Vietnam

See also: vietnam, Víetnam, Viëtnam, Viet Nam, Viêt Nam, and Việt Nam

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Viet Nam

Etymology

Borrowing from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /(ˌ)vjɛtˈnɑːm/, /(ˌ)vjɛtˈnæm/, /(ˌ)viɛtˈnɑːm/, /(ˌ)viɛtˈnæm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /viˌɛtˈnɑm/, /viˌɛtˈnæm/, /(ˌ)vjɛtˈnɑm/, /(ˌ)vjɛtˈnæm/, /ˌviətˈnɑm/, /ˌviətˈnæm/, /(ˌ)vitˈnɑm/, /(ˌ)vitˈnæm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːm, -æm

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. A country in Southeast Asia, on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, officially named Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
2. The Vietnam War.

Synonyms

• Nam, 'Nam
• Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Translations

country in Southeast Asia

• Abkhaz: Виетнам ‎(Vieṭnām)
• Afrikaans: Viëtnam
• Albanian: Vietnam m
• Amharic: ቬት ናም ‎(vet nam)
• Arabic: فِيتْنَام f ‎(viyetnām)
• Armenian: Վիետնամ ‎(Vietnam)
• Asturian: Vietnam (ast)
• Azeri: Vyetnam (az)
• Bashkir: Вьетнам ‎(V’yetnam)
• Belarusian: В'етна́м m ‎(Vʺjetnám)
• Bengali: ভিয়েতনাম ‎(bhiẏetnam)
• Breton: Viêt Nam
• Bulgarian: Виетна́м (bg) m ‎(Vietnám)
• Burmese: ဗီယက်နမ် (my) ‎(biyaknam), ဗီယက်နမ်နိုင်ငံ ‎(biyaknamnuingngam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 越南 ‎(jyut⁶ naam⁴)

  Hakka: 越南 ‎(Ye̍t-nàm)

  Mandarin: 越南 (zh) ‎(Yuènán)

  Min Dong: 越南 ‎(Uŏk-nàng)

  Min Nan: 越南 ‎(O̍at-lâm)

  Wu: 越南 ‎(hhyq noe)

• Czech: Vietnam (cs) m
• Danish: Vietnam
• Dutch: Vietnam (nl)
• Esperanto: Vjetnamio (eo), Vjet-Namo, Vjetnamo
• Estonian: Vietnam (et)
• Faroese: Vjetnam n
• Finnish: Vietnam (fi)
• French: Viêt Nam (fr) m
• Galician: Vietnam (gl)
• Georgian: ვიეტნამი ‎(vieṭnami)
• German: Vietnam (de) n
• Greek: Βιετνάμ (el) n ‎(Vietnám)
• Gujarati: વિએટનામ ‎(vi'ēṭnām)
• Hawaiian: Wiekanama
• Hebrew: וייטנאם / וְיֶטְנָאם f ‎(vyetnam)
• Hindi: वियतनाम (hi) m ‎(viyatnām)
• Hungarian: Vietnam (hu)
• Indonesian: Vietnam (id)
• Interlingua: Vietnam
• Italian: Vietnam (it)
• Japanese: ベトナム (ja) ‎(Betonamu), 越南 (ja) ‎(えつなん, Etsunan, ベトナム, Betonamu)
• Norman: Vietnam m
• Kamba: Vietnam
• Kannada: ವಿಯೆಟ್ನಾಮ್ (kn) ‎(viyeṭnām)
• Kazakh: Вьетнам ‎(Vʹetnam)
• Khmer: ប្រទេសវៀតណាម ‎(bprədtēh wīət nām), វៀតណាម (km) ‎(wīət nām)

• Korean: 베트남 ‎(Beteunam), 윁남 ‎(Wennam), 월남 ‎(Wollam) (越南 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: Вьетнам ‎(Vʹyetnam)
• Lao: ຫວຽດນາມ (lo) ‎(wīat nām), ປະເທດຫວຽດນາມ ‎(pa thēt wīat nām), ວຽດນາມ ‎(wīat nām)
• Latvian: Vjetnama (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Vietnamas (lt) m
• Lü: ᦶᦂᧁ ‎(k̇aev)
• Macedonian: Виетнам (mk) m ‎(Vietnam)
• Malay: Vietnam
• Malayalam: വിയറ്റ്നാം ‎(viyaṟṟnāṃ)
• Maltese: il-Vjetnam
• Maori: Whitināma
• Marathi: व्हियेतनाम ‎(vhiyetnām)
• Mongolian: Вьетнам ‎(Vʹjetnam)
• Navajo: Biʼednam
• Nepali: भियतनाम ‎(bhiyatnām)
• Norwegian: Vietnam (no)
• Occitan: Vietnam
• Ossetian: Вьетнам ‎(Vʹetnam)
• Persian: ویتنام (fa) ‎(Viyatnâm)
• Polish: Wietnam (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Vietname (pt) m (Portugal), Vietnã (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: Vietnam (ro) n
• Russian: Вьетна́м (ru) m ‎(Vʹjetnám)
• Scots: Vietnam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ви̏јетнам m

