mammaluccu

Sicilian

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk). Compare Italian mammalucco, French mamelouk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mam.maˈluk.ku/
• Hyphenation: mam‧ma‧lù‧ccu

Noun

mammaluccu m (plural mammalucchi)

1. mameluke
   • 1785 – 1787, Giovanni Meli, Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 6.76:

     L’imbriacu gridau: tacíti, o cucchi, / sù lu regnanti di li Mammalucchi.

     The drunk man yelled: shut up, you idiots, I'm the king of the mamelukes.

2. slug

   Coordinate term: babbaluci (“snail”)

3. fool

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:babbu

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “mammaluccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2354