พิมพ์

Thai

Alternative forms

  • พิมพ — bound form

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali bimba (“disk, sphere; mirror; shadow; image, picture; type; etc”), ultimately from Sanskrit बिम्ब (bimba, “idem”). Cognate with Lao ພິມ (phim), Northern Thai ᨻᩥᨾᩛ᩺, Lü ᦘᦲᧄ (phiim), Shan ၽိမ်း (phím), Old Khmer bhima, Modern Khmer ពុម្ព (pum).

Pronunciation

Orthographicพิมพ์
b i m b ʻ
Phonemic
พิม
b i m
RomanizationPaiboonpim
Royal Institutephim
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰim˧/(R)

Noun

พิมพ์ • (pim)

  1. (elegant) disk; sphere
  2. (elegant) shadow; reflection; reflected image
  3. (elegant) print; impression
  4. mold; plate; template

Verb

พิมพ์ • (pim) (abstract noun การพิมพ์)

  1. (transitive) to press; to impress; to imprint; to stamp
  2. (transitive) to print (to publish in print, as by a printing press or modern printer)
  3. (transitive) to type, as by a typewriter or through a computer keyboard

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “พิมพ์” 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.
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