លុង

Khmer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *luŋh ~ *luuŋ(h) ~ *ləŋh (“to hollow, excavate, bore”). Compare Vietnamese trũng (“concave”).

Putative cognates are found in Sino-Tibetan languages, mainly in Burmese လှိုင်း (hluing:, “uneven surface”) and Mizo lawng (“to take out the heart of a wild plantain tree”).

Pronunciation
Orthographic and Phonemic លុង
luṅ
WT romanisation lung
(standard) IPA(key) /luŋ/

Verb

លុង • (lung) (abstract noun ការលុង)

  1. to dig a hole, excavate
  2. to drill
  3. to hollow out

Synonyms
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