# ခါ
## Burmese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʰà/
* Romanization: MLCTS: hka • ALA-LC: khā • BGN/PCGN: hka • Okell: hka

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kha "shake, shake off or out"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

#### Verb

ခါ • (hka)
* to shake, shake off
* to refuse
* to clean, empty

##### Derived terms

* ခေါင်းခါ (hkaung:hka)
* ဆတ်ဆတ်ခါနာ (hcathcathkana)
* ဆန်ခါ (hcanhka)
* ဆန်ခါချ (hcanhkahkya.)
* ဆန်ခါတင် (hcanhkatang)
* တလင်းချေးခါ (ta.lang:hkye:hka)
* တုန်ခါ (tunhka)
* ထွန်ချေးခါ (htwanhkye:hka)
* ထောင်ခါ (htaunghka)
* နှမ်းခါ (hnam:hka)
* ပစ်တောင်းဆန်ခါ (pactaung:hcanhka)
* ပစ်ပစ်ခါခါ (pacpachkahka)
* ပျိုးချေးခါ (pyui:hkye:hka)
* ပြောင်တလင်းခါ (praungta.lang:hka)
* ဖြူခါစင် (hpruhkacang)
* ဖြူခါပြာခါ (hpruhka-prahka)
* ဖြူခါပြာခါကျ (hpruhka-prahka-kya.)
* ရုံခါ (rumhka)
* လက်ဖျားခါ (lakhpya:hka)
* ဝိုင်းဆန်ခါ (wuing:hcanhka)
* သံဆန်ခါ (samhcanhka)
* သပိတ်ခါအိတ်ခါ (sa.pithkaithka)
* သွက်သွက်ခါ (swakswakhka)

### Etymology 2

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (ə-kha "time"), while Luce gives Tibetan ཁར (khar, “at the time of”) as a cognate.”

#### Noun

ခါ • (hka)
* (same as အခါ (a.hka)) time (occurrence), duration, period, moment, frequency
* number of times

##### Derived terms

* ခါတင်က (hkatangka.)
* ခါတိုင်း (hkatuing:)
* ခါတိုင်းလို (hkatuing:lui)
* ခါတော်မီ (hkataumi)
* ခါနီး (hkani:)
* ခါလည် (hkalany)
* ခါလည်ခါကျူး (hkalanyhka-kyu:)
* ဆယ်ခါတစ်ခါ (hcaihkatachka)
* ညားခါစလင်မယား (nya:hkaca.langma.ya:)
* တစ်ခါ (tachka)
* တစ်ခါက (tachkaka.)
* တစ်ခါတစ်ခါ (tachkatachka)
* တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ (tachkatacram)
* တစ်ခါတည်း (tachkatany:)
* တစ်ခါတလေ (tachkata.le)
* နက်ဖြန်ခါ (nakhpranhka)
* နှစ်လည်ခါကျူး (hnaclanyhka-kyu:)
* နောင်ခါလာနောင်ခါဈေး (naunghkalanaunghkajhe:)
* မနက်ခါ (ma.nakhka)
* ရံဖန်ရံခါ (ramhpanramhka)
* သန်ဘက်ခါ (sanbhakhka)
* အခါ (a.hka)
* အခေါက်ခေါက်အခါခါ (a.hkaukhkauk-a.hkahka)

### Etymology 3

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kha "francolin ( partridge )"), and Luce adduces no cognates.”

#### Noun

ခါ • (hka)
* partridge

##### Derived terms

* ခါတိန်ညင် (hkatinnyang)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-A Finals (21. Time; When)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 2
* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-A Finals (20. Francolin; Partridge)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 2

### Further reading

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

## S'gaw Karen
### Etymology 1

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခါ့ (khâ).

#### Noun

ခါ • (khah)
* step

#### Classifier

ခါ • (khah)
* Classifier for bamboo traps.
* Generic classifier; classifier for abstract nouns.

### Etymology 2

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခါ့ (khâ).

#### Noun

ခါ • (khah)
* time
* (relational noun) when