camàlic

Borrowed from Ligurian camali, plural of camalo, from Arabic حَمَّال (ḥammāl, “porter”). Cognate with Italian camallo (“longshoreman”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈma.lik]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈma.lik]

camàlic m (plural camàlics)

1. porter

   Synonym: bastaix

• “camàlic”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007