ชาติ

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Pali[edit]

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Noun[edit]

ชาติ f

  1. Thai script form of jāti
  2. Thai script (without implicit vowels) form of jāti

Thai[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Pali jāti (“birth, origin; kind, sort; etc”), from Sanskrit जाति (jāti, “idem”). Cognate with Old Khmer jāti, Modern Khmer ជាតិ (ciət), Lao ຊາດ (sāt).

Developing from "birth" meaning, ชาติ has been used to refer to "group of people" since the late 18th century,[1] while the sense of "national political community" came into use in 1880s.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Orthographicชาติ
d͡ʑ ā t i
Phonemic
ชาด
d͡ʑ ā ɗ
[bound form]
ชาด-ติ-
d͡ʑ ā ɗ – t i –
RomanizationPaiboonchâatchâat-dtì-
Royal Institutechatchat-ti-
(standard) IPA(key)/t͡ɕʰaːt̚˥˩/(R)/t͡ɕʰaːt̚˥˩.ti˨˩./
Homophonesชาด
ชาต

Noun[edit]

ชาติ • (châat)

  1. (elegant, often in combination) birth; nativity; origin.
  2. life, especially in terms of reincarnation.
  3. (slang, humorous) very long time; eon; age.
    ต้องรอเป็นชาติ
    dtɔ̂ng rɔɔ bpen châat
    [I] have to wait for eons.
  4. race; clan.
  5. (archaic) nationality; citizenship.
  6. nationals, citizens, or inhabitants collectively.
  7. nation; country; state.
  8. nature; character.
  9. (elegant, often in combination) type; kind; sort; class; group; variety; category.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Matthew Thomas Reeder (2019) Categorical Kingdoms: Innovations in Ethnic Labeling and Visions of Communal States in Early Modern Siam (Doctoral dissertation), Cornell University, page 184
  2. ^ Eiji Murashima (1988) “The Origin of Modern Official State Ideology in Thailand”, in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, volume 19, number 1, Cambridge University Press on behalf of Department of History, National University of Singapore, pages 80-96
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