English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English Sicilie Sicilye Old English Sicilia Latin Sicilia Ancient Greek Σικελία ( Sikelía ) , from Σίκελος ( Síkelos , “ Sicel ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ] Proper noun [ edit ] Sicily (plural Sicilies ( see usage notes below )
The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea , an autonomous region of Italy Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily .
( historical ) Synonym of Kingdom of Sicily , a former kingdom controlling the island and some of southern Italy in the medieval and early modern period ( historical ) Synonym of Kingdom of Naples , a former kingdom controlling southern Italy and claiming sovereignty over the island in the early modern period ( historical ) Synonym of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies , a former kingdom controlling the island and most of southern Italy in the 19th century Usage notes [ edit ] Meronyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] island in the Mediterranean Sea
Afrikaans: Sisilië
Albanian: Siçilia f Siçighja f
Amharic: ሲኪልያ ( sikilya )
Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة f ( ṣiqilliyya )
Egyptian Arabic: سيسيليا f ( sisilia )
Hijazi Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة f ( ṣigilliya, ṣiqilliya )
Aragonese: Secilia f
Armenian: Սիցիլիա ( Sicʻilia )
Asturian: Sicilia f
Azerbaijani: Siciliya Siqilliyyə
Basque: Sizilia
Bavarian: Sizilien n
Belarusian: Сыцылія f ( Sycylija )
Bengali: সিসিলি (bn) ( śiśili ) , সিকিল্লি ( śikilli )
Breton: Sikilia f
Bulgarian: Сицилия f ( Sicilija )
Catalan: Sicília (ca) f
Chechen: Сицили ( Sicili )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 西西里 (zh) ( Xixīlǐ )
Chuvash: Сицили ( Sitsili )
Cornish: Sisili f
Corsican: Sicilia f
Czech: Sicílie (cs) f
Danish: Sicilien
Dutch: Sicilië (nl) n
Esperanto: Sicilio
Estonian: Sitsiilia
Extremaduran: Sicília f
Faroese: Sikiloy f Sisilia f
Finnish: Sisilia (fi)
Franco-Provençal: Secila f
French: Sicile (fr) f Middle French: Sycile f
Friulian: Sicilie f
Galician: Sicilia (gl) f
Georgian: სიცილია ( sicilia )
German: Sizilien (de) n Alemannic German: Sizilie n
Greek: Σικελία (el) f ( Sikelía )
Ancient: Σικελία f ( Sikelía )
Hausa: Sisiliya
Hawaiian: Kikilia
Hebrew: סִיצִילְיָה (he) f
Hindi: सिसिली ( sisilī )
Hungarian: Szicília (hu)
Icelandic: Sikiley f
Ido: Sicilia (io)
Indonesian: Sisilia
Irish: An tSicil f
Italian: Sicilia (it) f
Japanese: シチリア ( Shichiria ) , シチリア州 ( Shichiria-shū ) ( region ) , シチリア島 ( Shichiria-tō ) ( island ) , シシリー ( Shishirī ) , シシリー島 ( Shishirī-tō )
Javanese: Sisilia
Kazakh: Сицилия ( Sisiliä )
Korean: 시칠리아 ( Sichillia )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سیسیلیا f ( sîsîlya )
Northern Kurdish: Sîcîlya (ku) f
Kyrgyz: Сицилия (ky) ( Sitsiliya )
Ladino: Sisilia f
Latin: Sicilia (la) f
Latvian: Sicīlija f
Ligurian: Siçilia f
Limburgish: Sicilië (li) n
Lithuanian: Sicilija f
Low German:
German Low German: Sizilien n
Luxembourgish: Sizilien n
Macedonian: Сицилија f ( Sicilija )
Malayalam: സിസിലി ( sisili )
Maltese: Sqallija m
Maori: Hihirī
Marathi: सिसिली ( sisilī ) , सिचिल्या ( sicilyā )
Middle English: Sicilie Sicilye
Mingrelian: სიცილია ( sicilia )
Neapolitan: Sicilia f
Norman: Sicile f
North Frisian: Siziilien n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Sicilia f
Nynorsk: Sicilia f
Occitan: Sicília f
Old English: Sicilia f
Old Norse: Sikiley f Sikelö
Ossetian: Сицили ( Sicili )
Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا صقلیه
Persian: سیسیل (fa) ( sisil ) , صقلیه ( seqelliyye )
Picard: Sicile f
Piedmontese: Sicilia f
Polish: Sycylia (pl) f
Portuguese: Sicília (pt) f
Punjabi: ਸਿਚੀਲੀਆ ( sicīlīā )
Romanian: Sicilia f
Russian: Сици́лия (ru) f ( Sicílija )
Sardinian: Sitzìlia f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Сѝцӣлија f
Roman: Sìcīlija (sh) f
Sicilian: Sicilia f
Silesian: Sycylijo n
Slovak: Sicília f
Slovene: Sicílija (sl) f
Somali: Sasiiliya
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Siciliska f
Upper Sorbian: Sicilska f
Spanish: Sicilia (es) f
Swahili: Sisilia
Swedish: Sicilien (sv) n
Tagalog: Sisily
Tamil: சிசிலி ( cicili )
Tarantino: Sicilie f
Telugu: సిసిలీ ( sisilī )
Thai: ซิซิลี ( sí-sí-lee )
Tibetan: སི་ཅི་ལི་ཡ། ( si ci li ya )
Turkish: Sicilya (tr)
Ukrainian: Сици́лія f ( Sycýlija )
Urdu: صقلیہ
Venetian: Siciłia f
Volapük: Sikileän (vo)
Welsh: Sisili f
West Flemish: Sicilië n
West Frisian: Sisylje n
Yakut: Сициилийэ ( Sitsiiliye ) , Сицилия ( Sitsiliya )
Yiddish: סיציליע f ( sitsilye )
See also [ edit ] (administrative regions of Italy ) regions Italy Abruzzo Apulia Basilicata Calabria Campania Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Lazio Liguria Lombardy Marche Molise Piedmont Sardinia Sicily Trentino-Alto Adige Tuscany Umbria Valle d'Aosta Veneto (Category: en:Administrative regions of Italy ) 
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