Tanım
•A jib (triangular sail attached to the forestay of a sailboat, the clew of which reaches back about to the level of the mast).
Diğer Dillerde
jib (triangular sail attached to the forestay of a sailboat, the clew of which reaches back about to the level of the mast)
çekim: çoğul fokat · tamlayan fokan
köken: < Swedish fock (“jib”)
aile: fokkamasto, myrskyfokka, rullafokka
A foresail, jib.
çekim: çoğul fokke · tamlayan foks
köken: From Dutch fok. Cognate with Middle High German vocke, Icelandic fokka.
aile: stagfok, stormfok, fokkesejl
Etimoloji
From Proto-Germanic *fukkōną (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug-néh₂-. Probably related to Dutch fok (“foresail”), but it is unclear whether either language borrowed the term from the other.