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: لغة خميرية f (luugha khamiríyya), خميرية f (khamiríyya)
• Armenian: քմերերեն (kʿmereren)
• Belarusian: кхмерская f (kxmérskaja), кхмерская мова f (kxmérskaja móva)
• Breton: kmereg
• Bulgarian: кхмерски език m (khmérski ezík)
• Burmese: ခမာ (kha̱ma), ခမာဘာသာ (kha̱ma batha)
• Catalan: khmer m, cambodjà m
• Chinese:

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

• 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)
• Gujarati: ખ્મેર (gu)
• 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 (phāsā khamēn), ພາສາຂະແໝ (phāsā khamæ), ພາສາຂເມນ (phāsā khamen)
• 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 m
• Russian: кхмерский (ru) m (kxmérskij) (язы́к), кхмерский язык m (kxmérskij jazýk)
• Spanish: jemer (es) m, camboyano (es) m
• Swedish: khmer (sv)
• Tagalog: wikang Khmer
• Thai: ภาษาเขมร (paasăa khamen)
• Turkish: Khmer (tr)
• Ukrainian: кхмерська f (kxmérs'ka), кхмерська мова f (kxmérs'ka móva)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Khơ-Me, tiếng Khmer, tiếng Miên
• Walloon: xhmer

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