Pleiku

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proper noun

A city in the central highland region of Vietnam.

OriginVietnamese Pleiku →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A city in the central highland region of Vietnam.

    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.

    1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 232

Origin

  1. VietnamesePleiku
  2. EnglishPleiku

Borrowed from Vietnamese Pleiku.

More words from Vietnamese

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 波來古 /波来古
  • 波來古 /波来古 (Bōláigǔ)city in Vietnam
Hindi प्लय कू
  • प्लय कू (play kū)city in Vietnam
Vietnamese Pleiku
  • Pleikucity in Vietnam
Cite this entry
APA

Pleiku. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pleiku

MLA

“Pleiku.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pleiku. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Pleiku,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pleiku.

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