Khmer

See also: khmer

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmɛə(ɹ)/

• Audio (CA)

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Noun

Khmer (countable and uncountable, plural Khmer or Khmers)

1. (uncountable) The national language of Cambodia, part of the Mon-Khmer language family.
2. (countable) 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

language

• Arabic: لُغَة خِمِيرِيَّة‎‎ f (luḡa ḵimīriyya), خِمِيرِيَّة‎‎ f (ḵimīriyya)
• Armenian: քմեր (hy) (kʿmer)
• Belarusian: камбаджы́йская f (kambadžýjskaja), кхме́рская f (kxmjérskaja), кхме́рская мо́ва f (kxmjérskaja móva)
• Breton: kmereg
• Bulgarian: кхме́рски ези́к m (khmérski ezík)
• Burmese: ခမာ (my) (hka.ma), ခမာဘာသာ (hka.mabhasa)
• Catalan: cambodjà m, khmer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高棉語, 高棉语 (gāomiányǔ), 高棉文 (gāomiánwén)

• Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: khmer
• Dutch: Khmer (nl) n, Cambodjaans (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĥmera lingvo
• Finnish: khmer (fi), khmerin kieli
• French: cambodgien (fr) m, khmer (fr) m
• Galician: khmer (gl) m
• German: Kambodschanisch (de) n, Khmer-Sprache f, 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) (khmer)
• Hungarian: khmer (hu)
• Indonesian: bahasa Khmer
• Irish: Ciméiris f, Cambóidis f
• Italian: khmer (it)
• Japanese: クメール語 (ja) (クメールご, kumērugo)

• Khmer: ខ្មែរ (km) (khmae), ភាសាខ្មែរ (pʰiesaa khmae)
• Korean: 크메르어 (ko) (keumereueo)
• Lao: ພາສາຂະເໝນ (phā sā kha mēn), ພາສາຂະແໝ (phā sā kha mǣ), ພາສາຂເມນ (phā sā kha mēn)
• Low German: Kambodschaansch (nds)
• Macedonian: кмерски јазик m (kmerski jazik), кмерски јазик m (kmerski jazik)
• Malay: bahasa Khmer
• Norwegian: khmer (no)

  Bokmål: khmer (no) m

  Nynorsk: khmer m

• Persian: زبان خمر‎‎ (zabân-e xamer)
• Polish: język khmerski (pl) m
• Portuguese: khmer (pt) m, cambojano (pt) m
• Romanian: khmeră (ro) f
• Russian: кхме́рский (ru) m (kxmérskij) (язы́к), кхме́рский язы́к m (kxmérskij jazýk), камбоджи́йский (ru) m (kambodžíjskij) (язы́к)
• Slovak: kmérčina f, khmérčina f
• Spanish: jemer (es) m, camboyano (es) m
• Swedish: khmer (sv), kambodjanska (sv)
• Tagalog: wikang Khmer
• Tajik: кҳмерӣ (tg) (khmerī)
• Thai: ภาษาเขมร (paa-sǎa kà-měen), เขมร (th) (kà-měen)
• Turkish: Khmer (tr)
• Ukrainian: кхме́рська f (kxmérsʹka), кхме́рська мо́ва f (kxmérsʹka móva)
• Uzbek: kxmer
• Vietnamese: tiếng Khơ-me, tiếng Khmer, ^{(please verify)} tiếng Miên
• Walloon: xhmer
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

member of ethnolinguistic group

• Finnish: khmer (fi)
• Khmer: ខ្មែរ (km) (khmae)

• Russian: кхмер (ru) m (kxmer), кхме́рка (ru) f (kxmérka)

Adjective

Khmer (comparative more Khmer, superlative most Khmer)

1. Of or pertaining to Khmer people or their language.

Translations

of or pertaining to Khmer people or their language

• Burmese: ခမာ (my) (hka.ma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高棉 (zh) (gāomián)

• French: khmer (fr)
• German: Khmer (de)
• Japanese: クメール (kumēru)

• Khmer: ខ្មែរ (km) (khmae), ខេមរ (kheemaʾraʾ) (formal)
• Korean: 크메르 (keumereu)
• Lao: ຂະເໝນ (lo) (kha mēn), ຂະແໝ (kha mǣ), ຂເມນ (kha mēn)
• Russian: кхме́рский (ru) (kxmérskij)
• Thai: เขมร (th) (kà-měen)
• Vietnamese: Khơ-me (vi)

See also

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

Further reading

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