Sion

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:

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

Sion

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

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.

Sion (plural Sions)

1. A surname.

• 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.

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

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

Sion m inan

1. alternative form of Sión

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

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

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• Hyphenation: Si‧on

Sion n

1. a hamlet in Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands

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

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

• IPA^(key): /sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: scion, scions

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)

• étoile de Sion
• sionisme
• sioniste

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

• oins, soin

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

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

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)

• Niso, niso, sino, sino-, soni

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

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

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)

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Bengali: সিয়োন (śiẏōn)
• Czech: Sión, Sion, Sijón
• Finnish: Siion
• French: Sion
  • → Khmer: ស៊ីយ៉ូន (siiyoun)
  • → Romanian: Sion
• Italian: Sion
• 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
• Portuguese: Sião
• Spanish: Sion, Sión
• Swedish: Sion
• Welsh: Sïon

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

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)

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

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)

Sion

1. alternative spelling of Sión

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

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)

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

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)

• (mountain): Beinn Shioin, Sion Shuas

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

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

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

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

• Sión

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

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

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)

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

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)

• sionism
• sionist