ถั่ว ชิกพี
“ถั่ว ชิกพี” (тхуа чикпхи) — chickpeas; garbanzo in Thai. Noun, level A1. Again the "bean" plus the English chickpea. Chickpeas are a guest in Thai cooking; look for them in the import aisle. In a live sentence: “ซื้อ ถั่ว ชิกพี ที่ ตลาด” — Buy chickpeas at the market. Written with the characters ถ, ่, ว, ช, ิ, ก, พ, ี. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ถั่ว ชิกพี |
| Read in Latin letters | тхуа чикпхи |
| Translation | chickpeas; garbanzo |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Again the "bean" plus the English chickpea. Chickpeas are a guest in Thai cooking; look for them in the import aisle
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ซื้อ ถั่ว ชิกพี ที่ ตลาดсы тхуа чикпхи ти талатBuy chickpeas at the market
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “chickpeas; garbanzo” in Thai?
«ถั่ว ชิกพี», read “тхуа чикпхи”. In a live sentence: “ซื้อ ถั่ว ชิกพี ที่ ตลาด” — Buy chickpeas at the market. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ถ, ่, ว, ช, ิ, ก, พ, ี.
How is “ถั่ว ชิกพี” written in Latin letters?
тхуа чикпхи. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Again the "bean" plus the English chickpea. Chickpeas are a guest in Thai cooking; look for them in the import aisle. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.