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การณ์

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Thai

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Etymology

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From Pali kāraṇa (case, matter; cause, motive, reason, root; etc), or from Sanskrit कारण (kāraṇa, reason; reasoning; action; etc). Cognate with Modern Khmer ការណ៍ (kaa).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicการณ์
k ā r ɳ ʻ
Phonemic
กาน
k ā n
RomanizationPaiboongaan
Royal Institutekan
(standard) IPA(key)/kaːn˧/(R)
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Noun

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การณ์ (gaan)

  1. (formal, elegant) event, happening, incident, situation; activity, action, act, deed; business, affair, matter, case.
  2. (formal, elegant) cause; factor; reason; origin; root; motive.

Derived terms

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