سیواس

Ottoman Turkish

Sivas province

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Σεβάστεια (Sebásteia), from Ancient Greek σεβαστή (sebastḗ, “emperor's day”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), from Σεβαστός (Sebastós) used as a calque of Latin Augustus. Doublet of سابستیه.

Proper noun

سیواس • (Sivas)

1. Sivas (a city in Central Anatolia, Turkey)
2. (historical) Sivas (an eyalet in the Ottoman Empire)

Derived terms

• سیواسلو (Sivaslı, “inhabitant of Sivas”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Sivas
• → English: Sivas

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Sivas”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیواس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Sivas”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 690