Đại Nam

See also: Dai Nam

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 大南 (literally "Great South").

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaːj˧˨ʔ naːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩ʔ naːm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ naːm˧˧]

Proper noun

Đại Nam • (大南)

1. A former name for Vietnam, used between 1839 and 1945.

See also

• Đại Việt

References

• Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1847) The Chinese Repository‎^[1], proprietors., pages 584–