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เฉพาะ

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Thai

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Khmer ឆ្ពោះ (chboḥ), ចពោះហ (caboḥha), ឈ្មោះ (jhmoḥ, “to move or make straight for, to proceed directly to; to direct or address to”); compare Modern Khmer ឆ្ពោះ (“to move towards; to, towards, facing”). Related to จำเพาะ (jam-pɔ́).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicเฉพาะ
e t͡ɕʰ b ā a
Phonemic
ฉะ-เพาะ
t͡ɕʰ a – e b ā a
RomanizationPaiboonchà-pɔ́
Royal Institutecha-pho
(standard) IPA(key)/t͡ɕʰa˨˩.pʰɔʔ˦˥/(R)

Adjective

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เฉพาะ • (chà-pɔ́) (abstract noun ความเฉพาะ)

  1. specific; particular; peculiar

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “เฉพาะ” 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.