لومبوز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Kahane derives the word from Venetian rombo via an unattested Greek *ρόμπος (*rómpos). Nişanyan traces it to Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos), from which English rhombus. Compare Catalan rumbo (“hole for mooring rope”) and Portuguese rombo (“hole or gap”).

Noun

لومبوز • (lumboz or lomboz)

1. (nautical) porthole; scuttle

Descendants

• Turkish: lomboz

References

• 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, § 546
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لومبوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1298
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lomboz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لومبوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645