Thai edit

Pronunciation edit

Orthographicกุลี
k u l ī
Phonemic
กุ-ลี
k u – l ī
RomanizationPaiboongù-lii
Royal Instituteku-li
(standard) IPA(key)/ku˨˩.liː˧/(R)

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

กุลี (gù-lii)

  1. coolie.

Etymology 2 edit

Classifier edit

กุลี (gù-lii)

  1. package of 20 pieces of cloth.

References edit

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