Bangkok

See also: bangkok

English

Alternative forms

• Bankok (archaic)

Etymology

From Thai บางกอก (baang-gɔ̀ɔk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæŋˈkɒk/

  • Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɒk

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. (exonym) The capital city of Thailand.
   • 1958, Russell H. Fifield, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia: 1945-1958‎^[1], New York: Harper & Brothers, LCCN 58-8354, OCLC 245961707, OL 6247420M, page 263:

     The Bangkok government indicated real concern over the developments in Communist China’s Yunnan province. Thai officials were afraid that Sibsongpanna would be a center where pro-Communist Thai in Southeast Asia would go and where subversive agitation could be directed against outside legitimate governments.

2. (metonymically) The government of Thailand.

Synonyms

• (endonym) Krung Thep, Krungthep , Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (official since 1972)

Derived terms

• Bangkoker
• Bangkokian

Translations

the capital of Thailand

• Albanian: Bangkoku
• Amharic: ባንኮክ (bankok)
• Arabic: بَانْكُوك‎ f (bānkūk)

  Hijazi Arabic: بانكوك‎ f (bānkōk)

• Armenian: Բանգկոկ (hy) (Bangkok)
• Assamese: বেংকক (beṅkok)
• Azerbaijani: Banqkok
• Belarusian: Банко́к m (Bankók)
• Bengali: ব্যাংকক (bêṅkôk)
• Bulgarian: Банко́к m (Bankók)
• Burmese: ဘန်ကောက်မြို့ (bhankaukmrui.)
• Catalan: Bangkok
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 曼谷 (maan⁶ guk¹)

  Hakka: 曼谷 (man⁴ gug⁵)

  Mandarin: 曼谷 (zh) (Màngǔ)

  Min Nan: 曼谷 (bān-kok)

• Chuvash: Бангкок (Bangkok)
• Czech: Bangkok (cs) m
• Danish: Bangkok n
• Dutch: Bangkok (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bankoko (eo)
• Estonian: Bangkok (et)
• Finnish: Bangkok (fi)
• French: Bangkok (fr) f
• Georgian: ბანგკოკი (bangḳoḳi)
• German: Bangkok (de) n
• Greek: Μπανκόκ f (Bankók), Μπαγκόκ f (Bagkók), Μπανγκόκ (el) f (Bangkók), Μπαγγόκ f (Bangók)
• Gujarati: બેંગકોક (beṅgkok)
• Hebrew: בַּנְגְּקוֹק‎ f (bangkok)
• Hindi: बैंकॉक m (baiṅkŏk)
• Hungarian: Bangkok (hu)
• Icelandic: Bangkok
• Indonesian: Bangkok
• Irish: Bancác
• Italian: Bangkok (it)
• Japanese: バンコク (ja) (Bankoku)
• Kannada: ಬ್ಯಾಂಕಾಕ್ (byāṅkāk)
• Kazakh: Бангкок (kk) (Bangkok)
• Khmer: បាងកក (km) (baang kɑɑk)
• Korean: 방콕 (ko) (Bangkok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Bangkok

• Kyrgyz: Бангкок (Bangkok)
• Lao: ບາງກອກ (bāng kǭk), ບັງກອກ (bang kǭk), ກຸງເທບ (kung thēp)
• Latvian: Bangkoka f
• Lithuanian: Bankokas m
• Lü: ᦂᦳᧂᦒᦲᧇ (k̇ungthiib), ᦞᧂᦂᦸᧅᧈ (vangk̇oak¹)
• Macedonian: Бангкок m (Bangkok)
• Malay: Bangkok
• Malayalam: ബാങ്കോക്ക് (bāṅkōkkŭ)
• Maltese: Bangkok
• Marathi: बँगकॉक (bĕṅgkŏk)
• Mon: ၜင်ကံက် (mnw), ၜင်ကော်
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Бангкок (Bangkok)

• Navajo: Bánkoʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Bangkok (no)

• Occitan: Bangkòk m
• Pali: devanagara n
• Pashto: بنکاک‎ m (benkãk)
• Persian: بانکوک‎ (bânkok)
• Polish: Bangkok (pl) m
• Portuguese: Bangkok (pt) f, Banguecoque (pt) f
• Romanian: Bangkok (ro)
• Russian: Бангко́к (ru) m (Bangkók), Банко́к (ru) m (Bankók) (obsolete)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ба̀нгкок m

