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Thai greeting. The Thai greeting referred to as the wai (Thai: ไหว้, pronounced [wâːj]) consists of a slight bow, with the palms pressed together in a prayer-like fashion. It has its origin in the Indian Añjali Mudrā, like the Indian namaste and Burmese mingalaba. The higher the hands are held in relation to the face and the lower ...
Thai is the most spoken of over 60 languages of Thailand by both number of native and overall speakers. Over half of its vocabulary is derived from or borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit, Mon [4] and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai has a complex orthography and system of relational markers.
The Thai language has many borrowed words from mainly Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and some Prakrit, Khmer, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, Arabic (in particular many Islamic terms) and English (in particular many scientific and technological terms). Some examples as follows: Word. Romanization. English translation.
Thais often refer to their country using the polite form prathet Thai (Thai: ประเทศไทย). They also use the more colloquial term mueang Thai (Thai: เมืองไทย) or simply Thai; the word mueang, archaically referring to a city-state, is commonly used to refer to a city or town as the centre of a region.
The methodology of the Dictionary Revision Commission (DRC) of the RIT has remained virtually unchanged for more than 70 years. The RID is produced by the DRC which is a relatively small group of experienced Thai scholars, convening at least once per week and working through the previous edition of the dictionary alphabetically, reviewing it entry by entry and sense by sense, suggesting new ...
Sanuk (Thai culture) Sanuk or sanook (สนุก, pronounced [sa.nùk]) is a Thai-language word most commonly translated as ' fun '. It is used in English to describe the Thai cultural concept that regards fun and enjoyment as "a regular and important component of everyday life". [1] This is expressed through a wide range of activities ...
สาธุ. (RTGS: sathu) Glossary of Buddhism. Sādhu (from Sanskrit sādhu, "good, virtuous, pious") or Sathu (Thai: สาธุ) is a Pāli word of Sanskrit origin which is used as a formula of approbation in both religious and secular contexts in Southeast Asia. It is a kind of Buddhist version of the 'amen' in Abrahamic religions, [1 ...
Southern Thai (ภาษาไทยถิ่นใต้ [pʰaːsǎː tʰaj tʰìn tâːj]), also known as Dambro (ภาษาตามโพร [pʰaːsǎː taːm pʰroː]), Pak Tai (ภาษาปักษ์ใต้ [pʰaːsǎː pàk tâːj]), or "Southern language" (ภาษาใต้ [pʰaːsǎː tâːj]), [citation needed] is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity [2] and ...