Thai edit

Etymology edit

From ยก (yók, to put up; to set up; to assert; to allude; etc) +‎ เมฆ (mêek, cloud).

Pronunciation edit

Orthographicยกเมฆ
y k e m gʰ
Phonemic
ยก-เมก
y k – e m k
RomanizationPaiboonyók-mêek
Royal Instituteyok-mek
(standard) IPA(key)/jok̚˦˥.meːk̚˥˩/(R)

Verb edit

ยกเมฆ (yók-mêek) (abstract noun การยกเมฆ)

  1. (occult, archaic) to interpret the shape of clouds in order to divine an event or situation.
  2. (idiomatic) to divine: to discover by guesswork, to conjecture; to take a wild guess; to invent, to devise, to fabricate.