งาน

Thai

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicงาน
ŋ ā n
RomanizationPaiboonngaan
Royal Institutengan
(standard) IPA(key)/ŋaːn˧/(R)

Etymology 1

Cognate with Northern Thai ᨦᩣ᩠ᨶ, Lao ງານ (ngān), Lü ᦇᦱᧃ (ngaan), Tai Dam ꪉꪱꪙ, Shan ငၢၼ်း (ngáan), Tai Nüa ᥒᥣᥢᥰ (ngäan), and possibly Old Khmer ងារ៑ (ṅār) (whence Khmer ងារ (ngiə)) and Burmese ငန်း (ngan:).

Khanittanan (2001) suggested that it was borrowed from Old Khmer ងារ៑ (ṅār).[1]

Noun

งาน • (ngaan) (classifier งาน or ชิ้น or อย่าง)

  1. work:
    1. act; action; activity; deed.
    2. duty; task; undertaking.
    3. employment; trade; occupation; profession.
    4. result of an effort or exertion.
      งานศิลปะ
      ngaan sǐn-lá-bpà
      work of art
      งานวรรณกรรม
      ngaan wan-ná-gam
      literary work
      งานแปล
      ngaan bplɛɛ
      translated work
  2. ceremony; event; social gathering.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Grouped with Etymology 1 by TDP.”)

Noun

งาน • (ngaan)

  1. a traditional unit of measurement of land, equal to 400m².

References

  1. ^ Khanittanan, W. (2001). Khmero-Thai: The great change in the history of the Thai language of the Chao Phraya Basin. In Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (pp. 375-92). Tempe, AZ: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies.

Further reading

  • “งาน” 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.
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