နာရီ

Burmese

နာရီ (Etymology 1)

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed 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, “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)}

Etymology 2

Borrowed 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

Further reading

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