kalyoncu
See also: Kalyoncu
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish قالیونجی, equivalent to kalyon (“galleon”) + -cu.
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: kal‧yon‧cu
Noun
editkalyoncu (definite accusative kalyoncuyu, plural kalyoncular)
- sailor
- (historical) a sailor onboard a galleon
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, § 318
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN