Cambodia

English

Alternative forms

• Cambogia (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French Cambodge and Portuguese Camboja. Doublet of Kampuchea and gamboge.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kæmˈbəʊdi.ə/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /kamˈbəwdɪjə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kæmˈboʊdi.ə/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /kæmˈbəʉdi.ə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kɛmˈbɐʉdi.ə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /kamˈbode.ə/, /-dɪ.ə/, /-di.ə/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /kamˈboːdi.ə/

Proper noun

Cambodia

2. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Cambodia. Capital: Phnom Penh.
   • 2026 October 8, Tom Grundy, “Inside the £1-an-hour official football shirt factories”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], retrieved 8 October 2026:

     Tens of thousands of people are at Villa Park - many wearing shirts made in Cambodia.

Derived terms

• Cambodian

Descendants

• → Burmese: ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား (kambhau:di:ya:)
• → Dhivehi: ކެމްބޯޑިއާ (kem̊bōḍiā)
• → Hawaiian: Kamabodia
• → Hebrew: קַמְבּוֹדְיָה
• → Hindi: कंबोडिया (kamboḍiyā), कम्बोडिया (kamboḍiyā)
• → Japanese: カンボジア (Kanbojia)
• → Korean: 캄보디아 (Kambodia)
• → Tagalog: Kambodya
• → Urdu: کَمْبوڈِیا (kamboḍiyā)

Translations

country in Southeast Asia

• Abkhaz: Камбоџа (Kʼambodẑa)
• Afrikaans: Kambodja
• Albanian: Kamboxhi f, Kamboxhia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ካምቦዲያ (kambodiya), ካምቦድያ (kambodya)
• Arabic: كَامْبُودِيَا f (kambōdiyā), كَمْبُودِيَا f (kambōdiyā)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܵܡܒܘܿܕܝܼܵܐ f (Kambodiya)

• Armenian: Կամբոջա (hy) (Kamboǰa)
• Assamese: কম্বোডিয়া (kombüdia)
• Asturian: Camboya (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Kamboca (az), Kamboçiya
• Bashkir: Камбоджа (Kambudja)
• Basque: Kanbodia
• Belarusian: Камбо́джа f (Kambódža)
• Bengali: কম্বোডিয়া (bn) (kombōḍiẏa)
• 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)

  Wu: 柬埔寨 (⁵ci-phu-za)

• Czech: Kambodža (cs) f
• Danish: Cambodja (da) n
• Dhivehi: ކެމްބޯޑިއާ (kem̊bōḍiā)
• Dobrujan Tatar: Kampuçiye
• 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 (ka) (ḳamboǯa)
• German: Kambodscha (de) n
• Greek: Καμπότζη (el) f (Kampótzi)
• Gujarati: કમ્બોડીયા (kamboḍīyā)
• Hausa: Kambodiya
• Hebrew: קַמְבּוֹדְיָה f (kambódya)
• Hindi: कम्बोडिया (hi) m (kamboḍiyā), कंबोडिया (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: កម្ពុជា (km) (kampuciə), កម្ពុជ (km) (kɑmpuc), កម្ពុជរដ្ឋ (km) (kɑmpuc rŏət), ខេមររដ្ឋ (kheemaʼraʼrŏət), ស្រុកខ្មែរ (srok khmae)
• Korean: 캄보디아 (ko) (Kambodia), 캄보쟈 (ko) (Kamboja) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Kambodya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Камбоджа (ky) (Kambodja)
• Lao: ກຳພູຊາ (kam phū sā), ກຳປູເຈຍ (lo) (kam pū chīa)
• Latvian: Kambodža (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Kambodža (lt) f
• Lü: ᦶᦋᧃᦘᦴᦈᦻᧈ (tsaenphuuṫsaay¹)
• Macedonian: Камбо́џа (mk) f (Kambódža)
• Malay: Kemboja (ms)
• Malayalam: കംബോഡിയ (kambōḍiya)
• Maltese: il-Kambodja f
• Māori: Kamupōtia
• Marathi: कंबोडिया (kamboḍiyā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Камбож (Kambož)

  Mongolian script: ᠺᠠᠮᠪᠤᠵᠠ (kambuǰa)

• Nepali: कम्बोडिया (kamboḍiyā)
• Norman: Cambodge f, Cambodia f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kambodsja (no) n

