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เพลง

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Thai

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Khmer ភ្លេង (bhleṅa, “playing music; music; music ensemble”), from prefix ព- (b-) + លេង (leṅa, “to play”), the latter likely related to Thai เล่น (lên, “to play”). Compare Modern Khmer ភ្លេង (phleing), Lao ເພງ (phēng).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicเพลง
e b l ŋ
Phonemic
เพฺลง
e b ̥ l ŋ
RomanizationPaiboonpleeng
Royal Institutephleng
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰleːŋ˧/(R)

Noun

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เพลง • (pleeng) (classifier เพลง)

  1. song; music
    ร้องเพลง
    rɔ́ɔng pleeng
    to sing a song
    เพลงกล่อมเด็ก
    pleeng glɔ̀m dèk
    a lullaby

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Northern Thai: ᨻᩖᩮᨦ

Classifier

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เพลง • (pleeng)

  1. Classifier for songs.

Further reading

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  • “เพลง” 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.