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Nam Phrik Ta Daeng (น้ำพริกตาแดง)

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Short definition

Northern Thai chili paste/dip whose name is analyzed in a lexical-semantics study of Northern Thai dialect food names as using a human-organ metaphor: 'ตาแดง' (red eyes) as a naming component. The source analyzes naming structure only and does not document a recipe or ingredient list, so this entity is recorded at candidate status.

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Other names: น้ำพริกตาแดง (th, identification medium)

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Culture (1)

Nam Phrik Ta Daeng (น้ำพริกตาแดง) is graded by: The name น้ำพริกตาแดง is analyzed as using a human-organ metaphor: 'ตาแดง' (red eyes) is identified as one of only 2 human-organ words found across the study's Northern Thai food-name corpus (the other being นมสาว).contextual

Scope: Northern Thai dialect food-naming semantics

Note: Bonus item (target 4, optional additional item): naming-etymology documentation only; the source does not describe the dish's recipe, ingredients, or region of origin beyond classing it as a Northern Thai food name.

The study finds 2 human-organ metaphor words in its corpus, 'นมสาว' and 'ตาแดง', the latter appearing in the food name น้ำพิกต่าแดง (=น้ำพริกตาแดง).
Limitations: Naming-etymology analysis only; no recipe or ingredient information given.
Source: กระบวนการตั้งชื่ออาหารในภาษาไทยถิ่นเหนือตามแนวทฤษฎีอรรถศัพท์ (The Process of Food Naming in Northern Thai Dialect by Lexical Semantics Theory) (กฤษดา มั่นเหมาะ; ชัชวดี ศรลัมพ์, 2022) · full text checked
Show dataseasoning-nam-phrik-ta-daeng —is_classified_by→ "The name น้ำพริกตาแดง is analyzed as using a human-organ metaphor: 'ตาแดง' (red eyes) is identified as one of only 2 human-organ words found across the study's Northern Thai food-name corpus (the other being นมสาว)."
claim: clm-namphrik-tadaeng-naming / type: cultural / updated: 2026-09-01

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