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

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