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เฉลี่ย

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Thai

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Etymology

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Khmer loanword? First syllable, เฉ (chěe), means "to deviate, be aslant" by itself, while the second syllable isn't found in unbound form.”

Pronunciation

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Orthographicเฉลี่ย
e t͡ɕʰ l ī ˋ y
Phonemic
ฉะ-เหฺลี่ย
t͡ɕʰ a – e h ̥ l ī ˋ y
RomanizationPaiboonchà-lìia
Royal Institutecha-lia
(standard) IPA(key)/t͡ɕʰa˨˩.lia̯˨˩/(R)

Verb

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เฉลี่ย (chà-lìia) (abstract noun การเฉลี่ย)

  1. to divide; to distribute
  2. to average

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • เฉลี่ย” 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.