khmer

/kəˈmɛə(ɹ)/

name 2noun 1adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

murderous, official, used

VERB + KHMER

call, called, like, speak, speaking, study

KHMER + NOUN

penh, phnom, rouge

PREP.

after, in, in

ADV.

often

name

The national language of Cambodia, part of the Mon-Khmer language family.

Despite my mother speaking Khmer to us at home, I hadn’t retained it through my formative years.

An abugida used to write the Khmer language and sometimes Pali.

noun

A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.

adj

Of or pertaining to the Khmer people or their language.

Despite my mother speaking Khmer to us at home, I hadn’t retained it through my formative years.

Wiktionary

Cambodia is called "Kampuchea" in Khmer.

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The Khmer Rouge often used parables to justify their contradictory actions.

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Lang Teng opened his business in Phnom Penh not long after the murderous Khmer Rouge rule ended in 1979.

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The remaining elements of the Khmer Rouge surrendered in early 1999.

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Santali is the third most-spoken Austroasiatic language after Vietnamese and Khmer.

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