Meanings
Readings
Common Words
dark; gloomy; murky
depressed; dispirited; down in the dumps; dark (mood)
dark (in colour); dull
ill-boding; dark (e.g. past); suspicious
unlikely (to succeed); hopeless; unpromising
As ใใซๆใ
unfamiliar (with); ignorant (of)
to get dark; to grow dark
to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to close
to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought); to be overcome with
dusk; twilight
twilight years
ใใใใ only; Colloquial
melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
falling (down) unconscious; fainting (and collapsing)
Medicine
coma
deep sleep; falling fast asleep
comatose state
to get dark after sunset; to turn to dusk; to fade into twilight
to decline (after a peak); to wane; to lose vigour
Colloquial
to be lost in thought; to be in a pensive mood; to look melancholic
'taru' adjective
fast asleep; dead to the world
stupefaction; stupor; unconsciousness; confusion
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