จังหวัด

Borrowed from Old Khmer ចង្វាត៑ (caṅvāt), ចង្វាត្ត៑ (caṅvātt), ចង្វត៑ (caṅvat), ចង្វត្ត៑ (caṅvatt), ចំវត្ត៑ (caṃvatt), ចន្វត៑ (canvat, “bounded terrain; bounded territory; circumscription”), from ឆ្វាត៑ or ឆ្វត៑ (whence ฉวัด in Thai ฉวัดเฉวียน (chà-wàt-chà-wǐian) is from). Cognate with modern Khmer ចង្វាត (cɑngviət).

จังหวัด • (jang-wàt) (classifier จังหวัด or แห่ง)

1. (archaic) area; region; district; locality; territory.
2. (Thailand)
   1. province: highest administrative division of Thailand, governed by ผู้ว่าราชการ (pûu-wâa-râat-chá-gaan), divided into อำเภอ (am-pəə, “districts”), กิ่งอำเภอ (“minor districts”), and ตำบล (dtam-bon, “subdistrict”), respectively.
   2. (judiciary) province: a type of area subject to the territorial jurisdiction of a ศาลจังหวัด (“provincial court”).
3. similar administrative division, as department in France, prefecture in Japan, voivodeship in Poland, etc.

• → Lao: ຈັງຫວັດ (chang wat)