Etymology

Tourane

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Today it means: Đà Nẵng, a city in central Vietnam. Full definition →

French Tourane ← Vietnamese Cửa Hàn
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The story

  1. Vietnamese · derived fromCửa Hàn
  2. French · borrowed fromTourane
  3. English todayTourane

From French Tourane, perhaps a corruption of Vietnamese Cửa Hàn, the old name for the city.

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