wordรถแดง rot daeng
รถแดง · rot daeng
Patiparn.Nice2002bkk · CC BY-SA 4.0| Script | รถแดง |
|---|---|
| RTGS | rot daeng |
| Sound | /rót.dɛːŋ/ |
| Standard Thai | รถสองแถว rot song thaeo |
| Meaning | the red truck; Chiang Mai's shared taxi |
| Example | ขึ้นรถแดง — khuen rot daeng — get in a red truck |
What it is
The red pickup with two benches that is the city's bus, taxi and school run. It has no route, only a direction and a fare, which is why it is on a site about roads: it is how most of them are used.
Root
รถ rot, vehicle ← Sanskrit ratha, chariot + แดง daeng, red. Elsewhere in Thailand a songthaew, two rows, for the benches in the back. Here the colour is the name.
Connected to
- The red trucks, counted How many, counted.
Named here by
- The motorcycle, counted and not counted The other vehicle.
- The red trucks, counted The word.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | tradition | พจนานุกรมล้านนา–ไทย — Moradok Lanna | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated |
Sources
- พจนานุกรมล้านนา–ไทย — Moradok Lanna
- Northern Thai language — Wikipedia (en)
- Songthaew — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there