ហូប

Khmer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *haap ~ *hup ~ *huup ~ *ʔuup (“to eat”). Cognate with Mon ဟာပ် (hap, “to eat”), Shwe Palaung ဟာပ် (“to eat (curry)”), Koho hup (“to eat”), Khasi kahup (“to gulp, gobble”) and Vietnamese húp (“to slurp a watery dish”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic	ហូប hūp
WT romanisation	houp
(standard) IPA^(key)	/houp/

Verb

ហូប • (houp) (abstract noun ការហូប)

to eat

Synonyms

ស៊ី (sii)
ញ៉ាំ (ñam)

Affixed forms

ម្ហូប (mhoup)