Saigon
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪɡɒn/
- Rhymes: -aɪɡɒn
Proper noun
Saigon
- (historical) Former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the biggest city in Vietnam, and the capital of the erstwhile 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.
Translations
former name of Ho Chi Minh City
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Ho Chi Minh City — see Ho Chi Minh City
See also
Anagrams
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Saigon n (proper noun, genitive Saigons or (optionally with an article) Saigon)
Synonyms
- (Saigon): Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt, Prei Nokor (historical)
Japanese
Romanization
Saigon
Portuguese
Proper noun
Saigon f
- Alternative form of Saigão
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Saigon m (Cyrillic spelling Саигон)
- (uncountable) Saigon
- Synonym: Ho Ši Min
References
- “Saigon”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024