سنبكی

سنبكی

Ottoman Turkish

سنكی

Etymology

From Venetian sambecchino, from Italian sciambecchino, from Italian sciambecco.

Noun

سنبكی • (sümbeki, sömbeki, sumbaki, zümbeki, zömbeki)

1. a long and slim twomasted, later threemasted vessel of war and of trade of twelve to forty cannons, xebec[late 17^th–early 19^th century]

Proper noun

سنبكی • (sümbeki, sömbeki, sumbaki, zümbeki, zömbeki)

1. the Greek island Symi

Descendants

• Turkish: Sömbeki

References

• 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
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سنبكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2681