ခရာ

ခရာ

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कला (kalā).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ခ'ရာ
• IPA^(key): /kʰəjà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hka.ra • ALA-LC: kharā • BGN/PCGN: hkăya • Okell: hkăya

Noun

ခရာ • (hka.ra)

1. (archaic) traditional Burmese measure of time spanning ten လယ (la.ya.)

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), နာရီ (nari), ပါဒ် (pad), ဗီဇနာ (bija.na), ပြန် (pran), ခရာ (hka.ra), ခဏ (hka.na.), လယ (la.ya.), အနုခရာ (a.nu.hka.ra), ^{(Category: my:Units of time)}

References

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