เฉลย

Thai

Etymology

From Old Khmer chley, chlœya (“to answer; to reply; to respond; etc”). Compare Modern Khmer ឆ្លើយ (chlaəy), extended as ចំឡើយ (cɑmlaəy, “answer; reply; response”), from which Thai จำเลย (jam-ləəi, “defendant”) was derived.

Pronunciation
Orthographicเฉลย
e t͡ɕʰ l y
Phonemic
ฉะ-เหฺลย
t͡ɕʰ a – e h ̥ l y
RomanizationPaiboonchà-lə̌əi
Royal Institutecha-loei
(standard) IPA(key)/t͡ɕʰa˨˩.lɤːj˩˩˦/(R)

Noun

เฉลย • (chà-lə̌əi)

  1. answer or explanation, especially one declared or provided by the asker for a question asked to test someone's knowledge.
  2. (obsolete) any answer or explanation.

Verb

เฉลย • (chà-lə̌əi) (abstract noun การเฉลย)

  1. to declare or provide an answer or explanation.
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