ซ้อ

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Thai

Malay beechwood

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicซ้อ
z ˆ ɒ
RomanizationPaiboonsɔ́ɔ
Royal Instituteso
(standard) IPA(key)/sɔː˦˥/(R)

Etymology 1

Noun

ซ้อ (sɔ́ɔ)

  1. (botany) Malay beechwood: the plant Gmelina arborea of the family Lamiaceae.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Teochew (so2, elder sister-in-law). Cognate with Khmer សោ (sao), Lao ຊໍ້ ().

Noun

ซ้อ (sɔ́ɔ)

  1. (colloquial, used amongst Chinese people) (อา~) elder sister-in-law; also used as a term of address to or title for an elder sister-in-law, and used by an elder sister-in-law as a self-reference.
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References

  1. ^ Joanna Rose McFarland (2021) “Chapter 3: Language Contact and Lexical Changes in Khmer and Teochew in Cambodia and Beyond”, in Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors, Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 )‎, Brill, →ISBN, page 102