role, function; position, office. · Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see หัว (hǔua), โขน (kǒon).
köken: From หัว (hǔua, “head”) + โขน (kǒon, “Khon: a traditional masked performance”); literally "Khon head", referring to a mask worn in performing Khon, depicting a character from the epic Rāmāyaṇa.
Borrowed from French casquette (“cap”), diminutive of casque (“helmet”), from Spanish casco (“helmet, crown”), from cascar (“to split”), from Latin quassare (“to strike”).