ជិះ

See also: ជា, ជឿ, ជាំ, and ជ

Khmer

Etymology

Wanderwort in the E/SE sprachbund. Compare Chinese 騎 / 骑, Burmese စီး (ci:), Nuosu ꋩ (zzy, “to ride; to bear (a rider)”), ꊪ (zy, “to cause to ride”), Thai ขี่ (kìi), Lao ຂີ່ (khī), Zhuang gwih, White Hmong caij, Vietnamese cưỡi, Proto-Austronesian *sakay (“catch a ride, join a group, ride on something”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ជិះ
jiḥ
WT romanisation cih
(standard) IPA(key) /cih/

Verb

ជិះ • (cih) (abstract noun ការជិះ)

  1. to ride (horse, car, boat, plane, train, etc.)
    កង់  ―  cih kɑng  ―  ride a bicycle
    កប៉ាល់  ―  cih kaʼpal  ―  take a ship/boat
    គោ  ―  cih koo  ―  ride an ox
    ទូក  ―  cih tuuk  ―  ride in a boat
    រថយន្ត  ―  cih rŭət yŭən  ―  ride in an auto
    សេះ  ―  cih seh  ―  ride a horse
    ឡាន  ―  cih laan  ―  ride in a car
    គ្នា  ―  cih kniə  ―  ride one another/have sex
  2. to ride on, to get in/on (some means of transportation)
  3. to sit on
  4. to abuse, bully

Affixed forms

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