เสี่ย

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from Teochew 舍 (sià, “residence”).[1]

Pronunciation
Orthographic/Phonemicเสี่ย
e s ī ˋ y
RomanizationPaiboonsìia
Royal Institutesia
(standard) IPA(key)/sia̯˨˩/(R)

Noun

เสี่ย • (sìia) (classifier คน)

  1. (colloquial, chiefly used amongst Chinese people) wealthy man; male owner (of a business); also used as a term of address to or title for such man, and used by the man to refer to himself.
    • 2020 March 20, “จำคุก ๘ ปีบรรยินคดีปลอมเอกสารโอนหุ้นเสี่ยชูวงษ์”, in เดลินิวส์‎, Bangkok: เดลินิวส์, retrieved 2020-05-23:
      จำคุก ๘ ปีบรรยินคดีปลอมเอกสารโอนหุ้นเสี่ยชูวงษ์
      jam-kúk · bpɛ̀ɛt · bpii ban-yin ká-dii bplɔɔm èek-gà-sǎan oon hûn sìia chuu wong
      Eight-year imprisonment [for] Banyin in the case of counterfeiting stock transfer documents of Sia Chuwong
    • 2020 January 9, “จับเสี่ยตลาดดัง ฆ่าโหดสาวไซด์ไลน์ ยัดศพใส่ถุง ฝังดินในบ้าน”, in ข่าวสด‎, Bangkok: ข่าวสด, retrieved 2020-05-23:
      จับเสี่ยตลาดดัง ฆ่าโหดสาวไซด์ไลน์ ยัดศพใส่ถุง ฝังดินในบ้าน
      jàp sìia dtà-làat dang · kâa hòot sǎao sái-laai · yát sòp sài tǔng · fǎng din nai bâan
      [Authorities have] arrested the sia of a famous [wet] market [for] brutally killing a Sideline girl, stuffing [her] body into a sack, [and] burying [it] underground within [his own] house.
  2. (slang) potbellied man; man with protruding belly; obese man.
  3. (slang) sugar daddy; also used as a term of address to or title for such man, and used by the man to refer to himself.

Proper noun

เสี่ย • (sìia)

  1. (slang, humorous, derogatory) sugar daddy, a term used to refer to and used as a title for Vajiralongkorn, king of Thailand.

Synonyms

References
  1. Joanna Rose McFarland (2021) “Chapter 3: Language Contact and Lexical Changes in Khmer and Teochew in Cambodia and Beyond”, in Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors, Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 [Open Access])‎, Brill, →ISBN, page 104
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