วิตถาร

Thai

Etymology

From Pali vitthāra (“amplification; description; detail”). Cognate with Khmer វិត្ថារ (vɨtthaa). Compare Sanskrit विस्तार (vistāra), from which Thai พิสดาร (pít-sà-daan) was derived.

Pronunciation
Orthographicวิตถาร
w i t tʰ ā r
Phonemic
วิด-ถาน
w i ɗ – tʰ ā n
RomanizationPaiboonwít-tǎan
Royal Institutewit-than
(standard) IPA(key)/wit̚˦˥.tʰaːn˩˩˦/(R)

Adjective

วิตถาร • (wít-tǎan) (abstract noun ความวิตถาร)

  1. (obsolete) detailed, descriptive, elaborate; comprehensive, extensive, inclusive.
  2. (now rare) queer; strange; odd; uncommon; unorthodox; eccentric.
  3. perverted: sexually abnormal.
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