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Catalan

Adjective

khmer (masculine and feminine plural khmers)

1. Khmer

Noun

khmer m or f (plural khmers)

1. Khmer person

khmer m (uncountable)

1. Khmer, Cambodian

Synonyms

• cambodjà

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kme(?)r/, [?kme?(?)r]
• Syllabification: khmer

Noun

khmer

1. Khmer (person)
2. Khmer (language)

Declension

Synonyms

• khmerin kieli

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /km??/

Noun

khmer m (uncountable)

1. Khmer (the national language of Cambodia)

Adjective

khmer (feminine singular khmère, masculine plural khmers, feminine plural khmères)

1. Khmer

Further reading

• “khmer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?km?r]
• Rhymes: -?r

Adjective

khmer (not comparable)

1. Khmer (of or pertaining to Khmer people or their language)

Declension

Noun

khmer (countable and uncountable, plural khmerek)

1. Khmer (the national language of Cambodia)
2. Khmer (a member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia)

Declension

Italian

Adjective

khmer (invariable)

1. Khmer

Noun

khmer m or f (invariable)

1. Khmer

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?km??/, /ki.?m??/

Noun

khmer m (plural khmers)

1. (uncountable) Khmer; Cambodian (national language of Cambodia)

   Synonym: cambojano

2. Khmer; Cambodian (person from Cambodia)

   Synonym: cambojano

Adjective

khmer (invariable, not comparable)

1. Khmer; Cambodian (relating to the people of Cambodia)

   Synonym: cambojano

Related terms

• Khmer Vermelho

Romanian

Etymology

From French khmer

Noun

khmer m (plural khmeri)

1. Khmer

Declension

Swedish

Noun

khmer c

1. Khmer (the national language of Cambodia)
2. Khmer (person)

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vocable or Latin vocabulum, from Latin voc? (“I call”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??k?bl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?vo?k?bl?/

Noun

vocable (plural vocables)

1. (linguistics) A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
   • 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:

     Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.

   • 1925, John Buchan, "The House of the Four Winds":

     At first the man puzzled; then he smiled. He pronounced a string of uncouth vocables.

2. (music) A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.
   • Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Native American Music;

     Many Native American songs employ vocables, syllables that do not have referential meaning. These may be used to frame words or may be inserted among them; in some cases, they constitute the entire song text.

Translations

Adjective

vocable (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Able to be uttered.

   a vocable marker

Synonyms

• utterable, voiceable

Related terms

• vocabulary
• vocability

Translations

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vocabulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.kabl/

Noun

vocable m (plural vocables)

1. term

Related terms

• vocabulaire

Further reading

• “vocable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).