ပြန်

ပြန်

See also: ပန်း and ပန်

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjàɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: pran • ALA-LC: pranʻ • BGN/PCGN: pyan • Okell: pyañ
• Homophone: ပျံ (pyam)

Verb

ပြန် • (pran)

1. to go back, return
2. to translate

Descendants

• → Lü: ᦔᦊᦱᧃᧈ (ṗẏaan¹, “to translate”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath, used also as a measure of time”).

Noun

ပြန် • (pran)

1. (archaic) A Myanmar measure of time equivalent to four seconds or ten ခရာ (hka.ra)

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

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