Etymology

Buscemi

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Today it means: Buscemi (a small town in the province of Syracuse in Sicily, Italy). Full definition →

Italian Buscemi ← Sicilian Buscema ← Old Sicilian Buxema
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromقَلْعَةْ أَبُو شَامَة
  2. Old Sicilian · derived fromBuxema
  3. Sicilian · derived fromBuscema
  4. Italian · borrowed fromBuscemi
  5. English todayBuscemi

From Italian Buscemi, from Sicilian Buscema, from Old Sicilian Buxema, from Arabic قَلْعَةْ أَبُو شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabū šāma), meaning “Castle of the man with the mole”.

Words from the same roots

SicilianBuscema all →

Buscema

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.