Kamboh
/kəmˈboʊ/noun
A member of a Punjabi agricultural and landholding community, especially in northern India and Pakistan.
Did you know?Kamboh is commonly connected with the ancient Kamboja people, whose homeland and identity remain debated by historians and whose name appears in early South Asian literature.
Etymological Timeline
Late 1st millennium BCE
Sanskrit
Kamboja
“Name of an ancient people or region, probably associated with the northwestern frontier of South Asia”
Early centuries CE
Prakrit/Pali
Kamboja
“A people or country mentioned in Buddhist and Indic literary traditions”
Medieval period
Sanskrit and Indo-Aryan
Kamboja/Kamboj
“Historical ethnonym continuing in northwestern South Asian usage”
Medieval to early modern period
Punjabi
Kamboh
“Regional community name used among Punjabi-speaking populations”
Modern English
English
Kamboh
“An ethnonym for a Punjabi community, particularly associated with northern India and Pakistan”