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สารขัณฑ์

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Thai

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Etymology

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Phono-semantic matching from English Sarkhan, the name of a fictional nation beset by political problems in the 1958 political novel The Ugly American and its sequel Sarkhan, imitated as Thai สาร (sǎa-rá-, essence, matter, substance; information, news; etc) +‎ ขัณฑ์ (part; region; section; etc).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicสารขัณฑ์
s ā r kʰ ạ ɳ ɖ ʻ
Phonemic
สา-ระ-ขัน
s ā – r a – kʰ ạ n
RomanizationPaiboonsǎa-rá-kǎn
Royal Institutesa-ra-khan
(standard) IPA(key)/saː˩˩˦.ra˦˥.kʰan˩˩˦/(R)

Proper noun

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สารขัณฑ์ (sǎa-rá-kǎn)

  1. (sarcastic, derogatory) Thailand.