Burmese
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /nàjì/
- Romanization: MLCTS: nari • ALA-LC: nārī • BGN/PCGN: nayi • Okell: nayi
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Sanskrit नाडी (nāḍī, “a measure of time”).
Noun
[edit]နာရီ • (nari)
- clock, watch (portable or wearable timepiece)
- hour (time period of sixty minutes)
- (archaic) A traditional Burmese measure of time equivalent to four ပါဒ် (pad) or 24 minutes
Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Pali nārī (“woman, wife, female”), from Sanskrit नारी (nārī, “woman, wife, female”).
Noun
[edit]နာရီ • (nari)
Further reading
[edit]- “နာရီ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.