Đại Nam

See also: Đài Nam and Dai Nam

Vietnamese

Etymology

    Sino-Vietnamese word from 大南 (literally “Great South”).

    Pronunciation

    • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˧˨ʔ naːm˧˧]
    • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩ʔ naːm˧˧]
    • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ naːm˧˧]

    Proper noun

    Đại Nam • (大南)

    1. A former name for Vietnam, used between 1839 and 1945.

    See also

    References

    • Elijah Coleman Bridgman; Samuel Wells Willaims (1847), The Chinese Repository‎[1], proprietors., pages 584–

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