Sion

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sion"

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Sion

1. Alternative spelling of Zion.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 12:22, column 2:

     But ye are come vnto mount Sion, and vnto the citie of the liuing God the heauenly Ieruſalem, and to an innumerable company of Angels:

Etymology 2

From French Sion, from Latin Sedunum, from the name of the Seduni tribe.

Sion

Proper noun

Sion

1. A municipality and town, the capital of Valais canton, Switzerland.

Translations

capital of Valais, Switzerland

• Albanian: Sitten
• Arabic: سيون
• Belarusian: Сьён (Sʹjon)
• Bengali: সাইয়ন (śaiẏon)
• Bulgarian: Сион (Sion)
• Cebuano: Sitten
• Chechen: Сьон (Sʲon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錫永 / 锡永 (Xīyǒng)

• Chuvash: Сьон (Sʹon)
• Esperanto: Siono
• Franco-Provençal: Sion
• French: Sion (fr) f
• Georgian: სიონი (sioni)
• German: Sitten (de) n

  Alemannic German: Sitte

• Greek: Σιόν (Sión)
• Hebrew: סיון (he) m (siwàn)
• Italian: Sion (it)
• Japanese: シオン (Shion)
• Korean: 시옹 (siong)
• Latin: Sedunum
• Latvian: Sjona
• Lithuanian: Sionas
• Persian: سیون
• Portuguese: Sião
• Russian: Сьон (Sʹon)
• Thai: ซียง
• Ukrainian: Сьйон (Sʹjon)
• Urdu: سیون (syon)
• Western Panjabi: سیؤن (sī'on)
• Yiddish: סיטען (siten)

Etymology 3

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from Galician Sión, a habitational surname from a place in Pontevedra province.
• Borrowed from French Sion, a reduced form of the personal name Michon.

Proper noun

Sion (plural Sions)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sion is the 37180^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 600 individuals. Sion is most common among White (47.0%), Black/African American (25.5%), Hispanic/Latino (14.17%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.5%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sion”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• -osin, Ison, ison, Sino-, onis, ions, NOIs, Ions, OSNI, sino-, Soni

Czech

Proper noun

Sion m inan

1. alternative form of Sión

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “Sion”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Sión”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn). Named after a former monastery.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Si‧on

Proper noun

Sion n

1. a hamlet in Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands

References

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “Sion”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎^[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

French

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: scion, scions

Proper noun

Sion f

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)

Derived terms

• étoile de Sion
• sionisme
• sioniste

Descendants

• → Khmer: ស៊ីយ៉ូន (siiyoun)
• → Romanian: Sion

Anagrams

• oins, soin

Italian

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.on/
• Hyphenation: Sì‧on

Proper noun

Sion f

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)

Anagrams

• Niso, niso, sino, sino-, soni

Latin

Etymology

From Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.on]

Proper noun

Sīōn f sg (genitive Sīōnis); third declension

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)

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Sīōn
genitive	Sīōnis
dative	Sīōnī
accusative	Sīōnem
ablative	Sīōne
vocative	Sīōn

Descendants

• 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Proper noun

Sion n

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)

Related terms

• Sionfjell
• Sionfjellet
• sionisme
• sionist
• sionistisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Proper noun

Sion n

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)

Related terms

• Sionfjell
• Sionfjellet
• sionisme
• sionist
• sionistisk

Old Irish

Proper noun

Sion

1. alternative spelling of Sión

Mutation

Mutation of Sion

radical	lenition	nasalization
Sion	Ṡion	Sion

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Sion, from Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Proper noun

Sion n

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)

Related terms

• sionism
• sionist

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish Sïón, from Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Proper noun

Sion m (genitive Shioin)

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)

Synonyms

• (mountain): Beinn Shioin, Sion Shuas

Mutation

Mutation of Sion

radical	lenition
Sion	Shion after "an", t-Sion

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic Сионъ (Sionŭ), from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn). Doublet of Cìon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǐoːn/
• Hyphenation: Si‧on

Proper noun

Sìōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling Сѝо̄н)

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)

   Synonym: Cìon

Declension

Declension of Sion

	singular
nominative	Sìōn
genitive	Sìōna
dative	Sìōnu
accusative	Sìōn
vocative	Sìōne
locative	Sìōnu
instrumental	Sìōnom

References

• “Sìōn”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Sión

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjon/ [ˈsjõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: Sion

Proper noun

Sion m

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)

Swedish

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Proper noun

Sion n (genitive Sions)

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)

Derived terms

• sionism
• sionist