kinh sư

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 京師.

Pronunciation

Noun

kinh

  1. (historical or archaic or literary) capital, capital city
    • 1581, Nguyễn Năng Nhuận; quoted in 1759, Lê Quý Đôn, Đại Việt thông sử (Thorough Historical Records of Great Việt); 1973, Vietnamese translation by Lê Mạnh Liêu
      Trận gió bão tháng trước, Kinh sư bị tai hại nhất, mà nơi triều điện lại càng hại hơn.
      When a storm struck last month, the capital city suffered the worst damages, yet the court(s) and the hall(s) were damaged even worse than the worst.