine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|
| Nominative (first) | ခဏော (khaṇo) | ခဏာ (khaṇā) |
| Accusative (second) | ခဏံ (khaṇaṃ) | ခဏေ (khaṇe) |
| Instrumental (third) | ခဏေန (khaṇena) | ခဏေဟိ (khaṇehi) or ခဏေဘိ (khaṇebhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | ခဏဿ (khaṇassa) or ခဏာယ (khaṇāya) or ခဏတ္ထံ (khaṇatthaṃ) | ခဏာနံ (khaṇānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ခဏသ္မာ (khaṇasmā) or ခဏမှာ (khaṇamhā) or ခဏာ (khaṇā) | ခဏေဟိ (khaṇehi) or ခဏေဘိ (khaṇebhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ခဏဿ (khaṇassa) | ခဏာနံ (khaṇānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | ခဏသ္မိံ (khaṇasmiṃ) or ခဏမှိ (khaṇamhi) or ခဏေ (khaṇe) | ခဏေသု (khaṇesu) |
| Vocative (calling) | ခဏ (khaṇa) | ခဏာ (khaṇā) |
Etymology 2
Alternative scripts
- khaṇa (Latin script)
- 𑀔𑀡 (Brahmi script)
- खण (Devanagari script)
- খণ (Bengali script)
- ඛණ (Sinhalese script)
- ၶꧣ (Burmese script)
- ขณ or ขะณะ (Thai script)
- ᨡᨱ (Tai Tham script)
- ຂຓ or ຂະຓະ (Lao script)
- ខណ (Khmer script)
- 𑄈𑄕 (Chakma script)
Alternative scripts
- khana (Latin script)
- 𑀔𑀦 (Brahmi script)
- खन (Devanagari script)
- খন (Bengali script)
- ඛන (Sinhalese script)
- ခန or ၶၼ (Burmese script)
- ขน or ขะนะ (Thai script)
- ᨡᨶ (Tai Tham script)
- ຂນ or ຂະນະ (Lao script)
- ខន (Khmer script)
- 𑄈𑄚 (Chakma script)
Verb
ခဏ
- Burmese script form of khaṇa, imperative active second-person singular of ခဏတိ (khaṇati, “to dig”)