យួន

Khmer

Etymology

From Old Khmer យ្វន (yvan, “Vietnam; Vietnamese”); compare Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer យោន (yon), Thai ญวน (yuuan). Before 1979, it was formal.

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic យួន yuan WT romanisation yuən (standard) IPA(key) /juən/

Proper noun

យួន • (yuən)

1. (originally neutral, now assigned as derogatory) Vietnam
2. (originally neutral, now assigned as derogatory) Vietnamese people

See also

• កន្ទប (kɑntɔɔp)
• វៀតណាម (viət naam)