Impressive...notice how all the little solid minature rockets were firing in unison to drive the helicopter like propeller...like the parachute touch at the end.
In Thai, a fireworks display is called
Bang Fi.
If it were part of a Buddhist ceremony, it would perhaps be
Bang Boon Fi.
The above phrases can be easily translated into English, even you don't speak Thai. The Thai word "Bang" translates into English as "Bang"!!! The Thai word Fi translates into English as Fire. Actually if you ask a Thai person to say the word "Fire" they would say "Fi" since they won't pronounce the r sound. So anyhow "Bang FI" just means Bang Fire or fireworks.
"Bang Boon Fi" Now you know what the Thai words Bang and Fi translate to...we have one more word to translate ...the Thai word "Boon" can be translated into English as "Boon." In English, the word "boon" means primarily something favorable, something advantageous. In Thai the word "boon" means something more akin to a blessing or a Buddhist merit. ..pretty similar. Bang Boon Fi are fireworks that accompany Buddhist ceremonies.
To speak Thai for very basic communications, you probably need to several hundred words. So here's another Thai word to add to your now limited Thai vocabulary...the Thai word for cat is ...meow. Another old word in the Thai language is "bye." It means pretty much as it does in English.
The Thai core language is derived, as I understand it, from a South Western Chinese dialect. However, as the Buddhist religion was brought to Thailand, the Buddhist verses were in Sanskrit which is an Indo-European language. So the infusion of Indo-European words from Sanskrit migrated into everyday Thai language..hence an occasional similarity with European languages. The same South Western Chinese dialect is also the core language of Vietnamese, however the Vietnamese language is much more influenced by Chinese, since Vietnam was a vassal state of China.
