គិញ

Khmer

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese kín (Headley, 1977), as in the compound lính kín (“plainclothes soldier”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic គិញ
giñ
WT romanisation kɨñ
(standard) IPA(key) /kɨɲ/

Noun

គិញ • (kɨñ)

  1. detective, plainclothes police
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