Hanoi
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vietnamese Hà Nội, which is a Sino-Vietnamese word, 河內.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɑːˈnɔɪ/, /hæˈnɔɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔɪ
Proper noun
Hanoi
- The capital city of Vietnam.
- 1959 December, “Talking of Trains: Five trains to Hanoi”, in Trains Illustrated, page 579:
- If you have seventeen days and £168 to spare, can satisfy the Iron Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste runs to marathon rail travel, you can now board the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.
- 1999, John McCain, Faith of My Fathers[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285:
- YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.
- (metonymic) the Vietnamese government.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
capital of Vietnam
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See also
Municipalities: Cần Thơ · Da Nang · Hanoi · Haiphong · Hue · Ho Chi Minh City |
Provinces: An Giang · Bắc Ninh · Cà Mau · Cao Bằng · Đắk Lắk · Điện Biên · Đồng Nai · Đồng Tháp · Gia Lai · Hà Tĩnh · Hưng Yên · Khánh Hoà · Lai Châu · Lạng Sơn · Lào Cai · Lâm Đồng · Nghệ An · Ninh Bình · Phú Thọ · Quảng Ngãi · Quảng Ninh · Quảng Trị · Sơn La · Tây Ninh · Thái Nguyên · Thanh Hoá · Tuyên Quang · Vĩnh Long |
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Proper noun
Hanoi
- Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)
Derived terms
- Hanoier
- Hanois
Danish
Proper noun
Hanoi
- Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Hà Nội.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haˈnɔʏ̯/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: ha noi
Proper noun
Hanoi n (proper noun, genitive Hanois or (optionally with an article) Hanoi)
- Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)
Japanese
Romanization
Hanoi
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Hà Nội, from Chinese 河內 / 河内 (Hénèi).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxa.nɔj/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -anɔj
- Syllabification: Ha‧noi
Proper noun
Hanoi n (indeclinable)
- Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)
Derived terms
adjective
- hanojski
nouns
- hanojczyk
- hanojka
Further reading
- Hanoi in Polish dictionaries at PWN