เหี้ย

Thai

Asian water monitor
Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicเหี้ย
e h ī ˆ y
RomanizationPaiboonhîia
Royal Institutehia
(standard) IPA(key)/hia̯˥˩/

Noun

เหี้ย • (hîia)

  1. (zoology) Asian water monitor: the lizard Varanus salvator of the family Varanidae.
  2. (slang, vulgar, offensive) (อี~, ไอ้~) anyone or anything considered to be extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant.

Usage notes

  • The lizard is sometimes confused with ตะกวด (dtà-gùuat, “Bengal monitor; clouded monitor”).
  • In the Thai translation of the King James Version (Leviticus 11:29, for example), the term is used to refer the Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard, which is known as "tortoise" in KJV, as "great lizard" in the English Standard Version, the New International Version, and the New Heart English Bible, as "large lizard" in the New Living Translation and the Holman Christian Standard Bible, and merely as "lizard" in the International Standard Version.

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Interjection

เหี้ย • (hîia)

  1. (slang, vulgar) an exclamation of anger, contempt, disapproval, discontent, disgust, dismay, rejection, or surprise.

Adjective

เหี้ย • (hîia) (abstract noun ความเหี้ย)

  1. (slang, vulgar) extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant.

Adverb

เหี้ย • (hîia) (abstract noun ความเหี้ย)

  1. (slang, vulgar) extremely; very.
  2. (slang, vulgar) in an extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant manner.
  3. (slang, vulgar) used as an intensifier.
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