قالیون
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Venetian galión.
Noun
قالیون • (kalyon)
- A type of ship with meaning evolving over time:
- a warship of the Crusades
- a member of the Spanish treasure fleet, a galleon
- a Turkish warship [from 19th c.]
- a type of pipe (smoking implement)
Derived terms
- قالیونجی (kalyoncu)
Descendants
- Turkish: kalyon
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “قالیون”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2365
- 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, § 318