ចិញ្ចៀន

From Chinese, possibly Hokkien 手指 (chhiú-chí / chhiú-chái / chhiú-cháiⁿ). Compare Malay cincin (“ring”), Indonesian cincin (“ring”), Brunei Malay cincin (“ring”), Tagalog singsing (“ring”), Ilocano singsing (“ring”), Maranao sising (“ring”), etc.

ចិញ្ចៀន • (cəñciən)

1. (finger) ring
2. a kind of grass

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “ring”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI