Khmer Dictionary: សុំ
Headley's Khmer-English Dictionary
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សុំ
( v ) [som]
to ask (for), beg, request, demand.
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សុំ
( initverb ) [som]
to ask to (do something) (may be used in a polite way by older people to younger ones. It is often used interchangeably with សូម which however more accurately occurs in sentence initial position)
Eg. រាជការសុំឲ្យអស់បណ្ដារាស្ត្រយកចិត្តទុកដាក់ខំប្រឹងធ្វើការនេះឲ្យបានសំរេចឆាប់: The government asks all the people to work hard.