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Khamba|ˈkæmbə|
Also Kamba, K(h)ampa.
[f. Tibetan Kham East Tibet + suffixal element -ba or -pa.]
a. A Tibetan people from Kham; one of this people.
b. The language spoken by this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1928C. Bell People of Tibet i. 4 Eastern Tibet... This area is known as Kam, the people as Kam-pa. Ibid. vi. 59 The Lhasa men, they used to say, were fonder of talking than of working; the Kam-pas (eastern Tibetans), irritable and quarrelsome. 1955G. T. Bull When Iron Gates Yield iv. 58 The soldiers.. were looking forward to a good scrap, for such is the Tibetan Khamba's temperament. Ibid. v. 67 A Kamba Tibetan..would rather his blood be spilt in the snow..than to be found alive and defamed. 1957R. Ford Captured in Tibet i. 22, I had picked up enough words of the Khamba dialect to be able to talk to the local inhabitants. Ibid. iii. 47 When Radio Peking switched its Tibetan broadcasts to a more suitable hour, it still had no audience, for the news-reader spoke with a Khamba accent. 1960‘S. Harvester’ Chinese Hammer ii. 31 The only fighting in the country is in the east and restricted to Khambas. 1962H. E. Richardson Tibet & its Hist. i. 11 The Khampas..live between the upper Yangtse and the Chinese border. Ibid. xii. 201 The Chinese..exploited the traditional mistrust of Lhasa officialdom existing among the Khampa and Amdowa tribes to the east of the upper Yangtse. 1973Times 20 Oct. 3/2 The fourteenth Dalai Lama is..now 38 and has lived in exile in the Indian Himalayas since 1959, when Khamba rebels persuaded him to flee from Lhasa with them after their abortive uprising against the Chinese occupation. |