plural Khmer or Khmers
1
: a member of an aboriginal people of Cambodia
2
: the Mon-Khmer language of the Khmer people that is the official language of Cambodia
Khmer
adjective
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McKay eventually escaped to the countryside, where he was apparently killed by the Khmer Rouge.
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Roberto Loiederman, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025
Recent decades have seen the repatriation of Khmer artifacts from abroad, some of which were looted in the 1970s during the period of violence and instability under the communist Khmer Rouge regime, per the Associated Press.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
Subsequent research has found large olfactory lexicons in at least forty other languages, among them Fang, Khmer, Swahili, and Zapotec.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
In Phnom Penh there is a tour of the Royal Palace complex and a very poignant visit to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, located on the site of a former prison run by the Khmer Rouge.
—Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Roberto Loiederman, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025
Recent decades have seen the repatriation of Khmer artifacts from abroad, some of which were looted in the 1970s during the period of violence and instability under the communist Khmer Rouge regime, per the Associated Press.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
Subsequent research has found large olfactory lexicons in at least forty other languages, among them Fang, Khmer, Swahili, and Zapotec.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
In Phnom Penh there is a tour of the Royal Palace complex and a very poignant visit to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, located on the site of a former prison run by the Khmer Rouge.
—Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Khmer
noun
: a member of an aboriginal people of Cambodia
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