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mehari|məˈhɑːrɪ|
Also maharee, mahari, maherry, mehara, meheri, etc.
[F. méhari, f. Algerian Arab. mehrī, Class. Arab. mahrī, of Mahra, a province in South Arabia.]
An Arabian, single-humped camel, used for riding.
1738T. Shaw Travels or Observations relating to Barbary & Levant 240 That species of the Camel-kind, which is known to us by the name of the Dromas or Dromedary, is here called Maihãry; though it is much rarer in Barbary than in the Levant. 1821G. F. Lyon Narr. Trav. N. Afr. i. 23 A small Kafflé passed us, consisting of ten or twelve camels, and amongst them one or two Maherries. 1826Denham & Clapperton Narr. Trav. & Discoveries in N. & Cent. Afr. i. 22 A marauding party was sent out to plunder some maherhies. Ibid., Nine camels of the maherhy species were brought in. 1848J. Richardson Travels in Great Desert of Sahara I. iii. 87 The two races, the coast-camel, and the Maharee or desert-camel... The most fierce and dominant was the Maharee. 1854J. R. Morell Algeria 480 The mahari supports fatigue better than the camel, and never betrays an ambuscade. 1857H. Barth Trav. N. & Cent. Afr. I. viii. 178 Riding my own méheri, I was quite at liberty to go before or fall behind. 1863J. Hutton tr. Daumas's Horses of Sahara ii. 342 Fetoum remounted her mahari and gave the signal for retreat. 1904R. Hichens Garden of Allah ii. viii. 113 ‘He who smokes the keef is like a Mehari with a swollen tongue,’ he rejoined. 1921M. W. Hilton-Simpson Among Hill-Folk Algeria 120 In the great desert he rides the ‘mehari’, or trotting camel. 1923G. Casserly Algeria To-Day 235 A Targui's mehara (riding camel) is usually white, is speedy and full of endurance. 1926Contemp. Rev. Oct. 425 Captain Domèvre of the Spahis..after being severely wounded in action with his méhari, is transferred to the military intelligence section at Beyrout. |