Indochina

See also: indochina and Indo-China

English

Alternative forms

• Indo-China

Etymology

From Indo- +‎ China, modelled after (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French Indochine. Name first proposed in the early 19th century by Scottish poet and orientalist John Leyden and later first used in Précis de Géographie universelle by Conrad Malte-Brun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪndoʊ̯ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/, /ˈɪndoʊ̯ˌt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/

Proper noun

Indochina

1. The former French colonial part of Southeast Asia comprising the peninsula containing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and more broadly, Myanmar and Thailand.

Related terms

• Indochinese

Translations

part of Southeast Asia

• Albanian: Indokinë f, Indokina f (definite)
• Arabic: اَلْهِنْد اَلصِّينِيَّة f (al-hind aṣ-ṣīniyya)
• Armenian: Հնդկաչին (Hndkačʻin)
• Azerbaijani: Hind-Çin
• Belarusian: Індакіта́й m (Indakitáj)
• Bulgarian: Индокита́й m (Indokitáj)
• Burmese: အင်ဒိုချိုင်းနား (angduihkyuing:na:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中南半島／中南半岛 (zh) (Zhōngnán Bàndǎo), 中南半岛 (zh) (Zhōngnán bàndǎo), 印度支那 (zh) (Yìndù-Zhīnà), 中印半島／中印半岛 (zh) (Zhōng-Yìn Bàndǎo), 中印半岛 (zh) (Zhōng-Yìn bàndǎo), 印支 (Yìn-Zhī) (short form)

• Czech: Indočína f
• Danish: Indokina
• Dutch: Indochina n
• Estonian: Indohiina
• Finnish: Indokiina (fi)
• French: Indochine (fr) f
• Georgian: ინდოჩინეთი (indočineti)
• German: Indochina (de) n
• Greek: Ινδοκίνα f (Indokína)
• Hebrew: הודו-סין
• Hindi: हिन्दचीन m (hindacīn), इण्डोचाइना (iṇḍocāinā)
• Icelandic: Indókína n
• Italian: Indocina (it) f
• Japanese: インドシナ (Indoshina), 印度支那 (Indoshina)
• Kazakh: Үндіқытай (Ündıqytai)
• Khmer: ឥណ្ឌូចិន (km) (ʼenduucən)
• Korean: 인도차이나 (Indochaina)
• Kyrgyz: Индокытай (İndokıtay)
• Lao: ອິນດູຈີນ (lo) (ʼin dū chīn)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: Indoķīna f
• Lithuanian: Indokinija f
• Macedonian: Индоки́на f (Indokína)
• Malay: Indochina
• Mongolian: Энэтхэг-Хятадын хойг (Enetxeg-Xjatadyn xojg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Indokina

• Persian: هندوچین (fa) (hendo-čin)
• Polish: Indochiny (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: Indochina f
• Romanian: Indochina f
• Russian: Индокита́й (ru) m (Indokitáj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Индокина f

  Roman: Indokina (sh) f

• Slovak: Indočína f
• Slovene: Indokina f
• Spanish: Indochina f
• Swedish: Indokina
• Tagalog: Indotsina
• Tajik: Ҳиндучин (Hindučin)
• Thai: อินโดจีน (in-doo-jiin)
• Turkish: Hindiçin
• Ukrainian: Індокита́й m (Indokytáj)
• Urdu: ہندچین m (hindacīn), انڈوچینہ (inḍocāina)
• Uzbek: Hindixitoy
• Vietnamese: Đông Dương (vi), bán đảo Trung Ấn (半島中印), bán đảo Đông Dương

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Indochina f

1. Indochina (a peninsula in southeast Asia)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Indochina f

1. Indochina (a region of Southeast Asia)