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Thai
Etymology
Borrowed from Teochew 舍 (sià, “residence”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
เสี่ย • (sìia) (classifier คน)
- (colloquial, chiefly used amongst Chinese people) wealthy man; male owner (of a business); also used as a term of address to or title for such man, and used by the man to refer to himself.
2020 March 20, “จำคุก ๘ ปีบรรยินคดีปลอมเอกสารโอนหุ้นเสี่ยชูวงษ์”, in เดลินิวส์, Bangkok: เดลินิวส์, retrieved 2020-05-23:
- จำคุก ๘ ปีบรรยินคดีปลอมเอกสารโอนหุ้นเสี่ยชูวงษ์
- jam-kúk · bpɛ̀ɛt · bpii ban-yin ká-dii bplɔɔm èek-gà-sǎan oon hûn sìia chuu wong
- Eight-year imprisonment Banyin in the case of counterfeiting stock transfer documents of Sia Chuwong
2020 January 9, “จับเสี่ยตลาดดัง ฆ่าโหดสาวไซด์ไลน์ ยัดศพใส่ถุง ฝังดินในบ้าน”, in ข่าวสด, Bangkok: ข่าวสด, retrieved 2020-05-23:
- จับเสี่ยตลาดดัง ฆ่าโหดสาวไซด์ไลน์ ยัดศพใส่ถุง ฝังดินในบ้าน
- jàp sìia dtà-làat dang · kâa hòot sǎao sái-laai · yát sòp sài tǔng · fǎng din nai bâan
- arrested the sia of a famous market brutally killing a Sideline girl, stuffing body into a sack, burying underground within house.
- (slang) potbellied man; man with protruding belly; obese man.
2017, “โรคอ้วน เบาหวาน ความดันโลหิตสูง ผ่าตัดรักษาได้ในคราวเดียว”, in Bangkok Hospital, Bangkok: Bangkok Hospital, retrieved 2020-05-23:
- ผู้ป่วย...ที่มีน้ำหนักมาก...เช่น เกิน ๘๐ กิโลกรัม...พูดง่าย คือ...หุ่นเสี่ย
- pûu-bpùai ... tîi mii nám-nàk mâak ... chên · gəən · bpɛ̀ɛt sìp · gì-loo-gram ... pûut ngâai · kʉʉ ... hùn sìia
- A patient...that has excessive weight...i.e., over 80 kilograms... To plainly explain, denotes... the shape of a sia.
- (slang) sugar daddy; also used as a term of address to or title for such man, and used by the man to refer to himself.
Proper noun
เสี่ย • (sìia)
- (slang, humorous, derogatory) sugar daddy, a term used to refer to and used as a title for Vajiralongkorn, king of Thailand.
Synonyms
References
- ^ 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 104