kalyoncu

See also: Kalyoncu

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قالیونجی, equivalent to kalyon (“galleon”) +‎ -cu.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: kal‧yon‧cu

Noun

kalyoncu (definite accusative kalyoncuyu, plural kalyoncular)

1. sailor
2. (historical) a sailor onboard a galleon

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
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN