English Explanatory Dictionary

Buscemi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Buscemi (a small town in the province of Syracuse in Sicily, Italy).
  2. a surname, especially of Sicilian ancestry

Pronunciation

/buːˈsɛmi/

Word forms

Buscemi Buscema

Etymology

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”.

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