  Roman: Vȉjetnam (sh) m

• Sinhalese: වියට්‍නාමය ‎(viyaṭ‍nāmaya)
• Slovak: Vietnam m
• Slovene: Vietnam (sl) m
• Spanish: Vietnam (es) m
• Swahili: Vietinamu (sw), Uvieti
• Swedish: Vietnam (sv)
• Tagalog: Byetnam
• Tajik: Виетнам ‎(Viyetnam)
• Tamil: வியட்நாம் ‎(viyaṭnām)
• Tatar: Вьетнам ‎(W’yetnam)
• Telugu: వియత్నాం (te) ‎(viyatnāṃ)
• Thai: ประเทศเวียดนาม (th) ‎(bprà-têet wîiat-naam), เวียดนาม (th) ‎(wîiat-naam), ญวน (th) ‎(yuuan)
• Turkish: Vietnam (tr)
• Turkmen: Wýetnam
• Ukrainian: В'єтна́м (uk) m ‎(Vʺjetnám)
• Urdu: ویتنام m ‎(viyatnām)
• Uzbek: Vyetnam (uz)
• Vietnamese: Việt Nam (vi) (越南 (vi))
• Yiddish: וויעטנאַם n ‎(vyetnam)

Noun

Vietnam ‎(plural Vietnams)

1. A long war which a dominating foreign occupier of a place (the site of the war) cannot win.

   another Vietnam

   the Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979–89 occupation of Afghanistan)

See also

• Countries of the world
• Srebrenica, Chernobyl

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Asturian

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Catalan

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Czech

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Proper noun

Vietnam n

1. Vietnam

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Declension

Inflection of Vietnam (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Vietnam	—
genitive		Vietnamin	—
partitive		Vietnamia	—
illative		Vietnamiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Vietnam	—
accusative	nom.	Vietnam	—
	gen.	Vietnamin
genitive		Vietnamin	—
partitive		Vietnamia	—
inessive		Vietnamissa	—
elative		Vietnamista	—
illative		Vietnamiin	—
adessive		Vietnamilla	—
ablative		Vietnamilta	—
allative		Vietnamille	—
essive		Vietnamina	—
translative		Vietnamiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Vietnamitta	—
comitative		—	—

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French

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vjɛt.nam/

• Audio (France)

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Alternative forms

• (rare or obsolete) Viêt Nam
• Viet Nam

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• vietnamien

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Galician

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Vietnam n ‎(genitive Vietnams)

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• Nordvietnam
• Südvietnam
• vietnamesisch
• Vietnamese
• Vietnamesin

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Hungarian

Wikipedia ^hu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈviʲɛtnɒm]
• Hyphenation: Vi‧et‧nam

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Vietnam	Vietnamok
accusative	Vietnamot	Vietnamokat
dative	Vietnamnak	Vietnamoknak
instrumental	Vietnammal	Vietnamokkal
causal-final	Vietnamért	Vietnamokért
translative	Vietnammá	Vietnamokká
terminative	Vietnamig	Vietnamokig
essive-formal	Vietnamként	Vietnamokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Vietnamban	Vietnamokban
superessive	Vietnamon	Vietnamokon
adessive	Vietnamnál	Vietnamoknál
illative	Vietnamba	Vietnamokba
sublative	Vietnamra	Vietnamokra
allative	Vietnamhoz	Vietnamokhoz
elative	Vietnamból	Vietnamokból
delative	Vietnamról	Vietnamokról
ablative	Vietnamtól	Vietnamoktól

Possessive forms of Vietnam
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Vietnamom	Vietnamjaim
2nd person sing.	Vietnamod	Vietnamjaid
3rd person sing.	Vietnamja	Vietnamjai
1st person plural	Vietnamunk	Vietnamjaink
2nd person plural	Vietnamotok	Vietnamjaitok
3rd person plural	Vietnamjuk	Vietnamjaik

Derived terms

• vietnami

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• vietnamita

Anagrams

• mentiva

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnameser (Bokmål), vietnamesar (Nynorsk)
• vietnamesisk (Bokmål), vietnamesisk (Nynorsk)

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Scots

Wikipedia ^sco

Etymology

From English Vietnam.

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

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Slovak

Etymology

Ultimately from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Declension

Declension of Vietnam

	singulare tantum
nominative	Vietnam
genitive	Vietnamu
dative	Vietnamu
accusative	Vietnam
locative	Vietname
instrumental	Vietnamom

Derived terms

• Vietnamec m
• Vietnamka f
• vietnamský ‎(adjective)
• vietnamsky ‎(adverb)

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Swedish

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

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Turkish

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• Vietnamlı
• Vietnamca