termkhru
ครู · khru
Teacher. The same word the wai kru is addressed to.
What it is
What a trainer is, and what the ceremony before the fight is aimed at.
The long version
Wai khru is wai — the palms-together greeting — plus khru. It is the same ceremony Thai schools hold for schoolteachers on a Thursday in June, and the same one a shadow-puppet troupe or a poet performs.
Inference — the thing a fighter kneels to at the start of a fight is not a god and not the ring. It is a person who taught him, present or not.
Root
Sanskrit गुरु guru — heavy, weighty; hence a teacher
Connected to
- The dance before the fight The ceremony.
- A camp is not a school Who has one.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en)
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