Syllable

1.

(One of the units of sound into which a word can be divided, any of the parts into which a written word is divided, letter or group of letters indicating one of the separate sounds which together make up a word) ព្យាង្គ
Example: The words boat and school have but one syllable.

1.

An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses.

2.

In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.

3.

A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

1.

(TRANSITIVE) To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.