Champa

See also: champa

English

Alternative forms

Chiampa (obsolete)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese Chăm Pa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæm.pə/

Proper noun

Champa

(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 (zh) (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)
Malay: Cepa, Campa
Marathi: चांपा (cāmpā)
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)

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: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 315.