អំបុក

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Khmer

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a plate of អំបុក

Etymology

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From បុក (bok, to pound, crush) with prefixed aN-.

Pronunciation

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Orthographic and Phonemic អំបុក
ʼṃpuk
WT romanisation ʼɑmbok
(standard) IPA(key) /ʔɑm.ˈɓok/

Noun

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អំបុក (ʼɑmbok)

  1. pounded rice (prepared by dry-frying grains of paddy rice then pounding them to flatten the grains and remove the husks)
  2. a kind of blue-throated bird whose call resembles the sound of rice​ being pounded
  3. a kind of plant with a medicinal root