termnak muay
นักมวย · nak muai
A boxer. Literally, a person of the boxing.
What it is
What a fighter is called. Nak is the prefix Thai uses for anyone who does a thing as their work.
The long version
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.
Root
นัก nak, a doer or practitioner (from Khmer) + มวย muay
Connected to
- The shorts Where the camp name goes.
- What to ask before paying a month Becoming one.
Named here by
- The teep Who throws it.
- The shorts Whose name is on them.
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