ฆาต

Thai

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) ฆาฏ (kâat)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali ghāta (“destruction; killing; slaughter”) or Sanskrit घात (ghāta, “injuring; hurting; killing”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic		ฆาต gʰ ā t
Phonemic		คาด g ā ɗ	[bound form] คาด-ตะ- g ā ɗ – t a –
Romanization	Paiboon	kâat	kâat-dtà-
	Royal Institute	khat	khat-ta-
(standard) IPA(key)		/kʰaːt̚˥˩/(R)	/kʰaːt̚˥˩.ta˨˩./
Homophones edit		คาด คาธ คาส

Noun

ฆาต • (kâat)

1. (elegant, literary, poetic) destruction
2. (elegant, literary, poetic) hitting; striking
3. (elegant, literary, poetic) killing

Verb

ฆาต • (kâat) (abstract noun การฆาต)

1. (elegant, literary, poetic) to destroy
2. (elegant, literary, poetic) to hit; to strike
3. (elegant, literary, poetic) to kill

Derived terms

• การุณยฆาต (gaa-run-yá-kâat, “mercy killing”)
• ฆาตกร (kâat-dtà-gɔɔn, “murderer”)
• ฆาตกรรม (kâat-dtà-gam, “murder”)
• ชีวฆาต (“biocide”)
• ถึงฆาต (“to reach the time of one's death”)
• ทัณฑฆาต (tan-tá-kâat, a diacritical mark)
• บิตุฆาต (“patricide”)
• ปรานีฆาต (bpraa-nii-kâat, “mercy killing”)
• ปิตุฆาต (bpì-dtù-kâat, “patricide”)
• ปุตตฆาต (“filicide”)
• พันธุฆาต (“genocide”)
• ภริยาฆาต (“uxoricide”)
• มาตุฆาต (maa-dtù-kâat, “matricide”)
• มุตฆาต (“hematuria”)
• ไม้ทัณฑฆาต
• รุกฆาต (“checkmate”)
• อรหันตฆาต (“murder of a saint”)

Related terms

• พิฆาต (pí-kâat)
• อาฆาต (aa-kâat)

Further reading

• “ฆาต” 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.