mahonne
French
Alternative forms
- mahone
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle French from Old Anatolian Turkish or Ottoman Turkish ماونه (mavuna), ماعونه (maʼuna) (modern Turkish mavuna), from Arabic مَاعُونَة (māʿūna).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ɔn/
Noun
mahonne f (plural mahonnes)
- (archaic, historical) a type of war galley used by the Turks
- barge; lighter
References
- “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