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Farang
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Also known as Firangi

thumb|Depiction of farang as a stone guard at Wat Pho in [[Bangkok; circa 1824–1851]]

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Foreigners in Thailand
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  • Origin and geographic spread{{anchor|Name}}
  • Arabic
  • Ethiopia and Eritrea
  • Somalia
  • South, Southeast and East Asia
  • Regional evolution
  • South Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Depiction of farang as a stone guard at Wat Pho in [[Bangkok; circa 1824–1851]]

Farang ( ) is a Persian word that originally referred to the Franks (the major Germanic people) and later came to refer to Western or Latin Europeans in general. The word is borrowed from Old French or Latin , which are also the source of Modern English France, French.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Farang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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