ក្អែក

Khmer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kʔaak ~ *kʔaik (“crow; to caw”). Cognate with Semai eu'ak, Bahnar ak, Vietnamese ác là. Compare also Vietnamese bồ các.

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic	ក្អែក k̥ʼaek
WT romanisation	kʼaek
(standard) IPA^(key)	/kʔaek/

Noun

ក្អែក • (kʼaek)

crow, raven
lower-class person
a gloomy person
black sharkminnow (fish, Labeo chrysophekadion)

Derived terms

ជើងក្អែក (cəəŋ k’aek, “+ sign, ៎ (៎) diacritic”)

See also

បាទ (baat)

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