Red River

English

Etymology 1

From their appearance, usually owing to the color of the silt in their waters.

Proper noun

Red River

1. Various rivers around the world

Derived terms

• Red River County
• Red River Parish

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “calque of French fleuve Rouge?”)

Proper noun

Red River

1. A river in northern Vietnam and Yunnan, southern China.
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     The festival is celebrated on the eighth lunar month's full moon night, the most charming and picturesque night of the year, marking the end of the rice harvest in the Red River Delta around the Vietnamese capital originally.

Synonyms

• Hong He
• Yuan River, Yuan Jiang, Yuan Shui
• Song Hong

Translations

the Red River of Yunnan in southern China and of northern Vietnam

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅河／红河 (zh) (Hóng Hé), 红河 (zh) (hónghé), 元江 (zh) (Yuán Jiāng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: Punainenjoki
• French: Fleuve Rouge m
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• German: Roter Fluss m
• Hungarian: Vörös-folyó
• Portuguese: Rio Vermelho (pt) m
• Spanish: río Rojo m
• Vietnamese: sông Hồng

Further reading

• “Red River”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Red River, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Red River”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Red River” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.