ក

See also: កុំ, ក៏, កាំ, កែ, កោះ, and កេះ

ក	U+1780, ក KHMER LETTER KA

[unassigned: U+1774–U+177F]

← ᝳ
[U+1773]

Khmer

ខ →
[U+1781]

Khmer

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic	ក k
WT romanisation	kɑɑ
(standard) IPA^(key)	/kɑː/

Etymology 1

Descended from Brahmi script 𑀓. Compare Balinese ᬓ, Bengali ক, Buginese ᨕ, Burmese က, Devanagari क, Gujarati ક, Gurmukhi ਕ, Javanese ꦏ, Kannada ಕ, Lao ກ, Malayalam ക, Oriya କ, Sinhala ක, Sundanese ᮊ, Tamil க, Telugu క, Thai ก, Tibetan ཀ.

Letter

ក, ្ក • (kɑɑ)

first letter of the Cambodian alphabet

Usage notes

This letter belongs to the Khmer a-series consonants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kɔʔ ~ *kɔ(ɔ)k (“neck”). Cognate with Vietnamese cổ, Bahnar hơko, Mon ကံ.

Noun

ក • (kɑɑ)

(anatomy) neck
collar
connecting link

Derived terms

កដៃ (kɑday, “wrist”)

Etymology 3

Compare Thai ก่อ (gɔ̀ɔ).

Verb

ក • (kɑɑ) (abstract noun ការក)

to build; to construct; to create; to found
to base on
to commence; to start up
to come into being

Pali

Alternative forms

ka (Latin script)
𑀓 (Brahmi script)
क (Devanagari script)
ক (Bengali script)
ක (Sinhalese script)
က (Burmese script)
ก (Thai script)
ᨠ (Tai Tham script)

Etymology

From Vedic Sanskrit कः (kaḥ).

Pronoun

ក

(interrogative) who

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