See also: صقلية and صقلیہ

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic صِقِلِّيَّة (ṣiqilliyya), from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía).

Proper noun

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صقلیه (sıkılliye)

  1. Sicily

Descendants

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  • Turkish: Sıkılliye

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic صِقِلِّيَّة (ṣiqilliyya), from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? siqilliya
Dari reading? siqilliya
Iranian reading? seğelliye
Tajik reading? siqilliya

Proper noun

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Dari صقلیه
Iranian Persian
Tajik Сиқиллия

صقلیه (seqelliyye)

  1. (obsolete) Sicily
    Synonym: سیسیل (sisil)
    • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎[1]:
      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 [of the goods] 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.