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Definition: Baht |
BahtNoun1. The basic unit of money in Thailand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Currency of Thailand. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Paper currency includes 1,000 (grey), 500 (purple), 100 (red), 50 (blue) and 20 (green) baht notes. The brown 10 baht banknote has become rare. Ten-baht coins are brass disks in a silver ring, and it has many commemorative 10 baht coins made for special events. Five-baht coins are silver with copper rims. One-baht coins are silver. The 50 and 25 satang coins are brass. Even though the satang coins are a legal tender small shops often don't accept them anymore. Older coins which are still in circulation only had the thai numerals, but the new design also has arabic numerals. All coins have a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej on one side, the king is also depcited on each of the banknotes.
Until November 27, 1902 the Tical was on purely silver basis, however as the value of silver did fall relatively to the gold fixed currencies the fixing was changed. From the lowest rate of 21.75 tical per pound it could be raised to 17 tical per pound. In the same year 1902, on September 19, the first banknotes were issued, with denomination of five, ten, twenty, one hundred and one thousand tical. Coins in 1902 were
History
The present decimal system, in which one baht = 100 satang, was introduced in 1897 by king Chulalongkorn. However until the 1940s it was named Tical, then renamed to Baht. Originally the term Baht was a weight unit of about 15g, and was adopted because one Tical was equivalent to 15g of silver.Exchange Rates
Sampled on September 20 2002.
External sources
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Baht."
Synonym: BahtSynonym: tical (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Baht |
| English words defined with "baht": satang. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Baht" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (baht), Turkish (chance, fortune, hap, happiness, luck, Moira). |
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Business | This is a 3,000 million baht project. (references) | |
The BMA charges 11 baht per kilogram for waste disposal. (references) | ||
However, these figures are from 1996, the year before the baht crash. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Thailand | During the year, the Government also provided $66,000 (3 million baht) to Christian organizations to support social welfare projects. (references) |
Thailand | Since mid-2000 the Government has provided more than $48 million (2.1 billion baht) to support Buddhist and Muslim institutes of higher education; to fund religious education programs in public and private schools; to provide daily allowances for monks and Muslim clerics who hold administrative and senior ecclesiastical posts; and to subsidize travel and healthcare for monks and Muslim clerics. (references) | |
Economic History | Thailand | From 1994 through October 2000, 120 counter-trade agreements were carried out, resulting in the exports of 22.6 billion baht. (references) |
Political Economy | THAILAND | The exchange rate averaged 25 baht to the dollar during that period. (references) |
THAILAND | Current monetary policy does not target a specific level for the baht, but the government has said it will act to smooth volatility in the exchange rate. (references) | |
THAILAND | From 1984 to 1997, the baht was pegged to a basket of currencies of Thailand's major trading partners, with the U.S. dollar representing the largest share. (references) | |
Trade | Thailand | The measures to enhance foreign currency flows and to maintain stability of the Baht were implemented on September 23, 1997 . Inward remittances are free of control . To increase foreign currency supply in circulation, any persons receiving foreign currencies are required to sell their foreign currencies to or deposit their foreign currencies with an authorized agent within 7 days from the date of receipt, a change from 15 days previously . However, there is an exception for non-residents and foreigners who stay in Thailand less than three months as well as persons who receive diplomatic privileges. (references) |
Worker Rights | Thailand | The minimum wage ranges from $3.01 to $3.71 (133 to 165 baht) per day, depending on the cost of living in various provinces. (references) |
