บัญญัติ

From Pali paññatti (“making known; manifestation; description; name; idea; notion; concept”); ultimately from Sanskrit प्रज्ञप्ति (prajñapti, “agreement; engagement; appointment; arrangement”). Cognate with Khmer បញ្ញត្តិ (baññat), Burmese ပညတ် (pa.nyat), Lao ບັນຍັດ (ban nyat).

บัญญัติ • (ban-yàt) (abstract noun การบัญญัติ)

1. (usually of a meaning) to define; to determine.
2. (of a word) to coin.
3. (of a law) to enact; to set up; to create.
4. (of a law) to provide; to prescribe; to state.

บัญญัติ • (ban-yàt)

1. (elegant) that which is enacted or prescribed: law, rule, regulation, decree, edict, etc.
2. (Christianity) (พระ~) commandment.