ฉลาม

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Thai

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Etymology

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Possibly from Khmer ឆ្លាម (chlaam, the shark Carcharias hemiodon).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicฉลาม
t͡ɕʰ l ā m
Phonemic
ฉะ-หฺลาม
t͡ɕʰ a – h ̥ l ā m
RomanizationPaiboonchà-lǎam
Royal Institutecha-lam
(standard) IPA(key)/t͡ɕʰa˨˩.laːm˩˩˦/(R)

Noun

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ฉลาม (chà-lǎam) (classifier ตัว)

  1. (ปลา~) mackerel shark: any marine fish of the order Lamniformes.
  2. (ปลา~) any shark.