လယ

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali laya, from Sanskrit लय (laya).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: လ'ယ
• IPA^(key): /ləja̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: la.ya. • ALA-LC: laya • BGN/PCGN: lăya. • Okell: lăyá

Noun

လယ • (la.ya.)

1. (archaic) measure of time spanning 0.04 seconds or 1.25 အနုခရာ (a.nu.hka.ra), traditionally described as ten snaps of the fingers

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

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