gangava

English

Etymology

Turkish gangava

Noun

gangava (plural gangavas)

1. A small boat used for sponge fishing.

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish غانگاوه (gangava), from Greek γαγγάβα (gangáva), from Ancient Greek γαγγάμη (gangámē), variant of γάγγαμον (gángamon, “small net for oystercatching”).

Noun

gangava (definite accusative gangavayı, plural gangavalar)

1. a dragnet or dredge used for sponge fishing
   • 1930 October 31, “Akdeniz Sahillerimizin İktisadî Bir Can Damarı Süngerciliktir”, in Son Posta, page 5:

     Sünger zıpkınla, elbiseli ve eblisesiz dalgıçla, bir de gangava denilen ve denizin dibinde sürüklendirilen bir torbayla avlanır.

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2. a small boat used for sponge fishing

Derived terms

• gangavacı

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gangava”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1640
• 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, § 754
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN