ភួង

Khmer

Etymology

Reborrowed from Thai พวง (puuang), itself from Old Khmer ប្វង (pvaṅa), បូង (pūṅa, “mass, cluster; whole, all”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *buəŋ (“bunch, collection”). Cognates include the doublet ពួង (puəng, “all”), Vietnamese buồng (“bunch”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ភួង bʰuaṅ WT romanisation phuəng (standard) IPA(key) /pʰuəŋ/

Noun

ភួង • (phuəng)

1. garland; bouquet (of flowers)

Proper noun

ភួង • (phuəng)

1. a female given name, Phuong