Pantelleria
Meanings
name
- An inhabited volcanic island belonging to the province of Trapani, Sicily, between Italy and Tunisia.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Pantelleria, from Sicilian Pantiddirìa, from Arabic بِنْتُ الرِّياح (bintu ar-riyāḥ, “daugther of the winds”), perhaps through a dialectal Arabic form with a genitive particle (equivalent to a theoretical Maltese *bint tar-rjieħ, *bint tal-irjieħ).
Derived words
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