Thai Word of the Day
ตลาด
/ta-LAAT/ • noun — 9th of Apr, 2026
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Meaning: market; a place where goods are bought and sold
Examples
- ฉันไปตลาดทุกเช้าเพื่อซื้อผักและผลไม้
(I go to the market every morning to buy vegetables and fruit.) - ตลาดแห่งนี้เปิดถึงสามทุ่ม
(This market is open until 9 p.m.) - ตลาดสดใกล้บ้านของฉันสะอาดและราคาถูก
(The fresh market near my house is clean and inexpensive.)
Synonyms
- ตลาดนัด
- ศูนย์การค้า
- ร้านค้า
ตลาด is the general word for a market — from outdoor fresh markets (ตลาดสด) to weekend flea markets (ตลาดนัด). In everyday speech, ไปตลาด means to go shopping for food or household items. The same word is also used in compounds like ตลาดหุ้น (stock market) to mean a marketplace in a broader sense.
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