Cambodia

Cambodia

English

Alternative forms

• Cambogia (obsolete)

Etymology

From French Cambodge and Portuguese Camboja. Both words are derived from Middle Khmer Kambuja (Modern Khmer កម្ពុជា (kampuciə)). Ultimately from Sanskrit काम्बोज (kāmboja, the name of a tribe mentioned in Hindu scripture). Doublet of Kampuchea and gamboge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kæmˈboʊdi.ə]

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Proper noun

Cambodia

1. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Cambodia. Former name: Kampuchea.

Translations

country in Southeast Asia

Abkhaz: Камбоџа (Kʼambodẑa) Afrikaans: Kambodja Albanian: Kamboxhia (sq) f Amharic: ካምቦዲያ (kambodiya), ካምቦድያ (kambodya) Arabic: كَامْبُودِيَا‎ f (kambōdiyā), كَمْبُودِيَا‎ f (kambōdiyā) Armenian: Կամբոջա (hy) (Kamboǰa) Assamese: কম্বোডিয়া (kombüdia) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܵܡܒܘܿܕܝܼܵܐ‎ f (Kambodiya) Asturian: Camboya (ast) Azerbaijani: Kamboca (az), Kamboçiya Bashkir: Камбоджа (Kambodja) Basque: Kanbodia Belarusian: Камбо́джа f (Kambódža) Bengali: কম্বোডিয়া (bn) (kômboḍiya) Breton: Kambodja Bulgarian: Камбо́джа (bg) f (Kambódža) Burmese: ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား (kambhau:di:ya:), ကမ္ဗောဒီးယား (kambau:di:ya:) Catalan: Cambodja (ca) f, Cambotja f Chinese: Cantonese: 柬埔寨 (yue) (gaan2 bou3 zaai6) Mandarin: 柬埔寨 (zh) (Jiǎnpǔzhài), 高棉 (zh) (Gāomián) Czech: Kambodža (cs) f Danish: Cambodja Dhivehi: ކެމްބޯޑިއާ‎ (kem̊bōḍiā) Dutch: Cambodja (nl) n Dzongkha: ཀམ་བོ་ཌི་ཡ་ (kam bo ḍi ya) Esperanto: Kamboĝo (eo) Estonian: Kambodža (et) Faroese: Kambodja n Finnish: Kambodža (fi) French: Cambodge (fr) m Galician: Cambodja (gl) f, Camboxa (gl) f Georgian: კამბოჯა (ḳamboǯa) German: Kambodscha (de) n Greek: Καμπότζη (el) f (Kampótzi) Gujarati: કમ્બોડીયા (kamboḍīyā) Hausa: Kambodiya Hebrew: קַמְבּוֹדְיָה‎ f (kambodia) Hindi: कम्बोडिया (hi) m (kamboḍiyā) Hungarian: Kambodzsa (hu) Icelandic: Kambódía (is) f Ido: Kambodja (io) Indonesian: Kamboja (id) Interlingua: Cambodia Irish: An Chambóid f Italian: Cambogia (it) f Japanese: カンボジア (ja) (Kambojia), カンボディア (ja) (Kambodia) Kannada: ಕಾಂಬೋಡಿಯ (kn) (kāmbōḍiya) Kazakh: Камбоджа (kk) (Kambodja) Khmer: ស្រុកខ្មែរ (srok khmae), កម្ពុជា (km) (kampuciə), កម្ពុជ (km) (kɑmpuc) Korean: 캄보디아 (ko) (Kambodia), 캄보쟈 (ko) (Kamboja) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: Камбоджа (ky) (Kambodja) Lao: ກຳພູຊາ (kam phū sā), ກຳປູເຈຍ (lo) (kam pū chīa) Latvian: Kambodža f Lithuanian: Kambodža (lt) f Lü: ᦶᦋᧃᦘᦴᦈᦻᧈ (tsaenphuuṫsaay¹) Macedonian: Камбо́џа (mk) f (Kambódža) Malay: Kemboja (ms) Malayalam: കംബോഡിയ (kambōḍiya) Maltese: il-Kambodja f Maori: Kamupōtia Marathi: कंबोडिया (kamboḍiyā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Камбож (Kambož) Mongolian: ᠺᠠᠮᠪᠤᠵᠠ (kambuǰa) Nepali: कम्बोडिया (kamboḍiyā) Norman: Cambodge f, Cambodia f Norwegian: Kambodsja (no) Oriya: କମ୍ବୋଡ଼ିଆ (kômboṛia) Ossetian: Камбоджӕ (Kamboǵæ) Pashto: کمبودیا‎ Persian: کامبوج‎ (fa) (kâmboj) Polish: Kambodża (pl) f Portuguese: Camboja (pt) f Romanian: Cambodgia (ro) f Romansch: Cambodscha f Russian: Камбо́джа (ru) f (Kambódža), (former name) Кампу́чи́я (ru) f (Kampúčíja) Santali: ᱠᱮᱢᱵᱳᱰᱤᱭᱟ (kemboḍiya) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Камбоџа f, (old name) Кампучија f Roman: Kambodža (sh) f, (old name) Kampučija f Sicilian: Camboggia f Sindhi: ڪمبوڊيا‎ Sinhalese: කාම්‍බෝජය (kāmbōjaya) Slovak: Kambodža (sk) f Slovene: Kambodža (sl) f Spanish: Camboya (es) f Swahili: Kamboja Swedish: Kambodja (sv) Tagalog: Kambodya Tajik: Камбоҷа (Kamboja) Tamil: கம்போடியா (kampōṭiyā) Tatar: Камбоҗа (Qamboca) Telugu: కంబోడియా (te) (kambōḍiyā) Tetum: kamboja Thai: (official) กัมพูชา (th) (gam-puu-chaa), (dialect) เขมร (th) (kà-měen) Tibetan: ཁམ་པོ་ཛ (kham po dza) Turkish: Kamboçya (tr) Turkmen: Kamboja Ukrainian: Камбо́джа (uk) f (Kambódža) Urdu: کمبوڈیا‎ m (kamboḍiyā) Uyghur: كامبودژا‎ (kambodzha) Uzbek: Kambodja (uz) Vietnamese: Campuchia (vi), Căm Bốt, Cao Miên (vi) (高綿) Volapük: Kambocän (vo) Yiddish: קאַמבאָדזשע‎ (kambodzhe) Yoruba: Kàǹbódíà Zhuang: Genjbujcai

See also

• Kampuchea (former English name)
• Cambodia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

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Latin

Proper noun

Cambodia f sg (genitive Cambodiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Cambodia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cambodia
Genitive	Cambodiae
Dative	Cambodiae
Accusative	Cambodiam
Ablative	Cambodiā
Vocative	Cambodia

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Welsh

Proper noun

Cambodia f

1. Cambodia (a country in Asia)

Derived terms

• Teyrnas Cambodia (“Kingdom of Cambodia”)
• Cambodiad
• Cambodiaidd

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Cambodia	Gambodia	Nghambodia	Chambodia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.