مارتیقه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Greek μαρτίγος (martígos), from a southern Italian word marticana, from Provençal martegalo (“from Martigues”), after a major shipbuilding city.

Noun

مارتیقه • (martika)

1. A two-masted sailing ship with high bow and stern, used on the Black Sea.

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, § 400, page 295
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مارتیقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1654