เฉลย

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Thai

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Etymology

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From Old Khmer chley, chlœya (to answer; to reply; to respond; etc). Compare Modern Khmer ឆ្លើយ (chlaəy), extended as ចំឡើយ (cɑmlaəy, answer; reply; response), from which Thai จำเลย (jam-ləəi, defendant) was derived.

Pronunciation

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Orthographicเฉลย
e t͡ɕʰ l y
Phonemic
ฉะ-เหฺลย
t͡ɕʰ a – e h ̥ l y
RomanizationPaiboonchà-lə̌əi
Royal Institutecha-loei
(standard) IPA(key)/t͡ɕʰa˨˩.lɤːj˩˩˦/(R)

Noun

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เฉลย (chà-lə̌əi)

  1. answer or explanation, especially one declared or provided by the asker for a question asked to test someone's knowledge.
  2. (obsolete) any answer or explanation.

Verb

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เฉลย (chà-lə̌əi) (abstract noun การเฉลย)

  1. to declare or provide an answer or explanation.