ပြန်

• IPA^(key): /pjàɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: pran • ALA-LC: pranʻ • BGN/PCGN: pyan • Okell: pyañ
• Homophone: ပျံ (pyam)

ပြန် • (pran)

1. to go back, return
2. to translate

• → Lü: ᦔᦊᦱᧃᧈ (ṗẏaan¹, “to translate”)

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath, used also as a measure of time”).

ပြန် • (pran)

1. (archaic) A Myanmar measure of time equivalent to four seconds or ten ခရာ (hka.ra)

• (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)}

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