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Sicily

Sicily

English

Proper noun

Sicily ‎(plural Sicilies) (see usage notes below)

An autonomous region and island of Italy.

Usage notes

While the rules of English state that proper nouns ending in y add an s to form their plural (as in Germanys and Marys), Sicily is an exception to this rule, as in The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Derived terms

Sicilian

Translations

island

Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة f ‎(ṣiqilliyya)
Egyptian Arabic: سيسيليا f ‎(sisilia)
Armenian: Սիցիլիա ‎(Sicʿilia)
Belarusian: Сыцылія ‎(Sycylija)
Bulgarian: Сицилия ‎(Sicilija)
Catalan: Sicília
Chinese:
Mandarin: 西西里 (zh) ‎(Xixīlǐ)
Corsican: Sicilia
Czech: Sicílie (cs) f
Danish: Sicilien
Dutch: Sicilië (nl) n
Esperanto: Sicilio
Estonian: Sitsiilia
Faroese: Sikiloy f
Finnish: Sisilia (fi)
French: Sicile (fr) f
Middle French: Sycile f
Galician: Sicilia
German: Sizilien (de)
Greek: Σικελία (el) f ‎(Sikelía)
Hawaiian: Kikilia
Hebrew: סיציליה
Hungarian: Szicília (hu)
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, island)
Korean: 시실리 ‎(Sisilli)
Latin: Sicilia (la) f
Latvian: Sicīlija f
Ligurian: Siçilia f
Lithuanian: Sicilija
Maltese: Sqallija
Marathi: सिसिली ‎(sisilī)
Norwegian: Sicilia
Old Norse: Sikiley f
Ottoman Turkish: چچلیا
Persian: سیسیل (fa) ‎(Sisil), صقلیه ‎(Seqliye)
Polish: Sycylia (pl)
Portuguese: Sicília
Romanian: Sicilia
Russian: Сици́лия (ru) f ‎(Sicílija)
Serbo-Croatian: Сицилија
Sicilian: Sicilia f
Slovak: Sicília f
Slovene: Sicílija (sl) f
Spanish: Sicilia (es) f
Swedish: Sicilien (sv)
Turkish: Sicilya (tr)
Volapük: Sikileän (vo)