Vietnam

• Viet-Nam, Viet Nam

Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam. Extended senses come from the Vietnam War.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /(ˈ)viːətˈnɑːm/, /(ˈ)viːətˈnæm/, /(ˈ)vjɛtˈnɑːm/, /(ˈ)vjɛtˈnæm/

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  • (Cockney) IPA^(key): /ˌvjɛʔˈnɑːm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /viˌɛtˈnɑm/, /viˌɪt/, /ˌvi.ɪt-/, /ˌvi.ət-/, /(ˈ)vjɛt-/, /-ˈnæm/

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• (US, rare, perhaps modeled on piece etc, or the South Vietnamese pronunciation) IPA^(key): /(ˈ)vitˈnɑm/, /(ˈ)vitˈnæm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːm, -æm

Vietnam

2. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.

   Synonyms: (official name) Socialist Republic of Vietnam, (informal) Nam

   • 2011 August 1, Steve Clemons, “China's Internal Pluralism Is Nothing to Cheer About”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 April 2021:

     But as in the case of Japan, the results of self-dealing corruption largely remain in the country rather than escaping to Swiss bank accounts as often happened with the style of 1950s era corruption seen in Vietnam or the Philippines.

3. (chiefly US, colloquial) The Vietnam War.

   Synonym: (informal) Nam

   • 1983 December 31, Michael Bronski, “A Sharply Focused Film”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 16:

     David Rabe's anti-Viet Nam play Streamers

• → Burmese: ဗီယက်နမ် (biyaknam)
• → Japanese: ベトナム (Betonamu)

• Category:Vietnam on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Vietnam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vietnam on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Vietnam on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• “Vietnam”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Vietnam”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Vietnam (plural Vietnams)

1. A long and protracted war or conflict in which the dominating foreign occupier is unable to secure a victory.

   another Vietnam

   the Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979–89 occupation of Afghanistan)

   France's Vietnam (the Algerian War or First Indochina War)

2. (US, slang) A place that is very dangerous, especially if afflicted by violence.
   • 1992, “187um (Deep Cover Remix)”, in Deep Cover, performed by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg:

     Welcome back to Vietnam, California.

   • 1992, “Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat”, in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre, Death Row Records:

     Vietnam, California, back in and on a mission.

3. (US, slang, by extension) A situation in which one cannot win.
   • 1989, Michael Goodwin, Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life and Times of Francis Coppola, page 195:

     Everyone was miserable, including Coppola. "It was my Vietnam," he moaned a few months later.

   • 2011, “Judy is your Viet Nam”, performed by They Might Be Giants:

     Judy is the great deceiver / Judy is your Viet Nam

• Countries of the world

• Srebrenica, Chernobyl

Vietnam m (definite Vietnami)

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnamita

• IPA^(key): /bietnam/ [bi.et̪.nãm]
• Rhymes: -etnam, -am
• Hyphenation: Vi‧et‧nam

Vietnam inan

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Vietnam on the Basque Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^eu

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bi.ənˈnam]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vi.ənˈnam]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vi.edˈnam]

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Vietnam m

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnamita

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvjɛtnam]

Vietnam m inan (relational adjective vietnamský, demonym Vietnamec, female demonym Vietnamka)

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• “Vietnam”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Vietnam”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Vietnam”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnameser
• vietnamesisk

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): /vjɛtˈnɑm/

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• Hyphenation: Viet‧nam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Vietnam n

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Vietnamees

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯tnɑm/, [ˈʋie̞̯t̪n̪ɑ̝m]
• Rhymes: -ietnɑm
• Syllabification^(key): Viet‧nam
• Hyphenation^(key): Viet‧nam

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

   Vietnamin sosialistinen tasavalta ― Socialist Republic of Vietnam

• Viêt Nam
• Viet Nam (rare or obsolete)

Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): /vjɛt.nam/

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Vietnam m

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnamien

• Vietname, Vietnão (reintegrationist)

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnamita

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): /vi̯ɛtˈnam/, /-ˈnaːm/, [vjɛt-], [vi.ɛt-], [ʋ-]
• IPA^(key): /virtˈnam/, [viɐ̯tˈnam] (colloquial variant; compare Serviette)

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• Rhymes: -am, -aːm

Vietnam n (proper noun, genitive Vietnams or (optionally with an article) Vietnam, plural Vietnam)

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia; official name: Sozialistische Republik Vietnam)
   • 2012, Otto Nigsch, Regierung und Gouvernance: Zur Geschichte der bestehenden Ordnung, page 102:

     Dieser zweite Teil der Genfer Erklärung sah auch vor, im Juli 1956 Wahlen zur Vereinigung der beiden Vietnam durchzuführen, doch wurde dieser Teil der Verträge nicht mehr unterschrieben.

     This second part of the Geneva Declaration also provided for elections to be held in July 1956 to unify the two Vietnams, but this part of the treaties was never signed.

   • 2014, Heino Caesar, Commander: Ein Bericht. Buch 3, page 180:

     Es war ein blau-gelb-grüner runder Fleck im dunklen Meer unter ihnen auf 17° Nordbreite, der noch existierenden Demarkationslinie zwischen den beiden Vietnam.

     It was a blue-yellow-green round spot in the dark sea below them at 17° north latitude, the still existing demarcation line between the two Vietnams.

• The plural Vietnam refers to North Vietnam (German: Nordvietnam) and South Vietnam (German: Südvietnam).

• “Vietnam” in Duden online
• “Vietnam” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvijɛtnaːm]
• Hyphenation: Vi‧et‧nam

Vietnam

1. superseded spelling of Vietnám^[1][2][3]

Unadapted borrowing from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvjɛt.nam/, (traditional) /vjetˈnam/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛtnam, (traditional) -am
• Hyphenation: Vièt‧nam, (traditional) Viet‧nàm

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnamita

• mentiva

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnameser
• vietnamesisk

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnamesar
• vietnamesisk

From English Vietnam, from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

Ultimately from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvi̯etnam]

Vietnam m inan

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Vietnamec m
• Vietnamka f
• vietnamský (adjective)
• vietnamsky (adverb)

• “Vietnam”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ʋìːɛtnam/

Víetnam m inan

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Víetnam
genitive	Víetnama
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Víetnam
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Víetnama
dative (dajȃlnik)	Víetnamu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Víetnam
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Víetnamu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Víetnamom

• Víetnamec / Víetnamka
• víetnamski
• víetnamščina

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

• IPA^(key): /bjedˈnam/ [bjeð̞ˈnãm]

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Viet‧nam

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

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Vietnam n (genitive Vietnams)

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• vietnames
• vietnamesisk
• vietnamesiska

• Vietnam in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

• vitmena

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

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Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Vietnamlı
• Vietnamca