នាយក
Khmer
noun
Definitions
- chief; leader; commissioner; director; chairman; boss; manager
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit नायक (leader, guide, lord, master, chief, governor, etc) borrowed from Pali nāyaka (chief, lord, etc, master).
Origin
Pali
nāyaka
Gloss
chief, lord, etc, master
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
主
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- नायक Sanskrit
- नायक Hindi
- นายก Thai
- นายกรัฐมนตรี Thai
- nāyaka Pali
- នាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី Central Khmer
- មន្ត្រី Central Khmer
- រដ្ឋ Central Khmer
- කූරුව-නායක Sinhala, Sinhalese