เกาะ

gɔ̀noun

island

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Meanings

every sense kept, sourced — never invented

1n.

islandlexitron

2v.

holdlexitron

3v.

cling; arrest; catch; grab; takelexitron

4n.

islelexitron

5n.

tract of land surrounded by water: isle, island, islet, etcwiktionary

6n.

used as a title for such tract of landwiktionary

7n.

grove; thicket; copse(archaic)wiktionary

8v.

to grab; to grasp; to grip; to seize; to clutch(transitive)wiktionary

9v.

to apprehend; to arrest(obsolete, transitive)wiktionary

10v.

to adhere (to); to stick (to); to cling (to)(transitive)wiktionary

Built from

Borrowed from Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ ~ *tkɔɔh (“island”). Cognate with Mon တကံ (tkɔˀ), Khmer កោះ (kɑh), Chong kɑʔ, Nyah Kur เกาะ, Lao ເກາະ (kǫ), Vietnamese gò and Mal kɔʔ. Cognate with Lao ເກາະ (kǫ).

Words built from it

เกาะ inside longer words

ถ้าขาดสำคัญจนถึงควรต้องเกาะ ก็ให้เสนาบดีกระทรวงวังสั่งให้เกาะตามธรรมเนียมเดิมIf [his] absence is serious that [he] should be arrested, then the Minister [in charge of] the Ministry of Palaces shall order [him] to be arrested in accordance with the former convention.

A note on usage

ส่วนของแผ่นดินที่มีน้ำล้อมรอบโดยตลอด และมีขนาดเล็กกว่าแผ่นดินที่เป็นทวีป