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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic صِقِلِّيَّة (ṣiqilliyya), from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía).
Proper noun
صقلیه • (sıkılliye)
- Sicily
Descendants
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic صِقِلِّيَّة (ṣiqilliyya), from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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siqilliya
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| Dari reading?
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siqilliya
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| Iranian reading?
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seğelliye
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| Tajik reading?
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siqilliya
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Proper noun
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صقلیه
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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Сиқиллия
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صقلیه • (seqelliyye)
- (obsolete) Sicily
- Synonym: سیسیل (sisil)
c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma:باجگاهی‌ست آنجا که کشتی ها، که از اطراف روم و فرنگ و اندلس و مغرب بیاید، عشر به سلطان دهند، و ارزاق لشکر از آن باشد، و سلطان را آنجا کشتی‌ها باشد که به روم و صقیله و مغرب روند و تجارت کنند.- bājgāhē-st ānjā ki kištī-hā, ki az atrāf-i rūm u farang u andalus u mağrib biyāyad, ušr ba sultān dahand, u azrāq-i laškar az ān bāšand, u sultān rā ānjā kištī-hā bāšad ki ba rūm u siqillīya u mağrib rawand u tijārat kunand.
- It is a place of trade such that ships from the regions of Byzantium, Europe, al-Andalus, and North Africa come there. The tenth are given to the ruler, and the troops are supplied from that. The ruler has ships there which go and trade in Byzantium, Sicily, and North Africa.