កោះ

See also: កាំ, កែ, កុំ, ក៏, ក, and កេះ

Khmer

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic កោះ koḥ WT romanisation kɑh (standard) IPA(key) /kɑh/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ ~ *tkɔɔh (“island”). Cognate with Mon လ္ကံ (kɔˀ) or တ္ကံ (tkɔˀ), Chong kɑʔ, Thai เกาะ (gɔ̀), Lao ເກາະ (kǫ), Vietnamese gò and Mal kɔʔ.

Noun

កោះ • (kɑh)

1. island

Etymology 2

Verb

កោះ • (kɑh) (abstract noun ការកោះ)

1. to subpoena, to summon, to convoke someone with a court order.

Derived terms

• កោះហៅ (kɑhhaw)

Affixed forms

• ប្រកោះ (prɑkɑh)