How to spell in thai script

[David_Loves_Ubonwan]

Can someone please show me how to spell my girlfriends name and nickname in Thai characters please. When she write it for me I can't match some of the characters to the way the appear on my keyboard.

Name = Ubonwan
Nickname = Dun

And what do these names mean in English?

Thank you.

[sabai]

Name = Ubonwan =อุบลวรรณ
Nickname = Dun =ตูณ this word may come from the word "cartoon", it is common Thai nickname such as cartoon.
hummm, she is the one who will provide the right meaning, I guess.

[David_Loves_Ubonwan]

Thanks for that Sabai, it was the middle part of Ubonwan that was causing me the most problem, however I could decipher the last character and it is slightly different than you write, she uses ญ not ณ as you wrote so it's อุบลวรรญ.

As for Dun, her handwriting doesn't look to me like what you wrote, the closest characters I think they could be are ดล. Not being able to understand Thai script does ดล read anything like Dun?

Thanks again.

[sabai]

hummm.. David,
you have showned me something new about "อุบลวรรญ" with "ญ " it does not sound " ณ " when we use it. however sometimes a name can be more complex in spelling:for example; "cathy" and "Kathy", 'Shaun" and "sean".

[MrBradUSA]

Perhaps this is what's happening, David.

As your girlfiend writes "ดล" there is an inherent o sound between the ด (D) and the ล (L which has an "N" sound when it's the final letter in a word). So, indeed ดล could spell Dun or more correctly in American pronunciation Dohn which rhymes with "bone, cone, and tone."

I hope this helps.

[sabai]

okay I gave up, lol

[Satsabarn]

Quote[/b] (MrBradUSA @ Nov. 22 2004,05:39)]So, indeed ดล could spell Dun or more correctly in American pronunciation Dohn which rhymes with "bone, cone, and tone."

จริงหรือ

ดล ( Don ) = to destine
ดลใจ = to inspire

Note that ดล rhymes with Don, Con, ponder, wand, double entendre, etc.

[pichai]

It might be Duan เดือน (shortened from ดวงเดือน meaning the moon).

[Ha-Ha]

อุบล was lotus in English
วรรญ ..I don't know I know วรรณ means ผิวสวย (fair/beautiful skin) or something like that, but I've never seen วรรญ before. I asked my sister (from host family) to look it up in the official dictionary and she couldn't find it too. You should ask your girlfirend. (I wanna know too! )

As for pronunciation, I agree with MrBradUSA that it should

Quote[/b] ]rhymes with "bone, cone, and tone."

. I don't think ดล should be spelled as "Dun", though, but names are subjective so every kinds of spelling should be fine

[David_Loves_Ubonwan]

Thanks for that Ha-Ha, but it is because of my girlfriends limited amount of English that I asked here in the first place, so we're stuck with what you tell me. :-)

As for ดล being spelled 'Dun' I would be more happy with the spelling 'Don' and that is how I initially spelled it. However whilst I am in Europe a lady in her local internet cafe translates emails for us and uses the spelling 'Dun'.

We have three translations of her surname, she tells me when I read the one done by the internet cafe it is wrong and of the other two it should be somewhere between them. :-)