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:
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“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)