Khmer

Letter

ត, ្ត • ‎(tɑɑ)

1. sixteenth letter of the Cambodian alphabet

Homographs

• ្ដ from ដ (ដ្ដ) is identical to ្ត from ត (ត្ត), and is the cause of a great many misspellings. Many Cambodians do not distinguish between the two subscripts, and type either of them for both subscript letters. They consider that a single glyph does duty for both letters.

Noun

ត • ‎(tɑɑ)

1. resistance, struggle
2. continuation, sequence
3. succession, generation
4. step
5. (recurrent) time

Verb

ត • ‎(tɑɑ)

1. to connect, link, join, join together, fasten together, attach, adjoin, be adjacent to
2. to follow (one after the other or in a definite sequence)
3. to place end to end, add on, extend
4. to continue
5. to struggle, react against, resist, fight, wage war
6. to argue, debate
7. to bargain, haggle, dicker

See also

• តាម ‎(taam)

Adverb

ត • ‎(tɑɑ)

1. one after another, from one to another