  Nynorsk: Kambodsja (nn) n

• Odia: କମ୍ବୋଡ଼ିଆ (kamboṛiā)
• Ossetian: Камбоджӕ (Kamboǵæ)
• Pashto: کمبوديا f (kambodyā), کمپوچيا f (kampočyā)
• Persian:

  Dari: کَمْپُوچِیَا (kampūčiyā)

  Iranian Persian: کامْبوج (kâmboj)

• Polish: Kambodża (pl) f
• Portuguese: Camboja (pt) m
• Romanian: Cambodgia (ro) f
• Romansh: Cambodscha f
• Russian: Камбо́джа (ru) f (Kambódža), (former name) Кампу́чи́я (ru) f (Kampúčíja)
• Santali: ᱠᱮᱢᱵᱳᱰᱤᱭᱟ (kemboḍiya)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Камбо̀џа f, (old name) Кампучија f

  Latin: Kambòdža (sh) f, (old name) Kampučija f

• Sicilian: Camboggia f
• Sindhi: ڪمبوڊيا (kmboḍyā)
• Sinhalese: කාම්‍බෝජය (kāmbōjaya)
• Slovak: Kambodža (sk) f
• Slovene: Kambodža (sl) f
• Spanish: Camboya (es) f
• Swahili: Kamboja
• Swedish: Kambodja (sv) n
• Tagalog: Kambodya
• Tajik: Камбоҷа (Kamboja), Кампучия (Kampučiya) (older name)
• 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)
• Tigrinya: ካምቦድያ (kambodya)
• Turkish: Kamboçya (tr)
• Turkmen: Kamboja
• Ukrainian: Камбо́джа (uk) f (Kambódža)
• Urdu: کَمْبوڈِیا m (kamboḍiyā)
• Uyghur: كامبودژا (kambodzha)
• Uzbek: Kambodja (uz)
• Vietnamese: Cam-pu-chia (vi), Căm Bốt, Cao Miên (vi) (高綿)
• Volapük: Kambocän (vo)
• Yiddish: קאַמבאָדזשע (kambodzhe)
• Yoruba: Kàǹbódíà, Kàm̀bódíà
• Zhuang: Genjbujcai

See also

• Kampuchea (shortlived historical name during Khmer Rouge regime)
• Cambodia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Countries of the world

countries in Asia (appendix)edit

• Afghanistan
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• China
• Cyprus
• East Timor
• Egypt
• Georgia
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Lebanon
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• North Korea
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Philippines
• Qatar
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Sri Lanka
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Yemen

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Khmer កម្ពុជា (kampuciə)

French Cambodgebor.

Latin Cambodia

Borrowed from French Cambodge, from Khmer កម្ពុជា (kampuciə).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kamˈbɔ.di.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kamˈbɔː.di.a]

Proper noun

Cambodia f sg (genitive Cambodiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Cambodia (a country in Southeast Asia)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Cambodia
genitive	Cambodiae
dative	Cambodiae
accusative	Cambodiam
ablative	Cambodiā
vocative	Cambodia

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamˈbɔdja/
• Rhymes: -ɔdja

Proper noun

Cambodia f

1. Cambodia (a country in Southeast Asia)

Coordinate terms

countries in Asia: gwledydd Asia (appendix)edit

• Affganistan
• Armenia
• Aserbaijan
• Bangladesh
• Bahrain
• Bhwtan
• Brwnei
• Cambodia
• Casachstan
• Catar
• Cirgistan
• Coweit
• Cyprus
• De Corea
• Dwyrain Timor
• Fietnam
• Georgia
• Gogledd Corea
• Gwlad Tai
• Gwlad yr Iorddonen
• Iemen
• India
• Indonesia
• Irac
• Iran
• Israel
• Japan
• Laos
• Libanus
• Maldives
• Maleisia
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Oman
• Pacistan
• Palesteina
• Rwsia
• Sawdi Arabia
• Singapôr
• Sri Lanca
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajicistan
• Tsieina
• Twrci
• Tyrcmenistan
• Wsbecistan
• y Philipinau
• yr Emiradau Arabaidd Unedig

Derived terms

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of Cambodia

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Cambodia	Gambodia	Nghambodia	Chambodia

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.