ผีอำ

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Thai[edit]

Cochemare ("Nightmare") by Jean Pierre Simon, 1810
The Night Mare by M.Z.D. Schmid

Etymology[edit]

From ผี (pǐi, “ghost”) +‎ อำ (am, “to visit someone during his or her sleep and disturb him or her, as by sitting on, dragging, assaulting, or suffocating him or her”). Compare Lao ຜີອຳ (phī ʼam). Also compare Chinese 鬼壓床／鬼压床 (guǐyāchuáng).

Pronunciation[edit]

Orthographicผีอำ
pʰ ī ɒ å
Phonemic
ผี-อำ
pʰ ī – ɒ å
RomanizationPaiboonpǐi-am
Royal Institutephi-am
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰiː˩˩˦.ʔam˧/(R)

Noun[edit]

ผีอำ • (pǐi-am)

  1. situation in which a ghost, spirit, etc, visits someone during his or her sleep and disturbs him or her, as by sitting on, dragging, assaulting, or suffocating him or her.
  2. (medicine) sleep paralysis.
  3. (figurative) daymare, nightmare; night terror; sleep hallucination.
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