โคมลอย

Thai

โคมลอย (koom-lɔɔi)

Etymology

Compound of โคม (koom, “lantern”) +‎ ลอย (lɔɔi, “to float”), literally “floating lantern”.

The adjective originated from Punch, an English newspaper in the reign of King Chulalongkorn (1868–1910), of which the front page featured a lantern picture and which often presented jocular stories from the West.

Pronunciation

Orthographic		โคมลอย o g m l ɒ y
Phonemic		โคม-ลอย o g m – l ɒ y
Romanization	Paiboon	koom-lɔɔi
	Royal Institute	khom-loi
(standard) IPA(key)		/kʰoːm˧.lɔːj˧/(R)

Noun

โคมลอย • (koom-lɔɔi) (classifier ใบ or ลูก)

1. sky lantern.

Adjective

โคมลอย • (koom-lɔɔi)

1. (slang, of news, information, data, etc) groundless; baseless; nonsensical.