Đại 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˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ naːm˧˧]

Proper noun

Đại Nam (大南)

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

See also

Đại Việt

References

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

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