a small boat propelled by oars or lateen sails or both, used on the Nile and formerly more widely in the Mediterranean region 三桅小帆船(由桨、三角帆或两者共同推进的一种小船,尼罗河上使用,以前更常用于地中海地区)
语源
early 17th cent.: from Italian feluc(c)a, probably from obsolete Spanish faluca, of Arabic origin