เฮีย

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Thai

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicเฮีย
e ɦ ī y
RomanizationPaiboonhiia
Royal Institutehia
(standard) IPA(key)/hia̯˧/(R)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Teochew (hian1, elder brother).[1] Cognate with Khmer ហ៊ា (hiə).

Noun

เฮีย (hiia)

  1. (colloquial, used amongst Chinese people) elder brother; older man; husband (of the speaker when he is older than the speaker); person treated as an elder brother; also used as a familiar or respectful term of address to or title for such person, and used by such person as a self-reference.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Corrupted from เหี้ย (hîia).

Noun

เฮีย (hiia)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar, slang) Synonym of เหี้ย (hîia)

Adjective

เฮีย (hiia) (abstract noun ความเฮีย)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar, slang) Synonym of เหี้ย (hîia)

Adverb

เฮีย (hiia)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar, slang) Synonym of เหี้ย (hîia)
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