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ภาค

pâaknountonefalling tonefalling
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Meanings

every sense kept, sourced — never invented
1n.

partlexitron

2n.

sectionlexitron

3n.

(if belonging to a god, high priest, or royal person: พระ~) luck; good luck; good fortune(formal)wiktionary

4n.

part; section; division; region; areawiktionary

5n.

part; piece; portion; fraction; fragmentwiktionary

6n.

part; division; section; volume; episode; chapterwiktionary

7n.

party; faction; sectwiktionary

8n.

also known as มณฑลภาค (mon-ton-pâak): administrative division of Thailand from 1915–1926, being a group of มณฑล (mon-ton), governed by อุปราช (ùp-bpà-ràat)(Thailand, historical)wiktionary

9n.

semesterwiktionary

10n.

that which divides or separates: mark, punctuation mark, etc(in-compounds)wiktionary

In the readings

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ผมอยากให้คนอื่นรู้จักภาคใต้ในแบบที่ผมรู้จัก

I want others to know the South the way I know it.

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บางอย่างคนภาคอื่นอาจไม่กล้ากิน

Some of it, people from other regions might not dare to eat.

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Borrowed from Pali bhāga (“part; portion; fraction; share; etc”); ultimately from Sanskrit भाग (bhāga, idem); probably via Old Khmer bhāga (“luck, fortune; part, region, division, section; portion, lot; etc”). Cognate with Modern Khmer ភាគ (phiək); Lao ພາກ (phāk); Burmese ဘက် (bhak).