ជើង

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See also: ជំងឺ and ជាង

Khmer

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Etymology

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From Old Khmer ជេង៑ (jeṅ), ជេង (jeṅa), ជើង (jœṅa, north; lower limb; leg; foot; bottom; edge; base; basis; stand; support; etc), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟuŋ ~ *ɟuəŋ ~ *ɟəŋ (leg, foot). Cognate with Bahnar jơ̆ng, Mon ဇိုၚ်, Vietnamese chân, and Thai เชิง (chəəng). Munda cognates include Santali ᱡᱟᱝᱜᱟ (jaṅga).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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)

Coordinate terms

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ពាយ័ព្យ (piəyŏəp) ជើង (cəəng)
ឧត្តរ (ʼutdɑɑ)
ឦសាន (ʼəysaan)
លិច (lɨc)
បស្ចិម (bahcəm)
កើត (kaət)
បូព៌ា (boupiə)
និរតី (nirədəy) ត្បូង (tboung)
ទក្សិណ (tĕəksən)
អាគ្នេយ៍ (ʼaaknee)

Derived terms

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Adverb

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ជើង (cəəng)

  1. northwards, to the north (compare ត្បូង (tboung, head) meaning "south")

Classifier

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ជើង (cəəng)

  1. classifier for trips and occurrences

Verb

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ជើង (cəəng) (abstract noun ការជើង)

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