muban

English

Etymology

From Thai หมู่บ้าน (mùu-bâan).

Noun

muban (plural mubans)

  1. (Thailand) The lowest level of administrative subdivision in Thailand, comparable to a village, part of a tambon
    • 1979, Clark D. Neher, editor, Modern Thai Politics: From Village to Nation‎, pages 203–204:
      By law the rural populace has been grouped into muban, the lowest-level units in the administrative system

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