پونیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bugna (“clew”).

Noun

پونیه • (punya)

(nautical) clew-garnet, a rope attaching to the clew of a sail, used to furl it

Derived terms

هیسه پونیه (hisa punya, “clew up the mainsail!”)

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پونیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 460

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