พะยูน

Thai

Etymology

Compare Malay duyung.

Pronunciation
Orthographicพะยูน
b a y ū n
Phonemic
พะ-ยูน
b a – y ū n
RomanizationPaiboonpá-yuun
Royal Institutepha-yun
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰa˦˥.juːn˧/(R)

Noun

พะยูน • (pá-yuun) (classifier ตัว)

  1. dugong.

Usage notes

It is often called ปลาพะยูน(bplaa pá-yuun) (literally “dugong fish”) even though it is not actually a fish.

Synonyms
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