Your favorite Thai word(s)

[Gecko123]

For some reason I am tickled by Thai words which have proportionally almost no written vowels.

Words like:

จราจร - traffic

เกษตรกร - farmer

Anybody else have a favorite Thai word they'd like to share?

[rgs2001uk]

กรกฎาคม (July), for some strange reason I just like the sound of it.

[AyG]

For no written vowels, รรรรร (a name) takes some beating.

[Seligne2]

เอื้อเฟื้อเผื่อแผ่

[rak sa_ngop]

I have read this word in books but yet to hear:

กระบอง krabong

As it 'says on the tin' its a club,truncheon,cudgel etc.

Should be easy to learn this word 555!

[rak sa_ngop]

For no written vowels, รรรรร (a name) takes some beating.

So how do you say this name?

[AyG]

For no written vowels, รรรรร (a name) takes some beating.

So how do you say this name?

With difficulty?

Anyway, it's รัน-รอน (ranˑrɔɔn). Usually a female name - not sure if it can be male, too.

[phuketsub]

เจรจา (negotiate) is a nice one

[RickBradford]

แวววาว

I remember when I was learning to read Thai, I could see no way how this could be a valid piece of text.

[AyG]

แวววาว

I remember when I was learning to read Thai, I could see no way how this could be a valid piece of text.

Had to look that one up. It means "glittering" or "sparkling". Pronounced /wɛɛwˑ​waaw/

[EmptyHead]

Mine's is ตด (a fart, or "to fart") because of it's literal sound.

[Pla shado]

I've always thought สกปรก was fun to say and common enough to use fairly often.

[RickBradford]

Mine's is ตด (a fart, or "to fart") because of it's literal sound.

You could add เรอ 'to belch' to that list .....

[stickylies]

common used:

1. สกปรก

2. เรียบร้อย

less-common:

3. ขี้เกลือ -> a chinese thai learned me this one. insult, spoken behind ones back of course in "Kreng Jai" thailand...

[Richard W]

For no written vowels, รรรรร (a name) takes some beating.

How about รรรรรร? I first came across it in a report of two sisters called รรรรร and รรรรรร.

My favourite word is the onomatopoeic กบ 'frog'.

[RickBradford]

There was a loud European blogger a few years back who claimed he could learn to read Thai in a week, and would read out a paragraph or so of text he had not previously seen, to prove his ability. He cried off, I believe, but if I had had the chance to write a sentence for him, it would have been "Economic theory is crucial to Thailand's development."

Written in Thai, that would have started:

ทฤษฎีเศรษฐศาสตร์ . . .

I'd like to have seen him try that after one week's study ......

[leosmith]

อหิวาตกโรค - cholera (อะ-หิ-วา-ตะ-กะ-โรค)

[Gecko123]

นครสวรรค์ Nakhon Sawan