Hue

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

1. 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.]

2. A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.

Translations

city, province of Vietnam

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: Хюе (Hjue) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Cantonese: 順化, 顺化 (seon6 faa3) Mandarin: 順化／顺化 (zh) (Shùnhuà) Dutch: Hué French: Hué (fr) Georgian: ჰუე (hue) German: Huë, Hué Hebrew: הואה‎ Japanese: フエ (Fue) Khmer: ហ្វេ (km) (wee) Korean: 후에 (hue) Lao: ເວ້ (wē) Mongolian: Хюэ (Xjüe) Portuguese: Hue f, Hué f, Huê f Russian: Хюэ́ m (Xjué) Thai: เว้ (th) (wée) Vietnamese: Huế (vi) (化), (older name) Thuận Hóa (vi) (順化)

Anagrams

• HEU

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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)

1. (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.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Hué, Huê

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Huế.

Proper noun

Hue f

1. Hue (a province and city in Vietnam)