ผีอำ
Chinese
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Definitions
- situation in which a ghost, spirit, etc, visits someone during his or her sleep and disturbs him or her, as by sitting on, dragging, assaulting, or suffocating him or her.
- (medicine) sleep paralysis.
- (figurative) daymare, nightmare; night terror; sleep hallucination.
Etymology
Com from Thai ผี (ghost, spirit, corpse, deity, god, remains, etc, dead body) + Thai อำ (visit someone during his her sleep and disturb him her, or suffocate, dragging, assaulting, as by sitting on)+ Thai suffocating him or her.
Origin
Thai
suffocating him or her
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- suffocating him or her Thai
- ผี Thai
- ผีฟ้า Thai
- หน้าผีบอดี้เน่า Thai
- หน้าผีบอดี้เริ่ด Thai
- อำ Thai
- *priːᴬ Proto-Tai