ရှစ်

Burmese

Burmese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ရှစ် (hrac)     Ordinal : အဋ္ဌမ (athta.ma.)

FWOTD – 1 October 2012

Etymology

From Old Burmese ဟေတ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-r-gjat ~ b-g-rjat (“eight”). Cognate with Tibetan བརྒྱད (brgyad), Jingpho matsat, Nuosu ꉆ (hxit), S'gaw Karen ဃိး (ghó).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hrac • ALA-LC: rhacʻ • BGN/PCGN: shit • Okell: hyiʔ

Numeral

ရှစ် • (hrac) (digit ၈)

1. eight
   • 1834, Adoniram Judson (translator), Luke 2:21:

     ထိုသူငယ်အား အရေဖျားလှီးခြင်းကို ပေးရသောနေ့တည်းဟူသော ရှစ်ရက်မြောက်သောနေ့ရောက် လျှင်၊ ပဋိသန္ဓေစွဲတော်မမူမှီ ကောင်းကင်တမန် မှည့်သော ယေရှုအမည်ဖြင့် မှည့်ကြ၏။

     htuisu-ngaia: a.rehpya:hli:hkrang:kui pe:ra.sau:ne.tany:husau: hracrakmrauksau:ne.rauk hlyang| pa.ti.sandhecwai:tauma.muhmi kaung:kangta.man hmany.sau: yehru.a.manyhprang. hmany.kra.e||

     And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

References

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