អំបុក

Khmer

a plate of អំបុក

Etymology

From បុក (bok, “to pound, crush”) with prefixed aN-.

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic អំបុក ʼṃpuk WT romanisation ʼɑmbok (standard) IPA(key) /ʔɑm.ˈɓok/

Noun

អំបុក • (ʼɑmbok)

1. pounded rice (prepared by dry-frying grains of paddy rice then pounding them to flatten the grains and remove the husks)
2. a kind of blue-throated bird whose call resembles the sound of rice​ being pounded
3. a kind of plant with a medicinal root