Pleiku

Borrowed from Vietnamese Pleiku.

Pleiku

1. A city in the central highland region of Vietnam.
   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎, 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.

• Plây Ku

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.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [pləj˧˧ ku˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [pləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [pləj˧˧ kʊw˧˧]
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Pleiku

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