มัจจุราช

Thai

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • มฤตยูราช

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali maccurāja, from maccu (“death”) + rāja (“king”), literally "king of death", equivalent to มัจจุ +‎ ราช (râat).

Pronunciation
Orthographicมัจจุราช
m ạ t͡ɕ t͡ɕ u r ā d͡ʑ
Phonemicมัด-จุ-ราด
m ạ ɗ – t͡ɕ u – r ā ɗ
RomanizationPaiboonmát-jù-râat
Royal Institutemat-chu-rat
(standard) IPA(key)/mat̚˦˥.t͡ɕu˨˩.raːt̚˥˩/

Noun

มัจจุราช • (mát-jù-râat)

  1. (Buddhism, Hinduism) Yama, the god of death who serves as the overlord of the hells and the judge of the dead.
  2. (theology) any god of death.
  3. (figuratively) anyone or anything that causes death, destruction, or ruin; death, destruction, or ruin itself.

Synonyms
Yama; any god of death — see ยม (yom)
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