صیدا

See also: صيدا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَيْدَا (ṣaydā), from Classical Syriac ܨܰܝܕ݁ܳܢ (ṣaydon), itself from Phoenician 𐤑𐤉𐤃𐤅𐤍 (ṣydwn /⁠ṣīdūn⁠/).

Proper noun

صیدا • (sayda)

1. Saïda (a port city in western Lebanon)

Descendants

• Turkish: Sayda

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیدا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1198
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Sayda”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 668