ܨܗܝܘܢ

From Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn), perhaps influenced by ܨܗܝܘܬܐ (ṣahyūṯā, “thirst”).

ܨܸܗܝܘܿܢ • (ṣɛhyōn)

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)

• → Arabic: صِهْيُون (ṣihyūn)
  • → Persian: صهیون (sahyun)
    • → Urdu: صیہون (saīhūn), صہیون (sahyūn)
• → Malayalam: സെഹ്യോൻ (sehyōṉ)

• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 474
• Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan (a. 1000), Duval, Rubens, editor, Lexicon Syriacum (Collection Orientale; 15–17) (in Classical Syriac), Paris: e Reipublicæ typographæo, published 1901, page 826