โทรศัพท์

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Thai

Etymology

From โทร (too-rá-, “far; remote”) +‎ ศัพท์ (sàp, “term, word; sound; etc”); ultimately from Sanskrit दूर (dūra) + शब्द (śabda); calque of English telephone.

Pronunciation

Orthographicโทรศัพท์
o d r ɕ ạ b d ʻ
Phonemic
โท-ระ-สับ
o d – r a – s ạ ɓ
RomanizationPaiboontoo-rá-sàp
Royal Institutetho-ra-sap
(standard) IPA(key)/tʰoː˧.ra˦˥.sap̚˨˩/(R)

Noun

โทรศัพท์ • (too-rá-sàp)

  1. (classifier: เครื่อง if referring to a device) telephone.

Verb

โทรศัพท์ • (too-rá-sàp) (abstract noun การโทรศัพท์)

  1. to make a telephone call; to call or contact through telephone; to talk or converse through telephone.

Usage notes

  • The abbreviated form โทร. (too) is used to indicate a telephone number, equivalent to Tel. in English.
  • The verb is colloquially shortened as โทร (too) or โทรฯ (too).

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