قالیونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• գալեօնճու (kalyoncu), գալեօնճը (kalyoncı)

Etymology

قالیون (kalyon, “galleon”) +‎ ـجی (-cu)

Noun

قالیونجی • (kalyoncu, kalyoncı)

1. a sailor or soldier on a Turkish warship

Descendants

• Turkish: kalyoncu
• →⇒ Armenian: Գալյոնճյան (Galyončyan)
• → Bulgarian: калинджи́я (kalindžíja)
• → English: galiongee
• → French: galioundji
• → Greek: καλιοντζής (kaliontzís), γαλιοντζής (galiontzís)
• → Spanish: caliongis

References

• Abikean, Mihran (1893) “գալեօնճը”, in Gorcnakan baṙaran tačkerenē hayerēn [Ottoman–Armenian Practical Dictionary]‎^[1], Constantinople: Servičʻēn Press, page 25a
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalyoncu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2365
• 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, § 318
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN