filika
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish فلوقه (fıluka, fılıka, füluka, filuka), فولوقه (fuluka), فلكه, فلیكه (filika), from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka), partially via Italian feluca, from Arabic فُلْك (fulk).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: fi‧li‧ka
Noun edit
filika (definite accusative filikayı, plural filikalar)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- 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, pages 211–213 Nr. 278