รังควาน

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Thai[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Orthographicรังควาน
r ạ ŋ g w ā n
Phonemic
รัง-คฺวาน
r ạ ŋ – g ̥ w ā n
RomanizationPaiboonrang-kwaan
Royal Instituterang-khwan
(standard) IPA(key)/raŋ˧.kʰwaːn˧/(R)

Noun[edit]

รังควาน (rang-kwaan)

  1. (archaic) spirit that guards a wild elephant.
  2. (archaic) the ghost of a person who died violently, believed to have the power to possess and take over the body of a human.
  3. (figurative) misfortune, bad luck; ill, evil, woe, vice.

Verb[edit]

รังควาน (rang-kwaan) (abstract noun การรังควาน)

  1. to afflict, to plague, to torment, to vex, to trouble; to harass, to pester, to hound.

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