ចិញ្ចៀន

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Khmer

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Etymology

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From Chinese, possibly Hokkien 手指 (chhiú-chí / chhiú-chái / chhiú-cháiⁿ). Compare Malay cincin (ring), Indonesian cincin (ring), Brunei Malay cincin (ring), Tagalog singsing (ring), Ilocano singsing (ring), Maranao sising (ring), etc.

Pronunciation

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Orthographic and Phonemic ចិញ្ចៀន
ciñ̥cian
WT romanisation cəñciən
(standard) IPA(key) /cəɲ.ˈciən/

Noun

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ចិញ្ចៀន (cəñciən)

  1. (finger) ring
  2. a kind of grass

Further reading

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  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “ring”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI