ក្អែក

Khmer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kʔaak ~ *kʔaik (“crow; to caw”). Cognate with Semai eu'ak, Bahnar ak, Vietnamese ác là and bồ các.

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ក្អែក k̥ʼaek WT romanisation kʼaek (standard) IPA(key) /kʔaek/

Noun

ក្អែក • (kʼaek)

1. crow, raven
2. (figurative) a person:
   1. (derogatory) lower-class, lowborn person
   2. boorish, crude person
3. black sharkminnow (Labeo chrysophekadion)

Derived terms

• ជើងក្អែក (cəəŋ k’aek, “+ sign, ៎ (៎) diacritic”)

See also

• បាទ (baat)