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‖ dhow, dow|daʊ|
Also daou, daw.
[Original language unknown; now in use all round the coast of the Arabian Sea from Western India to E. Africa, also on Lake Nyanza. The Marāthī form is ḍāw, and the word exists in mod. Arabic as dāw (Johnson 1852). See dh-.
If the word tava occurring of date 1470 in Athanasius Nikitin (India in 15th c., Hakl. Soc. 1858) be, as it appears to be, the same word, it would tend to localize the word at Ormus or Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.]
A native vessel used on the Arabian Sea, generally with a single mast, and of 150 to 200 tons burden; but the name is somewhat widely applied to all Arab vessels, and has become especially well known in connexion with the slave trade on the East coast of Africa.
1799J. Jackson Journ. from India 3 Observed a dow in chase of us. Ibid. 5 A large Arab dow. 1802Naval Chron. VIII. 255 A fleet of piratical Dows. 1803Ibid. IX. 216 The navigation of the Red Sea is confined to vessels which they call daous..They carry a single square sail. 1809Q. Rev. Aug. 108 At Mocha they hired a dow. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son I. 178 On board a small and very singular craft, called a dow. 1860Krapf Travels E. Africa 117, I left..Takaungu in a small boat, called a ‘Daw’ by the Suahilis..the smallest sea-going vessel. 1862Illustr. Melbourne Post 26 July, The boats..captured a large number of slave dhows off the eastern coast. 1865Livingstone Zambesi Pref. 9 The general effect is to drive the independent native chiefs to the Arab dhow slave trade. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pock. Bk. vi. (ed. 2) 227 The Slave Dhows on the East Coast of Africa are specially rigged for running with the Monsoons. 1883Bombay Gazetteer XIII. 717–8 (Y.) Dhau is a large vessel which is falling into disuse..Their origin is in the Red Sea. The word is used vaguely, and is applied to baghlas. 1886Yule Anglo-Ind. Gloss. 243/1 Dhow, Dow..used on the E. African coast for craft in general; but in the mouths of Englishmen on the western seas of India it is applied specially to the old-fashioned vessel of Arab build, with a long ‘grab’ stem, i.e. rising at a long slope from the water, and about as long as the keel, usually with one mast and lateen rig. |