ခဏ
Burmese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Pali khaṇa, from Sanskrit क्षण (kṣaṇa). Cognate with Mon ခၞ, Khmer ខណៈ (khaʼnaʼ), Thai ขณะ (kà-nà), Lao ຂະນະ (kha na).
Pronunciation edit
- Phonetic respelling: ခ'ဏ
- IPA(key): /kʰəna̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hka.na. • ALA-LC: khaṇa • BGN/PCGN: hkăna. • Okell: hkăná
Noun edit
ခဏ • (hka.na.)
- moment (very brief period of time)
- (archaic) measure of time spanning 0.16 seconds or four လယ (la.ya.), traditionally described as ten winks of the eyes or ten snaps of the fingers
Derived terms edit
- ခဏခဏ (hka.na.hka.na.)
See also edit
- (traditional units of time) နှစ် (hnac, “year”), လ (la., “month”), အပတ် (a.pat, “week”), ရက် (rak, “day”), ဗဟို (ba.hui) / ပဟိုရ် (pa.huir, “3 hours”), နာရီ (nari, “24 minutes”), ပါဒ် (pad, “6 minutes”), ဗီဇနာ (bija.na, “24 seconds”), ပြန် (pran, “4 seconds”), ခရာ (hka.ra, “0.4 seconds”), ခဏ (hka.na., “0.16 seconds”), လယ (la.ya., “0.04 seconds”), အနုခရာ (a.nu.hka.ra, “32 milliseconds”), (Category: my:Units of measure)
Pali edit
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Noun edit
ခဏ m
- Burmese script form of khaṇa (“moment”)
Declension edit
Declension table of "ခဏ" (masculine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ခဏော (khaṇo) | ခဏာ (khaṇā) |
| Accusative (second) | ခဏံ (khaṇaṃ) | ခဏေ (khaṇe) |
| Instrumental (third) | ခဏေန (khaṇena) | ခဏေဟိ (khaṇehi) or ခဏေဘိ (khaṇebhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | ခဏဿ (khaṇassa) or ခဏာယ (khaṇāya) or ခဏတ္ထံ (khaṇatthaṃ) | ခဏာနံ (khaṇānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ခဏသ္မာ (khaṇasmā) or ခဏမှာ (khaṇamhā) or ခဏာ (khaṇā) | ခဏေဟိ (khaṇehi) or ခဏေဘိ (khaṇebhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ခဏဿ (khaṇassa) | ခဏာနံ (khaṇānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | ခဏသ္မိံ (khaṇasmiṃ) or ခဏမှိ (khaṇamhi) or ခဏေ (khaṇe) | ခဏေသု (khaṇesu) |
| Vocative (calling) | ခဏ (khaṇa) | ခဏာ (khaṇā) |
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
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Verb edit
ခဏ
- Burmese script form of khaṇa, imperative active second-person singular of ခဏတိ (khaṇati, “to dig”)