ဗီဇနာ

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विकला (vikalā).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဗီဇ'နာ
• IPA^(key): /bìzənà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bija.na • ALA-LC: bījanā • BGN/PCGN: bizăna • Okell: bizăna

Noun

ဗီဇနာ • (bija.na)

1. (archaic) measure of time spanning six ပြန် (pran) or 24 seconds

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, “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)}

References

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