យួន

Khmer

Etymology

From Old Khmer យ្វន (yvan, “Vietnam; Vietnamese”); compare Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer យោន (yon), Thai ญวน (yuuan), Burmese ယွန်း (ywan:). Before 1979, it was formal.

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic យួន
yuan
WT romanisation yuən
(standard) IPA(key) /juən/

Proper noun

យួន • (yuən)

  1. (neutral) Vietnam
  2. (neutral) Vietnamese people

See also

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