mammaluccu
Sicilian edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk). Compare Italian mammalucco, French mamelouk.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mammaluccu m (plural mammalucchi)
- mameluke
- 1785 – 1787, Giovanni Meli, Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 6.76:
- L’imbriacu gridau: tacíti, o cucchi, / sù lu regnanti di li Mammalucchi.
- The drunk man yelled: shut up, you idiots, I'm the king of the mamelukes.
- L’imbriacu gridau: tacíti, o cucchi, / sù lu regnanti di li Mammalucchi.
- slug
- Coordinate term: babbaluci (“snail”)
- fool
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:babbu
References edit
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “mammaluccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2354