قالیون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

գալեօն (kalyon) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Venetian galión.

Noun

قالیون • (kalyon)

A type of ship with meaning evolving over time:
1. a warship of the Crusades
2. a member of the Spanish treasure fleet, a galleon
3. a Turkish warship [from 19th c.]
a type of pipe (smoking implement)

Derived terms

قالیونجی (kalyoncu)

Descendants

Turkish: kalyon

References

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalyon”, 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

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