Talk:Kamboja (name)

Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson on KABUJIYA/KAMBOJA relationship
Kabûjiy-a = Cambyses;  Kabûjiy-ahyâ  = Cambysis;  Kabûjiy-am    = Cambysem;  Kambûjiy-â  = Cambyse.

''This is a true vernacular orthography of the name which is written as Kambyses by the Greeks and as Kavaus in the Zend and which in the Arabic and modern Persian has given birth to the two distinct forms Kabus  and Kavus or Kaus. Mr Burnouf has examined in the most elaborate manner the etymology of  Zend Kavaus , and has endeavored to show the true signification to be the intelligent king. It is indeed very possible that the desire to obtain this meaning in the sacred language may have induced the compilers of the Zend Avesta, under the Sassanians to disfigure the original form of the name, then only known in popular traditions; but I imagine no one will at present pretend  to compare the  relative antiquity of the  forms of the Kavaus  and Kabujiya any more than it would be allowable  to derive Kurush from Hycrava, and if we are to seek for the primitive derivation of the name, we must follow the cuneiform rather than the Zend orthography. I suppose, Kabujiya then to signify literally “a bard” from Kab:  “to praise”   or color  and uji: “a speaker”; and I further conjecture that  from the king of that name was derived the geographical title Kamboja which, retained to the present day in Kamoj of Cafferistan, became also by a regular orthographical procession Kabus, Kabur and Kabul .....In the old Persian, mb was impossible articulation, and the Median confounding as usual the two powers,  give the reading of Hamuchiya for the Persian Kabujiya, so that it is not immediately apparent from whence Herodotus obtained his orthography. The native kings of Persis, agreeable to the usual system of oriental nomenclature, appear for several generations  to have born the names of  Cyrus and Cambyses. The two immediate ancestors of Cyrus the great are named named Cyrus and Cambyses by Herodotus and according to doubtful passage of Diodorus Siculus, preserved by Photius, there was still another Cambyses, the fifth in ascent from the Kabujiya of the inscriptions "''.