رامپه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from either Italian rampa (“flight of stairs, ramp”) or French rampe (“ramp, slope”).

Noun

رامپه • (rampa) (definite accusative رامپه‌یی (rampayı), plural رامپه‌لر (rampalar))

1. grappling hook, a type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target, like an enemy ship

   Synonym: قارموق (karmuk)

2. (nautical) boarding, the act of a group of sailors or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by getting aboard it

Derived terms

• رامپه ایتمك (rampa etmek, “to board an enemy ship”)
• رامپه‌جی (rampacı, “member of a boarding party”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: rampa

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “رامپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 11
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rampa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3937
• 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 533
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رامپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 613
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “rampa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رامپه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 958