cangia

See also: cangiâ

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.d͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -andʒa
• Hyphenation: càn‧gia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قَنْجَة (qanja), shortened from Ottoman Turkish قانجه‌باش (kancabaş, “ship of a curved prow”) from قانجه (kanca, “hook”) +‎ باش (baş, “prow”), so called because of its prow being curved like a hook.

Alternative forms

• canga (erroneous)

Noun

cangia f (plural cange or cangie)

1. a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips

Etymology 2

Old Italian doublet of cambiare, via Old French cangier, ultimately from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre, infinitive of cambiō (“to exchange”), from Gaulish cambion (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”).

Verb

cangia

1. inflection of cangiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• cangia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana