เหี้ย
Thai
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
| Orthographic | เหี้ย e h ī ˆ y | |
| Phonemic | เฮี่ย e ɦ ī ˋ y | |
| Romanization | Paiboon | hîia |
| Royal Institute | hia | |
| (standard) IPA(key) | /hia̯˥˩/(R) | |
Noun
เหี้ย • (hîia)
- (zoology) Asian water monitor: the lizard Varanus salvator of the family Varanidae.
- (slang, vulgar, offensive) (อี~, ไอ้~) anyone or anything considered to be extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant.
Usage notes
- The lizard is sometimes confused with ตะกวด (dtà-gùuat, “Bengal monitor; clouded monitor”).
- In the Thai translation of the King James Version (Leviticus 11:29, for example), the term is used to refer the Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard, which is known as "tortoise" in KJV, as "great lizard" in the English Standard Version, the New International Version, and the New Heart English Bible, as "large lizard" in the New Living Translation and the Holman Christian Standard Bible, and merely as "lizard" in the International Standard Version.
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Interjection
เหี้ย • (hîia)
- (slang, vulgar) an exclamation of anger, contempt, disapproval, discontent, disgust, dismay, rejection, or surprise.
Adjective
เหี้ย • (hîia) (abstract noun ความเหี้ย)
- (slang, vulgar) extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant.
Adverb
เหี้ย • (hîia)
- (slang, vulgar) extremely; very.
- (slang, vulgar) in an extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant manner.
- (slang, vulgar) used as an intensifier.