สกุล
Thai
Etymology
Possibly extended from กุล (gun), from Pali kula (“clan, family; caste, class”), ultimately from Sanskrit कुल (kula, “idem”), or corrupted from ตระกูล (dtrà-guun), from Old Khmer ត្រកូល (trakūla, “idem”), that believed to be an aphaeresis of Sanskrit गोत्रकुल (gotrakula, “idem”). Cognate with Lao ສະກຸນ (sa kun).
In taxonomy, semantic loan from English genus.
Pronunciation
| Orthographic | สกุล s k u l | |
|---|---|---|
| Phonemic | สะ-กุน s a – k u n | |
| Romanization | Paiboon | sà-gun |
| Royal Institute | sa-kun | |
| (standard) IPA(key) | /sa˨˩.kun˧/(R) | |
| Homophones | ||
Noun
สกุล • (sà-gun)
- (elegant) birth, lineage, ancestry, extraction, descent; family, clan.
- (colloquial) noble birth; noble class; noble family.
- (taxonomy) genus.
- Synonym: จีนัส
- type; kind; class.
- (art) school.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “สกุล” 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.