Thai edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Pali vacana (speaking, utterance, word; way of speech; grammatical number); compare Sanskrit वचन (vacana, speaking, uttering, saying; speech, utterance, words; grammatical number; etc.). Cognate with Lao ພົດ (phot), Khmer ពេចន៍ (pɨc).

Pronunciation edit

Orthographicพจน์
b t͡ɕ n ʻ
Phonemic
พด
b ɗ
RomanizationPaiboonpót
Royal Institutephot
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰot̚˦˥/(R)
Homophonesพด

Noun edit

พจน์ (pót)

  1. (literary) word; speech.
  2. (mathematics) term.
  3. (grammar) number.

Derived terms edit

word; speech
math term
grammar number