Thai

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Etymology

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Possibly extended from กุล (gun), from Pali kula (clan, family; caste, class), ultimately from Sanskrit कुल (kula, idem), or corrupted from ตระกูล (dtrà-guun), from Old Khmer ត្រកូល (trakūla, idem), that believed to be an aphaeresis of Sanskrit गोत्रकुल (gotrakula, idem). Cognate with Lao ສະກຸນ (sa kun).

In taxonomy, semantic loan from English genus.

Pronunciation

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Orthographicสกุล
s k u l
Phonemic
สะ-กุน
s a – k u n
RomanizationPaiboonsà-gun
Royal Institutesa-kun
(standard) IPA(key)/sa˨˩.kun˧/(R)
Homophones

Noun

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สกุล (sà-gun)

  1. (elegant) birth, lineage, ancestry, extraction, descent; family, clan.
  2. (colloquial) noble birth; noble class; noble family.
  3. (taxonomy) genus.
    Synonym: จีนัส
  4. type; kind; class.
    สกุลเงิน
    sà-gun ngən
    currency types (as dollars, euros, yen, etc)
  5. (art) school.

Derived terms

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See also

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