dhow

From Arabic دَاو‎ (dāw), from Persian دو‎ (“run”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to run”).

• 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 1167497017:

     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.

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