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?

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

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

เอื้อเฟื้อเผื่อแผ่

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!

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

So how do you say this name?

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.

เจรจา (negotiate) is a nice one

แวววาว

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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...

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'.

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 ......

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

นครสวรรค์ Nakhon Sawan