felucca.txt

felucca |fəˈlo͞okə, -ˈləkə|
noun
a small vessel propelled by oars or lateen sails or both, used on the Nile and formerly more widely in the Mediterranean region.
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Italian feluc(c)a, probably from obsolete Spanish faluca, from Arabic fulk ‘ship,’ probably from Greek epholkion ‘(towed) boat.’