What does khmer mean?

Definitions for khmer
kmɛər, kəˈmɛərkhmer

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Khmernoun

    the Mon-Khmer language spoken in Cambodia

  2. Khmernoun

    a native or inhabitant of Cambodia

Wiktionary

  1. Khmernoun

    The national language of Cambodia part of the Mon-Khmer language family.

  2. Khmernoun

    A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.

  3. Khmernoun

    An abugida used to write the Khmer language and sometimes Pali.

  4. Etymology: Attributed to the Pali term Khemara, meaning one who is wholesome; the elision form, Kmera (), is found in ancient stone inscriptions.

Wikidata

  1. Khmer

    Khmer is an album by the Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. The album mixes elements of electronica and jazz. The album is based on sampled and artificially generated sounds, backed by beats from house and drum'n'bass. The rhythms though are played on acoustic drums, often at a very slow pace.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of khmer in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of khmer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of khmer in a Sentence

  1. John Garcia:

    [ I was trying to escape from ] the pain, the misery. The stress. The pressure. You name it. I was just trying to escape. That was my escape route. Not a healthy choice, but it was mainly to numb myself … The mere fact of seeing all the dead bodies, going to autopsies and doing the death notifications during the wee hours of the morning. Oscar-winning actor Actor Haing Ngor. who survived the savage horrors of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, was shot to death outside Actor Haing Ngor apartment. ( Oxygen).

  2. Bill Herod:

    They - their families, actually - fled the terrors of the Khmer Rouge era and post - Khmer Rouge chaos. Many were born in Thai refugee camps.

  3. Youk Chhang:

    Justice is a long and difficult road for all Cambodians, there is nothing we can do. We do not want to do what the Khmer Rouge did to us. This has taken a lot of patience and forgiveness already.

  4. Lim Keuky:

    That is why, if you go to someone who is 18 years old and talk about how genocidal the Khmer Rouge was, she would say, 'It's not possible -- you must be lying,' because the parents who lived at that time they don't want to remember, in trying to forget, then the same thing can come again.

  5. Hun Sen:

    Please dont take what I said to be analyzed outside the intention of eating Khmer noodles, as some people think that it is a step toward negotiations (with the CNRP), dont be confused.

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