Bangkok

Bangkok

See also: bangkok

English

Alternative forms

• Bankok (archaic)

Etymology

From Thai บางกอก (baang-gɔ̀ɔk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæŋˈkɒk/

  • Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɒk

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. (exonym) The capital city of Thailand.
   • 1958, Russell H. Fifield, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia: 1945-1958‎, New York: Harper & Brothers, LCCN 58-8354, OCLC 245961707, OL 6247420M, page 263:

     The Bangkok government indicated real concern over the developments in Communist China’s Yunnan province. Thai officials were afraid that Sibsongpanna would be a center where pro-Communist Thai in Southeast Asia would go and where subversive agitation could be directed against outside legitimate governments.

2. (metonymically) The government of Thailand.

Synonyms

• (endonym) Krung Thep, Krungthep , Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (official since 1972)

Derived terms

• Bangkoker
• Bangkokian

Translations

the capital of Thailand

Albanian: Bangkoku Amharic: ባንኮክ (bankok) Arabic: بَانْكُوك‎ f (bānkūk) Hijazi Arabic: بانكوك‎ f (bānkōk) Armenian: Բանգկոկ (hy) (Bangkok) Assamese: বেংকক (beṅkok) Azerbaijani: Banqkok Belarusian: Банко́к m (Bankók) Bengali: ব্যাংকক (bẏaṅkôkô) Bulgarian: Банко́к m (Bankók) Burmese: ဘန်ကောက်မြို့ (bhankaukmrui.) Catalan: Bangkok Chinese: Cantonese: 曼谷 (maan6 guk1) Hakka: 曼谷 (man4 gug5) Mandarin: 曼谷 (zh) (Màngǔ) Min Nan: 曼谷 (bān-kok) Chuvash: Бангкок (Bangkok) Czech: Bangkok (cs) m Danish: Bangkok n Dutch: Bangkok (nl) n Esperanto: Bankoko (eo) Estonian: Bangkok (et) Finnish: Bangkok (fi) French: Bangkok (fr) f Georgian: ბანგკოკი (bangḳoḳi) German: Bangkok (de) n Greek: Μπανκόκ f (Bankók), Μπαγκόκ f (Bagkók), Μπανγκόκ (el) f (Bangkók), Μπαγγόκ f (Bangók) Gujarati: બેંગકોક (beṅgkok) Hebrew: בַּנְגְּקוֹק‎ f (bangkok) Hindi: बैंकॉक m (baiṅkŏk) Hungarian: Bangkok (hu) Icelandic: Bangkok Indonesian: Bangkok Irish: Bancác Italian: Bangkok (it) Japanese: バンコク (ja) (Bankoku) Kannada: ಬ್ಯಾಂಕಾಕ್ (byāṅkāk) Kazakh: Бангкок (kk) (Bangkok) Khmer: បាងកក (km) (baang kɑɑk) Korean: 방콕 (ko) (Bangkok) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Bangkok Kyrgyz: Бангкок (Bangkok) Lao: ບາງກອກ (bāng kǭk), ບັງກອກ (bang kǭk), ກຸງເທບ (kung thēp) Latvian: Bangkoka f Lithuanian: Bankokas m Lü: ᦂᦳᧂᦒᦲᧇ (k̇ungthiib), ᦞᧂᦂᦸᧅᧈ (vangk̇oak¹) Macedonian: Бангкок m (Bangkok) Malay: Bangkok Malayalam: ബാങ്കോക്ക് (bāṅkōkkŭ) Maltese: Bangkok Marathi: बँगकॉक (bĕṅgkŏk) Mon: ၜင်ကံက် (mnw), ၜင်ကော် Mongolian: Cyrillic: Бангкок (Bangkok) Navajo: Bánkoʼ Norwegian: Bokmål: Bangkok (no) Occitan: Bangkòk m Pali: devanagara n Pashto: بنکاک‎ m (benkãk) Persian: بانکوک‎ (bânkok) Polish: Bangkok (pl) m Portuguese: Bangkok (pt) f, Banguecoque (pt) f Romanian: Bangkok (ro) Russian: Бангко́к (ru) m (Bangkók), Банко́к (ru) m (Bankók) (obsolete) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ба̀нгкок m Roman: Bàngkok (sh) m Shan: မိူင်းၵွၵ်ႇ (móeng kàuk) Sinhalese: බැංකොක් (bæṁkok) Slovak: Bangkok m Slovene: Bangkok m Spanish: Bangkok (es) m Swedish: Bangkok (sv) Tagalog: Bangkok Tajik: Бангкок (Bangkok) Tamil: பேங்காக் (pēṅkāk) Tatar: Бангкок (Bangkoq) Telugu: బ్యాంకాక్ (byāṅkāk) Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร (th) (grung-têep-má-hǎa-ná-kɔɔn) (formal), กรุงเทพฯ (th) (grung-têep), บางกอก (th) (baang-gɔ̀ɔk) (now informal), กทม. (th) (initialism) Tibetan: པན་ཀོག (pan kog) Turkish: Bangkok (tr) Turkmen: Bangkok Ukrainian: Бангко́к m (Banhkók) Urdu: بنکاک‎ m (baṅkāk) Uyghur: باڭكوك‎ (bangkok) Uzbek: Bangkok Vietnamese: Băng Cốc Yiddish: באַנגקאָק‎ n (bangkok)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaŋkok]

