Indochina

See also: indochina and Indo-China

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Indo- +‎ China, modelled after French Indochine. Name first proposed in the early 19th century by Scottish poet and orientalist John Leyden[1] and later first used in Précis de Géographie universelle by Conrad Malte-Brun.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌɪndoʊ̯ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/, /ˈɪndoʊ̯ˌt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/

Proper noun

Indochina

  1. The former French colonial part of Southeast Asia comprising the peninsula containing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and more broadly, Myanmar and Thailand.

Translations

References
  1. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=Indochina&searchmode=none
  2. http://www.anai-asso.org/NET/document/indochine/index.htm

Portuguese

Proper noun

Indochina f

  1. Indochina (a peninsula in southeast Asia)

Spanish

Proper noun

Indochina f

  1. Indochina (region in Southeast Asia)
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