Buscemi

//buːˈsɛmi// name

Definitions

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

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”.

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