ยกเมฆ

Thai

Etymology

From ยก (yók, “to put up; to set up; to assert; to allude; etc”) +‎ เมฆ (mêek, “cloud”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic		ยกเมฆ y k e m gʰ
Phonemic		ยก-เมก y k – e m k
Romanization	Paiboon	yók-mêek
	Royal Institute	yok-mek
(standard) IPA(key)		/jok̚˦˥.meːk̚˥˩/(R)

Verb

ยกเมฆ • (yók-mêek) (abstract noun การยกเมฆ)

1. (occult, archaic) to interpret the shape of clouds in order to divine an event or situation.
2. (idiomatic) to divine: to discover by guesswork, to conjecture; to take a wild guess; to invent, to devise, to fabricate.