លុង

Khmer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *luŋh ~ *luuŋ(h) ~ *ləŋh (“to hollow, excavate, bore”). Compare Vietnamese trũng (“concave”).

Putative cognates are found in Sino-Tibetan languages, mainly in Burmese လှိုင်း (hluing:, “uneven surface”) and Mizo lawng (“to take out the heart of a wild plantain tree”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic លុង luṅ WT romanisation lung (standard) IPA(key) /luŋ/

Verb

លុង • (lung) (abstract noun ការលុង)

1. to dig a hole, excavate
2. to drill
3. to hollow out

Synonyms

• រូង (ruung)