ရက်

• IPA^(key): /jɛʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: rak • ALA-LC: rakʻ • BGN/PCGN: yet • Okell: yeʔ
• Homophone: ယက် (yak)

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *rak ~ tak/*dak ~ k-rak (LaPolla, 1987), possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tak ~ dak (“to weave, to knit”). Cognate with Tibetan འཐག ('thag, “to weave”) and Chinese 織 (OC *tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ, “to weave”).

ရက် • (rak)

1. to weave

Inherited from Old Burmese ရျက် (ryak) (Bagan), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)ak (“day, full day; overnight”). Cognate with Mizo riak, riah (“to spend the night”), Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”), Nuosu ꉖ (hxot, “night”, classifier), Lisu ꓦꓬꓼ (h̃jɑ̱̀, “night”, classifier), and Chinese 夜 (OC *laːɡs, “night”).

ရက် • (rak)

1. day (twenty-four hours)

   Synonym: နေ့ (ne.)

Used in compounds with numerals like a classifier, but without any noun preceding the compound, e.g. လေးရက် (le:rak, “four days”).

• (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)}

Unknown.

ရက် • (rak)

1. (usually in reduplicated form) quick, swift, violent, decisive

ရက် • (rak)

1. particle placed after verbs to denote a lack of consideration

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjak (“oil, fat, grease”). Cognate with Mizo (sa) hriak (“oil, grease”), Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “oil, fat, grease”), and Chinese 液 (OC *laːɡ, “liquid, fluid”). Alternatively, from အရက် (a.rak, “alcoholic drinks, liquor”), from Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq, “arrack, arak, an alcoholic drink”).

ရက် • (rak)

1. extracted liquid, such as nectar

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