ရက်

ရက်

See also: ရိုက်, ရောက်, and ရေကူး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: rak • ALA-LC: rakʻ • BGN/PCGN: yet • Okell: yeʔ
• Homophone: ယက် (yak)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *rak ~ tak/*dak ~ k-rak (LaPolla, 1987), possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tak ~ dak (“to weave, to knit”). Cognate with Tibetan འཐག ('thag, “to weave”) and Chinese 織 (OC *tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ, “to weave”).

Verb

ရက် • (rak)

1. to weave

Derived terms

• ကွန်ရက် (kwanrak)
• ရက်ကန်း (rakkan:)
• ရက်ကန်းစင် (rakkan:cang)
• ရက်ဖောက် (rakhpauk)

 

Etymology 2

From Old Burmese ရျက် (ryak) (Bagan), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)ak (“day, full day; overnight”). Cognate with Mizo riak, riah (“to spend the night”), Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”), Sichuan Yi ꉖ (hxot, “night”, classifier), Lisu ꓦꓬꓼ (“night”, classifier), and Chinese 夜 (OC *laːɡs, “night”).

Noun

ရက် • (rak)

1. day (twenty-four hours)

   Synonym: နေ့ (ne.)

Usage notes

Used in compounds with numerals like a classifier, but without any noun preceding the compound, e.g. လေးရက် (le:rak, “four days”).

Derived terms

• ရက်ကျပ် (rakkyap)
• ရက်စွဲ (rakcwai:)
• ရက်သတ္တပတ် (raksatta.pat)
• အားလပ်ရက် (a:lap-rak)

 

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 3

Unknown.

Adjective

ရက် • (rak)

1. (usually in reduplicated form) quick, swift, violent, decisive

Particle

ရက် • (rak)

1. particle placed after verbs to denote a lack of consideration

Derived terms

• ရက်စက် (rakcak, “cruel, pitiless, ruthless”)
• ရက်ရက် (rak-rak, “swiftly, immediately, boldly”)

 

Etymology 4

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjak (“oil, fat, grease”). Cognate with Mizo (sa) hriak (“oil, grease”), Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “oil, fat, grease”), and Chinese 液 (OC *laːɡ, “liquid, fluid”). Alternatively, from အရက် (a.rak, “alcoholic drinks, liquor”), from Arabic عَرَق‎ (ʕaraq, “arrack, arak, an alcoholic drink”).

Noun

ရက် • (rak)

1. extracted liquid, such as nectar

References

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