Khmer

See also: khmer

English

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Etymology

Attributed to the Pali term Khemara ‎(“one who is wholesome”); the elision form, ក្មេរ ‎(Kmera), is found in ancient stone inscriptions.

Proper noun

Khmer

1. The national language of Cambodia part of the Mon-Khmer language family.
2. A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.
3. An abugida used to write the Khmer language and sometimes Pali.

Synonyms

• Cambodian
• Kampuchean

Related terms

• Khmer Rouge

Translations

the national language of Cambodia

• Arabic: لُغَة خِمِيرِيَّة f ‎(luḡa ḵimīriyya), خِمِيرِيَّة f ‎(ḵimīriyya)
• Armenian: քմեր ‎(kʿmer)
• Belarusian: кхмерская f ‎(kxmérskaja), кхмерская мова f ‎(kxmérskaja móva)
• Breton: kmereg
• Bulgarian: кхмерски език m ‎(khmérski ezík)
• Burmese: ခမာ (my) ‎(hka.ma), ခမာဘာသာ ‎(hka.mabhasa)
• Catalan: khmer m, cambodjà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高棉語, 高棉语 ‎(Gāomián yǔ), 高棉文 ‎(Gāomián wén)

• Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: khmer
• Dutch: Khmer (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĥmera lingvo
• Finnish: khmer (fi)
• French: khmer (fr) m
• German: Khmer (de) n
• Greek: Χμερ n pl ‎(Chmer)
• Green Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Gujarati: ખ્મેર (gu) ‎(khmer)
• Hebrew: קמרית
• Hindi: ख्मेर (hi) ‎(khmēr)
• Hungarian: khmer (hu)
• Indonesian: bahasa Khmer
• Irish: Ciméiris f
• Italian: khmer (it)

• Japanese: クメール語 (ja) ‎(Kumēru-go)
• Khmer: ខ្មែរ (km) ‎(kmae), ភាសាខ្មែរ (km) ‎(phiesaa kmae)
• Korean: 크메르어 (ko) ‎(Keumereu-eo)
• Lao: ພາສາຂະເໝນ ‎(phā sā kha mēn), ພາສາຂະແໝ ‎(phā sā kha mǣ), ພາສາຂເມນ ‎(phā sāk mēn)
• Low German: Kambodschaansch (nds)
• Macedonian: кмерски јазик m ‎(kmerski jazik), кмерски јазик m ‎(kmérski jázik)
• Malay: bahasa Khmer
• Norwegian: khmer (no)
• Persian: زبان خمر ‎(zabân-e xamer)
• Polish: język khmerski (pl) m
• Portuguese: khmer (pt) m, cambojano (pt) m
• Russian: кхме́рский (ru) m ‎(kxmérskij) (язы́к), кхме́рский язы́к m ‎(kxmérskij jazýk)
• Spanish: jemer (es) m, camboyano (es) m
• Swedish: khmer (sv), kambodjanska (sv)
• Tagalog: wikang Khmer
• Tajik: кҳмерӣ (tg) ‎(khmerī)
• Thai: ภาษาเขมร (th) ‎(paasăa khamen)
• Turkish: Khmer (tr)
• Ukrainian: кхмерська f ‎(kxmérs'ka), кхмерська мова f ‎(kxmérs'ka móva)
• Uzbek: kxmer
• Vietnamese: tiếng Khơ-Me, tiếng Khmer, tiếng Miên
• Walloon: xhmer
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Appendix:Khmer Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Khmer

External links

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