{
 "id": "pratu",
 "type": "word",
 "names": {
  "name": "ประตู pratu",
  "th": "ประตู",
  "rtgs": "pratu"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "etymology": {
  "root": "ประตู pratu ← Khmer ទ្វារ / Sanskrit dvāra by way of Khmer pratu; the same word in both registers, but in Chiang Mai it means one of five specific places before it means a door.",
  "tier": "tradition"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Shared with standard Thai, but in this city 'pratu' is a place name first: five gates, and everyone knows which one you mean."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ใช้ร่วมกับภาษากลาง แต่ในเมืองนี้ ประตูเป็นชื่อสถานที่ก่อน ห้าประตู และใผ ๆ ก็ฮู้ว่าหมายเถิงอันไหน"
 },
 "word": {
  "th": "ประตู",
  "rtgs": "pratu",
  "ipa": "/pa.tǔː/",
  "standard": "ประตู",
  "standard_rtgs": "pratu",
  "gloss": "gate; city gate",
  "gloss_th": "ประตูเมือง",
  "example": "ประตูท่าแพ",
  "example_gloss": "Pratu Tha Phae — the east gate"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "tha-phae-gate",
   "as": "The one everyone means.",
   "rel": "gate"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:moradok-lanna-dict",
  "s:wp-northern-thai"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:moradok-lanna-dict"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "pratu/pratu-chiangmai-thaphae-gate.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Chiangmai Thaphae Gate.JPG",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Chiangmai_Thaphae_Gate.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChiangmai_Thaphae_Gate.JPG",
   "license": "Public domain",
   "license_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain",
   "author": "Rinto Jiang",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "Tha Phae Gate of Chiang Mai",
   "date": "2007-01-25",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "0750696de839a70c5591b041a9e77e6cb770f3c813690571c543f54b10e0e526"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": []
}