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Khmer

1867, native name. Khmer Rouge, communist party of Cambodia, literally "Red Khmer," is with French rouge (see rouge (n.)).

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Khmer may refer to:

  • Srok Khmer, the modern Kingdom of Cambodia
  • Khmer people, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong
    • Khmer Krom, Khmer people living in the Delta and the Lower Mekong area
    • Khmer Loeu, the Mon-Khmer highland tribes in Cambodia
    • Northern Khmer people, or Khmer Surin of Northeast Thailand
  • Khmer language, the language of the Khmer and the official language of Cambodia
  • Khmer script, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages
  • Khmer (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Khmer script.
  • Khmer cuisine, the dominant cuisine in Cambodia
  • Khmer architecture, the architecture of Cambodia
  • Khmer Empire, which ruled much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries
  • Khmer Republic, the name of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975
  • Khmer Issarak, anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement formed in 1945
  • Khmer Serei, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh
  • Khmer Sar (White Khmer), pro-US force formed by Khmer Republic's defence minister Sak Sutsakhan.
  • Khmer (album), a 1997 jazz album by Nils Petter Molvær

Political terms coined by Norodom Sihanouk based on the word 'Khmer':

  • Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian Communist political group and guerrilla movement
  • Khmer Viet Minh Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference.
  • Khmer Bleu, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right, whom he so named to distinguish them from his domestic opponents on the left, the 'Khmer Rouge'
Khmer (food)

'''Khmer ''' is the traditional dish of Bareg, native to Jizan.

Khmer (album)

Khmer (released 1997 in Germany by ECM Records (ECM 1560) – 537 798-2) is an album by the Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. The album mixes elements of electronica and jazz.

The album is based on sampled and artificially generated sounds, backed by beats from house and drum'n'bass. However, the often very slow rhythms are played on acoustic drums.

Khmer (Unicode block)

Khmer is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Khmer, or Cambodian, language. For details of the characters, see Khmer alphabet – Unicode.

Usage examples of "khmer".

King had never left his apartment except in the company of Indra Sen, and while Bharata Rahon had warned him against any such independent excursion the American had not taken the suggestion seriously, believing it to have been animated solely by the choler of the Khmer prince.

PBRs downriver one night to clear out a Khmer Rouge ambush site twenty-five miles or so south of Phnom Penh and went along for the ride.

He spoke in precise English about the disorders in Laos, advances of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, a flood of refugees reaching Saigon, disruptions of communications, cancellations of airline schedules, unusual troubles with visas.

Refugees from Cambodia were saying that the Khmer Rouge were forcing city people out into the country.

Nguyen had expressed his distaste for Cambodians in general and Khmer Communists in particular when he first understood they were heading for a village across the border.

She remembered the rumors of how the Nazi camps, the Stalinist purges, and the Khmer Rouge re-education farms were the side effects of similar blowoffs.

Organizations publicly claiming responsibility included the Earth- Firsters, the Red Army Faction, the Islamic Jihad, the now underground Fusion Energy Foundation, the Sikh Separatists, Shining Path, the Khmer Vert, the Afghan Renaissance, the radical wing of Mothers Against the Machine, the Reunified Re unification Church, Omega Seven, the Doomsday Chiliasts (although Billy Jo Rankin denied any connection and claimed that the confessions were called in by the impious, in a doomed attempt to discredit God), the Broederbond, El Catorce de Febrero, the Secret Army of the Kuomin-tang, the Zionist League, the Party of God, and the newly resuscitated Symbionese Liberation Front.

Organizations publicly claiming responsibility included the Earth Firsters, the Red Army Faction, the Islamic Jihad, the now underground Fusion Energy Foundation, the Sikh Separatists, Shining Path, the Khmer Vert, the Afghan Renaissance, the radical wing of Mothers Against the Machine, the Reunified Reunification Church, Omega Seven, the Doomsday Chiliasts (although Billy Jo Rankin denied any connection and claimed that the confessions were called in by the impious, in a doomed attempt to discredit God), the Broederbond, El Catorce de Febrero, the Secret Army of the Kuomintang, the Zionist League, the Party of God, and the newly resuscitated Symbionese Liberation Front.

In November 1994, while I was in Cambodia, I would read a Reuters dispatch describing the eventual murder of the backpackers by the Khmer Rouge, the recovery of the victims’ bodies, and the autopsies that followed.

The expats, therefore, were a potential target of the Khmer Rouge, which, as the torture-murder of the three Western backpackers had made clear (not to mention the periodic kidnapping and murder of scores of Cambodian villagers), had an undiminished appetite for cruelty.

But before the Khmer Rouge there were teachers' salaries to pay, school buildings and supplies, Church property to purchase.

Khmers in the highest political echelons took cafe filtre and croissants in the cool and unhurried splendour of the Hotel le Royal's dining room each morning just as if they were in the centre of Parisian culture instead of in its brackish backwater bay ten thousand miles away.

Cambodia had fallen to the Khmer Rouge, Lagos was falling to the Pathet Lao, and the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong were about to enter Saigon.

I had to send my wife and son back to Phnom Penh for a while because we had been threatened by the Khmer Rouge.

The AP correspondent had stayed behind at Phnom Penh to see the arrival of the Khmer Rouge, almost at the cost of his life.