name
Meaning 1
The capital city of Thailand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Bangkok
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/bæŋˈkɒk/
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rhymes with -ɒk
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CMU ARPABET: B AE0 NG K AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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name
Meaning 2
The government of Thailand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: metonymically
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A kind of straw hat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
the capital and largest city and chief port of Thailand; a leading city in southeastern Asia; noted for Buddhist architecture
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: capital of Thailand, Krung Thep
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: port, national capital
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Thai บางกอก (baang-gɔ̀ɔk).
From the place name Bangkok.
Across languages
Translations
111 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Albanian: Bangkoku — the capital of Thailand
- Amharic: ባንኮክ (bankok) — the capital of Thailand
- Arabic: بَانْكُوك (bānkūk) — the capital of Thailand
- Arabic: بانكوك (bānkōk) — the capital of Thailand
- Armenian: Բանգկոկ — the capital of Thailand
- Assamese: বেংকক (beṅkok) — the capital of Thailand
- Asturian: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Azerbaijani: Banqkok — the capital of Thailand
- Bartangi: Бангкок (Bangkōk) — the capital of Thailand
- Belarusian: Банко́к (Bankók) — the capital of Thailand
- Bengali: ব্যাংকক (bêṅkok) — the capital of Thailand
- Bulgarian: Банко́к (Bankók) — the capital of Thailand
- Burmese: ဘန်ကောက်မြို့ (bhankaukmrui.) — the capital of Thailand
- Catalan: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Chinese Cantonese: 曼谷 (maan6 guk1) — the capital of Thailand
- Hakka Chinese: 曼谷 (man4 gug5) — the capital of Thailand
- Chinese: 曼谷 (bān-kok) — the capital of Thailand
- Chinese Mandarin: 曼谷 (Màngǔ) — the capital of Thailand
- Chuvash: Бангкок — the capital of Thailand
- Czech: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Danish: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Dutch: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Esperanto: Bankoko — the capital of Thailand
- Estonian: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Finnish: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- French: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Georgian: ბანგკოკი (bangḳoḳi) — the capital of Thailand
- German: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Greek: Μπανκόκ (Bankók) — the capital of Thailand
- Greek: Μπαγκόκ (Bagkók) — the capital of Thailand
- Greek: Μπανγκόκ (Bangkók) — the capital of Thailand
- Greek: Μπαγγόκ (Bangók) — the capital of Thailand
- Gujarati: બેંગકોક (beṅgkok) — the capital of Thailand
- Hebrew: בַּנְגְּקוֹק (bangkok) — the capital of Thailand
- Hindi: बैंकॉक (ba͠ikŏk) — the capital of Thailand
- Hungarian: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Icelandic: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Indonesian: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Irish: Bancác — the capital of Thailand
- Italian: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Japanese: バンコク (Bankoku) — the capital of Thailand
- Kannada: ಬ್ಯಾಂಕಾಕ್ (byāṅkāk) — the capital of Thailand
- Kazakh: Бангкок (Bañkok) — the capital of Thailand
- Khmer: បាងកក (baang kɑɑk) — the capital of Thailand
- Korean: 방콕 — the capital of Thailand
- Northern Kurdish: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Kyrgyz: Бангкок — the capital of Thailand
- Lao: ບາງກອກ (bāng kǭk) — the capital of Thailand
- Lao: ບັງກອກ (bang kǭk) — the capital of Thailand
- Lao: ກຸງເທບ (kung thēp) — the capital of Thailand
- Latin: Bancocum — the capital of Thailand
- Latin: Angelopolis — the capital of Thailand
- Latvian: Bangkoka — the capital of Thailand
- Lithuanian: Bankokas — the capital of Thailand
- Lü: ᦂᦳᧂᦒᦲᧇ (k̇ungthiib) — the capital of Thailand
- Lü: ᦞᧂᦂᦸᧅᧈ (vangk̇oak1) — the capital of Thailand
- Macedonian: Бангкок — the capital of Thailand
- Malay: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Malayalam: ബാങ്കോക്ക് (bāṅkōkkŭ) — the capital of Thailand
- Maltese: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Marathi: बँगकॉक (bĕṅgkŏk) — the capital of Thailand
- Mon: ၜင်ကံက် — the capital of Thailand
- Mon: ၜင်ကော် — the capital of Thailand
- Mongolian: Бангкок — the capital of Thailand
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Occitan: Bangkòk — the capital of Thailand
- Oroshori: Бангкок (Bangkōk) — the capital of Thailand
- Pali: devanagara — the capital of Thailand
- Pannonian Rusyn: Банґкок — the capital of Thailand
- Pashto: بنکاک (benkãk) — the capital of Thailand
- Persian: بانکوک (bânkok) — the capital of Thailand
- Polish: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Portuguese: Banguecoque — the capital of Thailand
- Punjabi: ਬੈਂਕਾਕ (baiṅkāk) — the capital of Thailand
- Romanian: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Russian: Бангко́к (Bangkók) — the capital of Thailand
- Russian: Банко́к (Bankók) — the capital of Thailand
- Santali: ᱵᱮᱝᱠᱚᱠ (beṅkôk) — the capital of Thailand
- Serbo-Croatian: Ба̀нгкок — the capital of Thailand
- Serbo-Croatian: Bàngkok — the capital of Thailand
- Shan: မိူင်းၵွၵ်ႇ (móeng kàuk) — the capital of Thailand
- Shughni: Бангкок (Bangkōk) — the capital of Thailand
- Sinhalese: බැංකොක් (bæṁkok) — the capital of Thailand
- Slovak: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Slovene: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Spanish: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Swedish: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Tagalog: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Tajik: Бангкок — the capital of Thailand
- Tamil: பேங்காக் (pēṅkāk) — the capital of Thailand
- Tatar: Бангкок (Bangqoq) — the capital of Thailand
- Telugu: బ్యాంకాక్ (byāṅkāk) — the capital of Thailand
- Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร (grung-têep-má-hǎa-ná-kɔɔn) — the capital of Thailand
- Thai: กรุงเทพฯ (grung-têep) — the capital of Thailand
- Thai: บางกอก (baang-gɔ̀ɔk) — the capital of Thailand
- Thai: กทม. — the capital of Thailand
- Tibetan: པན་ཀོག (pan kog) — the capital of Thailand
- Turkish: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Turkmen: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Ukrainian: Бангко́к (Banhkók) — the capital of Thailand
- Urdu: بنکاک (baṅkāk) — the capital of Thailand
- Uyghur: باڭكوك (bangkok) — the capital of Thailand
- Uzbek: Bangkok — the capital of Thailand
- Venetan: Bancòc — the capital of Thailand
- Vietnamese: Băng Cốc — the capital of Thailand
- Vietnamese: Vọng Cát — the capital of Thailand
- Wakhi: Бангкок — the capital of Thailand
- Yaghnobi: Бангкок — the capital of Thailand
- Yazghulami: Бангкок — the capital of Thailand
- Yiddish: באַנגקאָק (bangkok) — the capital of Thailand
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