រេផៈ

Khmer

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic រេផៈ repʰ` WT romanisation reiphaʼ (standard) IPA(key) /rei.ˈpʰaʔ/

Noun

រេផៈ • (reiphaʼ)

1. the letter រ
2. The diacritical mark (   ៌ (៌)), which indicates an orthographic ‘r’ (repha) in some words borrowed from Sanskrit (in Devanagari, repha appears as the eyelash mark above र्क, or rka). It originally represented an /r/ sound that preceded the base consonant, but in Khmer, in most cases, the consonant above which it appears, and the diacritic itself, are not pronounced.

   ធម៌ (thɔə)​ = dharma

Synonyms

• របាទ (rɔbaat)