กุลี

Thai

Pronunciation

Orthographicกุลี
kulī
Phonemic
กุ-ลี
kulī
RomanizationPaiboongù-lii
Royal Instituteku-li
(standard) IPA(key)/ku˨˩.liː˧/(R)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coolie, from Hindi क़ुली (qulī).[1] Compare Lao ກຸລີ (ku lī), Turkish köle, Bengali কুলী (kuli), Tamil கூலி (kūli), Chinese 苦力 (kǔlì).

Noun

กุลี • (gù-lii)

  1. coolie.

Classifier

กุลี • (gù-lii)

  1. package of 20 pieces of cloth.

References

  1. “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2019 October 28 (last accessed), archived from the original on 7 July 2017
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