Đại Nam

See also: Đài Nam and 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˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ naːm˧˧]

Proper noun

Đại Nam • (大南)

  1. A former name for Vietnam, used between 1839 and 1945.

See also

References

  • Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1847) The Chinese Repository‎[1], proprietors., pages 584–

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