Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedfoster: providing or receiving parental care; nonbiological; adoptive or adopted(colloquial)wiktionary
feast; party; banquetwiktionary
to maintain, to keep or make remain (in a good or certain condition); to prolong, to lengthen, to make remain in existence for a longer periodwiktionary
to dribblewiktionary
to give care (to); to take care (of); to nurture; to fosterwiktionary
to raise; to grow; to breed; to promote the growth (of)wiktionary
to consider, treat, or acknowledge (as one's parent, child, etc)wiktionary
to raise; to feed; to farm; to breedwiktionary
to keep or treat as a petwiktionary
to keep or treat as a servant or subordinatewiktionary
to pay (for)wiktionary
to host: to be the host (at); to act as host (to)wiktionary
to treat; to feast; to banquetwiktionary
to party: to engage in a partywiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesยิ่งยากต่อการเลี้ยงและการใช้ชีวิต
the harder the caring and the living became.
Pudzon · พระนครศรีอยุธยาfrom ฉันเลี้ยงลูกคนเดียว →
ข้าวที่เราปลูก เลี้ยงคนทั้งประเทศ
The rice we grow feeds the whole country.
Alin · อุดรธานีfrom ทุ่งนาภาคกลาง →
Built from
From Proto-Tai *liəŋꟲ (“to raise”), from Old Chinese 養 (OC *laŋʔ, “to nourish”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩃ᩠ᨿ᩶ᨦ, Lao ລ້ຽງ (līang), Lü ᦵᦟᧂᧉ (leng²), Shan လဵင်ႉ (lâ̰eng), Tai Nüa ᥘᥥᥒᥳ (lėng), Ahom 𑜎𑜢𑜂𑜫 (liṅ).