Đại Nam
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 大南 (literally "Great South").
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˧˨ʔ naːm˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩ʔ naːm˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ naːm˧˧]
Proper noun edit
- A former name for Vietnam, used between 1839 and 1945.
See also edit
References edit
- Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1847) The Chinese Repository[1], proprietors., pages 584–