gangava

Turkish gangava

gangava (plural gangavas)

1. A small boat used for sponge fishing.

From Ottoman Turkish غانگاوه‎ (gangava), from Greek γαγγάβα (gangáva), from Ancient Greek γαγγάμη (gangámē), variant of γάγγαμον (gángamon, “small net for oystercatching”).

gangava (definite accusative gangavayı, plural gangavalar)

1. a dragnet or dredge used for sponge fishing
   • 1930 October 31, “Akdeniz Sahillerimizin İktisadî Bir Can Damarı Süngerciliktir”, in Son Posta, page 5:

     Sünger zıpkınla, elbiseli ve eblisesiz dalgıçla, bir de gangava denilen ve denizin dibinde sürüklendirilen bir torbayla avlanır.

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2. a small boat used for sponge fishing

• gangavacı

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “gangava”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1640
• 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, § 754
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN