Filippi said the phrase «reflects well the original meaning of the Holocaust» – «a victim completely burned on an altar» – but he questioned whether the translator relies on the Greek etymology of the word. Another fairly common type of negation used អត់ (also spelled ⟨ឥត⟩) «[ɑt]» instead of ន. «អត់» means «without» or «missing» and expresses a similar connotation when used to deny a verb. Jean-Michel Filippi, a professor of Khmer linguistics at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, said Meta`s sentence was, to his knowledge, the first and only Khmer translation of «Holocaust,» apart from the Khmer word for «genocide,» although he deemed it insufficient. In Khmer, nouns and adjectives can be redupliated. Reduplication can occur as a perfect redupliation or by changing the irritation of words. Khmer also uses composite replication, which assembles two phonologically unrelated words with similar or identical meanings. Its term is not a newly created Khmer word, but a new Khmer translation based on the Greek origins of the word, she said. Barang (Khmer: បារាំង) is a Khmer word meaning English. It is often pronounced as a false ba-reng. The correct pronunciation is bâ-râng, but pâ-râng is also acceptable. It is believed that this is a corruption of the word France, but it may be a misunderstanding.

[Verification required] The term is related to the Thai term Farang, which has a similar meaning. In the Malay language, barang means «thingee». «Barangsaes» (បសស) is another Khmer term that shows its relationship with the French word, but rarely used. In other Khmer books, translators usually wrote the word in Khmer characters, based on the English sound; or literally describes the term as the murder of Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II, Meta said. In other words, the usual meaning of the word does not depend on its etymology and «Holocaust» has become a kind of proper name. Khmer is the official language of Cambodia, which was once a French protectorate called Cambodia in French. The French had many influences on the Khmer language, such as the pronunciation of Mercedes. Many of the technical terms used today in Khmer are of French origin. Barang is also used as a suffix in some Khmer words like mon barang (នន់បារាំ) which is the transliteral French chicken, but refers to a turkey…