ក្បួន

Khmer

Etymology

From Thai ขบวร (kà-buuan) ~ กระบวน (grà-buuan), itself from Angkorian Old Khmer khpvar (“drawing, sketch, plan”), itself an infixed form of Old Khmer gvar (“to draw”). Compare modern Khmer reflexes ក្បូរ (kbou, “decoration”), គូរ (kuu, “to draw”).[1]

Pronunciation
Orthographic and Phonemic ក្បួន
k̥puan
WT romanisation kbuən
(standard) IPA(key) /kɓuən/

Noun

ក្បួន • (kbuən)

  1. theory; doctrine.
  2. method; procedure.
  3. principle; model.
  4. sketch.
  5. formula.
  6. textbook; instruction manual.
  7. line; parade; procession; train.
  8. trick.

References
  1. Uraisi Varasarin, Les elements khmers dans la formation de la langue siamoise, 1984, p. 178.
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