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| "Baht" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.96% of the time. "Baht" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.96% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "baht": baht-billionaire, baht-ISO. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
baht | 88 |
thai baht | 18 |
baht exchange rate | 8 |
baht collapse thai | 7 |
baht gold | 6 |
baht chain | 4 |
thailand baht | 4 |
baht dollar | 3 |
baht kaen khon million tourism | 2 |
baht conversion dollar | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "baht"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | baht. (various references) | |
Esperanto | centona bado (one hundredth of a baht, satang). (various references) | |
French | baht-code ISO (baht-ISO code), THB (baht-ISO code). (various references) | |
Greek | μπατ Ταϊλάνδης (baht-ISO code), ταϊλανδικό μπατ (baht-ISO code). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ahtbay.(various references) | |
Russian | бат. (various references) | |
Thai | บาท (หน่วยเงินตราของประเทศไทย). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "baht": bahts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "baht" (pronounced bÄ"t) |
| 3 | b Ä" t | Bott, bought. |
| 2 | -Ä" t | allot, blot, caught, clot, cot, Dot, forgot, got, hot, jot, khat, knot, lat, lot, Lotte, Mott, motte, not, plot, pot, rot, scot, shot, Shott, slot, spot, squat, swat, tot, trot, Watt, yacht. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bath. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-t" | |
-1 letter: bah, bat, hat, tab. | |
-2 letters: ab, ah, at, ba, ha, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-t" | |
+1 letter: bahts, baith, batch, bathe, baths, habit. | |
+2 letters: bathed, bather, bathes, bathos, bertha, bhakta, bhakti, breath, bypath, habits, hagbut, hatbox. | |
+3 letters: abought, absinth, adhibit, batched, batcher, batches, batfish, bathers, bathing, bathmat, bathtub, bathyal, beneath, benthal, berthas, bethank, bhaktas, bhaktis, blather, bothria, brachet, breadth, breathe, breaths, breathy, bypaths, cohabit, habitan, habitat, habited, habitue, habitus, hackbut, hagbuts, halbert, halibut, hatable, hatband, hautboy, inhabit, isobath, sabbath, sunbath, tarbush, washtub. | |
+4 letters: absinthe, absinths, adhibits, alphabet, autobahn, bacchant, backchat, badmouth, barathea, barghest, batchers, batching, bathetic, bathless, bathmats, bathoses, bathrobe, bathroom, bathtubs, bequeath, bethanks, bethesda, biathlon, birdbath, birthday, blathers, boathook, bolthead, brachets, brashest, brattish, breadths, breathed, breather, breathes, bushgoat, cohabits, cohobate, deathbed, eurybath, footbath, habitans, habitant, habitats, habiting, habitual, habitude, habitues, hackbuts, halberts, halibuts, hardboot, hatbands, hatboxes, hateable, hautbois, hautboys, heatable, hebetate, hecatomb, hoofbeat, huntable, inhabits, isobaths, johnboat, mastabah, matchbox, mothball, sabbaths, saltbush, showboat, stablish, subshaft, sunbathe, sunbaths, tarboosh, thebaine, tithable, tribrach, unbathed, washtubs. | |
+5 letters: abashment, abhorrent, absinthes, adhibited, aitchbone, alphabets, autobahns, bacchante, bacchants, backchats, backcloth, backlight, badmouths, bandwidth, baratheas, barghests, batfishes, bathhouse, batholith, bathrobes, bathrooms, bathwater, beachiest, bequeaths, bethanked, bethesdas, betrothal, biathlete, biathlons, birdbaths, birthdate, birthdays, birthmark, birthrate, blathered, blatherer, bloodbath, boathooks, boathouse, boltheads, brachiate, branchlet, brashiest, breathers, breathier, breathily, breathing, buckwheat, bushgoats, catchable, cohabited, cohobated, cohobates, deathbeds, deathblow, dithyramb, earthborn, eightball, establish, eurybaths, flashtube, footbaths, habitable, habitably, habitants, habituate, habitudes, hardboots, hatchable, hatchback, heartbeat, heartburn, hebetated, hebetates, hecatombs, herbalist, hereabout, heritable, hibernate, hoofbeats, houseboat, hypoblast, inbreathe, inhabited, inhabiter, johnboats, labyrinth, mastabahs, matchable, matchbook, mothballs, notchback, reinhabit, shabbiest, shiftable, showboats, sublethal, subshafts, sunbathed, sunbather, sunbathes, tabbouleh, tarbushes, teachable, teachably, thebaines, thinkable, thinkably, thornback, throwback, thumbnail, thumbtack, touchable, touchback, tribrachs, watchable, watchband, whaleboat, whitebait. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 68 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0068 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36677486 |
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