"Saïgon" meaning in French

See Saïgon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /saj.ɡɔ̃/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn. Etymology templates: {{bor+|fr|vi|Sài Gòn}} Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|m}} Saïgon m
  1. (history) Saigon Tags: masculine Categories (topical): History Categories (place): Cities in Vietnam Synonyms: Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville Derived forms: Saïgonnais, saïgonnais
    Sense id: en-Saïgon-fr-name--lyUUDCW Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "vi",
        "3": "Sài Gòn"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "Saïgon m",
      "name": "fr-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Cities in Vietnam",
          "orig": "fr:Cities in Vietnam",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "History",
          "orig": "fr:History",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "Saïgonnais"
        },
        {
          "word": "saïgonnais"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Saigon"
      ],
      "id": "en-Saïgon-fr-name--lyUUDCW",
      "links": [
        [
          "history",
          "history"
        ],
        [
          "Saigon",
          "Saigon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(history) Saigon"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/saj.ɡɔ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Saïgon"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Saïgonnais"
    },
    {
      "word": "saïgonnais"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "vi",
        "3": "Sài Gòn"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "Saïgon m",
      "name": "fr-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French masculine nouns",
        "French proper nouns",
        "French terms borrowed from Vietnamese",
        "French terms derived from Vietnamese",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "fr:Cities in Vietnam",
        "fr:History"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Saigon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "history",
          "history"
        ],
        [
          "Saigon",
          "Saigon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(history) Saigon"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/saj.ɡɔ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Saïgon"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Saïgon meaning in French (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.