Zionism

English

Etymology

Zion +‎ -ism

Noun

Wikipedia Zionism (countable and uncountable; plural Zionisms)

1. The Jewish national liberation movement which proclaims that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled their national homeland.
2. A mentality that the lands west of the Jordan river belong in their entirety or majority to the people of the state of Israel or the Jewish often to the exception of other previous or coordinate inhabitants.
3. A religion practiced by people all over sub-Saharan Africa and is most popular in Swaziland. The religion is a mixture of Protestantism and animism.

Related terms

• Zion, Sion
• Zionist
• Zionistic

Translations

Jewish national liberation movement

• Arabic: صهيونية (ar) (Sahyuuníyya) f
• Aragonese: sionismo (an) m
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猶太復國主義 (cmn), 犹太复国主义 (cmn) (Yóutài-fùguózhǔyì), 錫安主義 (cmn), 锡安主义 (cmn) (Xī'ān-zhǔyì)

• Dutch: zionisme n
• Esperanto: cionismo (eo)
• Finnish: sionismi (fi)
• French: sionisme (fr) m
• German: Zionismus (de) m

• Greek: σιωνισμός (el) (sionismós) m
• Hebrew: ציונות (he) (tsiyonút) f, צִיּוֹנוּת (he) (tsiyonút) f
• Japanese: シオニズム (ja) (shionizumu)
• Korean: 시오니즘 (ko) (sionijeum), 시온주의 (ko) (sionjuui)
• Manx: Seionaght (gv) f
• Persian: صهیونیسم (fa) (sahyunism)
• Russian: сионизм (ru) (sionízm) m
• Serbo-Croatian: cionìzam (sh) m
• Spanish: sionismo (es) m
• Tagalog: Sayonismo (tl)
• Volapük: siunim (vo)
• Yiddish: ציעניזם (yi) (Tsienizm) m