ยาบ้า

Thai

Etymology

Compound of ยา (yaa, “drug”) +‎ บ้า (bâa, “mad”), literally “mad drug”. Renamed from ยาม้า (yaa-máa, literally “horse drug”) in 1996 by the government of Banharn Silpa-archa (51st cabinet of Thailand).[1]

Pronunciation

Orthographicยาบ้า
y ā ɓ ˆ ā
Phonemic
ยา-บ้า
y ā – ɓ ˆ ā
RomanizationPaiboonyaa-bâa
Royal Instituteya-ba
(standard) IPA(key)/jaː˧.baː˥˩/(R)

Noun

ยาบ้า • (yaa-bâa)

  1. ya ba
  • ยาเลิฟ (“Sally”)
  • ยาอี (“ecstasy”)
  • ยาไอซ์ (“ice”)

Descendants

  • → Bengali: ইয়াবা (iẏaba)
  • → Burmese: ယာဘ (yabha.) / ရာဘ (rabha.)
  • → Chinese: 雅巴
  • → Japanese: ヤーバー (yābā)
  • → Khmer: យ៉ាបា (yaabaa)
  • → Korean: 야바 (yaba)
  • → Lao: ຢາບ້າ (yā bā)

References

  1. ^ “ยาม้าเปลี่ยนชื่อไปเป็นยาบ้า”, in ThairathTV‎[1] (in Thai), 3 June 2014
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