Prey Nokor
Prey Nokor proper noun: former name of Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon before its annexation by the Vietnamese in the 17th century.
Proper noun
Prey Nokor
- Former name of Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon before its annexation by the Vietnamese in the 17th century.
- In exchange for these alliances, the Vietnamese rulers of the south, the Nguyen clan, obtained administrative control over many of these areas. The sleepy Cambodian port of Prey Nokor (Forest City) at the mouth of the Mekong was taken over in this way in the 1620’s and renamed Saigon (it is now...1991, David P. Chandler, The Land and People of Cambodia, HarperCollins Publisher, →ISBN, page 90
Origin of Prey Nokor
From Khmer ព្រៃនគរ (prɨy nɔɔnɔkɔɔ).
Questions about Prey Nokor
- What does Prey Nokor mean?
- Prey Nokor means former name of Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon before its annexation by the Vietnamese in the 17th century.
- What part of speech is Prey Nokor?
- Prey Nokor is a proper noun.
Words near Prey Nokor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Prey Nokor (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: “Prey Nokor.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prey_nokor. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.