غوندول

Ottoman Turkish

غوندول

Alternative forms

• غوندوله (gondola), قوندوله (kondola)

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetan góndoła (“gondola”), itself from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “cutter, a kind of ship”).

Noun

غوندول • (gondol) (definite accusative غوندولی (gondolu), plural غوندوللر (gondollar))

1. gondola, a long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, typical of Venice

Descendants

• Turkish: gondol
• → Armenian: կօնտօլ (kōntōl)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gondol2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1730
• 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, § 334, page 254
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غوندول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 878
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “gondola”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 223a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gondol”, in Nişanyan Sözlük