ចិញ្ចៀន

Khmer

Etymology

From Chinese, possibly Hokkien 手指 (chhiú-chí / chhiú-chái / chhiú-cháiⁿ). Compare Malay cincin (“ring”), Indonesian cincin (“ring”), Brunei Malay cincin (“ring”), Tagalog singsing (“ring”), Ilocano singsing (“ring”), Maranao sising (“ring”), etc.

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ចិញ្ចៀន ciñ̥cian WT romanisation cəñciən (standard) IPA(key) /cəɲ.ˈciən/

Noun

ចិញ្ចៀន • (cəñciən)

1. (finger) ring
2. a kind of grass

Further reading

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “ring”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI