อะไร

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Thai

Etymology

From contraction of older อัน (an) +‎ ไร (rai).

Pronunciation

Orthographicอะไร
ɒ a ai r
Phonemic
อะ-ไร
ɒ a – ai r
RomanizationPaiboonà-rai
Royal Institutea-rai
(standard) IPA(key)/ʔa˨˩.raj˧/(R)

Pronoun

อะไร (à-rai)

  1. (interrogative) what?
    อะไรนะ?
    à-rai ná?
    What? What was that? Pardon?
  2. something; anything.
  3. whatever.

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