ประวัติ

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali pavatti (manifestation; wielding; execution; happening; incident), with a hypercorrection of the prefix pa- to the related Sanskrit प्र- (pra-​). Cognate with Lao ປະຫວັດ (pa huat), Khmer ប្រវត្តិ (prɑvŏət).

Pronunciation

Orthographicประวัติ
p r a w ạ t i
Phonemic
ปฺระ-หฺวัด
p ̥ r a – h ̥ w ạ ɗ
[bound form]
ปฺระ-หฺวัด-ติ-
p ̥ r a – h ̥ w ạ ɗ – t i –
[bound form]
ปฺระ-หฺวัด-
p ̥ r a – h ̥ w ạ ɗ –
RomanizationPaiboonbprà-wàtbprà-wàt-dtì-bprà-wàt-
Royal Institutepra-watpra-wat-ti-pra-wat-
(standard) IPA(key)/pra˨˩.wat̚˨˩/(R)/pra˨˩.wat̚˨˩.ti˨˩.//pra˨˩.wat̚˨˩./
Homophonesประหวัด

Noun

ประวัติ • (bprà-wàt)

  1. history; account; story

Derived terms

Proper noun

ประวัติ • (bprà-wàt)

  1. a male given name from Sanskrit; Prawat

Further reading

  • ประวัติ” 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.