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Meaning Of The Names Of Thai Monthes?

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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?

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.

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