อาจารย์
Thai
alt
Definitions
- teacher: one who teaches, especially as a profession.
- (education)
- (colloquial) teacher in a higher education institution, irrespective of the rank.
- (colloquial) expert; specialist.
- religious teacher; spiritual preceptor.
- (slang) master of the occult or black magic, as sorcerer, shaman, exorcist, etc.
- used as a term of address to or title for such person, and used by such person to refer to oneself.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit आचार्य (teacher, master, one who is learned in conduct, preceptor) borrowed from Old Khmer ʼācāryya.
Origin
Old Khmer
ʼācāryya
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Acharya English
- acharya English
- आचार्य Sanskrit
- आचार्य Hindi
- ผู้ช่วยศาสตราจารย์ Thai
- รองศาสตราจารย์ Thai
- ศาสตร Thai
- ศาสตราจารย์ Thai
- ajar Malay
- ဆရာ Burmese
- 阿闍梨 Chinese
- ācariya Pali
- សាស្ត្រាចារ្យ Central Khmer
- អាចរិយ Central Khmer
- អាចារ្យ Central Khmer
- آچاریہ Urdu
- aśari Tocharian B
- ʼācāryya Old Khmer
- អាចាយ្យ៌ Old Khmer