ခဏ

Learned borrowing from Pali khaṇa, from Sanskrit क्षण (kṣaṇa). Cognate with Mon ခၞ, Khmer ខណៈ (khaʼnaʼ), Thai ขณะ (kà-nà), Lao ຂະນະ (kha na).

• Phonetic respelling: ခ'ဏ
• IPA^(key): /kʰəna̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hka.na. • ALA-LC: khaṇa • BGN/PCGN: hkăna. • Okell: hkăná

ခဏ • (hka.na.)

1. moment (very brief period of time)
2. (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

• ခဏခဏ (hka.na.hka.na.)

• (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)}

ခဏ m

1. Burmese script form of khaṇa (“moment”)

ခဏ

1. Burmese script form of khaṇa, imperative active second-person singular of ခဏတိ (khaṇati, “to dig”)