Hanoi

See also: Hanói, Hanoï, and Hà Nội

English

Etymology

From Vietnamese Hà Nội, which is a Sino-Vietnamese word, 河內.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑːˈnɔɪ/, /hæˈnɔɪ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Proper noun

Hanoi

1. The capital city of Vietnam.
   • 1959 December, “Talking of Trains: Five trains to Hanoi”, in Trains Illustrated, page 579:

     If you have seventeen days and £168 to spare, can satisfy the Iron Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste runs to marathon rail travel, you can now board the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.

   • 1999, McCain, John, Faith of My Fathers‎^[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 99-13496, OCLC 951357288, page 285:

     YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.

2. (metonymically) the Vietnamese government.

Derived terms

• Hanoian
• Tower of Hanoi

Translations

capital of Vietnam

• Albanian: Hanoi
• Amharic: ሀኖይ (hänoy)
• Arabic: هَانُوي‎ f (hanūy), هَانُوي‎ f (hanoy)
• Armenian: Հանոյ (Hanoy)
• Azerbaijani: Hanoy
• Belarusian: Хано́й m (Xanój)
• Bengali: হ্যানয় (hjanôẏ)
• Bulgarian: Хано́й m (Hanój)
• Burmese: ဟာနွိုင်း (ha-nwuing:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 河內 (yue), 河内 (ho⁴ noi⁶)

  Mandarin: 河內 (zh), 河内 (zh) (Hénèi)

  Min Nan: 河內, 河内 (Hô-lāi)

• Czech: Hanoj (cs) m
• Danish: Hanoi n
• Dutch: Hanoi (nl) n
• Esperanto: Hanojo (eo)
• Estonian: Hanoi (et)
• Finnish: Hanoi (fi)
• French: Hanoï (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰანოი (hanoi)
• German: Hanoi (de) n
• Greek: Ανόι (el) n (Anói)
• Hebrew: האנוי‎ f
• Hindi: हनोई m (hanoī)
• Hungarian: Hanoi (hu)
• Icelandic: Hanoí
• Irish: Hanáí f
• Italian: Hanoi (it)
• Japanese: ハノイ (ja) (Hanoi)
• Kazakh: Ханой (Xanoy)
• Khmer: ហាណូយ (km) (haanouy)
• Korean: 하노이 (ko) (Hanoi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Hanoi

• Kyrgyz: Ханой (ky) (Hanoy)
• Lao: ຮ່າໂນຍ (hā nōi)
• Latvian: Hanoja f
• Lithuanian: Hanojus m

• Macedonian: Ханој m (Hanoj)
• Maltese: Ħanoj
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ханой (Khanoi)

• Navajo: Hanóii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hanoi

  Nynorsk: Hanoi

• Pashto: هانوى‎ m (hānóy)
• Persian: هانوی‎ (hânuy)
• Polish: Hanoi (pl) n
• Portuguese: Hanói f
• Romanian: Hanoi (ro)
• Russian: Хано́й (ru) m (Xanój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ханој m

  Roman: Hanoj m

• Sinhalese: හැනෝයි (hænōyi)
• Slovak: Hanoj (sk) m
• Slovene: Hanoj m
• Spanish: Hanói (es) f
• Swahili: Hanoi
• Swedish: Hanoi (sv) n
• Tagalog: Hanoi
• Tajik: Ҳаной (Hanoy)
• Tamil: ஹனோய் (haṉōy)
• Tatar: Ханой (Xanoy)
• Thai: ฮานอย (th) (haa-nɔɔi)
• Tibetan: ཧེ་ནོ (he no)
• Turkish: Hanoi
• Turkmen: Hanoý
• Ukrainian: Хано́й m (Xanój)
• Urdu: ہنوئی‎ m (hanoī)
• Uyghur: خانوي‎ (xanoy)
• Uzbek: Xanoy
• Vietnamese: Hà Nội (vi) (河內)
• Yiddish: האַנוי‎ n (hanoy)

Anagrams

• Nihoa

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Danish

Proper noun

Hanoi

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈnɔʏ̯/

• Audio

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• Homophone: ha noi

Proper noun

Hanoi n (proper noun, genitive Hanois or (optionally with an article) Hanoi)

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

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Japanese

Romanization

Hanoi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ハノイ

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Hà Nội, from Chinese 河內.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nɔj/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -anɔj
• Syllabification: Ha‧noi

Proper noun

Hanoi n (indeclinable)

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

Derived terms

nouns

• hanojczyk
• hanojka

 

adjective

• hanojski

 

Further reading

• Hanoi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Hanoi in Polish dictionaries at PWN