dhow

From Arabic ⁧دَاو⁩ (dāw).

• IPA^(key): /daʊ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: dow

dhow (plural dhows)

1. (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:

     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.

   • 2015, John P. Cooper, Dionisius A. Agius, Tom Collie, Faisal al-Naimi, “Boat and ship engravings at al-Zubārah, Qatar: the dāw exposed?”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies‎, volume 45: Papers from the forty-eighth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 25 to 27 July 2014 (2015), →ISSN, pages 35–47:

     In contemporary Anglophone usage, the term ‘dhow’ has come to refer generically and exonymically to traditional wooden vessels of the western Indian Ocean, whatever their particular forms or emic classification.

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