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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from either Italian rampa (“flight of stairs, ramp”) or French rampe (“ramp, slope”).
Noun
رامپه • (rampa) (definite accusative رامپهیی (rampayı), plural رامپهلر (rampalar))
- grappling hook, a type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target, like an enemy ship
- Synonym: قارموق (karmuk)
- (nautical) boarding, the act of a group of sailors or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by getting aboard it
Derived terms
- رامپه ایتمك (rampa etmek, “to board an enemy ship”)
- رامپهجی (rampacı, “member of a boarding party”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “رامپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 11
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rampa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3937
- 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 533
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رامپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 613
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “rampa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رامپه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 958