Khum may refer to:
*Khun (, long vowel, middle tone) is the colloquial Thai name for the
Golden Shower Tree
''Cassia fistula'', commonly known as golden shower, purging cassia, Indian laburnum, or pudding-pipe tree,U. S. Department of Agriculture, William Saunders; Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; ...
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Khun (courtesy title) Honorifics are a class of words or grammatical morphemes that encode a wide variety of social relationships between interlocutors or between interlocutors and referents.Foley, William. ''Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction''. Oxford: Black ...
(, short vowel, middle tone) is a common Thai honorific
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Khun (noble title) The Thai nobility was a social class comprising titled officials (''khunnang'', th, ขุนนาง) in the service of the monarchy. They formed part of a hierarchical social system which developed from the time of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (14th ...
(, short vowel, rising tone) is a former royally bestowed Thai noble title
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Khun, Iran
Nurabad ( fa, نورآباد, also Romanized as Nūrābād; also known as Khūn) is a village in Bushkan Rural District, Bushkan District, Dashtestan County, Bushehr Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...
, a village in Bushehr Province, Iran
See also
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KHUN, an American radio station
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Thai name
Thai names follow the Western European pattern of a given name followed by a family name. This differs from the family-name-first patterns of Cambodian, Vietnamese, and other East Asian countries. Thai names (given and family) are diverse and ...
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