Pleiku
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Vietnamese Pleiku.
Proper noun[edit]
Pleiku
- A city in the central highland region of Vietnam.
- 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 232:
- There was strong evidence that the strategists in Hanoi hoped to cut South Vietnam in half along a line roughly from Pleiku, in the Central Highlands, eastward to the coast.
Translations[edit]
Vietnamese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Jarai Plơi Kơdưr (literally “northern or high village”); the spelling is adapted from earlier Plei-Kou-Derr, Plei Ku Der, used during the French colonial period.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [pləj˧˧ ku˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [pləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [pləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧]
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Proper noun[edit]
Pleiku
- Pleiku (city in the central highland region of Vietnam)
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