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Sicilian
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk). Compare Italian mammalucco, French mamelouk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mam.maˈluk.ku/
- Hyphenation: mam‧ma‧lù‧ccu
Noun
mammaluccu m (plural mammalucchi)
- mameluke
1785 – 1787,
Giovanni Meli,
Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 6.76:
- L’imbriacu gridau: tacíti, o cucchi, / sù lu regnanti di li Mammalucchi.
- The drunk man yelled: shut up, you idiots, I'm the king of the mamelukes.
- slug
- Coordinate term: babbaluci (“snail”)
- fool
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:babbu
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “mammaluccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2354