Proper noun

Bangkok m

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Derived terms

• bangkocký
• bangkokský

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Danish

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑŋ.kɔk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok

Proper noun

Bangkok n

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Thai บางกอก (baang-gɔ̀ɔk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑŋkok/, [ˈbɑŋko̞k]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋkok
• Syllabification^(key): Bang‧kok

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Declension

Inflection of Bangkok (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		Bangkok	—
genitive		Bangkokin	—
partitive		Bangkokia	—
illative		Bangkokiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Bangkok	—
accusative	nom.	Bangkok	—
	gen.	Bangkokin
genitive		Bangkokin	—
partitive		Bangkokia	—
inessive		Bangkokissa	—
elative		Bangkokista	—
illative		Bangkokiin	—
adessive		Bangkokilla	—
ablative		Bangkokilta	—
allative		Bangkokille	—
essive		Bangkokina	—
translative		Bangkokiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Bangkokitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Bangkok (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Bangkokini	Bangkokimme
2nd person	Bangkokisi	Bangkokinne
3rd person	Bangkokinsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.kɔk/, /baŋ.kɔk/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Bangkok m

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Derived terms

• bangkokien (adjective)
• Bangkokien (noun)

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Bangkok n (proper noun, genitive Bangkoks or (optionally with an article) Bangkok)

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒŋkok]
• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok
• Homophone: bankok
• Rhymes: -ok

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Bangkok	—
accusative	Bangkokot	—
dative	Bangkoknak	—
instrumental	Bangkokkal	—
causal-final	Bangkokért	—
translative	Bangkokká	—
terminative	Bangkokig	—
essive-formal	Bangkokként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Bangkokban	—
superessive	Bangkokon	—
adessive	Bangkoknál	—
illative	Bangkokba	—
sublative	Bangkokra	—
allative	Bangkokhoz	—
elative	Bangkokból	—
delative	Bangkokról	—
ablative	Bangkoktól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Bangkoké	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Bangkokéi	—

Possessive forms of Bangkok
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Bangkokom	—
2nd person sing.	Bangkokod	—
3rd person sing.	Bangkokja	—
1st person plural	Bangkokunk	—
2nd person plural	Bangkokotok	—
3rd person plural	Bangkokjuk	—

Derived terms

• bangkoki

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banˈkɔk/, /ˈbanˌkɔk/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔk

Proper noun

Bangkok ?

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

References

1. Bangkok in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ.kkɔk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aŋkkɔk
• Syllabification: Ban‧gkok

Proper noun

Bangkok m inan

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Declension

Declension of Bangkok

	singular
nominative	Bangkok
genitive	Bangkoku
dative	Bangkokowi
accusative	Bangkok
instrumental	Bangkokiem
locative	Bangkoku
vocative	Bangkoku

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Banguecoque

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎŋɡkok/
• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok

Proper noun

Bàngkok m (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀нгкок)

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbankok]

Proper noun

Bangkok m (genitive singular Bangkoku)

1. Bangkok (the capital of Thailand)

References

• Bangkok in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banˈkok/ [bãŋˈkok]
• Rhymes: -ok
• Syllabification: Bang‧kok

Proper noun

Bangkok ?

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Related terms

• bangkokiano

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Swedish

Proper noun

Bangkok n (genitive Bangkoks)

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Bangkok.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok
• IPA^(key): /baŋˈkok/, [bɐŋˈkok]

Proper noun

Bangkók

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)