Vinh
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See also: vịnh
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Vinh.
Proper noun
Vinh
- A city, the provincial capital of Nghệ An Province, Vietnam.
Proper noun
Vinh (plural Vinhs)
- A surname from Vietnamese.
Translations
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Vinh”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Sino-Vietnamese word from 榮.
Proper noun
- a male given name from Chinese
Etymology 2
The city is called 永市 (“Vĩnh thị”) in Đại Nam nhất thống chí and 永城庯 (“Vĩnh thành phố”) in the Đại Nam thực lục. The occurrence of 永 (SV: vĩnh) as the city name in these adminstrative/official documents is obviously just another case of the common practice of phonetic matching to form a new tên chữ from the original tên Nôm and is of little actual etymological value.
In the past, this place was known by many names: Kẻ Vang, Kẻ Vịnh, Kẻ Vinh, Kẻ Vĩnh, Vinh Giang, Vinh Doanh.
Proper noun
- the provincial capital of Nghệ An Province, Vietnam