kalyon

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قالیون, قلیون (kalyon), from Venetan galión.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: kal‧yon

Noun

kalyon (definite accusative kalyonu, plural kalyonlar)

1. (nautical, historical) galleon

Derived terms

• kalyoncu

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, § 318