Sicilian

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Adjective

Sicilian (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Sicily or its inhabitants.

Translations

relating to Sicily or its inhabitants

• Basque: siziliar (eu)
• Catalan: sicilià (ca)
• Czech: sicilský (cs)
• Dutch: Siciliaans (nl)
• Finnish: sisilialainen (fi)
• French: sicilien (fr)
• German: sizilianisch (de)
• Greek: σικελικός (el) (sikelikós)
• Hungarian: szicíliai (hu)

• Italian: siciliano (it)
• Persian: سیسیلی (fa) (sisili)
• Polish: sycylijski (pl)
• Portuguese: siciliano (pt)
• Romanian: sicilian (ro)
• Russian: сицилийский (ru) (sicilíjskij)
• Sicilian: sicilianu (scn)
• Spanish: siciliano (es)
• Swedish: Sicilierna (sv)

Proper noun

Sicilian

1. The language of Sicily.

Translations

language

• Basque: siziliera (eu)
• Catalan: sicilià (ca) m
• Dutch: Siciliaans (nl)
• French: sicilien (fr) m
• German: Sizilianisch (de) n
• Greek: σικελικά (el) (sikeliká) n pl, Σικελική (el) (Sikelikí) f
• Italian: siciliano (it) m

• Japanese: シチリア語 (ja) (Shichiria-go)
• Persian: سیسیلی (fa) (sisili)
• Portuguese: siciliano (pt) m
• Russian: сицилийский (ru) (sicilíjskij) m (язы́к)
• Sicilian: sicilianu (scn) m
• Spanish: siciliano (es) m

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Sicilian terms

External links

• ISO 639-3 code scn (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Sicilian, scn
• Sicilian–English Dictionary from Webster’s Online Dictionary

Noun

Sicilian (plural Sicilians)

1. A native of Sicily.
2. Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5.
   • 2009, Reg Keeland, translator, The Girl Who Played with Fire (translation of, 2006 (publication date), Stieg Larsson, Flickan som lekte med elden), Knopf, ISBN 9780307269980, chapter 9, page 129:

     Palmgren was playing white and had opened the Sicilian quite correctly.

Hypernyms

• (opening): the Sicilian Defence, the Sicilian Defense

Translations

person

• Basque: siziliar (eu)
• Catalan: sicilià (ca) m, siciliana (ca) f
• Dutch: Siciliaan m, Siciliaanse f
• Esperanto: siciliano (eo) (man or woman), sicilianino (eo) (woman)
• Finnish: sisilialainen (fi)
• French: Sicilien (fr) m, Sicilienne (fr) f
• German: Sizilianer (de) m, Sizilianerin (de) f
• Greek: Σικελός (el) (Sikelós) m, Σικελή (el) (Sikelí) f

• Italian: siciliano (it) m, siciliana (it) f
• Persian: سیسیلی (fa) (sisili)
• Polish: Sycylijczyk m, Sycylijka f
• Portuguese: siciliano (pt) m
• Russian: сицилиец (ru) (sicilíjec) m, сицилийка (ru) (sicilíjka) f
• Sicilian: sicilianu (scn) m, siciliana (scn) f
• Turkish: Sicilyalı (tr)

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