to grow; to increase; to develop. · to promote the growth, increase, or development (of): to cultivate, to foster, to further, etc. · to flourish; to prosper; to thrive.
köken: From Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer *cren or Angkorian Old Khmer cren (“to celebrate; to develop, to grow; to increase, to proliferate; to promote; to improve; to cultivate; to prosper; to exist or occur in great quantity or number; etc”); extended as caṃren, from which Thai จำเริญ (jam-rəən) is derived. Cognate with Modern Khmer ច្រើន (craən), Lao ຈະເລີນ (cha lœ̄n) or ຈະເຣີນ (cha rœ̄n).