Thai

See also: Thai., Thaï, Thái, thai, thaï, thài, and þai

Translingual

Etymology

From English Thai or French thaï, from Thai ไทย (tai).

Symbol

Thai

1. (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Thai.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Thai ไทย (tai). Doublet of Tai and Dai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɪ/, Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophones: taille, tie, Ty

  • Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /θaɪ/, (South Asia) /t̪ʰɑj/

Adjective

Thai (comparative more Thai, superlative most Thai)

1. Of or pertaining to Thailand.
   • 2023 September 26, Hafsa Khalil, “Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country.

Synonyms

• Thailandish

Derived terms

• Thai boxer
• Thai boxing
• Thai chess
• Thai fermented rice
• Thai fermented sweet rice
• Thaification
• Thaify
• Thaiglish
• Thainess
• Thai Ridgeback
• Thai sweet fermented rice
• Tinglish

Translations

of or pertaining to Thailand

• Afrikaans: Thais, Thailands
• Albanian: tajlandez
• Arabic: تَايْلَنْدِيّ (tāylandiyy), تَايْلَانْدِيّ (taylandiyy)
• Armenian: թաի (hy) (tʻai)
• Asturian: tailandés (ast), tai (ast)
• Azerbaijani: tay (az), tailand
• Belarusian: та́йскі (tájski), тайла́ндскі f (tajlándski)
• Bengali: থাই (bn) (thai)
• Bulgarian: та́йски (tájski), тайла́ндски (tajlándski)
• Burmese: ထိုင်း (my) (htuing:), ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:)
• Catalan: tailandès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泰國的 / 泰国的 (zh) (Tàiguó de), 泰 (zh) (tài)

• Czech: thajský (cs)
• Danish: thailandsk
• Dutch: Thais (nl), Thailands (nl)
• Esperanto: tajlanda (eo)
• Estonian: tai (et)
• Farefare: tai
• Faroese: tailendskur, teilendskur
• Finnish: thaimaalainen (fi)
• French: thaïlandais (fr) m, thaï (fr) m
• Galician: tailandés (gl) m
• Georgian: ტაილანდური (ṭailanduri), ტაი (ṭai)
• German: thailändisch (de)
• Hindi: थाई (hi) (thāī)
• Hungarian: thai (hu), thaiföldi (hu)
• Indonesian: Thai
• Interlingua: thailandese
• Italian: tailandese (it)
• Japanese: タイの (ja) (tai no), タイ (ja) (tai), 泰 (ja) (たい, tai)
• Kazakh: тай (tay), таиланд (taıyland)
• Khmer: ថៃ (km) (thay)
• Korean: 타이 (ko) (tai)
• Kyrgyz: тай (ky) (tay), таиланд (tailand)
• Lao: ໄທ (thai)
• Latin: thailandicus
• Latvian: taizemiešu, tajisks, taizemisks
• Lithuanian: tajų (lt), tajiškas
• Macedonian: тајландски (tajlandski)
• Malay: Thai, Siam (Northern Peninsular)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тайланд (tajland)

  Mongolian script: ᠲᠠᠶᠢᠯᠠᠨᠳ᠋ (tayiland)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: thailandsk (no)

  Nynorsk: thailandsk (nn)

• Pannonian Rusyn: тайландски (tajlandski)
• Pannonian Rusyn: тайландски (tajlandski)
• Persian: تای (fa) (tây), تایلندی (tâylandi)
• Polish: tajski (pl), tajlandzki (pl)
• Portuguese: tailandês (pt)
• Romanian: thailandez (ro)
• Russian: та́йский (ru) (tájskij), таила́ндский (ru) (tailándskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та̏јландскӣ, та̑јскӣ

  Latin: tȁjlandskī (sh), tȃjskī (sh)

• Slovak: thajský (sk)
• Slovene: tajski (sl)
• Spanish: tailandés (es), thailandés (es), tai (es), thai (es)
• Swedish: thailändsk (sv)
• Tagalog: Thai
• Tai Nüa: ᥗᥭᥰ (thäy)
• Tajik: таиландӣ (tg) (tayilandi)
• Tamil: தாய் (ta) (tāy), தாய்லாந்து (tāylāntu)
• Thai: ไทย (th) (tai)
• Turkish: Tay (tr)
• Turkmen: taý, taýland
• Ukrainian: та́йський (uk) (tájsʹkyj), таїла́ндський (tajilándsʹkyj)
• Urdu: تھائی (thāī)
• Uyghur: تايلاند (tayland)
• Uzbek: tay (uz), tailand
• Vietnamese: Thái (vi), Thái Lan (vi)
• Yaghnobi: Таӣ зивок (Tayi zivok)
• Zhuang: Daigoz

Noun

A Thai (person from Thailand) in a traditional dress.

Thai (countable and uncountable, plural Thai or Thais)

1. (countable) A person living in or coming from Thailand.

   Synonym: Thailander

   • 1958, Russell H. Fifield, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia: 1945-1958‎^[2], New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263:

     The Bangkok government indicated real concern over the developments in Communist China’s Yunnan province. Thai officials were afraid that Sibsongpanna would be a center where pro-Communist Thai in Southeast Asia would go and where subversive agitation could be directed against outside legitimate governments.