  Roman: Bàngkok (sh) m

• Shan: မိူင်းၵွၵ်ႇ (móeng kàuk)
• Sinhalese: බැංකොක් (bæṁkok)
• Slovak: Bangkok m
• Slovene: Bangkok m
• Spanish: Bangkok (es) m
• Swedish: Bangkok (sv)
• Tagalog: Bangkok
• Tajik: Бангкок (Bangkok)
• Tamil: பேங்காக் (pēṅkāk)
• Tatar: Бангкок (Bangkoq)
• Telugu: బ్యాంకాక్ (byāṅkāk)
• Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร (th) (grung-têep-má-hǎa-ná-kɔɔn) (formal), กรุงเทพฯ (th) (grung-têep), บางกอก (th) (baang-gɔ̀ɔk) (now informal), กทม. (th) (initialism)
• Tibetan: པན་ཀོག (pan kog)
• Turkish: Bangkok (tr)
• Turkmen: Bangkok
• Ukrainian: Бангко́к m (Banhkók)
• Urdu: بنکاک‎ m (baṅkāk)
• Uyghur: باڭكوك‎ (bangkok)
• Uzbek: Bangkok
• Vietnamese: Băng Cốc
• Yiddish: באַנגקאָק‎ n (bangkok)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaŋkok]

Proper noun

Bangkok m

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Derived terms

• bangkocký
• bangkokský

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Danish

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑŋ.kɔk/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok

Proper noun

Bangkok n

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Thai บางกอก (baang-gɔ̀ɔk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑŋkok/, [ˈbɑŋko̞k]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋkok
• Syllabification^(key): Bang‧kok

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Declension

Inflection of Bangkok (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		Bangkok	—
genitive		Bangkokin	—
partitive		Bangkokia	—
illative		Bangkokiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Bangkok	—
accusative	nom.	Bangkok	—
	gen.	Bangkokin
genitive		Bangkokin	—
partitive		Bangkokia	—
inessive		Bangkokissa	—
elative		Bangkokista	—
illative		Bangkokiin	—
adessive		Bangkokilla	—
ablative		Bangkokilta	—
allative		Bangkokille	—
essive		Bangkokina	—
translative		Bangkokiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Bangkokitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Bangkok (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Bangkokini	Bangkokimme
2nd person	Bangkokisi	Bangkokinne
3rd person	Bangkokinsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.kɔk/, /baŋ.kɔk/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Bangkok m

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Derived terms

• bangkokien (adjective)
• Bangkokien (noun)

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Bangkok n (proper noun, genitive Bangkoks or (optionally with an article) Bangkok)

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒŋkok]
• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok
• Homophone: bankok
• Rhymes: -ok

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Bangkok	—
accusative	Bangkokot	—
dative	Bangkoknak	—
instrumental	Bangkokkal	—
causal-final	Bangkokért	—
translative	Bangkokká	—
terminative	Bangkokig	—
essive-formal	Bangkokként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Bangkokban	—
superessive	Bangkokon	—
adessive	Bangkoknál	—
illative	Bangkokba	—
sublative	Bangkokra	—
allative	Bangkokhoz	—
elative	Bangkokból	—
delative	Bangkokról	—
ablative	Bangkoktól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Bangkoké	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Bangkokéi	—

Possessive forms of Bangkok
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Bangkokom	—
2nd person sing.	Bangkokod	—
3rd person sing.	Bangkokja	—
1st person plural	Bangkokunk	—
2nd person plural	Bangkokotok	—
3rd person plural	Bangkokjuk	—

Derived terms

• bangkoki

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banˈkɔk/, /ˈbanˌkɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk

Proper noun

Bangkok ?

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ.kkɔk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aŋkkɔk
• Syllabification: Ban‧gkok

Proper noun

Bangkok m inan

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Declension

Declension of Bangkok

	singular
nominative	Bangkok
genitive	Bangkoku
dative	Bangkokowi
accusative	Bangkok
instrumental	Bangkokiem
locative	Bangkoku
vocative	Bangkoku

Further reading

• Bangkok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Bangkok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Banguecoque

Proper noun

Bangkok

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎŋɡkok/
• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok

Proper noun

Bàngkok m (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀нгкок)

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbankok]

Proper noun

Bangkok m (genitive singular Bangkoku)

1. Bangkok (the capital of Thailand)

References

• Bangkok in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banˈkok/ [bãŋˈkok]
• Rhymes: -ok
• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok

Proper noun

Bangkok ?

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

Related terms

• bangkokiano

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Swedish

Proper noun

Bangkok n (genitive Bangkoks)

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Bangkok.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Bang‧kok
• IPA^(key): /baŋˈkok/, [bɐŋˈkok]

Proper noun

Bangkók

1. Bangkok (the capital city of Thailand)