Kamboj

Etymology
Borrowed from, cognate to 🇨🇬.

Toynbee, Herzfeld and Walser and Chandra Chakraberty link it to or derive it from Cambyses and/or the region Kambysēnē.

H. C. Seth 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 🇨🇬; Bailey interprets the first part of the compound as something related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and the whole compound as "king [ruling] at will".

The suggests a long list of possible cognates, including Cambodia.

Noun

 * 1) A member of a particular Kshatriya community of people living in northwestern India and in Pakistan and Afghanistan, generally considered to be descended from the Kambojas.
 * 2) A member of an Indo-Scythian ethnic group of people native to northwestern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, said to be descended from the Kambojas (the Royal Clan of the Sakas or Scythians).
 * 3) A member of the ruling Indo-European (Scytho-Aryan) group the Kambojas, who settled in northwestern India in the 9th or 10th century BCE.