พระนคร
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Thai
Etymology
From พระ (prá, “honorific given to gods, religious personages, royal persons, etc, as well as persons or things relating to them”, literally “best; excellent; godly; sacred; etc”) + นคร (ná-kɔɔn, “city; city-state”).
Pronunciation
| Orthographic | พระนคร b r a n g r | |
| Phonemic | พฺระ-นะ-คอน b ̥ r a – n a – g ɒ n | |
| Romanization | Paiboon | prá-ná-kɔɔn |
| Royal Institute | phra-na-khon | |
| (standard) IPA(key) | /pʰra˦˥.na˦˥.kʰɔːn˧/(R) | |
Noun
- kingdom; monarchy.
- capital city of a kingdom.
Proper noun
- Phra Nakhon, a district in Bangkok.
- (historical) the formal name of Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, from 1865 until 22 December 1971, on which it was consolidated with the province of ธนบุรี (ton-bù-rii) to form a polity called นครหลวง (ná-kɔɔn-lǔuang).
- (historical) Angkor (the capital city of the Khmer Empire, in modern-day Cambodia)