Definition of chams:
(N) :
The Chams (Cham: , چام, cam), or Champa people (Cham: , اوراڠ چامفا, Urang Campa; or ; , ), are an Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia and are the original inhabitants of central Vietnam and coastal Cambodia before the arrival of the Cambodians and Vietnamese, during the expansion of the Khmer Empire and the Vietnamese conquest of Champa (11th–19th century CE).
(N) :
an ethnic group of Southeast Asia.