مارتیقه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Greek μαρτίγος (martígos), from a southern Italian word marticana, from Provençal martegalo (“from Martigues”), after a major shipbuilding city.
Noun
مارتیقه • (martika)
- A two-masted sailing ship with high bow and stern, used on the Black Sea.
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, § 400, page 295
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “مارتیقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1654