قالیونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • գալեօնճու (kalyoncu), գալեօնճը (kalyoncı)

Etymology

قالیون (kalyon, “galleon”) +‎ ـجی (-cu)

Noun

قالیونجی • (kalyoncu, kalyoncı)

  1. a sailor or soldier on a Turkish warship

Descendants
  • Turkish: kalyoncu
  • →⇒ Armenian: Գալյոնճյան (Galyončyan)
  • → Bulgarian: калинджи́я (kalindžíja)
  • → English: galiongee
  • → French: galioundji
  • → Greek: καλιοντζής (kaliontzís), γαλιοντζής (galiontzís)
  • → Spanish: caliongis

References
  • Abikean, Mihran (1893) “գալեօնճը”, in Gorcnakan baṙaran tačkerenē hayerēn [Ottoman–Armenian Practical Dictionary]‎, Constantinople: Servičʻēn Press, page 25a
  • 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
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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