Names of Cambodia
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The name of Cambodia in Khmer is Script error: No such module "Lang". (: Script error: No such module "lang"., ALA-: Script error: No such module "lang". Script error: No such module "IPA".), officially Script error: No such module "Lang". (UNGEGN: Script error: No such module "lang"., ALA-LC: Script error: No such module "lang". Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Literal translation). This term derives from Sanskrit Script error: No such module "Lang". (IAST: Script error: No such module "lang".), which means the "land of Kamboja".
History
The same name (i.e. Kamboj/Kambuja) is also found in Burmese and Thai chronicles referring to regions within those kingdoms. An origin-myth recorded in the Baksei Chamkrong inscription, dated AD 947, derives Kambuja from Svayambhuva Kamboj, a legendary Indian sage under whose gotra later, the merchant Kaundinya I reached the Indochinese peninsula and married a Nāga princess named Soma, thus uniting the Indian and local Southeast Asian Funanese cultures. In this story Kambuja derives from Kambu+ja, and means "descendants of Kambu."[1]
Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa means "Kingdom of Cambodia". Etymologically, its components are: preăh ("sacred"); réach- ("king, royal, realm", from Sanskrit); -éana- (from Pāli Script error: No such module "lang"., "authority, command, power"); -châkr (from Sanskrit chakra, meaning "wheel", a symbol of power and rule).
The name used on formal occasions, such as political speeches and news programs, is Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "IPA"., translated to "the Country of Cambodia". The colloquial name most used by Cambodians is Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang". Script error: No such module "IPA"., translated to "Land of the Khmers" or "Khmer’s Land". srŏk is a Mon-Khmer word roughly equal to the Sanskritic Prâtés, but less formal.
Official names of Cambodia since independence
| English | Khmer | Romanization of Khmer | French | Date | Notes |
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| Kingdom of Cambodia | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1953–1970 | Under a monarchy. |
| Khmer Republic | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Sathéarônârôdth Khmêr | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1970–1975 | Under a military-led government. |
| Kingdom of Kampuchea | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1975-1976 | Monarchy under a coalition between the Khmer Rouge regime and a monarchistgovernment in exile. |
| Democratic Kampuchea | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéathĭbâtéyy | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1976–1979 | Under the Khmer Rouge regime. |
| People's Republic of Kampuchea | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Sathéarânârôdth Brâchéaméanĭt Kâmpŭchéa | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1979–1989 | Under the rule of the Vietnamese-sponsored government. |
| State of Cambodia | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Rôdth Kâmpŭchéa | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1989–1993 | Under the United Nations Transitional Authority. |
| Kingdom of Cambodia | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1993–present | Under a restored monarchy. |
See also
References
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- ↑ George Coedes, Inscriptions du Cambodge, II, pp. 10, 155
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