dhow
noun/daʊ/
/daʊ/
- an Arab ship with one large sail in the shape of a triangleTopics Transport by waterc2Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Arabic dāwa, probably related to Marathi (a language spoken in the western Indian state of Maharashtra) dāw.
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