ราหู

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Thai

1: Rāhu devouring serpents, mural painting of Wat Mahathat, Phetchaburi, Thailand
1: Rāhu (middle) trying to swallow the moon, Indian relief, 10th century

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali rāhu (“Rāhu”) or Sanskrit राहु (rāhu, “Rāhu”). Cognate with Khmer រាហុ (riəhoʼ).

Pronunciation

Orthographicราหู
r ā h ū
Phonemic
รา-หู
r ā – h ū
RomanizationPaiboonraa-hǔu
Royal Institutera-hu
(standard) IPA(key)/raː˧.huː˩˩˦/(R)

Noun

ราหู • (raa-hǔu)

  1. (Hindu and Buddhist mythology) (พระ~) Rāhu: the demon that devours the sun and moon and thus causes eclipses, often depicted to have dark skin and to be without the lower part of the body due to it having been severed by God Viṣṇu, who caught him stealing a divine nectar.
  2. (slang, derogatory, offensive) dark-skinned person.
  3. (Hindu astrology) (ดาว~, ดาวพระ~, พระ~) Rāhu: the seventh of the nine influential stars navagraha.
  4. (zoology) (ปลา~) any of the various marine fish of the genus Mobula (syn. Manta) in the family Mobulidae or subfamily Mobulinae.

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See also

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