พระนคร

Thai

Etymology

Compound of พระ (prá, honorific given to royal persons and things related to them, literally “holy, sacred; godly, divine; etc”) +‎ นคร (ná-kɔɔn, “city; city-state”)

Pronunciation

Orthographicพระนคร
b r a n g r
Phonemic
พฺระ-นะ-คอน
b ̥ r a – n a – g ɒ n
RomanizationPaiboonprá-ná-kɔɔn
Royal Institutephra-na-khon
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰra˦˥.na˦˥.kʰɔːn˧/(R)

Noun

พระนคร • (prá-ná-kɔɔn)

  1. kingdom; capital city thereof

Proper noun

พระนคร • (prá-ná-kɔɔn)

  1. (historical) Angkor (the capital city of the Khmer Empire, in modern-day Cambodia)
  2. (endonym) Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand) [used from 1865 to 1971, when a new name, นครหลวง (ná-kɔɔn-lǔuang), was given]
  3. Phra Nakhon (a district of Bangkok, Thailand)

See also

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