โคมลอย

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Thai

โคมลอย

Etymology

From โคม (koom, lantern) +‎ ลอย (lɔɔi, to float); literally "floating lantern".

Pronunciation

Orthographicโคมลอย
o g m l ɒ y
Phonemic
โคม-ลอย
o g m – l ɒ y
RomanizationPaiboonkoom-lɔɔi
Royal Institutekhom-loi
(standard) IPA(key)/kʰoːm˧.lɔːj˧/(R)

Noun

โคมลอย (koom-lɔɔi) (classifier ดวง or ใบ or ลูก)

  1. sky lantern.

Adjective

โคมลอย (koom-lɔɔi)

  1. (slang, of information, data, news, etc) groundless; baseless; nonsensical.

Usage notes

  • Originated from Punch, an English newspaper in the reign of Chulalongkorn (1868–1910), of which the front page featured a lantern picture and which often presented jocular stories from the West.

References

  1. ^ ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน (2012) สำนวนไทย ฉบับราชบัณฑิตยสถาน (in Thai), 2nd edition, กรุงเทพฯ: ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน, →ISBN, pages 16–17