galleon

English

Etymology

From Middle French galion or Spanish galeón.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.li.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.li.ən/, /ˈɡæl.jən/

Noun

galleon (plural galleons)

1. A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.

Related terms

• galleass

Translations

large sailing ship

• Basque: galeoi
• Catalan: galió (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西班牙大帆船 (xībānyá dà fánchuán), 加利恩帆船 (jiālì'ēn fānchuán), 蓋倫帆船, 盖伦帆船 (gàilún fānchuán), 大型帆船 (dàxíng fānchuán)

• Czech: galeona (cs) f
• Danish: galeon
• Dutch: galjoen (nl)
• Estonian: galeoon
• Finnish: kaljuuna (fi), galeoni
• French: galion (fr) m
• Galician: galeón m
• German: Galeone (de) f
• Greek: γαλιόνι n (galióni)
• Hebrew: גליאון‎ (he) m
• Hungarian: galleon
• Icelandic: galíon

• Italian: galeone (it)
• Japanese: ガレオン船 (gareon sen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gallion m

  Nynorsk: gallion m

• Polish: galeon (pl) m
• Portuguese: galeão (pt) m
• Romanian: galion (ro)
• Russian: галео́н (ru) m (galeón)
• Serbo-Croatian: галеон m, галијун m

  Roman: galeon m, galijun (sh) m

• Spanish: galeón (es) m
• Swedish: galeon (sv)
• Tagalog: galyon, galeyon
• Turkish: kalyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: галіон m (halion)
• Welsh: galiwn f, galiynau f pl

Further reading

• galleon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• allonge