cangia

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.d͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -andʒa
• Hyphenation: càn‧gia

Borrowed from Arabic قَنْجَة‎ (qanja), shortened from Ottoman Turkish قانجه‌باش‎ (kancabaş, “ship of a curved prow”) from قانجه‎ (kanca, “hook”) +‎ باش‎ (baş, “prow”), so called because of its prow being curved like a hook.

• canga (erroneous)

cangia f (plural cange or cangie)

1. a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips

Old Italian doublet of cambiare, via Old French cangier, ultimately from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre, infinitive of cambiō (“to exchange”), from Gaulish cambion (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”).

cangia

1. inflection of cangiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• cangia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana