Mekong

See also: Mê Kông

English

Etymology

c. 19th c., from Thai แม่โขง (mɛ̂ɛ-kǒong, literally “Mother river”), contracted form of แม่น้ำโขง (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-kǒong).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmikɔŋ/, /mɛˈkɔːŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmikɔŋ/, enPR: měʹkôngʹ
• enPR: māʹkôngʹ

Proper noun

Mekong

1. A river in southeastern Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.
   • 2023 September 1, “On the Mekong Through Laos”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[1], archived from the original on 02 September 2023, Nature and Environment‎^[2]:

     In the isolated villages, some of which are only accessible by boat, most Laotians live off the land. There are huge rice paddies on the fertile banks on the Mekong; rice is the Laotians’ main staple, eaten three times a day here.

Synonyms

• Mekong River

Translations

river in Asia

• Burmese: မဲခေါင်မြစ် (mai:hkaungmrac), မဲခေါင် (mai:hkaung)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (lower reaches) 湄公河 (zh) (Méigōng hé), (upper reaches) 瀾滄江／澜沧江 (zh) (Láncāng jiāng)

• Farefare: Mekoŋ
• Finnish: Mekong (fi)
• French: Mékong (fr) m
• German: Mekong (de) m
• Hungarian: Mekong (hu)
• Italian: Mekong m
• Japanese: メコン川 (Mekon-gawa)
• Khmer: ទន្លេមេកុង (tʊənlei meekoŋ), មេគង្គ (mee kʊəŋkea’)
• Khün: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 메콩강 (mekonggang)
• Lao: ແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ (lo) (mǣ nam khǭng), ນ້ຳຂອງ (nam khǭng)
• Lü: ᦓᧄᧉᦃᦸᧂ (nam²ẋoang)
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: Mekong (pl) m
• Portuguese: Mekong m
• Russian: Меко́нг m (Mekóng)
• Shan: ၼမ်ႉၶွင် (shn) (nâ̰m khǎung), ၼမ်ႉမႄႈၶွင် (nâ̰m māae khǎung)
• Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: แม่น้ำโขง (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-kǒong), แม่โขง (mɛ̂ɛ-kǒong), โขง (th) (kǒong)
• Tibetan: རྫ་ཆུ (rdza chu)
• Vietnamese: sông Mê Kông, sông Cửu Long, ("Great River") sông Lớn
• Zhuang: Dahmeizgunghhoz

See also

• Mekong Bobtail

Further reading

• “Mekong”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Mekong, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Mekong”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Mekong”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Mekong” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Möngke

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈkɔŋ/, /ˈmeːkɔŋ/ (latter especially in Mekongdelta)

• Audio

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Proper noun

der Mekong m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Mekong or des Mekongs)

1. Mekong (a river in Southeast Asia)

Derived terms

• Mekongdelta

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛkoŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: Me‧kong

Proper noun

Mekong

1. Mekong (a river in southeastern Asia)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Mekong	—
accusative	Mekongot	—
dative	Mekongnak	—
instrumental	Mekonggal	—
causal-final	Mekongért	—
translative	Mekonggá	—
terminative	Mekongig	—
essive-formal	Mekongként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Mekongban	—
superessive	Mekongon	—
adessive	Mekongnál	—
illative	Mekongba	—
sublative	Mekongra	—
allative	Mekonghoz	—
elative	Mekongból	—
delative	Mekongról	—
ablative	Mekongtól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Mekongé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Mekongéi	—

Possessive forms of Mekong
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Mekongom	—
2nd person sing.	Mekongod	—
3rd person sing.	Mekongja	—
1st person plural	Mekongunk	—
2nd person plural	Mekongotok	—
3rd person plural	Mekongjuk	—

Derived terms

• mekongi

Italian

Proper noun

Mekong m

1. Mekong

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.kɔŋk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛkɔŋk
• Syllabification: Me‧kong

Proper noun

Mekong m

1. Mekong (a river in Asia)

Declension

Declension of Mekong

	singular
nominative	Mekong
genitive	Mekongu
dative	Mekongowi
accusative	Mekong
instrumental	Mekongiem
locative	Mekongu
vocative	Mekongu

Further reading

• Mekong in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Mekong m

1. Mekong (a river in southeast Asia)