sciabecco

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Italian

Alternative forms

sciambecco, stambecco, zambecco, sambecco

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شُبَّاك (šubbāk), spoken dialectally also شَبَّاك (šabbāk), as well as شِبَّاك (šibbāk).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): ^*/ʃaˈbek.ko/
Rhymes: -ekko
Hyphenation: scia‧béc‧co

Noun

sciabecco m (plural sciabecchi)

xebec

Descendants

→ Catalan: xabec
→ Old French: chabek, chebec, chebeck, chebek
- → Bulgarian: шебек (šebek)
- → Dutch: schebek
- → English: chebeque, shebeck, xebec
→ Greek: σεμπέκο (sempéko)
→ German: Schebeke, Schebecke
- → Czech: šebeka
- → Polish: szebeka
- → Russian: шебе́ка (šebéka)
→ Occitan: chebèc
→ Serbo-Croatian: šambek
⇒ Italian: sciambecchino, zambecchino
- → Venetan: sambecchino
  - → Ottoman Turkish: سنبكی (sümbeki, sömbeki, sumbaki, zümbeki, zömbeki)
- → Catalan: sambequí
- → French: samequin
- → Spanish: chambequín

Further reading

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 385

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