Buscemi

English

Alternative forms

• 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”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːˈsɛmi/
• Rhymes: -ɛmi

Proper noun

Buscemi

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

Translations

city of Sicily

• Arabic: (historical) قَلْعَة أَبِي شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabī šāma)
• Bulgarian: Бушеми f (Bušemi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布謝米／布谢米 (Bùxièmǐ)

• Finnish: Buscemi
• French: Buscemi (fr) f
• Georgian: ბუშემი (bušemi)
• Greek: Μπουσέμι (el) n (Bousémi), (Μπουσκέμι n (Bouskémi))

  Ancient: Κασμέναι f pl (Kasménai)

• Italian: Buscemi f
• Japanese: ブシェミ (Bushemi)
• Latin: Buxema f
• Marathi: बुश्शेमी (buśśemī)
• Portuguese: Buscemi
• Romanian: Buscemi f
• Russian: Бушеми f (Bušemi)
• Sicilian: Buxema m, Buscema m
• Ukrainian: Бушемі f (Bušemi)

Italian

Etymology 1

Adapted from Sicilian Buscema.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buʃˈʃɛ.mi/
• Rhymes: -ɛmi
• Hyphenation: Bu‧scè‧mi

Proper noun

Buscemi f

1. Buscemi (a small town in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)

Derived terms

• buscemese
• buscemesità

 

Etymology 2

Derived from Etymology 1. Doublet of Buscema.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buʃˈʃɛ.mi/
• Rhymes: -ɛmi
• Hyphenation: Bu‧scè‧mi

Proper noun

Buscemi m or f by sense

1. a surname from Sicilian