โกง

Thai

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *koŋ (“to bend; to be bent”) (whence Khmer កោង (kaong, “to bend; to be bent”)). Cognate with Thai ก่ง (gòng), ก้งโค้ง, โก่ง (gòong), โก้งโค้ง, โค้ง (kóong).

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicโกง
o k ŋ
RomanizationPaiboongoong
Royal Institutekong
(standard) IPA(key)/koːŋ˧/(R)

Verb

โกง • (goong) (abstract noun การโกง)

  1. to cheat; to deceit; to swindle

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “โกง” 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.
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