Sion

See also: sion, -sion, Sión, Siôn, síon, Síón, and sìon

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
• 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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

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

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, 1935–1957
• Sión in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ציון. Named after a former monastery.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Si‧on

Proper noun

Sion n

1. A hamlet in Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

References

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ציון.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: scion, scions

Proper noun

Sion f

1. (biblical) Zion

Derived terms

• étoile de Sion
• sionisme
• sioniste

Descendants

• → Khmer: ស៊ីយ៉ូន (siiyoun)

Anagrams

• oins, soin

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ציון.

Proper noun

Sion f

1. Zion

Anagrams

• Niso, niso, sino, sino-, soni

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sion n

1. (biblical) Zion

Related terms

• Sionfjell
• Sionfjellet
• sionisme
• sionist
• sionistisk

 

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sion n

1. (biblical) Zion

Related terms

• Sionfjell
• Sionfjellet
• sionisme
• sionist
• sionistisk

 

Old Irish

Proper noun

Sion

1. Alternative spelling of Sión

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Sion	Ṡion	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Sion, from Ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ציון.

Proper noun

Sion n

1. Zion

Related terms

• sionism
• sionist

 

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish Sïón, from Ecclesiastical Latin, from Hebrew ציון (tsiyón).

Proper noun

Sion m (genitive Shioin)

1. (Christianity, Judaism) Zion

Synonyms

• (mountain): Beinn Shioin, Sion Shuas

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
Sion	Shion after "an", t-Sion
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Sión

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ציון.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sion m

1. (Christianity) Zion

Swedish

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ציון.

Proper noun

Sion n (genitive Sions)

1. (biblical) Zion

Derived terms

• sionism
• sionist