mahonne

French

Alternative forms

mahone

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle French from Old Anatolian Turkish or Ottoman Turkish ماونه (mavuna), ماعونه (maʼuna) (modern Turkish mavuna), from Arabic مَاعُونَة (māʕūna).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ma.ɔn/

Noun

mahonne f (plural mahonnes)

(archaic, historical) a type of war galley used by the Turks
barge; lighter

References

“mahonne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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 541 Nr. 805

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