kalyoncu

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Turkish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: kal‧yon‧cu

Noun

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kalyoncu (definite accusative kalyoncuyu, plural kalyoncular)

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

References

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  • 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