Etymology[edit]
From បុក (bok, “to pound, crush”) with prefixed aN-.
Pronunciation[edit]
អំបុក • (ʼɑmbok)
- pounded rice (prepared by dry-frying grains of paddy rice then pounding them to flatten the grains and remove the husks)
- a kind of blue-throated bird whose call resembles the sound of rice being pounded
- a kind of plant with a medicinal root