สหัสนัยน์

Thai

Etymology

From Pali sahassanayana (literally “thousand eyes”), from sahassa (“thousand”) + nayana (“eye”); equivalent to Thai สหัส +‎ นัยน์ (nai); from the legend that the god Indra was cursed by the sage Gautama to have a thousand vulvae on his body after committing adultery with the sage's wife, Ahalyā, but the vulvae were later turned into eyes.

Pronunciation

Orthographic		สหัสนัยน์ s h ạ s n ạ y n ʻ
Phonemic		สะ-หัด-สะ-ไน s a – h ạ ɗ – s a – ai n
Romanization	Paiboon	sà-hàt-sà-nai
	Royal Institute	sa-hat-sa-nai
(standard) IPA^(key)		/sa˨˩.hat̚˨˩.sa˨˩.naj˧/^(R)

Proper noun

สหัสนัยน์ • (sà-hàt-sà-nai)

(Hinduism, Buddhism) an epithet of the god Indra.