สาธารณ์

Thai

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali sādhāraṇa (general; common); ultimately from Sanskrit साधारण (sādhāraṇa, idem). Doublet of สาธารณะ (sǎa-taa-rá-ná).

Pronunciation

Orthographicสาธารณ์
s ā dʰ ā r ɳ ʻ
Phonemic
สา-ทาน
s ā – d ā n
RomanizationPaiboonsǎa-taan
Royal Institutesa-than
(standard) IPA(key)/saː˩˩˦.tʰaːn˧/(R)

Adjective

สาธารณ์ • (sǎa-taan)

  1. (somewhat archaic) low, coarse, vulgar; bad, evil, wicked
  2. (now rare) alternative form of สาธารณะ (sǎa-taa-rá-ná)

Further reading

  • สาธารณ์” 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.