Khmer

From Khmer ខ្មែរ (khmae). Attributed to the Pali term khemara (“one who is wholesome”). The elision form, ក្មេរ (kmera), is found in ancient stone inscriptions, or a borrowing from Northern Khmer เขมร (/⁠khmɛːr⁠/).

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈkmɛə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Canada); [kʰəˈmɛɹ]:

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

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Khmer

1. The national language of Cambodia, part of the Mon-Khmer language family.
   • 2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 6:

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

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

• Old Khmer

Khmer (plural Khmers or Khmer)

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

• Cambodian
• Kampuchean

Khmer (comparative more Khmer, superlative most Khmer)

1. Of or pertaining to the Khmer people or their language.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Khmer terms
• Appendix:Khmer Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Khmer

• ISO 639-1 code km, ISO 639-3 code khm (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Khmer, khm ⁠

• IPA^(key): /kmɛʁ/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Khmer m (plural Khmers, feminine Khmère)

1. a Khmer person

• “Khmer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /kmeːʁ/, [kmeːɐ̯], [kmɛɐ̯]

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Khmer m or f (strong, genitive Khmer or (masculine only) Khmers, plural Khmer)

1. Khmer (person)

• Rote Khmer m pl

Khmer n (strong, genitive Khmer, no plural)

1. Khmer (language)

• “Khmer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Khmer” in Duden online
• Khmer on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de