cafila
See also: cáfila
English
Etymology
From Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila). Doublet of coffle.
Noun
cafila (plural cafilas)
- A caravan of travellers or supplies.
- 1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford 2013, p. 41:
- [W]e heard sounds at a distance, which we conjectured to proceed from the bells of a Cafila, passing over the rocks.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer, ch. 10:
- I heard someone who seemed to know say that Vodalus was far to the north, hiding among the frost-pinched forests and raiding kafilas.
- 1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford 2013, p. 41:
Alternative forms
- cafilah, cafileh, kafila, kafilah, kafileh
Anagrams
- facial