English Explanatory Dictionary

Qamishli

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city in al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria, on the border with Turkey.

Word forms

Qamishli

Etymology

From Turkish kamış (“common reed”) + -li (“with”), a calque of Classical Syriac ܒܝܬ ܙܠܝܢ (bēṯ zālīn, literally “house of reeds”). Compare Azerbaijani qamışlıq.

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