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غليون

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Arabic

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غَلْيُون
غَلْيُون

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian galeone.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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غَلْيُون (ḡalyūnm (plural غَلَايِين (ḡalāyīn))

  1. galleon
  2. (water) pipe; (smoking) pipe
    Synonym: (more colloquial) بِيبَة (bība)

Declension

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References

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  • 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, pages 238–241
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “غلي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN