ราหู
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Pali rāhu (“Rāhu”) or Sanskrit राहु (rāhu, “Rāhu”). Cognate with Khmer រាហុ (riəhoʼ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Orthographic | ราหู r ā h ū | |
Phonemic | รา-หู r ā – h ū | |
Romanization | Paiboon | raa-hǔu |
Royal Institute | ra-hu | |
(standard) IPA(key) | /raː˧.huː˩˩˦/(R) |
Noun
[edit]ราหู • (raa-hǔu)
- (Hindu and Buddhist mythology) (พระ~) Rāhu: the demon that devours the sun and moon and thus causes eclipses, often depicted to have dark skin and to be without the lower part of the body due to it having been severed by God Viṣṇu, who caught him stealing a divine nectar.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) dark-skinned person.
- (Hindu astrology) (ดาว~, ดาวพระ~, พระ~) Rāhu: the seventh of the nine influential stars navagraha.
- (zoology) (ปลา~) any of the various marine fish of the genus Mobula (syn. Manta) in the family Mobulidae or subfamily Mobulinae.
Derived terms
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[edit]Categories:
- Thai terms borrowed from Pali
- Thai learned borrowings from Pali
- Thai terms derived from Pali
- Thai terms borrowed from Sanskrit
- Thai learned borrowings from Sanskrit
- Thai terms derived from Sanskrit
- Rhymes:Thai/uː
- Thai terms with IPA pronunciation
- Thai 2-syllable words
- Thai lemmas
- Thai nouns
- th:Mythology
- Thai slang
- Thai derogatory terms
- Thai offensive terms
- th:Astrology
- th:Zoology
- th:Hinduism
- th:Fish