2. A domestic cat of a particular breed descended from cats of Thailand and somewhat resembling a Siamese.

   Alternative form: Thaï

3. (uncountable) Thai cuisine; traditional Thai food.

Translations

person from Thailand or of Thai origin

• Afrikaans: Thai (af), Thailander
• Arabic: تَايْلَانْدِيّ (taylandiyy)
• Asturian: tailandés (ast) m, tailandesa (ast) f, tai (ast)
• Belarusian: та́ец m (tájec), та́йка f (tájka)
• Bengali: থাই (bn) (thai)
• Burmese: ထိုင်း (my) (htuing:), ထိုင်းလူမျိုး (htuing:lu-myui:)
• Catalan: tailandès (ca) m, tailandesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泰國人 / 泰国人 (zh) (tàiguórén), 泰族 (zh) (tàizú)

• Czech: Thajec (cs) m, Thajka (cs) f
• Danish: thailænder c
• Dutch: Thailander (nl) m, Thailandse (nl) f
• Esperanto: tajlandano (man or woman), tajlandanino (woman), Tajo (eo) sg
• Finnish: thaimaalainen (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: tayilandês m, tayilandêsa f
• French: Thaïlandais (fr) m, Thaïlandaise (fr) f
• Galician: tailandés (gl) m, tailandesa f
• Georgian: ტაილანდელი (ṭailandeli)
• German: Thailänder (de) m, Thailänderin (de) f, Thai (de) m or f (informal)
• Hawaiian: Tailani
• Hebrew: תאילנדי m (tailandi), תאילנדית f (tailandit)
• Hindi: थाई (hi) m or f (thāī)
• Hungarian: thai (hu), thaiföldi (hu)
• Interlingua: thailandese
• Italian: tailandese (it), tailandesi (it) pl
• Japanese: タイ人 (ja) (タイじん, taijin)
• Khmer: ថៃ (km) (thay)
• Korean: 타이인 (taiin), 태국인 (taegugin), 타이 사람 (tai saram), 태국 사람 (taeguk saram)
• Lao: ຄົນໄທ (khon thai)
• Latvian: taizemietis m, taizemiete f
• Lithuanian: tailandietis (lt) m, tailandietė (lt) f
• Macedonian: Тајланѓанец m (Tajlanǵanec), Тајланѓанка f (Tajlanǵanka)
• Malay: orang Siam (esp. in Malaysia), orang Thai
• Malayalam: തായ് ജനത (tāyŭ janata)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: thailender m, thailending m

  Nynorsk: thailendar (nn) m, thailending (nn) m

• Pali: deyya m, deyyika m, deyyavāsī m
• Pannonian Rusyn: Тайландян m (Tajlandjan), Тайландянка f (Tajlandjanka)
• Persian: تایلندی (tâylandi)
• Polish: Taj (pl) m pers, Tajka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tailandês (pt) m, tailandesa f
• Romanian: thailandez (ro) m, thailandeză (ro) f
• Russian: та́ец (ru) m (tájec), та́йка (ru) f (tájka), таила́ндец (ru) m (tailándec), таила́ндка (ru) f (tailándka) (Thai national only)
• Shan: ထႆး (shn) (thái)
• Slovak: Thajec m, Thajka f
• Slovene: Tajec m, Tajka f
• Spanish: tailandés (es) m, thailandés (es) m, tai (es) m or f, thai (es) m or f
• Swahili: Mthai sg, Wathai pl
• Swedish: thailändare (sv) m, thailändska (sv) f
• Thai: คนไทย (kon tai), ชาวไทย (chaao tai)
• Turkish: Tay (tr), Taylandlı
• Ukrainian: та́єць m (tájecʹ), та́йка f (tájka), таїла́ндець m (tajilándecʹ), таїла́ндка f (tajilándka) (Thai national only)
• Vietnamese: người Thái, người Thái Lan
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

A Thai cat.

See also

• Siamese
• Thai Cat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Thaï cats on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Thai terms
• Appendix:Thai Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Thai

Further reading

• Thai–English Dictionary: from Webster’s Dictionary — the Rosetta Edition.
• ISO 639-1 code th, ISO 639-3 code tha (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Thai, tha ⁠

Proper noun

Thai

2. The main language spoken in Thailand (closely related to Lao).

   Synonym: (nonstandard) Thailandish

Translations

language

• Afrikaans: Thai (af)
• Arabic: تَايْلَانْدِيّ m (tāylāndiyy)
• Armenian: թաի (hy) (tʻai)
• Asturian: tailandés (ast) m, tai (ast)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: tailandiera (eu)
• Belarusian: та́йская мо́ва f (tájskaja móva), та́йская f (tájskaja)
• Bengali: থাই ভাষা (bn) (thai bhaśa)
• Breton: Thai
• Bulgarian: та́йски ези́к m (tájski ezík)
• Burmese: ထိုင်းဘာသာ (htuing:bhasa), ထိုင်းစကား (htuing:ca.ka:)
• Catalan: tailandès (ca) m, thai m, tai (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 泰文 (taai³ man^4-2)

