vnam

okh: vnaṃ ~ vnaṃm ~ vnam ~ bnaṃ ~ branomya, mkh: ភ្នំ bhnaṃ /pʰnʊm/ ``n. mountain, hill''

1 n. Height, high place, hill, eminence, mount, mountain. 2 n. Temple-mountain, sanctuary.

  • Ref: 125 occurrences, earliest being K.774A:1 (860 CE?). K.9:25 (A.D. 639, V:35); K.44B:2 (A.D. 674, II:10); K.134:15 (A.D. 781, II:92); K.560/739:6 (A.D. 578-777, II:37, VI:54); K.788:8 (A.D. 578-777, VI:61). Ex: ʼaṃnoy kloñ vnaṃ ʼañ tpal teṃ tuṅnot ai vnaṃ tāṅ kloñ 1 sre sanre 20 (K.9:24-6), `Gifts from the chief of my sanctuary: 1 grove of sugar palms on Vnaṃ Tāṅ Kloñ [and] 20 sanre of riceland'.... vnaṃ vrai vnur caṃnoṃ tmur cdin ... (K.44B:2), `... hills, woods, knolls, herds of kine, rivers, ... '.paṃnos ta pos ta gi noḥ vnaṃ vraḥ kamratāṅ ʼañ ... (K.44B:9), `Clerics who have entered orders in the said sanctuary of My Holy High Lord ... '
  • Henri Marchal called the Bayon Vnam Kantal in his essay on Angkor Thom Gates.
  • Saveros Pou:

Source

  • sealang.net
  • Marchal H.,
  • Saveros Pou, Etymologie...