پوپا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

پوپه

Etymology

From Venetian pupa, from Late Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis.

Noun

پوپا • (pupa)

(nautical) stern; poop

Descendants

Turkish: pupa

References

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, page 364
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پوپا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 455

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