felucca
[ fuh-luhk-uh, -loo-kuh ]
/ fəˈlʌk ə, -ˈlu kə /
noun
a sailing vessel, lateen-rigged on two masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
a small fishing boat formerly used in the San Francisco Bay area.
Origin of felucca
1620–30; earlier
falluca < Spanish
faluca, earlier variant of
falúa, perhaps < Catalan
faluga < Arabic
falūwah small cargo ship
Words nearby felucca
felt side,
felt-tip pen,
felting,
feltwork,
felty's syndrome,
felucca,
felv,
felwort,
fem,
fem lib,
fem.
Example sentences from the Web for felucca
British Dictionary definitions for felucca
felucca
/ (fɛˈlʌkə) /
noun
a narrow lateen-rigged vessel of the Mediterranean
Word Origin for felucca
C17: from Italian
felucca, probably from obsolete Spanish
faluca, probably from Arabic
fulūk ships, from Greek
epholkion small boat, from
ephelkein to tow