Dictionary entry
เด็ก
child
Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedchild; young person; person below the age of adulthoodcurated
baby; infantcurated
youngwiktionary
childishwiktionary
inexperienced; untrained; unskillfulwiktionary
childish personwiktionary
child student; child attending an educational institutionwiktionary
subordinate; servant; attendantwiktionary
Less common senses (1)
person financially maintained by another as that person's sexual partner or illicit loverwiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesแม่สอนฉันทำตั้งแต่เด็ก
Mom taught me how to make them since I was little.
สำหรับเด็กกรุงเทพอาจน้อย แต่สำหรับครอบครัวฉัน นี่คือเงินก้อนใหญ่
For a Bangkok kid it might be small, but for my family, this is a big sum.
Built from
From Proto-Tai *ɗekᴰ (“child (young person)”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨯᩮᩢ᩠ᨠ, Lao ເດັກ (dek), Saek แด๊ก, Zhuang daeg. Compare also Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq.