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Alternative forms[edit]   From Hindi कम्बोज (Kamboj) (Urdu کمبوہ
(Kamboh)), cognate to Punjabi ਕਮ੍ਬੋਜ (Kamboj).  Toynbee[1],
Herzfeld and Walser[2] and Chandra Chakraberty[3] link it to or
derive it from Cambyses and/or the region Kambysēnē.  H. C.
Seth[4] and others suggest that the word is a compound meaning
"owners/rulers of [the region] Kam". H. W. Bailey analyzes the
name "Kamboja" as Kam-bauja or Kan-bauja and considers the
second part to be related to an Iranian root *baug- meaning
"bend; free, loose, deliver, save; possess, rule", related to
bhuj "use, possess; rule, govern"; Bailey interprets the first
part of the compound as something related to Avestan kan "to
long, want", Sanskrit kama "desire, lust", and the whole
compound as "king [ruling] at will".[5][6] [script?]  The
Anthropological Survey of India suggests a long list of p