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Khmer
[ kmair, kuh-mair ]
noun
- a member of a people in Cambodia whose ancestors established an empire about the 5th century a.d. and who reached their zenith during the 9th to the 12th centuries when they dominated most of Indochina.
- an Austroasiatic language that is the official language of Cambodia.
Khmer
/ kmɜː; kmɛə /
noun
- a member of a people of Cambodia, noted for a civilization that flourished from about 800 ad to about 1370, remarkable for its architecture
- the language of this people, belonging to the Mon-Khmer family: the official language of Cambodia
adjective
- of or relating to this people or their language
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
Example Sentences
Many of the signs on restaurants and shops are in Chinese as well as Khmer, the local language.
Long Beach is home to almost half a million Cambodian Americans — the largest population of Khmer people in the United States.
Over the years, she learned to recognize these moments as scars of the Khmer Rouge-led violence and genocide that had overrun the country less than three decades earlier, between 1975 and 1979.
Applications are available online in 10 languages — English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese — and printed versions can be found at DMV offices.
“AI cannot replace human compassion, empathy, and transparency, meaningful gestures and tones,” said Rithy Lim, a Fresno-based medical and legal interpreter for 30 years who specializes in Cambodian and Khmer languages.
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