فلوكة

Arabic

Etymology

From فُلْك m or f or pl (fulk, ship), deformed in the dialects due to its irregular noun class.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa.luː.ka/

Noun

فَلُوكَة • (falūka) f (plural فَلَائِك (falāʔik) or فَلَالِك (falālik))

  1. felucca

Declension

Further reading

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 264–266, instead proposes a Spanish corruption of حَرَّاقَة (ḥarrāqa)
  • 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, pages 211–213 Nr. 278, contains more detailed attestation data, but considers Arabic derivation “unsatisfactory” and instead a Romance mediation of Dutch or English hulk

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fluː.ka/

Noun

فلوكة • (flūka) f (plural فلايك (flāyik) or فلوكات (flūkāt))

  1. small boat

See also

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).

Noun

فلوكة • (flōka) f (plural فلايك (falāyek))

  1. fishing boat
    Synonym: شختورة (šaḵtūra)

See also

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