dhow
English
A dhow
Etymology
From Arabic دَاو (dāw), from Persian دو (“run”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to run”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊ
- Homophone: dow
Noun
dhow (plural dhows)
- (nautical) A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- I suppose I must have slept for seven or eight hours, getting the first real rest that I had had since the night before the loss of the dhow, for when I woke the sun was high in the heavens.
- 2001, David M Besaw, Joshua, Trafford Publishing, page 251,
- Joshua continued preparing breakfast, Bijan returned to piloting the dhow offshore and Pourghasem returned to his watch. […] Several dhows were on the water and some fishermen were already at work.
- 2003, Suzanne Miers, Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem, Rowman & Littlefield (AltaMira), page 78,
- The navy sometimes hired dhows for its patrols. […] If a dhow was stopped, the slaves could not be counted on to make their presence known, having probably been told that the Europeans would kill them.
- 2011, J. W. Heldring, The Killing of Dr. Albrecht Roscher, Xlibris, page 109,
- They took a dhow from Mombasa bound for Aden and planned to take a larger vessel to Suez and then overland to Cairo.
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Further reading
dhow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- how'd, who'd