Vinh

Borrowed from Vietnamese Vinh.

Vinh

1. A city, the provincial capital of Nghệ An Province, Vietnam.

Vinh (plural Vinhs)

1. A surname from Vietnamese.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Vinh”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• (Vinh) IPA^(key): [viŋ̟˧˥]

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vïŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vɨn˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vɨn˧˧] ~ [jɨn˧˧]
• Homophone: vinh, vin, dinh

Sino-Vietnamese word from 榮.

Vinh

1. a male given name from Chinese

The city is called 永市 (“Vĩnh thị”) in Đại Nam nhất thống chí and 永城庯 (“Vĩnh thành phố”) in the Đại Nam thực lục. The occurrence of 永 (SV: vĩnh) as the city name in these adminstrative/official documents is obviously just another case of the common practice of phonetic matching to form a new tên chữ from the original tên Nôm and is of little actual etymological value.

In the past, this place was known by many names: Kẻ Vang, Kẻ Vịnh, Kẻ Vinh, Kẻ Vĩnh, Vinh Giang, Vinh Doanh.

Vinh • (永)

1. the provincial capital of Nghệ An Province, Vietnam