sciabecco
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic شُبَّاك (šubbāk), spoken dialectally also شَبَّاك (šabbāk), as well as شِبَّاك (šibbāk).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sciabecco m (plural sciabecchi)
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: xabec
- → Old French: chabek, chebec, chebeck, chebek
- → Greek: σεμπέκο (sempéko)
- → German: Schebeke, Schebecke
- → Occitan: chebèc
- → Serbo-Croatian: šambek
- ⇒ Italian: sciambecchino, zambecchino
- → Venetan: sambecchino
- → Ottoman Turkish: سنبكی (sümbeki, sömbeki, sumbaki, zümbeki, zömbeki)
- → Catalan: sambequí
- → French: samequin
- → Spanish: chambequín
- → Venetan: sambecchino
Further reading
[edit]- 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, page 385