kalyoncu

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish قالیونجی, equivalent to kalyon (“galleon”) +‎ -cu.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: kal‧yon‧cu

Noun[edit]

kalyoncu (definite accusative kalyoncuyu, plural kalyoncular)

  1. sailor
  2. (historical) a sailor onboard a galleon

References[edit]

  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 318
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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