อเนก

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

อเนก

  1. Thai script form of aneka

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अनेक (aneka, not one; more than one; many; several; diverse) or Pali aneka (not one; many; various; countless; numberless). Cognate with Khmer អនេក (ʼɑneik), Lao ອະເນກ (ʼa nēk). Equivalent to อน- (on-, not) + เอก (èek, one).

Pronunciation

Orthographicอเนก
ɒ e n k
Phonemic
อะ-เหฺนก
ɒ a – e h ̥ n k
[bound form]
อะ-เหฺนก-กะ-
ɒ a – e h ̥ n k – k a –
RomanizationPaiboonà-nèekà-nèek-gà-
Royal Institutea-neka-nek-ka-
(standard) IPA(key)/ʔa˨˩.neːk̚˨˩/(R)/ʔa˨˩.neːk̚˨˩.ka˨˩./

Adjective

อเนก • (à-nèek) (abstract noun ความอเนก)

  1. numerous; innumerable

Derived terms

Further reading

  • อเนก” 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.