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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Venetan galión.
Noun
قالیون • (kalyon)
- A type of ship with meaning evolving over time:
- a warship of the Crusades
- a member of the Spanish treasure fleet, a galleon
- a Turkish warship
- a type of pipe (smoking implement)
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References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalyon”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2365
- 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