بابافنغو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بابافینغو, پاپافینغو (papafingo), بابا فنغو

Etymology

From Venetan papafìgo. Cognate with Italian pappafico, Middle French papefil, and many other words around the Mediterranean.

Noun

بابافنغو • (babafingo)

1. (nautical) topgallant sail

Descendants

• Turkish: babafingo

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 332
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بابافینغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 230
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بابافنغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 314