Vietnam

See also Víetnam, vietnam, Viet Nam, and Việt Nam

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Viet Nam

Etymology

The name Vietnam or Việt Nam (IPA: /vjə̀tnam/) is a variation of "Nam Việt" (南越; pinyin: Nányuè; literally Southern Việt), a name that can be traced back to the Trieu dynasty of the 2nd century BC. The word Việt originated as a shortened form of Bách Việt (百越; pinyin: Bǎiyuè), a word applied to a group of peoples then living in southern China and Vietnam.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌvi.ɛtˈnɑːm/, /ˌvi.ɛtˈnæm/, /ˌvjɛtˈnɑːm/, /ˌvjɛtˈnæm/
• (US) IPA: /ˌvi.ɛtˈnɑm/, /ˌvi.ɛtˈnæm/, /ˌvjɛtˈnɑm/, /ˌvjɛtˈnæm/, /ˌvi.ɪtˈnɑm/, /ˌvi.ɪtˈnæm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æm, -ɑːm

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. A country in Southeast Asia, on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, officially named Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
2. The Vietnam War.

Synonyms

• Nam, 'Nam
• Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Translations

country in Southeast Asia

• Abkhaz: Виетнам (ab) (Vietnam)
• Afrikaans: Viëtnam (af)
• Albanian: Vietnami (sq)
• Arabic: فيتنام (ar) (fitnām) m
• Armenian: Վիետնամ (hy) (Vietnam)
• Asturian: Vietnam (ast)
• Azeri: Vyetnam (az)
• Belarusian: В'етнам (be) (V’jetnám) m
• Bengali: ভিয়েতনাম (bn) (bhiẏetnam)
• Breton: Viêt Nam
• Bulgarian: Виетнам (bg) (Vietnám) m
• Burmese: ဗီယက်နမ် (my) (biiyaknam), ဗီယက္‌နမ္ (my) (biyeʿnã)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 越南 (jyut6 naam4)

  Mandarin: 越南 (cmn) (Yuènán)

  Min Nan: 越南 (nan) (O̍at-lâm)

• Czech: Vietnam (cs) m
• Danish: Vietnam (da)
• Dutch: Vietnam (nl)
• Esperanto: Vjetnamio (eo), Vjet-Namo (eo), Vjetnamo (eo)
• Estonian: Vietnam (et)
• Faroese: Vjetnam (fo) n
• Finnish: Vietnam (fi)
• French: Viêt Nam (fr) m
• Galician: Vietnam (gl)
• Georgian: ვიეტნამი (ka) (vietnami)
• German: Vietnam (de) n
• Greek: Βιετνάμ (el) (Vietnám) n
• Gujarati: વિએટનામ (gu) (vi'ēṭnām)
• Hebrew: וייטנאם (he) (vyetnam)
• Hindi: वियतनाम (hi) (viyatnām)
• Hungarian: Vietnam (hu)
• Indonesian: Vietnam (id)
• Interlingua: Vietnam (ia)
• Italian: Vietnam (it)
• Japanese: ベトナム (ja) (Betonamu) (越南 (ja))
• Kamba: Vietnam
• Kannada: ವಿಯೆಟ್ನಾಮ್ (kn) (viyeṭnām)
• Kazakh: Вьетнам (kk) (Vyetnam)
• Khmer: ប្រទេសវៀតណាម (km) (bprədtēh wīət nām), វៀតណាម (km) (wīət nām)
• Korean: 베트남 (ko) (Beteunam), 윁남 (ko) (Wennam), 월남 (ko) (Wollam) (越南 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: Вьетнам (ky) (Vyetnam)
• Lao: ຫວຽດນາມ (lo) (wiat-naam), ປະເທດຫວຽດນາມ (lo) (patheet-wiat-naam)

• Latvian: Vjetnama (lv)
• Lithuanian: Vietnamas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Виетнам (mk) (Víetnam) m
• Malay: Vietnam (ms)
• Malayalam: വിയറ്റ്നാം (ml) (viyaṟṟnāṁ)
• Maltese: il-Vjetnam (mt)
• Marathi: व्हियेतनाम (mr) (vhiyetnām)
• Mongolian: Вьетнам (mn) (V’jetnám)
• Navajo: Biʼednam
• Nepali: भियतनाम (ne) (bhiyatnām)
• Norwegian: Vietnam (no)
• Occitan: Vietnam (oc)
• Ossetian: Вьетнам (V'jetnam)
• Persian: ویتنام (fa) (Viyatnâm)
• Polish: Wietnam (pl) m
• Portuguese: Vietname (pt) m (Portugal), Vietnã (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: Vietnam (ro) n
• Russian: Вьетнам (ru) (V’jetnám) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ви̏јетнам (sh) m

  Roman: Vȉjetnam (sh) m

• Sinhalese: වියට්‍නාමය (si) (viyaṭnāmaya)
• Slovak: Vietnam (sk) m
• Slovene: Vietnam (sl) m
• Spanish: Vietnam (es) m
• Swahili: Vietinamu (sw), Uvieti (sw)
• Swedish: Vietnam (sv)
• Tagalog: Byetnam (tl)
• Tajik: Виетнам (tg) (Vietnam)
• Tamil: வியட்நாம் (ta) (viyaṭnām)
• Tatar: Вьетнам (tt) (Vietnam)
• Telugu: వియత్నాం (te) (viyatnāṁ)
• Thai: ประเทศเวียดนาม (th) (bpràtêt wîatnaam), เวียดนาม (th) (wîatnaam), ญวน (th) (yuan, ñuan)
• Turkish: Vietnam (tr)
• Turkmen: Wýetnam (tk)
• Ukrainian: В'єтнам (uk) (V’jetnám) m
• Urdu: ویتنام (ur) (viyatnām)
• Uzbek: Vyetnam (uz)
• Vietnamese: Việt Nam (vi) (越南 (vi)), official: Cộng Hòa Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa Việt Nam
• Yiddish: װיעטנאַם (yi) (vyetnam) n

Noun

Vietnam (plural Vietnams)

1. A long war which a dominating foreign occupier of a place (the site of the war) cannot win.

   another Vietnam

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

See also

• Countries of the world
• Srebrenica, Chernobyl

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Asturian

Proper noun

Vietnam 

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Catalan

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Czech

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Declension

Declension of Vietnam (type risti) singular plural nominative Vietnam – genitive Vietnamin – partitive Vietnamia – accusative Vietnam Vietnamin – inessive Vietnamissa – elative Vietnamista – illative Vietnamiin – adessive Vietnamilla – ablative Vietnamilta – allative Vietnamille – essive Vietnamina – translative Vietnamiksi – instructive – – abessive Vietnamitta – comitative – –

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vjɛt.nam/

• Audio (France)

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Alternative forms

• (rare or obsolete) Viêt Nam
• Viet Nam

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• vietnamien

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Galician

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Proper noun

Vietnam n

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• Nordvietnam
• Südvietnam
• vietnamesisch
• Vietnamese
• Vietnamesin

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• vietnamita

Anagrams

• mentiva

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnameser (Bokmål), vietnamesar (Nynorsk)
• vietnamesisk

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Swedish

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

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Turkish

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• Vietnamlı
• Vietnamca