Definition of Kajawah

1. a camel saddle [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kajawah

kaiseki
kaisekis
kaiser roll
kaiserdom
kaiserdoms
kaiserin
kaiserins
kaiserism
kaiserisms
kaisers
kaizen
kaizens
kaj
kajal
kajatenhout
kajawah (current term)
kajawahs
kajeput
kajeputs
kaji
kajigger
kajiggers
kajik
kajiks
kajillion
kajillions
kajis
kajk
kajmak

Literary usage of Kajawah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Official Report of the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84: Compiled (1885)
"Each band will support by the buttons and the button-holes a weight of Carry the same tools as the wood kajawah, and is for regimental use only. ..."

2. Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and by Firdawsī, Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Ḥāfiẓ, Saʻdī (1900)
"I overheard a kajawah, or gentleman, riding on one side of a camel-litter, observing to his adil, or opposite companion: " How strange that the ivory ..."

3. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"I overheard a kajawah, or gentleman, riding on one side of a camel-litter, observing to his adil, or opposite companion: " How strange that the ivory ..."

4. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"kajawah.—A kind of pannier used upon camels and mules to hold supplies or to afford a seat for a soldier or traveler. ..."

5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"I overheard a kajawah, or gentleman, riding on one side of a camel-litter, observing to his adil, or opposite companion: " How strange that the ivory ..."

6. Scinde, Or, the Unhappy Valley by Richard Francis Burton (1851)
"... lady of pretty name, Mahtab—the " Moonbeam : " here she comes with her sisters, each sitting in her own kajawah*—altogether a train of nine camels. ..."

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