Phnom Penh

English

Etymology

From Khmer ភ្នំពេញ (phnum pɨñ, literally “Penh’s hill”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɔːm ˈpɛn/, /ˈnɒm ˈpɛn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /(pə)ˈnɑm ˈpɛn/

Proper noun

Phnom Penh

2. The capital city of Cambodia.

Translations

capital city of Cambodia

• Afrikaans: Phnom Penh
• Albanian: Phnom Penh m
• Amharic: ፕኖም ፔን (pənom pen)
• Arabic: بْنُوم بِنْه f (bnūm binh)
• Armenian: Պնոմպեն (Pnompen)
• Asturian: Pnom Penh (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Pnompen (az)
• Belarusian: Пнампе́нь m (Pnampjénʹ), Пнампэ́нь m (Pnampénʹ)
• Bengali: প্‌নম পেন (p‌nom pen)
• Bulgarian: Пном Пе́н m (Pnom Pén)
• Burmese: ဖနွမ်ဖင် (hpa.nwamhpang)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 金邊 / 金边 (gam¹ bin¹)

  Mandarin: 金邊 / 金边 (zh) (Jīnbiān)

• Czech: Phnompenh (cs) m
• Danish: Phnom Penh n
• Dutch: Phnom Penh n
• Estonian: Phnom Penh
• Finnish: Phnom Penh
• French: Phnom Penh (fr) m
• Georgian: პნომპენი (ka) (ṗnomṗeni)
• German: Phnom Penh (de) n
• Greek: Πνομ Πενχ (Pnom Pench)
• Hebrew: פְּנוֹם פֶּן f (pnom pen)
• Hindi: फ्नॉम पेन्ह m (phnŏm penha)
• Hungarian: Phnompen (hu)
• Icelandic: Phnom Penh
• Indonesian: Phnom Penh
• Italian: Phnom Penh (it)
• Japanese: プノンペン (ja) (Punonpen)
• Kazakh: Пномпень (Pnompen)
• Khmer: ភ្នំពេញ (km) (phnum pɨñ)
• Korean: 프놈펜 (ko) (Peunompen)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Phnom Penh

• Kyrgyz: Пномпень (Pnompen)
• Lao: ພະນົມເປັນ (pha nom pen)
• Latvian: Pnompeņa f
• Lithuanian: Pnompenis m
• Macedonian: Пном Пен m (Pnom Pen)
• Malay: Phnom Penh
• Maltese: Phnom Penh
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Пномпень (Pnompenʹ)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Phnom Penh

• Pashto: پنوم پېن m (panom pen)
• Persian: پنوم پن (ponom pen), پنوم‌پن (ponom-pen)
• Polish: Phnom Penh (pl) n
• Portuguese: Pnom Pen f
• Romanian: Phnom Penh (ro)
• Russian: Пномпе́нь (ru) m (Pnompénʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пном Пен m

  Roman: Phnom Penh (sh) m, Pnom Pen m

• Slovak: Phnom Pénh m
• Slovene: Phnom Penh m
• Spanish: Nom Pen (es) f
• Swedish: Phnom Penh (sv) n
• Tajik: Пномпен (Pnompen)
• Tatar: Пномпень (Pnompen’)
• Thai: พนมเปญ (th) (pá-nom-bpeen)
• Tibetan: ཕོམ་ཕེན (phom phen)
• Turkish: Phnom Penh (tr)
• Turkmen: Pnompen
• Ukrainian: Пномпе́нь m (Pnompénʹ)
• Urdu: پنوم پن m (pnom pen)
• Uyghur: فنوم پېن (fnom pën), پىنوم پېن (pinom pën)
• Uzbek: Pnompen
• Vietnamese: Phnôm Pênh, Nam Vang (vi) (南榮), Nam Vinh (vi) (rare), Kim Biên (vi) (rare)
• Yiddish: פּנאָם־פּען n (pnom-pen)

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• Pnom Penh

Proper noun

Phnom Penh

1. Phnom Penh (the capital city of Cambodia)

Derived terms

• Phnom Penher
• Phnom Penhs

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpnɔm ˈpɛɲ/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: Phnom Penh

Proper noun

Phnom Penh n (indeclinable, related adjective phnompeński)

1. Phnom Penh (the capital city of Cambodia)

Derived terms

(nouns):

• phnompenka
• phnompeńczyk

References

• Phnom Penh in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Pnom Pen, Pnom-Pen

Proper noun

Phnom Penh f

1. Phnom Penh (the capital city of Cambodia)