Saigon

• Sài Gòn, Sai Gon

Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪɡɒn/
• Rhymes: -aɪɡɒn

Saigon

2. (historical or informal) The former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 46:

     They met at a bar in Saigon, dated, fell in love, and, a year later, married right there in the city’s central courthouse.

4. A ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

• Little Saigon
• Saigon cinnamon

• Sai Kung

• Nagios, Nogais, angios, gosain, ngaios, sagoin

Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.

• IPA^(key): /zaɪ̯ˈɡɔn/, /ˈzaɪ̯ɡɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Hyphenation: Sai‧gon

Saigon n (proper noun, genitive Saigons or (optionally with an article) Saigon)

1. (historical or informal) Saigon (the former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam)

• (Saigon): Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt, Prei Nokor (historical)

Saigon

1. Rōmaji transcription of サイゴン

Saigon f

1. alternative form of Saigão: (historical or informal) Saigon (the former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam)

• IPA^(key): /saiɡon/
• Hyphenation: Sa‧i‧gon

Saigon m inan (Cyrillic spelling Саигон)

1. (historical or informal) Saigon (the former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam)

   Synonym: Ho Ši Min

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