Sothy
សុធី
Khmer for a clever, quick-witted person, most likely built on a Sanskrit compound for good understanding.
Meaning and origin
Sothy is drawn from the same layer of Sanskrit-derived learning vocabulary that gave Cambodia many of its formal and religious terms, absorbed alongside Pali Buddhist scripture over the centuries.
How to pronounce Sothy
| Khmer (Cambodia) | so-THEE /soːtʰiː/ |
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