กรุง

Thai

pron

Definitions

capital city; city of government seat, though not being capital city.
(archaic) city-state; nation, country.
(archaic) monarch; sovereign.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Khmer ក្រុង derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kruŋ (confine).

Origin

Proto-Mon-Khmer

*kruŋ

Gloss

confine

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

Krung Thep English
กรุงเทพฯ Thai
กรุงเฮก Thai
เทพ Thai
เฮก Thai
ក្រុង Central Khmer
*kruŋ Proto-Mon-Khmer
ក្រុង Old Khmer