غليون

Arabic

غَلْيُون

غَلْيُون

Alternative forms

• قَلْيُون (qalyūn)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian galeone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣal.juːn/

Noun

غَلْيُون • (ḡalyūn) m (plural غَلَايِين (ḡalāyīn))

1. galleon
2. (water) pipe; (smoking) pipe

   Synonym: (more colloquial) بِيبَة (bība)

Declension

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	غَلْيُون ḡalyūn	الْغَلْيُون al-ḡalyūn	غَلْيُون ḡalyūn
Nominative	غَلْيُونٌ ḡalyūnun	الْغَلْيُونُ al-ḡalyūnu	غَلْيُونُ ḡalyūnu
Accusative	غَلْيُونًا ḡalyūnan	الْغَلْيُونَ al-ḡalyūna	غَلْيُونَ ḡalyūna
Genitive	غَلْيُونٍ ḡalyūnin	الْغَلْيُونِ al-ḡalyūni	غَلْيُونِ ḡalyūni
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	غَلْيُونَيْن ḡalyūnayn	الْغَلْيُونَيْن al-ḡalyūnayn	غَلْيُونَيْ ḡalyūnay
Nominative	غَلْيُونَانِ ḡalyūnāni	الْغَلْيُونَانِ al-ḡalyūnāni	غَلْيُونَا ḡalyūnā
Accusative	غَلْيُونَيْنِ ḡalyūnayni	الْغَلْيُونَيْنِ al-ḡalyūnayni	غَلْيُونَيْ ḡalyūnay
Genitive	غَلْيُونَيْنِ ḡalyūnayni	الْغَلْيُونَيْنِ al-ḡalyūnayni	غَلْيُونَيْ ḡalyūnay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	غَلَايِين ḡalāyīn	الْغَلَايِين al-ḡalāyīn	غَلَايِين ḡalāyīn
Nominative	غَلَايِينُ ḡalāyīnu	الْغَلَايِينُ al-ḡalāyīnu	غَلَايِينُ ḡalāyīnu
Accusative	غَلَايِينَ ḡalāyīna	الْغَلَايِينَ al-ḡalāyīna	غَلَايِينَ ḡalāyīna
Genitive	غَلَايِينَ ḡalāyīna	الْغَلَايِينِ al-ḡalāyīni	غَلَايِينِ ḡalāyīni

Declension of noun غَلْيُون (ḡalyūn)

Related terms

• Algerian Arabic: غَلْيُوطَة (ḡalyōṭa), غَلْيَاطَة (ḡalyāṭa, “galliot”)
• Various dialects: قَلِّيط (gallīṭ, “galette”)

References

• 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, pages 238–241
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غلي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN