សេរី

See also: សិរិ, ស្រែ, ស្រី, សូរ, ស្រា, and សួរ

Khmer

Alternative forms

  • សេរ (see)
  • ស្វៃរី (svayrii)

Etymology

From Pali serin, from Sanskrit स्वैरिन् (svairin, “free, independent”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic សេរី
serī
Phonemic សេ-រ៉ី
se-r″ī
WT romanisation seerəy
(standard) IPA(key) /seː.ˈrəj/

Adjective

សេរី • (seerəy) (abstract noun ភាពសេរី)

  1. to be free
  2. to be disobedient
  3. to do something without permission

Noun

សេរី • (seerəy)

  1. freeman, free person, independent person, person who controls his own destiny

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • serī (Latin script)
  • 𑀲𑁂𑀭𑀻 (Brahmi script)
  • सेरी (Devanagari script)
  • সেরী (Bengali script)
  • සෙරී (Sinhalese script)
  • သေရီ or သေရဳ (Burmese script)
  • เสรี (Thai script)
  • ᩈᩮᩁᩦ (Tai Tham script)
  • ເສຣີ (Lao script)
  • 𑄥𑄬𑄢𑄩 (Chakma script)

Adjective

សេរី (serī)

  1. Khmer script form of serī, which is inflection of សេរិន៑:
    1. nominative singular masculine
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative plural masculine/neuter (serin, “independent”)
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