นครนายก

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Thai

the seal of the province depicting an elephant raising an ear of rice with its trunk
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Etymology

From นคร (ná-kɔɔn, “city”) +‎ นา (naa, “rice field”) +‎ ยก (yók, “to exempt; to cancel”); literally "city of exempted rice fields"; after the fact that the rice fields in this city were exempted from taxes during the Ayutthaya period.[1]

Pronunciation

Orthographicนครนายก
n g r n ā y k
Phonemic
นะ-คอน-นา-ยก
n a – g ɒ n – n ā – y k
RomanizationPaiboonná-kɔɔn-naa-yók
Royal Institutena-khon-na-yok
(standard) IPA(key)/na˦˥.kʰɔːn˧.naː˧.jok̚˦˥/(R)

Proper noun

นครนายก • (ná-kɔɔn-naa-yók)

  1. (จังหวัด~) Nakhon Nayok (a province of Thailand)
  2. (อำเภอเมือง~) Mueang Nakhon Nayok (a district of Nakhon Nayok province)

References

  1. ^ หอมรดกไทย (1999) “พัฒนาการทางประวัติศาสตร์”, in หอมรดกไทย‎ (in Thai), Bangkok: หอมรดกไทย, retrieved 2019-09-14
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