ฆาต
Thai
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) ฆาฏ (kâat)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Pali ghāta (“destruction; killing; slaughter”) or Sanskrit घात (ghāta, “injuring; hurting; killing”).
Pronunciation
| Orthographic | ฆาต gʰ ā t | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Phonemic | คาด g ā ɗ | [bound form] คาด-ตะ- g ā ɗ – t a – | |
| Romanization | Paiboon | kâat | kâat-dtà- |
| Royal Institute | khat | khat-ta- | |
| (standard) IPA(key) | /kʰaːt̚˥˩/(R) | /kʰaːt̚˥˩.ta˨˩./ | |
| Homophones | |||
Noun
ฆาต • (kâat)
- (elegant, literary, poetic) destruction
- (elegant, literary, poetic) hitting; striking
- (elegant, literary, poetic) killing
Verb
ฆาต • (kâat) (abstract noun การฆาต)
- (elegant, literary, poetic) to destroy
- (elegant, literary, poetic) to hit; to strike
- (elegant, literary, poetic) to kill
Derived terms
- การุณยฆาต (gaa-run-yá-kâat, “mercy killing”)
- ฆาตกร (kâat-dtà-gɔɔn, “murderer”)
- ฆาตกรรม (kâat-dtà-gam, “murder”)
- ชีวฆาต (“biocide”)
- ถึงฆาต (“to reach the time of one's death”)
- ทัณฑฆาต (tan-tá-kâat, a diacritical mark)
- บิตุฆาต (“patricide”)
- ปรานีฆาต (bpraa-nii-kâat, “mercy killing”)
- ปิตุฆาต (bpì-dtù-kâat, “patricide”)
- ปุตตฆาต (“filicide”)
- พันธุฆาต (“genocide”)
- ภริยาฆาต (“uxoricide”)
- มาตุฆาต (maa-dtù-kâat, “matricide”)
- มุตฆาต (“hematuria”)
- ไม้ทัณฑฆาต
- รุกฆาต (“checkmate”)
- อรหันตฆาต (“murder of a saint”)
Related terms
Further reading
- “ฆาต” 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.