kalyon

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: kal‧yon

Noun

kalyon (definite accusative kalyonu, plural kalyonlar)

(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

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