Dictionary entry
จับ
catch
Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedcatchlexitron
seizelexitron
to touchwiktionary
to grab; to grasp; to grip; to hold; to take hold; to seizewiktionary
to catch; to capture; to apprehend; to arrestwiktionary
to take or pick, especially with hand or fingerwiktionary
to take up; to undertakewiktionary
to start; to commencewiktionary
to get stuck; to remain; to staywiktionary
to form a body; to embody; to come together and form a bodywiktionary
Classifier for things set apart by grasping, as noodles, etc.wiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesปลาช่อนผมเคยจับได้ตัวใหญ่มาก แม่ดีใจ ทำกินทั้งบ้าน
I once caught a really big snakehead fish — Mom was happy, made a meal for the whole house.
Beer · อุทัยธานีfrom อุทัยธานี ที่ผมมาจาก →
Built from
From Proto-Tai *capᴰ (“to grasp; to perch”). Compare Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer cap (“to catch; to hold; to take up, to undertake; etc”), Modern Khmer ចាប់ (cap). Cognate with Lao ຈັບ (chap), Shan ၸပ်း (tsáp). Compare Old Chinese 執 (/*tjib/) and Cantonese (zap1).