قالیون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• գալեօն (kalyon) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Venetan galión.

Noun

قالیون • (kalyon)

1. A type of ship with meaning evolving over time:
   1. a warship of the Crusades
   2. a member of the Spanish treasure fleet, a galleon
   3. a Turkish warship [from 19th c.]
2. a type of pipe (smoking implement)

Derived terms

• قالیونجی (kalyoncu)

Descendants

• Turkish: kalyon

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalyon”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2365
• 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, § 318