พจน์

Thai

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• พจน (pót-jà-ná-)
• พจนา

 

Etymology

From Pali vacana (“speaking, utterance, word; way of speech; grammatical number”); compare Sanskrit वचन (vacana, “speaking, uttering, saying; speech, utterance, words; grammatical number; etc.”). Cognate with Lao ພົດ (phot), Khmer ពេចន៍ (pɨc).

Pronunciation

Orthographic		พจน์ b t͡ɕ n ʻ
Phonemic		พด b ɗ
Romanization	Paiboon	pót
	Royal Institute	phot
(standard) IPA(key)		/pʰot̚˦˥/(R)
Homophones edit		พด

Noun

พจน์ • (pót)

1. word; speech.
2. (grammar) number.