อรุณ

Thai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali aruṇa (literally red; ruddy; tawny), ultimately from Sanskrit अरुण (aruṇa). Cognate with Khmer អរុណ (ʼaʼrun), Lao ອະຣຸນ (ʼa run).

Pronunciation

Orthographicอรุณ
ɒ r u ɳ
Phonemic
อะ-รุน
ɒ a – r u n
RomanizationPaiboonà-run
Royal Institutea-run
(standard) IPA(key)/ʔa˨˩.run˧/(R)

Proper noun

อรุณ • (à-run)

  1. (Hinduism) (พระ~) Aruṇa (the charioteer of the sun god Surya who brings the sun out to the sky every morning)

Noun

อรุณ • (à-run)

  1. (elegant) dawn; daybreak
  2. (elegant, figurative) dawn (beginning; rise; advent)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • อรุณ” 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.