เฮีย

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Thai[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Corrupted from เหี้ย (hîia).

Noun[edit]

เฮีย (hiia)

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

Adjective[edit]

เฮีย (hiia) (abstract noun ความเฮีย)

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

Adverb[edit]

เฮีย (hiia)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar, slang) Synonym of เหี้ย (hîia)
References[edit]
  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 [Open Access])‎[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 102