រោង

Khmer

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic រោង
roṅ
WT romanisation roong
(standard) IPA(key) /roːŋ/

Etymology 1

From Old Khmer រោង (roṅ, roṅa, dragon (zodiac)), from Vietic. Compare Northern Khmer รูํง; Thai มะโรง (má-roong); Vietnamese rồng.

Noun

រោង • (roong)

  1. (astrology) the Dragon, one of the twelve lunar zodiac signs.
See also

Etymology 2

Areal term, perhaps derived from Malay ruang,[1] and cognate with Thai โรง (roong) and Burmese ရုံ (rum).

Noun

រោង • (roong)

  1. hall, building, factory, open shed; shelter, stable; booth, shop, warehouse
Derived terms

References

  1. Mathias Jenny (2021 August 9) Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny, editors, 25 The national languages of MSEA: Burmese, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 615:"The common SEAn lexeme roŋ (and similar forms, probably from Malay ruang) meaning ‘hall, big building’ is used in numerous neologisms across the area."
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