köken: Most probably named after the Battle of Amba Aradam, where Italian troops suffered heavy losses in 1935; thus, from Amharic አምባ አረደም (Āmiba Āredemi).
Saigon (the former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam)
köken: Ultimately borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn. The kanji spellings 西貢, 柴棍 are considered to be ateji. However, the 柴棍 spelling is rooted in the Vietnamese etymology of the name; see Sài Gòn for more.
Hồ Chí Minh, the founder and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. · short for Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (“Ho Chi Minh City”)
köken: 胡 (a common Vietnamese surname, SV: Hồ) + 志明 (“enlightened will”, SV: Chí Minh). It is the most well-known pseudonym of Nguyễn Sinh Cung (1890-1969), the founder and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.