لومبوز
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editKahane derives the word from Venetian rombo via an unattested Greek *ρόμπος (*rómpos). Nişanyan traces it to Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos), from which English rhombus. Compare Catalan rumbo (“hole for mooring rope”) and Portuguese rombo (“hole or gap”).
Noun
editلومبوز • (lumboz or lomboz)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: lomboz
References
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, § 546
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لومبوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1298
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lomboz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لومبوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645