ជើង

See also: ជំងឺ and ជាង

Khmer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟuŋ ~ *ɟuəŋ ~ *ɟəŋ (“leg, foot”). Cognate with Bahnar jơ̆ng and Mon ဇိုၚ်. Munda cognates include Santali ᱡᱟᱝᱜᱟ (jaṅga).

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ជើង joeṅ WT romanisation cəəng (standard) IPA(key) /cəːŋ/

Noun

ជើង • (cəəng)

1. leg, foot
2. leg (subscript form of a Khmer consonant)
3. base, bottom, support
4. way, path, trip
5. time (instance or occurrence)
6. expert at (doing something)

Derived terms

• កំភួនជើង (kɑmpʰuən cəəŋ, “calf”)
• ជើងក្អែក (cəəŋ k’aek, “cross”)
• ជើងធ្មេញ (cəəŋ tmɨɲ, “gum”)
• ទ្រនាប់ជើង (trɔnŏəp cəəng)
• បាតជើង (baat cəəŋ, “sole”)
• ម្រាមជើង (mriem cəəŋ, “toe”)
• ស្បែកជើង (sbaek cəəŋ, “shoe”)
• ស្រោមជើង (sraom cəəng)

Adverb

ជើង • (cəəng)

1. northwards, to the north

Classifier

ជើង • (cəəng)

1. classifier for trips and occurrences

Verb

ជើង • (cəəng) (abstract noun ការជើង)

1. to be an expert at
2. to be skilled at (especially at gambling and other vices)