ថី

See also: ថ, ថូ, ថៃ, ថា, and ថា៖

Khmer

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ថី tʰī WT romanisation thəy (standard) IPA(key) /tʰəj/

Etymology 1

Adverb

ថី • (thəy)

1. why? what?

Synonyms

• ថ្វី (thvəy)

Derived terms

• ថីមិន (tʰəy mɨn)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Vietnamese thầy (“master, teacher”).

Noun

ថី • (thəy)

1. (historical) secretary, government clerk, civil servant (in French colonial times, especially one who knew French; used with a proper name as a title)
2. (historical) teacher (used mainly during French colonial times for those who knew French)
3. (poetic) girl (variant of ស្ត្រី (strəy))

Derived terms

• ថីបក (theibkâ)
• ថីបកភាសា (theibkâphéasa)