កប្បាស

Khmer

Etymology

From Pali kappāsa, from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa).The Sanskrit word itself is from Munda origin, and ultimately from Proto-Austroastatic origin (an interesting case of coming full circle!), which also natively yielded អំបោះ.

Pronunciation
Orthographic and Phonemic កប្បាស
kp̥pās
WT romanisation kɑpbaah
(standard) IPA(key) /kɑp.ˈɓaːh/

Noun

កប្បាស • (kɑpbaah)

  1. cotton
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