Champa

See also: champa

English

Alternative forms

• Chiampa (obsolete)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese Chăm Pa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæm.pə/

Proper noun

Champa

1. (historical) A collection of Cham polities in what is now Vietnam from the 2nd century through 1832.

Hypernyms

• Cochin-China (archaic, historical)

Translations

Cham polities

• Arabic: صَنْف f (ṣanf)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 占婆 (Zhànpó)

• Finnish: Champa
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Tschampa n
• Hindi: चंपा (hi) (campā)
• Japanese: チャンパ
• Khmer: ចាម្ប៉ា (caampaa)
• Korean: 참파 (champa)
• Lao: ຈຳປາ (cham pā)
• Lithuanian: Čampa f
• Lü: ᦈᦱᧄᦔᦱ (ṫsaamṗaa)
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: صَنْف (fa) (sanf)
• Polish: Czampa f
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: จามปา
• Vietnamese: Chăm Pa

Etymology 2

Americanized spelling of Slovene Čampa.

Proper noun

Champa (plural Champas)

1. A surname from Slovene.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Champa is the 34801^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 649 individuals. Champa is most common among White (84.13%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Champa”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 315.