Definitions
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- proper n. An ancient Indian or Indianised kingdom in Southeast Asia, a predecessor of Cambodia.
- proper n. An inhabitant of this kingdom; a member of the people that inhabited this kingdom.
Etymologies
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Attempts have been made to find a Malay origin for this name Kambuja but native tradition regards it as a link with India and affirms that the race is descended from Kambu Svayambhuva and Merâ or Perâ who was given to him by Śiva as wife [245].
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Many scholars believed that 'Kambuja' was a name given by the Kambojas a group of people who originally lived in the Pamir mountains of Afghanistan.
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Therefore all nations that might threaten Vendhya-Turan, Iranistan, the nations and city-states of Khitai and Uttara Koru and Kambuja-must be placated, made to feel neither threatened by nor threatening toward Vendhya.
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The Khmers also called themselves Kambuja or Kamvuja and their name for the country is still either Srŏk Kâmpûchéa or Srŏk Khmer [244].
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Khmer s have called their country Kampuchea (usually rendered Kambuja), since the l6th century.
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