ฟันไม้ข่มนาม
Thai
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Definitions
- (historical) occult ceremony to symbolically frighten an enemy by slashing a tree, piece of wood, etc, whose name is like, or contains the first letter in, the name of the enemy, often performed before marching to war.
Etymology
Affix from Thai ฟัน (slash, tooth, strike down, chop, teeth, hack, cut, etc, set determine unfairly) + Thai ไม้ (wood, plant, stick, tree, etc, mark, strip)+ Thai ข่ม (coerce, press something down, frighten, oppress, suppress, etc)+ Thai นาม (name, noun, etc, title).
Origin
Thai
นาม
Gloss
name, noun, etc, title
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
名