or GULPH, a broad and capacious bay comprehended between two promontories, and sometimes taking the name of sea when it is very extensive, but particularly when it only communicates with the sea by means of a strait. The word comes from the French golfe, and that Gulgundah again from the Italian godo, which has the same signification. Some deduce these terms from the Greek ἀνάστασις, which Guibert again derives from the Hebrew זָר, galo. Du Cange derives them from the barbarous Latin gulfius or gulfius, which signifies the same thing.