อำเภอ
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Thai[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Angkorian Old Khmer អំវេ (ʼaṃve) or អំពេ (ʼaṃbe, “activity; deed; creation; [possibly] area; district; region”), from *វេ (*ve, “to do, act, make”). Compare Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer អំវេ (ʼaṃve). Cognate with Modern Khmer អំពើ (ʼɑmpəə).
Pronunciation[edit]
Orthographic | อำเภอ ɒ å e bʰ ɒ | |
Phonemic | อำ-เพอ ɒ å – e b ɒ | |
Romanization | Paiboon | am-pəə |
Royal Institute | am-phoe | |
(standard) IPA(key) | /ʔam˧.pʰɤː˧/(R) |
Noun[edit]
อำเภอ • (am-pəə) (classifier แห่ง or อำเภอ)
- area; district; locality; place; region; spot; territory.
- (Thailand)
- amphoe, or district: administrative subdivision of จังหวัด (jang-wàt, “province”), divided into กิ่งอำเภอ (“minor districts”) or ตำบล (dtam-bon, “subdistricts”), and governed by นายอำเภอ (naai-am-pəə).
- (colloquial) district office: building where the administration of a district is housed.
- similar administrative subdivision, as gun in Japan, canton in France, etc.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
- กรมการอำเภอ
- กิ่งอำเภอ
- คณะกรรมการอำเภอ
- ที่ว่าการอำเภอ
- นายอำเภอ (naai-am-pəə)
- ปลัดอำเภอ
- อำเภอใจ
Categories:
- Thai terms borrowed from Angkorian Old Khmer
- Thai terms derived from Angkorian Old Khmer
- Rhymes:Thai/ɤː
- Thai terms with IPA pronunciation
- Thai 2-syllable words
- Thai lemmas
- Thai nouns
- Thai nouns classified by แห่ง
- Thai nouns classified by อำเภอ
- Thai Thai
- Thai colloquialisms
- th:Districts of Thailand
- th:Buildings
- th:Political subdivisions