ภัย

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pai"

Thai

Alternative forms

  • ภย
  • ไภย (pai)archaic, obsolete or dated

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali ภย (bhaya, fear; fright) or Sanskrit ภย (bhaya, idem); possibly via Angkorian Old Khmer bhay (idem) or Old Khmer bhaya, bhai, bhaiya, bhaiyya (idem). Cognate with Modern Khmer ភ័យ (phɨy), Lao ໄພ (phai), Burmese ဘေး (bhe:).

Pronunciation

Orthographicภัย
bʰ ạ y
Phonemic
ไพ
ai b
RomanizationPaiboonpai
Royal Institutephai
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰaj˧/(R)
Homophonesไพ

Noun

ภัย • (pai)

  1. fear, fright; source thereof, as danger, peril, hazard, etc.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • ภัย” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.