Mekong

See also: Mê Kông

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Thai แม่โขง (mɛ̂ɛ-kǒong), contracted form of แม่น้ำโขง (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-kǒong). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lao ນ້ຳຂອງ (nam khǭng) or ແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ (mǣ nam khǭng).

Proper noun

Mekong

1. A river in southeastern Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.

Translations

river in Asia

• Burmese: မဲခေါင်မြစ် (mai:hkaungmrac), မဲခေါင် (mai:hkaung)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (lower reaches) 湄公河 (zh) (Méigōng hé), (upper reaches) 瀾滄江／澜沧江 (zh) (Láncāng Jiāng), 澜沧江 (zh) (Láncāng jiāng)

• Finnish: Mekong (fi)
• French: Mékong (fr) m
• German: Mekong (de) m
• Hungarian: Mekong
• Italian: Mekong m
• Japanese: メコン川 (Mekon-gawa)
• Khmer: ទន្លេមេកុង (tʊənlei meekoŋ), មេគង្គ (mee kʊəŋkea’)
• Khün: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ (lo) (mëë nam-khööng), ນ້ຳຂອງ (nam khööng)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lü: ᦓᧄᧉᦃᦸᧂ (nam²ẋoang)
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: Mekong (pl) m
• Portuguese: Mekong m
• Russian: Меко́нг m (Mekóng)
• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: แม่น้ำโขง (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-kǒong), แม่โขง (mɛ̂ɛ-kǒong), โขง (th) (kǒong)
• Tibetan: རྫ་ཆུ (rdza chu)
• Vietnamese: sông Mê Kông, sông Cửu Long, ("Great River") sông Lớn
• Zhuang: Dahmeizgunghhoz

Anagrams

• Möngke

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German

Proper noun

Mekong m

1. Mekong (a river in Asia)

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Italian

Proper noun

Mekong m

1. Mekong

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Polish

Proper noun

Mekong m

1. Mekong (a river in Asia)

Declension

Declension of Mekong

	singular
nominative	Mekong
genitive	Mekongu
dative	Mekongowi
accusative	Mekong
instrumental	Mekongiem
locative	Mekongu
vocative	Mekongu

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Mekong m

1. Mekong (a river in southeast Asia)