tên Nôm

Vietnamese
Examples

Kẻ Chợ (Hà Nội)
sông Cái (Hồng Hà, Nhĩ Hà)
sông Cả (Lam Giang)
Huế (Thuận Hoá)

Etymology

tên (“name”) +‎ Nôm (“Southern, Vietnamese”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tên Nôm

  1. (historical) a demotic name, as oppose to tên chữ (“formal name, literary name”), used by the locals to colloquially refer to a place name

Usage notes
  • Many of the tên Nôm, although originally used colloquially, had fallen into obscurity and disuse in favor of the tên chữ.
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