ว่าแต่เขาอิเหนาเป็นเอง

Thai

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Definitions
  • (idiom) to criticise another for anything but do that thing oneself.

Etymology

Compound from Thai ว่า (say, speak, administer, direct, manage, handle, instruct, etc, as, criticise, address, that, handle to manage, accuse, blame, like, utter, as if) + Thai แต่ (only, merely)+ Thai เขา (horn, mountain, another person, dove, hill, a third party, a third person pronoun)+ Thai อิเหนา (the name of a Javanese prince)+ Thai เป็น (be, as, like)+ Thai เอง (oneself).

Origin

Thai

เอง

Gloss

oneself

Kanji

自, 己

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