อภิเษก
Thai
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Definitions
- to appoint, install, or inaugurate by pouring water upon for consecration, as by libation, anointment, bathing, etc.
- (royal)
- (loosely) to appoint, install, or inaugurate through any rite.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit अभिषेक (etc, consecration, anointing of a king, installation, sprinkling, watering, water used in such consecration, coronation, consecration by watering, over-sprinkling, inaugurating consecrating by sprinkling water, inauguration, anointing, wetting) borrowed from Old Khmer ʼabhiṣeka com from Thai อภิ (over, superior, higher, greater) + Thai เษก.
Origin
Thai
เษก