นิคม

Thai

Etymology

From Pali nigama (“marketplace”); from Sanskrit निगम (nigama, idem). Cognate with Khmer និគម (nikum).

Pronunciation

Orthographicนิคม
n i g m
Phonemic
นิ-คม
n i – g m
RomanizationPaiboonní-kom
Royal Instituteni-khom
(standard) IPA(key)/ni˦˥.kʰom˧/(R)

Noun

นิคม • (ní-kom) (classifier แห่ง)

  1. colony; settlement.
    โรคเรื้อน
    ní-kom rôok rʉ́ʉan
    leper colony
    (literally) leprosy disease colony
    ทัณฑ
    tan-tá ní-kom
    penal colony

Derived terms

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