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moveThe foot strokes the face

บาทาลูบพักตร์ · batha lup phak

The foot strokes the face

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The movement itselfWhat it points at
In Thaiบาทาลูบพักตร์
RTGSbatha lup phak
What the name saysThe foot strokes the face
What it doesA foot to the face, off a caught or blocked attack.

What it is

The one name in the thirty that says what the movement is.

The long version

And even here the sport refuses the ordinary word. Everyday Thai for foot is thao (เท้า) and for face is na (หน้า). This name uses batha, from Sanskrit pāda, and phak, from vaktra — the register of court poetry and the Ramakien.

Inference — the naming is not decoration. Wherever the vocabulary comes from, so did the people who wrote it down: the technique lists were court documents before they were gym documents.

Connected to

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedแม่ไม้มวยไทย — the fifteen and the fifteen, at revision 13177866 — Wikipedia (th)
move.glossinferencethis project's translation
move.refersinferencethis project's classification of what the name points at
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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