กำแพง

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from Angkorian Old Khmer កំវេង៑ (kaṃveṅ), from *ខ្វេង៑ (*khveṅ) (whence Thai แขวง (kwɛ̌ɛng)). Cognate with Lao ກຳແພງ (kam phǣng), Khmer កំផែង (kɑmphaeng) or កំពែង (kɑmpɛɛng), Lü ᦂᧄᧈ ᦶᦗᧂ (k̇am¹ paeng).

Pronunciation

Orthographic		กำแพง k å æ b ŋ
Phonemic		กำ-แพง k å – æ b ŋ
Romanization	Paiboon	gam-pɛɛng
	Royal Institute	kam-phaeng
(standard) IPA(key)		/kam˧.pʰɛːŋ˧/(R)

Noun

กำแพง • (gam-pɛɛng)

1. wall

Derived terms

• กำแพงแก้ว
• กำแพงเพชร (gam-pɛɛng-pét)
• กำแพงภาษี
• กำแพงมีหูประตูมีช่อง
• กำแพงมีหูประตูมีตา

Proper noun

กำแพง • (gam-pɛɛng)

1. (colloquial) clipping of กำแพงเพชร (gam-pɛɛng-pét): Kamphaeng Phet (a province of Thailand)

Further reading

• “กำแพง” 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.