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单词 marabut
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marabutn.

Forms: 1600s marabuto, 1600s 1800s marabut.
Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from Spanish. Probably partly a borrowing from Italian. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Spanish marabuto; Italian marabotto; French marabut.
Etymology: Probably partly (i) < Spanish marabuto (1599–1604, in the text of which quot. 1622 is a translation), partly (ii) < Italian marabotto (1607), marabuto (1614; compare quot. 1659), and partly (iii) < French marabut (1620, also in a translation of Alemán), all apparently < Arabic murābiṭ marabout n.The word appeared in the Mediterranean in the late 16th cent., being absent from earlier European galley terminology; it was probably introduced into nautical use through the Lingua Franca, though whether the nautical sense was borrowed < Arabic or developed in the European languages is unknown.
Nautical. Obsolete.
Originally: one of the lateen sails of the mainmast of a Mediterranean galley. Later, more generally: a lateen sail (see quot. 1659).
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slave1934
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1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 191 They tooke out another lesser one [i.e. sail], which they call Marabuto,..which is a kinde of triangulary sayle.
1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §vi, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) The marabut, a triangular kind of sayl belonging to a Carvel; Il marabuto.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Marabut, a sail which galleys hoisted in bad weather.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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