mahonne
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed into Middle French from Old Anatolian Turkish or Ottoman Turkish ماونه (mavuna), ماعونه (maʼuna) (modern Turkish mavuna), from Arabic مَاعُونَة (māʕūna).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mahonne f (plural mahonnes)
- (archaic, historical) a type of war galley used by the Turks
- barge; lighter
References edit
- “mahonne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- 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, page 541 Nr. 805