  Mandarin: 泰語 / 泰语 (zh) (tàiyǔ)

• Czech: thajština (cs) f
• Danish: thailandsk
• Dutch: Thai (nl) n, Thais (nl) n
• Esperanto: tajlanda (eo), taja lingvo
• Estonian: Tai (et)
• Farefare: taine, taire
• Faroese: tai
• Finnish: thai (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: tayi m
• French: thaï (fr) m
• Galician: tailandés (gl) m
• Georgian: ტაიური (ṭaiuri), ტაილანდური ენა (ṭailanduri ena)
• German: Thailändisch (de) n
• Greek: ταϊλανδικά (el) (taïlandiká), ταϋλανδικά n pl (taÿlandiká)
• Greenlandic: thailandimiutut
• Hebrew: תאילנדית \ תַּיְלַנְדִּית f (tailandít)
• Hindi: थाई भाषा f (thāī bhāṣā), थाई (hi) f (thāī)
• Hmong:

  Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao: please add this translation if you can

  Green Hmong: please add this translation if you can

  White Hmong: lus thaib

• Hungarian: thai (hu)
• Icelandic: tai-má, tælenska
• Indonesian: Thai
• Interlingua: thailandese
• Irish: Téalainnis
• Italian: tailandese (it) m, thailandese (it) m
• Japanese: タイ語 (ja) (タイご, taigo)
• Khmer: ភាសាថៃ (phiəsaa thay), ថៃ (km) (thay)
• Korean: 타이어 (ko) (taieo), 태국어(泰國語) (ko) (taegugeo)
• Lao: ພາສາໄທ (lo) (phā sā thai)
• Latin: lingua thai f
• Latvian: taju valoda f, taju, taizemiešu valoda f, taizemiešu
• Lithuanian: tajų kalb f, tajiškai
• Macedonian: тајландски јазик m (tajlandski jazik)
• Malay: bahasa Siam
• Malayalam: തായ് (ml) (tāyŭ)
• Maltese: Tajlandiż
• Marathi: थाई (thāī)
• Moksha: тайень (tajeń)
• Mongolian: тай (mn) (taj)
• Navajo: Tʼáí bizaad
• Nepali: थाई (thāī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: thai (no) m

  Nynorsk: thai m

• Pali: deyyabhāsā f
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: زَبانِ تایلَنْدی (zabân-e tâylandi), تایلَنْدی (fa) (tâylandi)

• Polish: język tajski m
• Portuguese: tailandês (pt) m
• Romanian: thailandeză (ro) f
• Russian: та́йский язы́к m (tájskij jazýk), та́йский (ru) m (tájskij)
• Sarikoli: Tai ziv
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тајски језик m

  Latin: tajski jezik m

• Shughni: таи зив (tai ziv)
• Sinhalese: තායි (si) (tāyi)
• Slovak: thajčina (sk) f
• Slovene: tajščina f
• Spanish: tailandés (es) m, thailandés (es) m
• Swahili: Kithai class 7
• Swedish: thailändska (sv)
• Tajik: забони таиландӣ (zabon-i tayilandi), таиландӣ (tg) (tayilandi)
• Tamil: தாய் (ta) (tāy)
• Thai: ภาษาไทย (paa-sǎa tai)
• Turkish: Tayca (tr), Taylandca
• Ukrainian: та́йська мо́ва f (tájsʹka móva), та́йська (uk) f (tájsʹka)
• Urdu: تھائی زَبان f (thāī zabān), تھائی f (thāī)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Thái Lan (vi), tiếng Thái (vi)
• Walloon: Taylandès
• Welsh: Tai
• Yaghnobi: Таӣ зивок (Tayi zivok)
• Yazghulami: таи звег (tai zveg)
• Zhuang: ^{(please verify)} vahdai

Anagrams

• Ahti, Hati, thia-

Afrikaans

Noun

Thai (plural Thais)

1. Thai (person from Thailand or of Thai descent)

   Synonym: Thailander

2. (uncountable) Thai (cuisine)

   Synonym: Thai-kos

Derived terms

• Thais

Proper noun

Thai

1. Thai (language)

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑi̯/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Thai
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯

Proper noun

Thai n

1. Thai (language)

   Synonym: Thais

Related terms

• Thailand
• Thailands
• Thailander
• Thaise

Noun

Thai m (plural Thai or Thais, no diminutive, feminine Thaise)

1. a Thai person

Welsh

Alternative forms

• Tai

Etymology

Borrowed from English Thai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tai̯/
• Rhymes: -ai̯

Adjective

Thai (feminine singular Thai, plural Thai, not comparable, not mutable)

1. Thai

   Synonym: Siamaidd

Proper noun

Thai m or f by sense (plural Thaiaid, not mutable)

1. Thai person

   Synonym: Siamiad

Derived terms

• Gwlad Thai (“Thailaid”)

Proper noun

Thai f or m (not mutable)

1. Thai language

   Synonym: Siameg

Further reading

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “Thai”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[3], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “Thai”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “Thai”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies