ราชาภิเษก

Thai

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Definitions
  • appointment, installment, or inauguration of a monarch by pouring a sacred water upon the monarch for consecration.
  • (loosely) appointment, installment, or inauguration of a monarch through any rite, as coronation, enthronement, investiture, etc.

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit राजाभिषेक (royal unction) borrowed from Old Khmer rājābhiṣeka (royal unction) com from Thai ราช (royal, monarch, king, master, sovereign, lord, chief, or leader, head, male chief, etc) + Thai อภิเษก (bathing, appointment, or inauguration by pouring water upon for consecration, anointment, installment, royal celebration, royal festivity, etc, as by libation).

Origin

Thai

อภิเษก

Gloss

bathing, appointment, or inauguration by pouring water upon for consecration, anointment, installment, royal celebration, royal festivity, etc, as by libation

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