ส.บ.ม.ย.ห.

[ChAoS87]

Does anyone has any idea what does it really mean. I was going through Benjawan's new iPhone dictionary and came across this 'interjection' which translates as 'Dont worry, it's going well' but when I copy and paste in thai lang dot com site, it dosrn't reveal anything. Is it something colloquial? Can someone please enlighten me? Thanks..

[a51mas]

ส.บ.ม.ย.ห. sor-bor-mor-yor-hor = สบายมากอย่าห่วง sa-bai-maak-ya-huang= I'm fine,don't worry

Used when someone asked "How are you?", and only with people you know well & in your same age group, it's considered impolite when used with people you don't know well.

[Tod Daniels]

Given the thai penchant ESPECIALLY in print news and colloquial speech to use abbreviations known in thai as คำย่อ (kham^M yaaw^F); Benjawan Becker came out with this a while ago. It's got a lot of the most common ones you'll hear whilst out and about.

I actually think it's available as a c/d which is one of Benjawan's "Speak Like A Thai" series that she's got out.

Here's the video;

At about 1:53 or so in the vid, the term you're asking about comes up. Listen for it to get the pronunciation down clearly (even though it's sang in an awfully high falsetto voice! )

FWIW: thai abbreviations are something really worth learning!! You can hardly make heads or tails out of a thai language newspaper if you aren’t dialed into the incredible amount of abbreviated terms they use.