อยู่ไฟ

Thai

Etymology

Compound of อยู่ (yùu, “to stay”) +‎ ไฟ (fai, “fire”), literally “to stay [by] fire”

Pronunciation

Orthographicอยู่ไฟ
ɒ y ū ˋ ai v
Phonemic
หฺยู่-ไฟ
h ̥ y ū ˋ – ai v
RomanizationPaiboonyùu-fai
Royal Instituteyu-fai
(standard) IPA(key)/juː˨˩.faj˧/(R)

Verb

อยู่ไฟ • (yùu-fai) (abstract noun การอยู่ไฟ)

  1. (historical, of a woman, intransitive) to engage in postpartum confinement by lying near a bonfire for a certain period of time on the belief that warmth would quickly restore uterine health
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