หลง

See also: หลัง

Thai

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰloŋᴬ (lost).[1]

Cognate with Northern Thai ᩉᩖᩫᨦ, Lao ຫຼົງ (long), ᦜᦳᧂ (l̇ung), Tai Dam ꪶꪨꪉ, Shan လူင် (lǔung), Tai Nüa ᥘᥨᥒᥴ (lóng), Zhuang loeng, Nong Zhuang loang.

Pronunciation

Orthographicหลง
h l ŋ
Phonemic
หฺลง
h ̥ l ŋ
RomanizationPaiboonlǒng
Royal Institutelong
(standard) IPA(key)/loŋ˩˩˦/(R)

Verb

หลง • (lǒng) (abstract noun การหลง)

  1. to lose one's way; to get lost; to go astray.
  2. to forget
  3. to be wrong; to be misled; to misunderstand.
  4. to be infatuated with; to be crazy about.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai (Doctoral dissertation)‎[1], Department of Linguistics, Cornell University , page 347

Further reading

  • หลง” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.