sciabecco

Italian

Alternative forms

• sciambecco, stambecco, zambecco, sambecco

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شُبَّاك (šubbāk), spoken dialectally also شَبَّاك (šabbāk), as well as شِبَّاك (šibbāk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ʃaˈbek.ko/
• Rhymes: -ekko
• Hyphenation: scia‧béc‧co

Noun

sciabecco m (plural sciabecchi)

1. xebec

Descendants

• → Catalan: xabec
• → Old French: chabek, chebec, chebeck, chebek
  • → Bulgarian: шебек (šebek)
  • → Dutch: schebek
  • → English: chebeque, shebeck, xebec
• → Greek: σεμπέκο (sempéko)
• → German: Schebeke, Schebecke
  • → Czech: šebeka
  • → Polish: szebeka
  • → Russian: шебе́ка (šebéka)
• → Occitan: chebèc
• → Serbo-Croatian: šambek
• ⇒ Italian: sciambecchino, zambecchino
  • → Venetian: sambecchino
    • → Ottoman Turkish: سنبكی (sümbeki, sömbeki, sumbaki, zümbeki, zömbeki)
  • → Catalan: sambequí
  • → French: samequin
  • → Spanish: chambequín

Further reading

• 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 385