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- French · borrowed fromKhmer rouge“red Khmer”
- English todayKhmer Rouge
Unadapted borrowing from French Khmer rouge (“red Khmer”), from Khmer (“Khmer”) + rouge (“red”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khmer Rouge
Today it means: A Cambodian communist guerrilla force active from the 1970s to the 1990s under the leadership of Pol Pot. Full definition →
French Khmer rouge