See also: តុ, តួ, តែ, តោ, and តើ

U+178F, ត
KHMER LETTER TA

[U+178E]
Khmer
[U+1790]

Khmer

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Pronunciation

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Orthographic and Phonemic
t
WT romanisation tɑɑ
(standard) IPA(key) /tɑː/

Letter

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ត, ្ត (tɑɑ)

  1. sixteenth letter of the Cambodian alphabet

Usage notes

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  • ្ដ (្dâ) from (dɑɑ) (ដ្ដ (ddɑɑ)) is homographic to ្ត (្tâ) from (tɑɑ) (ត្ត (ttɑɑ)), and is the cause of a great many misspellings. Many Cambodians do not distinguish between the two subscripts, and type either of them for both subscript letters. They consider that a single glyph does duty for both letters.
  • This letter belongs to the Khmer a-series consonants

Etymology

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Possibly from Thai ต่อ (dtɔ̀ɔ).

Verb

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(tɑɑ) (abstract noun ការត)

  1. to connect, to link, join, join together, fasten together, attach, adjoin, be adjacent to
  2. to follow (one after the other or in a definite sequence)
  3. to place end to end, add on, extend
  4. to continue
  5. to struggle, react against, resist, fight, wage war
    1. to argue, debate
    2. to bargain, haggle, dicker

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Noun

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(tɑɑ)

  1. continuation, sequence
  2. succession, generation
  3. step
  4. (recurrent) time
  5. resistance, struggle

Adverb

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(tɑɑ)

  1. one after another, from one to another

Affixed forms

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Pali

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Alternative forms

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Adjective

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  1. (demonstrative) Khmer script form of ta ("that")

Usage notes

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The case form តទ៑ (tad) is only used before vowels and as the prefixed combining form. Before vowels, the viriam and independent vowel coalesce to the corresponding dependent vowel.

Declension

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Pronoun

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 m

  1. (demonstrative) Khmer script form of ta ("he, it")

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Pronoun

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 n

  1. (demonstrative) Khmer script form of ta ("it")

Usage notes

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The case form តទ៑ (tad) is only used before vowels and as the prefixed combining form. Before vowels, the viriam and independent vowel coalesce to the corresponding dependent vowel.

Declension

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