NaNoBotCo/thai-trade-words-chiang-mai

คำบนป้าย — Thai trade words of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai

1,782 Thai trade terms taken from the tags on business listings in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai — the words the city uses for what a shop does — each with an RTGS reading and an English gloss. Plus 403 administrative place names (tambon, amphoe, city, province) with their readings.

ซ่อมมอเตอร์ไซค์   Som Motoesai      motorcycle repair              191 places
ตู้น้ำดื่มหยอดเหรียญ  Tunam Duem Yotrian coin-op drinking-water dispenser 238
ฌาปนกิจสถาน       Chapanakit Sathan  crematorium

Built for motdang.net, a directory of 88,161 places in the two provinces. Terms of this kind are absent from general Thai-English dictionaries: they are compound signage vocabulary, not headwords.

Coverage

trade terms	1,782
with an English gloss	1,782 (100%)
with an RTGS reading	1,782 (100%)
administrative names	403

Fields — trade_words

field
thai	the term as it is written on the listing
reading	RTGS romanisation, from translit.py
gloss	English equivalent of the word, not a description of the shop
gloss_source	curated (written by hand), thesaurus, or record (a listing carried its own English)
n_places	records in the Mot Dang catalogue carrying this tag
shelves	site categories whose Thai label is this term

areas carries thai, reading, kind.

How the glosses were made

source	terms
curated	1,540
thesaurus	164
record	78

Nothing is machine translated. A gloss is the dictionary equivalence for the word on the sign — ซ่อม is to repair, ปะยาง is to patch a tyre, หยอดเหรียญ is coin-operated. Where a term is English written in Thai script the reading is RTGS throughout, so ซ่อมมอเตอร์ไซค์ reads Som Motoesai rather than half a reading and half a translation.

The twenty most common

Thai	reading	gloss	places
ตู้น้ำดื่มหยอดเหรียญ	Tunam Duem Yotrian	coin-op drinking-water dispenser	238
ซักผ้าหยอดเหรียญ	Sakpha Yotrian	coin-op laundry	200
ซ่อมมอเตอร์ไซค์	Som Motoesai	motorcycle repair	191
ปะยางมอเตอร์ไซค์	Pa Yang Motoesai	motorcycle tyre patching	170
ตู้น้ำหยอดเหรียญ	Tunam Yotrian	coin-op water dispenser	162
ถ่ายน้ำมันเครื่องมอเตอร์ไซค์	Thai Namman Khrueang Motoesai	motorcycle oil change	144
ตู้น้ำดื่ม	Tunam Duem	drinking-water dispenser	122
ทำฟัน	Thamfan	dental work	91
จัดฟัน	Chatfan	braces, orthodontics	88
เครื่องซักผ้าหยอดเหรียญ	Khrueangsakpha Yotrian	coin-op washing machine	83
ซักอบรีด	Sakabrit	dry clean	79
ไวนิล	Wainin	vinyl banner	71
ร้านสะดวกซัก	Ran Saduaksak	self-service laundrette	56
ถ่ายเอกสาร	Thaieksan	copy shop	54
ป้าย	Pai	label	53
อุดฟัน	Utfan	dental filling	48
ซ่อมทีวี	Som Thiwi	TV repair	47
อาหารสัตว์	Ahansat	animal feed	46
ป่าช้า	Pa Cha	cremation ground	42
สุสาน	Susan	cremation ground	42

Licence

Readings and glosses CC BY 4.0. See LICENSE for the word list's origin.