The story
- Thai · derived fromแม่โขง
- English todayMekong
c. 19th c., from Thai แม่โขง (mɛ̂ɛ-kǒong, literally “Mother river”), contracted form of แม่น้ำโขง (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-kǒong).
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Mekong
Today it means: a river in Southeast Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Qinghai, Tibet, and Yunnan in China, through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, into the South China Sea Full definition →
Thai แม่โขง