កាំភ្លើង

Khmer

Etymology

From an uncertain prefix កាំ (kam) + ភ្លើង (phləəng, fire).

This prefix could be a dialectal variant of the instrumental prefix kVN- (like in កន្ត្រង), or could relate to កាំ (kam), a silex object that is sharp and capable of producing fire. [1]

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic កាំភ្លើង
kāṃb̥ʰloeṅ
WT romanisation kampləəng
(standard) IPA(key) /kamp.ˈləːŋ/

Noun

កាំភ្លើង • (kampləəng)

  1. gun, firearm

Derived terms

References

  1. Khin Sok, "Grammaire du khmer moderne", 1990)
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