Khmer Dictionary: អង្ករ

1. អង្ករ ( n ) [ʔɑŋkɑɑ]   - detail »
   uncooked, husked rice
   

1. កាសអង្ករ [kaah ʔɑŋkɑɑ]
   money formerly given to Cambodian functionaries each month at the Royal Palace. (This money was to be used to buy rice and was distributed according to the size of the family, lit. `rice money')
   
2. កិនស្រូវ [kən srǝv]
   to husk rice (after this stage it becomes អង្ករ )
   
3. កិនអង្ករ [kən ʔɑŋkɑɑ]
   to grind rice into flour
   
4. ចាក់អង្ករយកអង្កាម [cak ʔɑŋkɑɑ yɔɔ kɑɑ ʔɑŋkaam]
   lit. `to throw away the rice and keep the chaff;' fig to abandon something good and keep something bad, refuse to give up one's own profit
   
5. ចាក់អង្ករយកអង្កាម [cak ʔɑŋkɑɑ yɔɔ kɑɑ ʔɑŋkaam]
   to abandon something good and keep something bad, refuse to give up one's own profit (lit. `to throw away the rice and keep the chaff')
   
6. ចុងអង្ករ [coŋ ʔɑŋkɑɑ]
   small broken fragments of rice left over from the milling process (used for chicken feed)
   
7. ចុងអង្ករ [coŋ ʔɑŋkɑɑ]
   kind of plant (Raphistemma Hooperianum) with edible pleasant smelling white flowers
   
8. ជាន់អង្ករ [coan ʔɑŋkɑɑ]
   to thresh rice
   
9. ជ្រូកអង្ករ [cruuk ʔɑŋkɑɑ]
   measly pork or swine (i.e. meat or animals infested with worms such as trichina)
   
10. ដាក់ថង់អង្ករស្ពុច [dak tʰɑŋ ʔɑŋkɑɑ spuc]
    to place a sack of rice down and have it sag in place
    

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