Pantelleria

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˌpæntəˈlɛəɹiə/, /ˌpʌntəˈlɛəɹiə/

Pantelleria

1. An inhabited volcanic island belonging to the province of Trapani, Sicily, between Italy and Tunisia.

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). The island was Arabic-speaking until the 18th century. Its older Latin name was Cossura.

Pantelleria f

1. Pantelleria (Sicilian island)

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