ဧက

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔèka̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: eka. • ALA-LC: eka • BGN/PCGN: eka. • Okell: eiká

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Pali eka.

Numeral

ဧက (eka.)

  1. (literary) one (typically used in compound words)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre.

Noun

ဧက (eka.)

  1. acre (unit of surface area; approximately 4047 m²)
    မြေ နှစ်ဧကmre hnaceka.two acres of land

Pali

Alternative forms

Numeral

ဧက (eka)

  1. Burmese script form of eka
    • c. 50 BC, ဆဋ္ဌသင်္ဂီတိပိဋကံ သုတ္တန္တပိဋကေ ဒီဃနိကာယေ သီလက္ခန္ဓဝဂ္ဂပါဋိ, published 2010, page 171 (၁၇၁):
      ဧဝမ္ပိ သိက္ခာ ဧကာ သညာ ဥပ္ပဇ္ဇတိ၊ သိက္ခာ ဧကာ သညာ နိရုဇ္ဈတိ။ အယမ္ပိ သိက္ခာတိ ဘဂဝါ အဝေါစ။
      evampi sikkhā ekā saññā uppajjati. sikkhā ekā saññā nirujjhati. ayampi sikkhāti bhagavā avoca.
      'Thus also is it that through training one idea, one sort of consciousness, arises; and through training another passes away. This is the training I spoke of', said the Exalted One.

Declension

Sanskrit