พูดคุย:បុប្ផា

Why does Khmer pronounce this wold like Thai.

Because modern day Khmer learn Pali via Thai media. About the Tipiṭaka, in 1854 CE King Ang Duang requested Bangkok to send a completed version of the Tipiṭaka in Pali to Cambodia and a group of Thai monks consequently brought some eighty bundles of manuscript to Udong. https://www.academia.edu/73628961/A_Problem_on_the_Origin_of_the_P%C4%81li_Canon_of_Khom_Script_Manuscripts_Found_in_Thailand_and_Cambodia MTha8456 (คุย) 14:36, 28 มกราคม 2567 (+07)

I could say it's similar, not exactly like. The vowel <u> in there became [o] due to Khmer phonology. --Octahedron80 (คุย) 08:39, 29 มกราคม 2567 (+07)