felucca

English

Etymology

From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).

Noun

felucca (plural feluccas)

1. A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, pages 151-152:

     "We are very fortunate, Senhora," said Alvarez, as soon as they were in the street; "there is a felucca on the point of sailing to Naples—I have secured a passage, but we must not lose a minute."

   • "The ghostly feluccas passing along the canal are crewed by ghouls with wrapped heads." Lawrence Durrell, Justine

Translations

sailing boat

• Dutch: feloek (nl)
• French: felouque (fr) f
• Galician: falúa f
• Georgian: ფელუკა (peluḳa)
• Greek: φελούκα (el) f (feloúka)
• Hebrew: פֶלוּקָה (he) f (feluka)
• Hungarian: felukka
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• Maori: wharuka
• Mingrelian: ფილუკა (piluḳa)
• Portuguese: falua f
• Romanian: felucă (ro) f
• Russian: фелу́ка (ru) f (felúka)
• Spanish: falúa f, faluca f
• Turkish: filika (tr)
• Welsh: ffelwca f