Word.ws English Dictionary

nuoc mam

/nʌk mɑm/

nuoc mam noun: a fish sauce used in Vietnamese cookery.

Noun

nuoc mam (countable and uncountable, plural nuoc mams)

  1. A fish sauce used in Vietnamese cookery.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:nuoc mam.

Forms of nuoc mam

pluralnuoc mams

Origin of nuoc mam

Borrowed from Vietnamese nước mắm (“salted fish sauce”).

Questions about nuoc mam

What does nuoc mam mean?
Nuoc mam means a fish sauce used in Vietnamese cookery.
What part of speech is nuoc mam?
Nuoc mam is a noun.
How do you pronounce nuoc mam?
Nuoc mam is pronounced /nʌk mɑm/.
What is the plural of nuoc mam?
The plural of nuoc mam is nuoc mams.

Words near nuoc mam in the dictionary

  1. nunuz stones
  2. nunya
  3. Nunziato
  4. Nunziatos
  5. Nuo
  6. nuoc mam
  7. nuoc mams
  8. nuoc-mam
  9. nuocyte
  10. nuocytes
  11. Nuor.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nuoc mam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nuoc mam.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nuoc_mam. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.