Where does “หน่วยงาน” come from?

หน่วยงาน (Thai) comes from Thai งาน — job; work; task; ngan, area of land equal to a...

หน่วยงาน (Thai): body of persons carrying out a certain work: agency, bureau, organisation, corporation, department, service, etc

Definitions

  1. body of persons carrying out a certain work: agency, bureau, organisation, corporation, department, service, etc

Ancestry of “หน่วยงาน”, step by step

หน่วยงาน traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai งาน

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiงานjob; work; task; ngan, area of land equal to a...

via Thai หน่วย

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiหน่วยunit; division; group; department
Every word from Thai งาน