พิเรนทร์

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Thai[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of พิเรนทร์เทพ (pí-reen-têep), the noble title of the Chief of the Right Royal Grand Police Department (เจ้ากรมพระตำรวจใหญ่ขวา), from พิเรนทร์ (pí-reen; literally "chief of gallants", "chief gallant", "gallant chief", etc), a compound of พิร (gallant; hero; warrior) +‎ อินทร์ (in, Indra; chief, lord, master), + เทพ (têep, divine; deity); after the holder of this title during the Franco-Siamese War of 1893, who trained police divers to sink French warships in unorthodox ways, leaving many divers dead underwater.

Pronunciation[edit]

Orthographicพิเรนทร์
b i e r n d r ʻ
Phonemic
พิ-เรน
b i – e r n
RomanizationPaiboonpí-reen
Royal Institutephi-ren
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰi˦˥.reːn˧/(R)

Adjective[edit]

พิเรนทร์ (pí-reen) (abstract noun ความพิเรนทร์)

  1. deviant; perverted; queer; unconventional; unorthodox.

Adverb[edit]

พิเรนทร์ (pí-reen) (abstract noun ความพิเรนทร์)

  1. in a manner that is deviant, perverted, queer, unconventional, or unorthodox

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