ข้าพระพุทธเจ้า

Thai

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Definitions
  • a first person pronoun, employed by a commoner when addressing a monarch or high-ranking royal person.

Etymology

Compound from Thai ข้า (servant, slave, subordinate, a first person pronoun) + Thai พระพุทธเจ้า (His Holiness the awaken, divine enlightened lord).

Origin

Thai

พระพุทธเจ้า

Gloss

His Holiness the awaken, divine enlightened lord

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