จำเลย

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Thai

Etymology

From Old Khmer camley (answer; reply; response), from Old Khmer chley, chlœya (to answer; to reply; to respond; etc), from which Thai เฉลย (chà-lə̌əi) is derived.

Pronunciation

Orthographicจำเลย
t͡ɕ å e l y
Phonemic
จำ-เลย
t͡ɕ å – e l y
RomanizationPaiboonjam-ləəi
Royal Institutecham-loei
(standard) IPA(key)/t͡ɕam˧.lɤːj˧/(R)

Noun

จำเลย (jam-ləəi) (classifier คน or ราย)

  1. (civil procedure) defendant; defending party.
  2. (criminal procedure) the accused; accused person; accused party.
  3. (figurative) person accused unduly or groundlessly; person subject to an undue or groundless accusation.
    จำเลยสังคม
    jam-ləəi sǎng-kom
    defendant of the society
    (referring to a person whom the society unduly accuses of something)

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Verb

จำเลย (jam-ləəi)

  1. (archaic and poetic) to answer; to reply.