ปฏิชีวนะ

Thai

Etymology

From ปฏิ (bpà-dtì, against) +‎ ชีวนะ (biotic) (see Pali jīva (living) for more on the latter component); calque of English antibiotic. Cognate with Burmese ပဋိဇီဝဆေး (pa.ti.jiwa.hce:).

Pronunciation

Orthographicปฏิชีวนะ
p ʈ i d͡ʑ ī w n a
Phonemic
ปะ-ติ-ชี-วะ-นะ
p a – t i – d͡ʑ ī – w a – n a
RomanizationPaiboonbpà-dtì-chii-wá-ná
Royal Institutepa-ti-chi-wa-na
(standard) IPA(key)/pa˨˩.ti˨˩.t͡ɕʰiː˧.wa˦˥.naʔ˦˥/(R)

Noun

ปฏิชีวนะ • (bpà-dtì-chii-wá-ná)

  1. antibiotic.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • ปฏิชีวนะ” 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.