felucca

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian feluca, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.
   • "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
• Greek: φελούκα (el) f (feloúka)
• Hebrew: פֶלוּקָה (he) f (feluka)
• Hungarian: felukka
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• Maori: wharuka
• Portuguese: falua f
• Spanish: falúa f, faluca f
• Turkish: filika (tr)
• Welsh: ffelwca f