နာရီ

နာရီ

Burmese

နာရီ (Etymology 1)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nàjì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: nari • ALA-LC: nārī • BGN/PCGN: nayi • Okell: nayi

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit नाडी (nāḍī, “a measure of time”).

Noun

နာရီ • (nari)

1. clock, watch (portable or wearable timepiece)
2. hour (time period of sixty minutes)
3. (archaic) A traditional Burmese measure of time equivalent to four ပါဒ် (pad) or 24 minutes

Derived terms

• စက်နာရီ (caknari)
• စားပွဲတင်နာရီ (ca:pwai:tangnari)
• တိုင်ကပ်နာရီ (tuingkapnari)
• နာရီစင် (naricang)
• နာရီထိုး (narihtui:)
• နာရီပြန် (nari-pran)
• နာရီဝက် (nariwak)
• နေနာရီ (nenari)
• မြန်မာနာရီ (mranmanari)
• ရေနာရီ (renari)
• လက်ပတ်နာရီ (lakpatnari)
• သံစုံနာရီ (samcumnari)
• သဲနာရီ (sai:nari)

 

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), 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)}

Etymology 2

From Pali nārī (“woman, wife, female”), from Sanskrit नारी (nārī, “woman, wife, female”).

Noun

နာရီ • (nari)

1. woman
2. traditional art technique of depicting the female figure

References

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