{
 "id": "nak-muay",
 "type": "term",
 "names": {
  "name": "nak muay",
  "th": "นักมวย",
  "rtgs": "nak muai",
  "said": "A boxer. Literally, a person of the boxing."
 },
 "region": [
  "thailand"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "domain": "gym"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "What a fighter is called. *Nak* is the prefix Thai uses for anyone who does a thing as their work.",
  "story": "Same prefix as *nak rian* (a student), *nak khian* (a writer), *nak thurakit* (a person in business). A foreigner who trains gets *nak muay farang* — which the English article glosses simply as \"foreign boxer\", and which is descriptive rather than pointed."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "คำเรียกนักมวย *นัก* คือคำนำหน้าที่ภาษาไทยใช้กับคนที่ทำสิ่งใดเป็นงาน",
  "story": "คำนำหน้าเดียวกับ *นักเรียน* *นักเขียน* *นักธุรกิจ* ชาวต่างชาติที่ฝึกมวยได้คำว่า *นักมวยฝรั่ง* ซึ่งบทความภาษาอังกฤษแปลตรง ๆ ว่า \"นักมวยต่างชาติ\" และเป็นคำพรรณนามากกว่าคำเสียดสี"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "shorts",
   "as": "Where the camp name goes.",
   "rel": "kit"
  },
  {
   "to": "choosing-a-gym",
   "as": "Becoming one.",
   "rel": "gym"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-muay-thai"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-muay-thai"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "beginner"
 ],
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "etymology": {
  "root": "นัก nak, a doer or practitioner (from Khmer) + มวย muay",
  "tier": "cited",
  "source": "s:wp-muay-thai"
 },
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "teep",
   "type": "move",
   "name": "The teep",
   "as": "Who throws it."
  },
  {
   "from": "shorts",
   "type": "kit",
   "name": "The shorts",
   "as": "Whose name is on them."
  }
 ]
}