Dicle

Dicle (Kurdish: Pîran,[3] Ottoman Turkish: پيران[4]) is a town and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. The population was 8,436 in 2010. The Mayor is Felat Aygören from the HDP.[5]

This article is about the town. For the river, see Tigris. For the given name and surname, see Dicle (name).
Dicle
District
Dicle is located in Turkey
Dicle
Dicle
Coordinates: 38°22′30″N 40°04′24″E
Country Turkey
ProvinceDiyarbakır
Government
Area
[1]
 • District704.98 km2 (272.19 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)[2]
 • Urban
9,023
 • District
40,356
 • District density57/km2 (150/sq mi)
Post code
21830

Dicle is the Kurdish and Turkish name of the Tigris river, which runs through the district and gave its name to it. The name derives from tighri- (arrow) from Avestan[6] and cognate with "tîj, tîr" (sharp, arrow) in Kurdish[7][8] and tigra- (sharp, pointed) in Old Persian. Some claim that it derives from through Akkadian Idiqlat from the original Sumerian name for the river, Idigna.


References
  1. "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  3. Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  4. Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla), T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 407.
  5. "Diyarbakır Dicle Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  6. "Etymology of Tigris". Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  7. "Tîj in English". Glosbe.com. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  8. "Tîr in English". Glosbe.com. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
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