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Word groups; the easy way to add over 3 dozen words to your Thai vocabulary
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Here’s an opportunity to learn a few simple words that can be grouped to add over three dozen words to your Thai vocabulary. Have a look at the list below:
Lom (rhymes with ‘home‘) means wind or breeze
Lom yen = cool breeze
Pad lom = fan (for circulating air)
Lom toot = passing wind; flatulence; a fart
Yen means cool or cold
Yen sabai = comfortably cool
Doo Yen = refrigerator
Paa yen = a cool wet towel for wiping your hands or face
Jai means heart
Jai yen = “cool heart”; someone who is patient; unexcitable
Jai lawn = “hot heart”; impatient; angry
Nam jai = “water from the heart”; generous; unselfish; other-centered
Jai dam = “black hearted”; evil; bad intentioned
Nom (rhymes with ‘home’) means milk and is also the common term for a woman’s breasts
Nom yai = large breasts
Nom lek = small breasts
Nom lek lek = very small breasts
Nom su-waay = beautiful breasts
Naam means water (also liquid, juice or sauce)
Naam plaow = plain (clear) drinking water
Naam kaeng = ice
Naam Polamai = fruit juice
Naam Som = orange juice
Naam minaow = lime or lemon juice
Naam tangmo = watermelon juice (and so on…)
Naam chaa = brewed tea
Chaa minaow = lemon tea
Chaa yen = cold tea; iced tea
Chaa yen minaow = cold lemon tea
Chaa Nom yen = cold tea with milk
Hawng naam = toilet (hawng means room so this is ‘water room’ or ‘water closet’)
ab naam = shower or bathe (’ab dat’ means sun-bathing or tanning)
Naam fon = rainwater
Dtok means fall or falling
Naam dtok = waterfall
Fon dtok = rain
Rot (rhymes with ‘boat’) means car or vehicle
Rot = car
Rot taxi = meter taxi
Rot fai = train
Rot fai faa = electric train
Rot fai tai din = underground train; subway
Rot tua (tour) = intercity bus
Rot mae = local bus or van
Rot air = air conditioned van or car
Rot dit = traffic jam (dit means ’stuck’)
If you didn’t figure out already:
toot = your bum; your butt; your ass (also called gohn — rhymes with ‘moan’ — in Thai)
sabai doesn’t translate as a single word in English, but it means comfortable, positive, satisfactory, copasetic
Paa = cloth or fabric
lawn = hot
dam (rhymes with mom or bomb if you’re American) = black (see dam is black colour; see daeng is red; see kiaow is green; see som is orange)
yai = large or big
lek = small
su-waay = beautiful (pu ying su-waay is beautiful girl; naa su-way is beautiful face, dtaa su-waay is beautiful eyes, pom su-waay is beautiful hair)
Polamai = fruit (som is orange; minaow is lime or lemon; tangmo is watermelon; saparot is pineapple)
tai / din = under / ground (or land)
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