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)

to dig a hole, excavate
to drill
to hollow out

Synonyms

រូង (ruung)