การ

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali kāra (“deed; service; act of mercy or worship; homage; noun suffix”) and Sanskrit कार (kāra, “making; producing; performing; action; etc.”). Cognate with Lao ການ (kān), Lü ᦂᦱᧃ (k̇aan).

Pronunciation
Orthographicการ
k ā r
Phonemicกาน
k ā n
RomanizationPaiboongaan
Royal Institutekan
(standard) IPA(key)/kaːn˧/
Homophones
 
กาญจน์
กาน
กานต์
กานท์
การณ์
การย์
กาล
กาฬ
Audio

Noun

การ • (gaan)

  1. work; matter; task; affair.
  2. prefixed to nouns to form noun derivatives, meaning “affairs of.; matters of .; -ery; -y”.
  3. prefixed to action verbs to form abstract nouns, meaning “act of .; -ing”.

Derived terms
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Derived terms

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