Vibol

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Khmer (Cambodia)

Meaning

a Khmer masculine name from the Sanskrit vibhala meaning abundant, flourishing, and rich in blessings, popular in Cambodia as an expression of parental hopes for a son who will prosper and bring abundance to his family and community; the name reflects the Sanskrit and Pali substrate of the Khmer language, which absorbed vast quantities of Indic vocabulary through its role as the medium of Buddhist and Hindu court culture at Angkor and in the successive Khmer kingdoms; to name a son Vibol is to invoke the classical Khmer aesthetic of fertility and prosperity encoded in the iconographic programmes of Angkor Wat's bas-reliefs and in the royal ceremonies that connected the Khmer monarch to the gods of the Hindu-Buddhist cosmos

Gender

male