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noun, feminine

mahonne

/ma.ɔn/

noun, feminine/ma.ɔn/plural: mahonnes

a type of war galley used by the Turks; barge; lighter

Borrowed into Middle French from Old Anatolian Turkish or Ottoman Turkish ماونه (mavuna), ماعونه (maʼuna) (modern Turkish mavuna), from Arabic مَاعُونَة (māʕūna).