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ชีวิต

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Pali

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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ชีวิต n

  1. Thai script form of jīvita

Declension

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Thai

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Pali jīvita (life) or Sanskrit जीवित (jīvita, idem). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨩᩦᩅᩥ᩠ᨲ, Lao ຊີວິດ (sī wit), ᦋᦲᦞᦲᧆ (tsiiviid), Khmer ជីវិត (ciivɨt).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicชีวิต
d͡ʑ ī w i t
Phonemic
ชี-วิด
d͡ʑ ī – w i ɗ
RomanizationPaiboonchii-wít
Royal Institutechi-wit
(standard) IPA(key)/t͡ɕʰiː˧.wit̚˦˥/(R)

Noun

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ชีวิต (chii-wít)

  1. life

Derived terms

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Classifier

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ชีวิต (chii-wít)

  1. Classifier for living beings.

Further reading

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  • ชีวิต” 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.