Vietnam

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

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Viet Nam

Etymology

The name Vietnam or Việt Nam (IPA^(key): /vjə̀tnam/) is a variation of "Nam Việt" (南越; pinyin: Nányuè; literally Southern Việt), a name that can be traced back to the Trieu dynasty of the 2nd century BC. The word Việt originated as a shortened form of Bách Việt (百越; pinyin: Bǎiyuè), a word applied to a group of peoples then living in southern China and Vietnam.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌvi.ɛtˈnɑːm/, /ˌvi.ɛtˈnæm/, /ˌvjɛtˈnɑːm/, /ˌvjɛtˈnæm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌvi.ɛtˈnɑm/, /ˌvi.ɛtˈnæm/, /ˌvjɛtˈnɑm/, /ˌvjɛtˈnæm/, /ˌvi.ɪtˈnɑm/, /ˌvi.ɪtˈnæm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æm, -ɑːm

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: Vietnami
• Arabic: فيتنام m (fitnām)
• Armenian: Վիետնամ (Vietnam)
• Asturian: Vietnam (ast)
• Azeri: Vyetnam
• Belarusian: В'етнам m (V’jetnám)
• Bengali: ভিয়েতনাম (bhiẏetnam)
• Breton: Viêt Nam
• Bulgarian: Виетнам (bg) m (Vietnám)
• Burmese: ဗီယက်နမ် (my) (biiyaknam), ဗီယက္‌နမ္ (biyeʿnã)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 越南 (jyut6 naam4)

  Mandarin: 越南 (zh) (Yuènán)

  Min Nan: 越南 (O̍at-lâm)

• 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 (vietnami)
• German: Vietnam (de) n
• Greek: Βιετνάμ (el) n (Vietnám)
• Gujarati: વિએટનામ (vi'ēṭnām)
• Hawaiian: Wiekanama
• Hebrew: וייטנאם (vyetnam)
• Hindi: वियतनाम (hi) (viyatnām)
• Hungarian: Vietnam (hu)
• Indonesian: Vietnam
• Interlingua: Vietnam
• Italian: Vietnam (it)
• Japanese: ベトナム (ja) (Betonamu) (越南 (ja))
• Jèrriais: Vietnam m
• Kamba: Vietnam
• Kannada: ವಿಯೆಟ್ನಾಮ್ (kn) (viyeṭnām)
• Kazakh: Вьетнам (Vʹyetnam)
• Khmer: ប្រទេសវៀតណាម (bprədtēh wīət nām), វៀតណាម (km) (wīət nām)
• Korean: 베트남 (ko) (Beteunam), 윁남 (ko) (Wennam), 월남 (ko) (Wollam) (越南 (ko))

• Kyrgyz: Вьетнам (Vʹyetnam)
• Lao: ຫວຽດນາມ (lo) (wiat-naam), ປະເທດຫວຽດນາມ (patheet-wiat-naam), ວຽດນາມ (wiat-naam)
• Latvian: Vjetnama (lv)
• Lithuanian: Vietnamas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Виетнам (mk) m (Víetnam)
• Malay: Vietnam
• Malayalam: വിയറ്റ്നാം (viyaṟṟnāṁ)
• Maltese: il-Vjetnam
• 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
• Portuguese: Vietname (pt) m (Portugal), Vietnã (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: Vietnam n
• Russian: Вьетнам (ru) m (V’jetnám)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ви̏јетнам m

  Roman: Vȉjetnam 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 (Vietnam)
• Telugu: వియత్నాం (te) (viyatnāṁ)
• Thai: ประเทศเวียดนาม (th) (bpràtêt wîatnaam), เวียดนาม (th) (wîatnaam), ญวน (th) (yuan, ñuan)
• Turkish: Vietnam (tr)
• Turkmen: Wýetnam
• Ukrainian: В'єтнам (uk) m (V’jetnám)
• Urdu: ویتنام (viyatnām)
• Uzbek: Vyetnam (uz)
• Vietnamese: Việt Nam (vi) (越南 (vi)), official: Cộng Hòa Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa Việt Nam
• Yiddish: װיעטנאַם 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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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Declension

Declension of Vietnam (Kotus type 5/risti)

		singular	plural
nominative		Vietnam	—
accusative	zero?	Vietnam	—
	normal	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

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

Proper noun

Vietnam n (genitive Vietnams)

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• Nordvietnam
• Südvietnam
• vietnamesisch
• Vietnamese
• Vietnamesin

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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

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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