ក្លៀក

Khmer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kʔik ~ *kʔiək ~ *kʔaik (“armpit”); cognate with Proto-Khmuic *klʔɛk, Western Lawa kliək and Vietnamese nách (through a nasal infixed form).

Pronunciation
Orthographic and Phonemic ក្លៀក
k̥liak
WT romanisation kliək
(standard) IPA(key) /kʰliəʔ/

Noun

ក្លៀក • (kliək)

  1. armpit, underarm

Verb

ក្លៀក • (kliək) (abstract noun ការក្លៀក)

  1. to scrub the back (of an elephant)
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