Most Common Thai Words

brightness; radiance

[to] float above; hover over

Yama; lord/judge of the dead

sweet fragrance; sweet aroma

disappearance; going missing

deep mark; deep scratch

[to] calm down; [to] keep one's cool; [to] brace yourself

hundreds of thousands

[to] have jaw pain; [to] have a sore jaw

Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn), Bangkok

slander; defamation

shipping lane; sea route

banking business

teaching materials; instructional media

cattleya (orchid)

vulgar; obscene; lewd

[to] plunge in price; drop sharply

headphone cable; earphone wire

strictly; rigorously

wavy pattern

[to] enter Parinirvana; [to] pass away

age of dinosaurs

[to] drive away angrily; [to] chase away

the right size for the face; fitting the face

[to] be late for class

whirlpool; eddy

Thailand's Civil Aviation Authority (CAAT)

[to] repeat a signal; [to] retransmit a signal

nice to meet you; glad to meet you

[to] spit out and discard [sth]

head (royal vocabulary)

[to] be furious; be enraged

painful and swollen

grassroots economy; base-level local economy

slaughterhouse

opaque color

rush hour; peak time

[to] be headbutted; [to] be knocked (on the head)

withdrawal; pulling out

Thai fish cakes (regional)

[to] behave badly; [to] act immorally

laurel clockvine; blue trumpet vine

[to] ask for a form

Thai royal regnal title: King Narai the Great (Ayutthaya)

folktale; traditional tale

scope of work

pustule; pus-filled bump

Satun Province

IT department; IT division

[to] protect data

secondary; subordinate; second-tier

major goal; big target; primary objective

Khun Wat (honorific + given name)

[to] sprinkle pepper

popped rice; puffed rice

[to] endure unwillingly

agriculture; crop farming

rice bag; sack of rice

diamond armor (literal/figurative)

[to] have hot flashes; feel sudden waves of heat

computer technician

[to] do research; [to] research

accessory; add-on; supplement

operations/command office

true story; real event

sleeper train

[to] align; [to] position

swindler; con artist

ground rod; earth rod

video footage

[to] sit idly; [to] sit around

[to] win; [to] be victorious

[to] seize benefits from [sb]/[sth] without effort; [to] free-ride

[to] short sell

[to] go on a royal tour; [to] travel for pleasure (royal usage)

modifier (grammar)

disadvantage; drawback

in large numbers; all at once

health station; primary care unit

storage space; storage capacity

dry and hard

stand-up collar; mandarin collar

hyaluronic acid

director (film, play)

Thai script

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