กุมาร

• กุมารา, กุมารี (gù-maa-rii), โกมาร

From Sanskrit कुमार (kumāra, “boy; child; groom; heir apparent; prince; son; young man; etc”, literally “one who easily dies”); probably via Old Khmer កុមារ៑ (kumār) or Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer កុមារ (kumāra, “boy; son; youth; prince, heir apparent, crown prince (found only as a personal name, slave name, and toponym)”).

Cognate with Modern Khmer កុមារ (komaa), Lao ກຸມານ (ku mān).

กุมาร • (gù-maan)

1. (elegant) boy: male child.
2. (of a royal person) (พระ, พระราช, ราช~) son, especially one who is still a boy.
3. (slang) child ghost servant, created by surgically removing an unborn baby from the womb of its mother, roasting the baby until its body dries during a rite held at a graveyard, and covering the dry-roasted corpse with gold leaf. The corpse is carried by someone who believes that the ghost dwelling in it may be employed.
4. (slang) any child ghost or spirit.

• Royal Society of Thailand. (2010-12-15). Gù-maan กุมาร. Retrieved: 2015-04-28.