galiongee
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish قالیونجی (“someone associated with galleon ships”) (modern Turkish kalyoncu).[1][2]
Noun[edit]
galiongee (plural galiongees)
- (historical) A Turkish sailor. [from 19th c.]
References[edit]
- ^ "galiongee." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster. 2002.
- ^ 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, § 317