เฉลย
Thai
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]| Orthographic | เฉลย e t͡ɕʰ l y | |
|---|---|---|
| Phonemic | ฉะ-เหฺลย t͡ɕʰ a – e h ̥ l y | |
| Romanization | Paiboon | chà-lə̌əi |
| Royal Institute | cha-loei | |
| (standard) IPA(key) | /t͡ɕʰa˨˩.lɤːj˩˩˦/(R) | |
Noun
[edit]เฉลย • (chà-lə̌əi)
- answer or explanation, especially one declared or provided by the asker for a question asked to test someone's knowledge
- (obsolete) any answer or explanation
Verb
[edit]เฉลย • (chà-lə̌əi) (abstract noun การเฉลย)
- to declare or provide an answer or explanation
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “เฉลย” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.