คณะ

Thai

Alternative forms

  • คณ (ká-ná-)bound form
  • คนะobsolete

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali gaṇa (group; number; etc), ultimately from Sanskrit गण (gaṇa, idem). Cognate with Old Khmer gaṇa, gana, gaṇā, ganā; Angkorian Old Khmer gaṇa, gana, gan, gann; Modern Khmer គណៈ (kĕəʼnaʼ), គណ (kŭən), គ្នា (kniə).

Pronunciation

Orthographicคณะ
g ɳ a
Phonemic
คะ-นะ
g a – n a
RomanizationPaiboonká-ná
Royal Institutekha-na
(standard) IPA(key)/kʰa˦˥.naʔ˦˥/(R)
Homophonesฆน
ฆนะ

Noun

คณะ • (ká-ná) (classifier คณะ)

  1. (elegant, as of persons) group; body; party; company; assemblage
    Synonyms: ก๊ก (gók), กลุ่ม (glùm), ก๊วน (gúuan), กอง (gɔɔng), ขยอง, โขยง (kà-yǒong), ทวย (tuai), ท่วย (tûai), ทำนวย, บริษัท (bɔɔ-rí-sàt), ฝูง (fǔung), พยู่ห์, พรรค (pák), พฤนท์, พวก (pûuak), เมลกะ, เศรณี, สมุห์, ส่ำ (sàm), หมู่ (mùu), เหล่า (lào)
  2. (Buddhism)
    1. (obsolete, now only found in combination) chapter (assembly of the priests in a region or the entire order)
    2. (in a monastery) department; section; division
  3. (education, in a higher education institution) faculty (department of learning)
  4. (prosody) structure of poetry, especially in terms of units or words required for each form or type of poetry.

Derived terms

Classifier

คณะ

  1. classifier for the above noun

Further reading

  • คณะ” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.