Khmer

Khmer may refer to:

• Srok Khmer, the modern Kingdom of Cambodia.
• Khmer people, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong
  • Khmer Krom, Khmer people living in the Delta and the Lower Mekong area
  • Khmer Loeu, the Mon-Khmer highland tribes in Cambodia
  • Northern Khmer people, or Khmer Surin of Northeast Thailand
• Khmer language, the language of the Khmer and the official language of Cambodia
• Khmer script, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages
• Khmer (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Khmer script.
• Khmer cuisine, the dominant cuisine in Cambodia
• Khmer architecture, the architecture of Cambodia
• Khmer Empire, which ruled much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries
• Khmer Republic, the name of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975
• Khmer Issarak, anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement formed in 1945
• Khmer Serei, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh
• Khmer Sar (White Khmer), pro-US force formed by Khmer Republic's defence minister Sak Sutsakhan.
• Khmer (album), a 1997 jazz album by Nils Petter Molvær
• Khmer (food), a dish from Saudi Arabia
• Political terms coined by Norodom Sihanouk based on the word 'Khmer':
  • Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian Communist political group and guerrilla movement
  • Khmer Việt Minh, Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference
  • Khmer Bleu, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right, whom he so named to distinguish them from his domestic opponents on the left, the 'Khmer Rouge'

See also

• Khemara (disambiguation)