Have you ever wanted to talk about astrology/astronomy, or about the latest robot probe sent to Mars? What are the names of the planets?

Just like in English, many of the planet names are the same as the days of the week (Sunday = Sun, Monday = moon, Saturday = Saturn, etc.). If you need a refresher on the days of the week, have a look back at the Thai days of the week article.

Also, note that the names of the planets have the word พระ pra4 in them. It’s perfectly OK to leave it out when speaking or writing the name of the planets. The word daow1 (ดาว) means ‘star’. It can be used to describe pretty much anything that isn’t the Earth or Sun (including asteroids and artificial satellites).

List of planets in Thai:

There is one note however on the word for ‘Earth’. Usually it is called ‘the World’ in Thai. However, this doesn’t quite work if you find yourself on Mars speaking Thai and want to refer to the Earth . . . so here is how you say ‘the planet Earth’:

Here is a video to help you practice your new vocabulary. See how many words you can pick out. My next post will have more space vocabulary, so come back to this video once again.