กุมาร

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Definitions
  • (elegant) boy: male child.
  • (of a royal person) () son, especially one who is still a boy.
  • (slang) child ghost servant, created by surgically removing an unborn baby from the womb of its mother, roasting the baby until its body dries during a rite held at a graveyard, and covering the dry-roasted corpse with gold leaf. The corpse is carried by someone who believes that the ghost dwelling in it may be employed.
  • (slang) any child ghost or spirit.

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit कुमार (young man, prince, youth, child, son, heir apparent, groom, one who easily dies, etc, boy) borrowed from Old Khmer kumār borrowed from kumāra (youth, heir apparent, prince, crown prince, boy, and toponym, son, slave name).

Origin

kumāra

Gloss

youth, heir apparent, prince, crown prince, boy, and toponym, son, slave name

Concept
Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

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