Σιών

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Σειών (Seiṓn)

Etymology

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /siˈon/ → /siˈon/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈon/

Proper noun

Σῑών • (Sīṓn) f (indeclinable)

1. (biblical) Zion (a hill in Jerusalem, Israel, on which ancient Jerusalem was partly built; a centrepiece to Biblical accounts of old days and future eschatological events)
   1. Jerusalem

Descendants

• Latin: Sīōn
  • French: Sion
    • → Khmer: ស៊ីយ៉ូន (siiyoun)
    • → Romanian: Sion
  • Italian: Sion
  • Portuguese: Sião
  • Spanish: Sion, Sión
  • → Bengali: সিয়োন (śiẏōn)
  • → Czech: Sión, Sion, Sijón
  • → Finnish: Siion
  • → Malayalam: സിയ്യോൻ (siyyōṉ)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: Sion
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: Sion
  • → Old English: Syon
    • → Middle English: Sion
      • English: Zion, Sion
        • → Bengali: জায়ন (jaẏon)
        • → Marshallese: Jāioon
  • → Old High German: Sion
    • German: Zion, Sion
      • → Serbo-Croatian: Cìon, Цѝон
  • → Old Irish: Sión
    • Irish: Síón
    • Scottish Gaelic: Sion
  • → Polish: Syjon
  • → Swedish: Sion
  • → Welsh: Sïon
• → Old Church Slavonic: Сионъ (Sionŭ), Сіонъ (Sionŭ), Сиѡнъ (Sionŭ), Сіѡнъ (Sionŭ), Ⱄⰻⱁⱀⱏ (Sionŭ) — Glagolitic
  • Bulgarian: Сио́н (Sión)
  • Macedonian: Сио́н (Sión)
  • → Old East Slavic: Сионъ (Sionŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: Сіонъ (Sion)
      • Belarusian: Сіён (Sijón), Сыён (Syjón)
      • Ukrainian: Сіо́н (Sión)
    • Russian: Сио́н (Sión), Сіо́нъ (Sión), (uncommon) Сио́нъ (Sión) — pre-1918 spelling
      • → Kazakh: Сион (Sion)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Sìōn, Сѝо̄н
• → Welsh: Seion

References

• “Σιών”, in Bailly, 2024
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4622 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible