ជើង

See also: ជំងឺ and ជាង

Khmer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟuŋ ~ *ɟuəŋ ~ *ɟəŋ (leg, foot). Cognate with Bahnar jơ̆ng and Mon ဇိုၚ်. Munda cognates include Santali ᱡᱟᱝᱜᱟ (jaṅga).

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ជើង
joeṅ
WT romanisation cəəng
(standard) IPA(key) /cəːŋ/

Noun

ជើង (cəəng)

  1. leg, foot
  2. leg (subscript form of a Khmer consonant)
  3. base, bottom, support
  4. way, path, trip
  5. time (instance or occurrence)
  6. expert at (doing something)

Derived terms

Adverb

ជើង (cəəng)

  1. northwards, to the north

Classifier

ជើង (cəəng)

  1. classifier for trips and occurrences

Verb

ជើង (cəəng) (abstract noun ការជើង)

  1. to be an expert at
  2. to be skilled at (especially at gambling and other vices)
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