Pleiku
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Pleiku.
Proper noun
Pleiku
- A city in the central highland region of Vietnam.
- 1971, Johnson, Lyndon, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, LCCN 74-102146, OCLC 1067880747, page 232:
- There was strong evidence that the strategists in Hanoi hoped to cut South Vietnam in half along a line roughly from Pleiku, in the Central Highlands, eastward to the coast.
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Translations
city in Vietnam
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Vietnamese
Alternative forms
- Plây Ku
Etymology
Borrowed from Jarai Plơi Kơdưr (literally “northern or high village”); the spelling is adapted from earlier Plei-Kou-Derr, Plei Ku Der, used during the French colonial period.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [pləj˧˧ ku˧˧], [pəː˨˩ ləj˧˧ ku˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [pləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧], [pəː˦˩ ləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [pləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧], [pəː˨˩ ləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧]
- Phonetic: plây cu, pờ lây cu
Proper noun
Pleiku
- Pleiku (city in the central highland region of Vietnam)