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baht

UK/bɑːt/US/bɑːt/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,408 of 15,258neutral

The baht is the unit of money used in Thailand. A hundred baht, in baht, the baht fell.

Its collapse in 1997 set off the Asian financial crisis, which makes it one of the few currencies non-economists can name a date for. The word is also an old unit of weight for gold, still used in Thai gold shops.

Definitions of baht

  1. 1nounbahtThe unit of money used in Thailand.B2+

    “A bowl of noodles at the Bangkok street stall cost only fifty baht.”

baht is a currency.

Where it comes from

Thai baht comes through Pali from Sanskrit pada, a foot or a quarter, first as a weight.

  1. Sanskrit

    पाद

  2. pi

    pāda

  3. th

    บาท

  4. English, today

    baht

th บาท, from pi pāda, ultimately from Sanskrit पाद.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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baht in the wild

  • The baht is the official currency of Thailand.

    Thai baht

  • SWIFT ranked the Thai baht as the 10th-most-frequently used world payment currency as of December 2023.

    Thai baht

  • KBank was established on 8 June 1945 by Choti Lamsam, with registered capital of five million baht.

    Kasikornbank

  • When including indirect travel and tourism receipts, the 2014 total is estimated to be the equivalent to 19.3% (2.3 trillion baht) of Thailand's GDP.

    Tourism in Thailand

  • Ten-baht coin has been used as a commemorative coin for many occasions since 1971.

    Ten-baht coin

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.