Saigon

See also: Saigón, Saïgon, Sai Gon, and Sài Gòn

English

Alternative forms

• Sài Gòn, Sai Gon

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Saigon

2. (historical or informal) The former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam.
   • 2000 April 26, Walter A. McDougall, “Who Were We in Vietnam?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 May 2015, retrieved 3 Aug. 2008:

     But news that the North Vietnamese had launched an invasion more akin to the blitzkrieg of Poland than to a Maoist "people's war," and had overrun my old base camp 30 miles up Thunder Road from Saigon, turned my heart to lead.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• Little Saigon
• Saigon cinnamon
• Saigoneer
• Saigonese

Translations

former name of Ho Chi Minh City

• Arabic: سَايْغُون m (sayḡūn)
• Bulgarian: Сайго́н m (Sajgón)
• Burmese: ဆိုင်ဂုံ (hcuinggum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西貢 / 西贡 (zh) (Xīgòng)

• Esperanto: Sajgono
• German: Saigon (de) n
• Greek: Σαϊγκόν (Saïgkón)
• Hindi: साइगॉन (sāigŏn)
• Japanese: サイゴン (ja) (Saigon), 西貢 (さいごん, Saigon)
• Khmer: ព្រៃនគរ (km) (prɨy nɔkɔɔ), សៃហ្គន (km) (saygɔɔn)
• Korean: 사이공 (Saigong), 서공(西貢) (Seogong)
• Lao: ໄຊງ່ອນ (sai ngǭn)
• Marathi: सायगॉन (sāygŏn)
• Persian: سائیگون (sâ'igon), سایگون (sâygon)
• Polish: Sajgon (pl) m
• Portuguese: Saigon f, Saigão f
• Russian: Сайго́н (ru) m (Sajgón)
• Spanish: Saigón (es)
• Swedish: Saigon (sv)
• Thai: ไซ่ง่อน (th) (sâi-ngɔ̂n)
• Vietnamese: Sài Gòn (vi) (柴棍)

Ho Chi Minh City — see Ho Chi Minh City

See also

• Sai Kung

Anagrams

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

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaɪ̯ˈɡɔn/, /ˈzaɪ̯ɡɔn/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Hyphenation: Sai‧gon

Proper noun

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)

Synonyms

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

Japanese

Romanization

Saigon

1. Rōmaji transcription of サイゴン

Portuguese

Proper noun

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)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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

References

• “Saigon”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026