เพชร

Thai

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Definitions
  • diamond.
  • (elegant) lightning bolt; thunderbolt.
  • (Hindu) vajra, a weapon of the god Indra, symbolising thunderbolt.
  • (mythology) similar weapon, as that of Zeus in the Greek mythology.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Khmer bejra borrowed from Sanskrit वज्र (diamond, vajra, Indra's weapon, adamant, thunderbolt).

Origin

Sanskrit

वज्र

Gloss

diamond, vajra, Indra's weapon, adamant, thunderbolt

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