Hue
See also: hue, hué, Hué, Huế, Huê, Huë, and hü
English
Etymology
From Vietnamese Huế.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhweɪ/
- enPR: hwā
- Rhymes: -eɪ
Proper noun
Hue
- A port city in central Vietnam.
- Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.
- [1971, Johnson, Lyndon, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, LCCN 74-102146, OCLC 1067880747, page 60:
- Trouble had been brewing for some time, and it burst into the open in the ancient capital city of Hué on May 8, 1963. On that day 8,000 to 10,000 Buddhists marched in protest against a government order banning parades and the display of Buddhist flags on Buddha's birthday.]
- A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.
Translations
city, province of Vietnam
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Anagrams
- HEU
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Middle High German huon, from Old High German huon, from Proto-West Germanic *hōn (“hen, chicken”). Cognate with German Huhn, Dutch hoen.
Noun
Hue f (diminutive Hüendli)
- (Uri) chicken (animal)
References
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 29.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- Hué, Huê
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Huế.
Proper noun
Hue f
- Hue (a province and city in Vietnam)