Thái Lan

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 泰蘭, composed of (Thai) and (-land), coined with the phonetic morpheme  / (lán) by analogy with the European names of Thailand. In proper Mandarin, the country is known as 泰國 / 泰国 (Tàiguó), with the semantic morpheme  / (guó, country; state; -land) instead.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰaːj˧˦ laːn˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰaːj˨˩˦ laːŋ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰaːj˦˥ laːŋ˧˧]

Proper noun

Thái Lan

  1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

Synonyms

See also