Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventeda kind of Thai sweetmeatlexitron
boillexitron
to boil(transitive)wiktionary
to trick; to deceive; to sham (usually used in passive voice)(colloquial, intransitive)wiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesกินกับผักต้ม ปลาทูทอด ไข่เจียว
Eaten with boiled vegetables, fried mackerel, omelette.
ทำขนมหวานง่ายๆ เช่น ข้าวเหนียวมูน ขนมต้ม
In some homes, grandmothers tell the grandchildren stories of the Buddha.
Built from
From Proto-Tai *tomꟲ (“to boil (transitive)”). In Southwestern Tai, cognate with Lao ຕົ້ມ (tom), Northern Thai ᨲᩫ᩠᩶ᨾ, Shan တူမ်ႈ (tūum), Phake တ︀ုံ (tuṃ), Ahom 𑜄𑜤𑜉𑜫 (tum). In Northern Tai, cognate with Zhuang dumq. In Central Tai, cognate with Zuojiang Zhuang doemj. Compare Proto-Austroasiatic *t₁um ~ *t₁uəm ~ *t₁am ~ *t₁aam ~ *t₁əəm (“to boil; to distil”) (whence Khmer ដាំ (dam, “to boil”)).