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Thái Lan

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 泰蘭, composed of (Thai) and (-land), coined with the phonetic morpheme (lán) by analogy with the European names of Thailand. In proper Mandarin, the country is known as 泰國泰国 (Tàiguó), with the semantic morpheme (guó, country; state; -land) instead.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Thái Lan

  1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

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