asanee Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 As I am now not in Thailand and came across this by accident- I wonder if ALL Thai monthes names have some meaning? I read about march =meena=have ricefields, and august=singha=lion, but those other complicated words I have never really heard (besides of course as the name of the month) in day-to-day Thai. Interestingly other Asian nearby languages like Burmese and Malay/Indonesian have just the western names-in their own pronunciation. In East-Europe many slavic languages have their own names-with often poetic meanings like ''falling leaves'' etc-and now I wonder if perhaps that might be the same in Thai? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaethon Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikker Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 There is a pinned thread in this forum with this information: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Thai-Months-...ays-t90293.html BTW, March, มีนา(คม) miinaa(khom), does not mean "have rice fields". That it also means that is pure coincidence. It comes from the Pali/Sanskrit-derived word มีน /miin/ "fish". The months in Thai are all named after the zodiac. In the case of March, fish = Pisces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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