Definition of Dahabieh

1. Noun. A traditional Egyptian sailing-boat. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dahabieh

1. dahabeah [n -S] - See also: dahabeah

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dahabieh

daguerreotypist
daguerreotypists
daguerreotypy
daguerrotype
daguerrotypes
daguerrotypy
dagwood
dagwood dog
dagwood dogs
dagwoods
dah
dahabeah
dahabeahs
dahabiah
dahabiahs
dahabieh (current term)
dahabiehs
dahabiya
dahabiyas
dahl
dahlia
dahlias
dahlin
dahling
dahlings
dahllite
dahls
dahn
dahoon
dahoons

Literary usage of Dahabieh

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

1. Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh by Caroline Crane Marsh (1888)
"... Mrs. Wislizenus—Arrival at Assouan—Voyage in dahabieh to Second Cataract —Letter to Mr. Homes—Extracts from Letters to Mrs. Estcourt from Thebes and ..."

2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1879)
"In this ridiculous fashion we rode into the town, but it was not long before we found that they <Ы not intend us to go to the dahabieh, but to some ..."

3. Eastern Life: Present and Past by Harriet Martineau (1848)
"On the night of our arrival at Cairo, we did not go to bed till past midnight; and our gentlemen were out at five to see about the dahabieh,—knowing that ..."

4. Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt by Lucie Duff-Gordon (1902)
"If you have bought a dahabieh for me of course I will await its arrival. ... If therefore the dahabieh is in rerum natures and can start at once, ..."

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