Đại Nam
See also: Dai Nam
Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 大南 (literally "Great South").
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˧˨ʔ naːm˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩ʔ naːm˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ naːm˧˧]
Proper noun
Đại Nam • (大南)
- A former name for Vietnam, used between 1839 and 1945.
See also
- Đại Việt
References
- Elijah Coleman Bridgman; Samuel Wells Willaims (1847) The Chinese Repository, proprietors., pages 584–