Thai Year Vocabulary
Thai orthography spells most native words phonetically, though there is no definitive system for transcription into Roman letters. Here, native Thai words are immediately followed by a vocabulary entry in this pattern:
- Phonetic Thai (Thai phonetic respelling, if different) definition; variant definitions.
Example:
- Thai ไทย (ไท) free, frank; Thai race, language, alphabet ; citizen of Thailand.
Sanskrit loan words follow different rules Entered below in order of first appearance, these vocabulary entries are in this pattern:
- Sanskrit สันสกฤต (สันสะกริด /san-sa-krit/)
Literally means "self-made" or "self-done", or "cultured" in a modern usage (which implies the language of cultured persons); Sanskrit alphabet, language, writing; compound of
- san สัน (-/son/) derived from the word, "saṃ" meaning "self, together, with"
- skrit สกฤต (สะกริต /sa-krit/) derived from the word "(s)kar" meaning "do or make".
- Chantarakati จันทรคติ (จันทะระคะติ)
- Lunar Calendar; compound of
- Chantara- จันทร- (จันทะระ /chontara/) : Chon จันทร์ (จัน) moon, lunar +
- Kati คติ (คะติ) : ways, principles; moral .
- Patitin ปฏิทิน (ปะติทิน)
- Calendar; compound of
- Pati- ปฏิ- (ปะติ-) : anti-, re- +
- -tin (-ทิน) : the sun, Sol
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- Patitin Chantarakati ปฏิทินจันทรคติ (ปะติทินจันทะระคะติ)
- "Resolarized Moon-Ways", Lunisolar Calendar
- Suriyakati สุริยคติ (สุริยะคะติ)
- Solar Ways, Solar Calendar; compound of
- Suriya สุริย or สุริยะ : Athit อาทิตย์, the sun, Sol +
- Kati คติ (คะติ) : ways, principles; moral .
- Prokatimas ปรกติมาส (ปฺรกกะติมาด /pro-ko-ti-maht/)
- normal month; compound of
- Prokati ปรกติ (ปฺรกกะติ) : pokiti ปกติ (ปะกะติ) ordinary, usual, normal +
- Mas มาส (มาด /maht/) : du-an (เดือน) month.
- Athikamas อธิกมาส (อะทิกะมาด /a-ti-ka-maht/)
- month added in leap-month lunar years
- Athikawara อธิกวาร (อะทิกะวาน /a-ti-ka-wahn/)
- day added in leap-day lunar years; compound of
- Athika (Sanskrit: adhika) : additional +
- -wara วาร (วาน /wahn/) : wan วัน day.
- Athikasuratin อธิกสุรทิน (อะทิกะสุระทิน)
- day added to February in a solar leap year.
Read more about this topic: Thai Lunar Calendar
Famous quotes containing the words year and/or vocabulary:
“Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“I have a vocabulary all my own. I “pass the time” when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)