Pleiku

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Pleiku.

Proper noun

Pleiku

1. A city in the central highland region of Vietnam.
   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 232:

     There was strong evidence that the strategists in Hanoi hoped to cut South Vietnam in half along a line roughly from Pleiku, in the Central Highlands, eastward to the coast.

Translations

city in Vietnam

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波來古／波来古 (zh) (Bōláigǔ)

• Vietnamese: Pleiku (vi)

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• Plây Ku

Etymology

Borrowed from Jarai Plơi Kơdưr (literally “northern or high village”); the spelling is adapted from earlier Plei-Kou-Derr, Plei Ku Der, used during the French colonial period.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [pləj˧˧ ku˧˧], [pəː˨˩ ləj˧˧ ku˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [pləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧], [pəː˦˩ ləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [pləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧], [pəː˨˩ ləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: plây cu, pờ lây cu

Proper noun

Pleiku

1. Pleiku (city in the central highland region of Vietnam)