mahonne
French
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editEtymology
editBorrowed into Middle French from Old Anatolian Turkish or Ottoman Turkish ماونه (mavuna), ماعونه (maʼuna) (modern Turkish mavuna), from Arabic مَاعُونَة (māʕūna).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmahonne 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
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