สารขัณฑ์

Thai

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching from English Sarkhan, the name of a fictional nation beset by political problems in the 1958 political novel The Ugly American and its sequel Sarkhan, imitated as Thai สาร (sǎa-rá-, “essence, matter, substance; information, news; etc”) +‎ ขัณฑ์ (“part; region; section; etc”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic		สารขัณฑ์ s ā r kʰ ạ ɳ ɖ ʻ
Phonemic		สา-ระ-ขัน s ā – r a – kʰ ạ n
Romanization	Paiboon	sǎa-rá-kǎn
	Royal Institute	sa-ra-khan
(standard) IPA(key)		/saː˩˩˦.ra˦˥.kʰan˩˩˦/(R)

Proper noun

สารขัณฑ์ • (sǎa-rá-kǎn)

1. (sarcastic, derogatory) Thailand.