Dicle (Kurdish: Pîran,[2] Ottoman Turkish: پيران[3]) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.

[6] 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[7] and cognate with "tîj, tîr" (sharp, arrow) in Kurdish[8][9] 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.

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