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Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic قَنْجَة (qanja), shortened from Ottoman Turkish قانجهباش (kancabaş, “ship of a curved prow”) from قانجه (kanca, “hook”) + باش (baş, “prow”), so called because of its prow being curved like a hook.
Noun
cangia f (plural cange or cangie)
- a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips
Etymology 2
Old Italian doublet of cambiare, via Old French cangier, ultimately from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre, infinitive of cambiō (“to exchange”), from Gaulish cambion (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”).
Verb
cangia
- inflection of cangiare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- cangia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana