สาธารณะ

Thai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali sādhāraṇa (general; common); ultimately from Sanskrit साधारण (sādhāraṇa, idem). Doublet of สาธารณ์ (sǎa-taan). Cognate with Khmer សាធារណៈ (saathiərĕəʼnaʼ), Lao ສາທາຣະນະ (sā thā ra na).

Pronunciation

Orthographicสาธารณะ
s ā dʰ ā r ɳ a
Phonemic
สา-ทา-ระ-นะ
s ā – d ā – r a – n a
RomanizationPaiboonsǎa-taa-rá-ná
Royal Institutesa-tha-ra-na
(standard) IPA(key)/saː˩˩˦.tʰaː˧.ra˦˥.naʔ˦˥/(R)

Adjective

สาธารณะ • (sǎa-taa-rá-ná)

  1. public; common

Derived terms

Further reading

  • สาธารณะ” 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.