قالیونجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
قالیون (kalyon, “galleon”) + ـجی (-cu)
Noun
قالیونجی • (kalyoncu)
- a sailor or soldier on a Turkish warship
Descendants
- Turkish: kalyoncu
- → English: galiongee
- → French: galioundji
- → Greek: καλιοντζής (kaliontzís), γαλιοντζής (galiontzís)
- → Spanish: caliongis
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kalyoncu”, 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
- The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, 2013, →ISBN