Khmer Lesson - Medical Terminology Part 1

Hi Guys! I am going to do a series of Khmer lessons on common medical terminology. This is my first lesson and yes I was very nervous ;) I do some work with NGOs and non-profits so I learned a few things here and there. I am not super fluent but it's something that I'm passionately working on. I know it is sometimes difficult to translate for older generations. I hope these lessons are helpful and that you are able to take a step towards breaking the communication barrier among the Khmer community :)

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Education

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• Khmer
• Cambodia
• Cambodian
• Lesson
• Tutorial
• Language
• Words
• Medical
• Phrases
• Spelling
• Speech
• malaria
• cambodge
• lung
• cancer
• kampuchea
• heart
• attack
• disease
• fever
• sick
• illness
• diabetes
• liver
• breast
• lungs
• stroke

[delt01]

"diabetes == teuk nôm p'aém"

if i remember p'aém alone means sugar or sweet, right?

[Pause4ACause]

@delt01 yeah 'sweet urine' haha. I recently told one of the nurses at my work place and she thought I was joking about the translation and got mad at me lol ^-^

[Kime0]

if you know how to read and write khmer, you'll be able to pronounce all the terms in khmer more correctly. You did a wonderful job tho =D

[Pause4ACause]

@Kime0 Thanks! Im still trying to take lessons but I don't think I'll ever be able to read and write in Khmer. However, I did get a khmer dictionary for Christmas, yay! :)

[auroreanlife]

hey, this is very useful.

[2loveKaiya]

Thanks. I loved my first lesson in Khmer medical terms : )

[redsharkie]

This is awesome! This is really helpful for me to communicate to my grandma ma's. I did NOT know diabetes was called thuck nome bah aime LMAO XDD!!!

[MrAsiandude1234]

OMG. YES!(;

[Angklorify]

Wow! Thanks so much for this. I'm going to school to be a nurse...so this is really nice. Also, I have a pet Maltese at home... we have a lot in common haha.

[oakstrong1]

How about a lesson for patients, you know, describing common symptoms and ailments, like diarrhoea (you already taught fever). I would also like to know what on earth is dengue fever in Khmer? My Cambodian doctor friend knows malaria but even he doesn't know what dengue fever means.

[stnazaire2007]

- Stroke = Swet Da-ay Cherng (this is what we commonly used)

- Heart Attack = Kaing Beh-Downg (The correct pronunciation is for "Kaing" not for "Geng". You wrote "Geng" but your pronunciation is closed with "Kaing")

[stnazaire2007]

Hi, I am originated from Cambodia. I found this video is helpful. I like khmer language so that I would like to correct the pronunciation of some words you have not made correctly :

- Cancer = Mo-Ha-Reek (not "Mah")

- Malaria = Chron Chaagn (not "Chaan")

- Liver = Thleum (I heard not so clearly about your pronunciation, but the correct one should be "Thleum")

[delt01]

Thanks for this!! I really need to learn cambodian all over again....

[Kime0]

oh nice!