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‖ cafila|ˈkɑːfɪlə|
Also 6 caffylen, 7 caffalo, caphille, 8 caffilla, -la, 9 kafila.
[Arab. qāfilah caravan, marching company.]
A company of travellers, a caravan, in Arabia, Persia, or India.
1594tr. Linschoten's Voy. in Arb. Garner III. 188 From thence, twice every year, there travelleth two caffylen. 1630Lord Banians 81 (Y.) Some of the Raiahs..making Outroades prey on the Caffaloes passing by the Way. 1671Charente Let. Customs Tafiletta 14 They sent yearly..Caphilles or Caravans to Tombotum. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 52 From the bells of a Cafila passing over the rocks. 1811H. Martyn in Mem. iii. (1825) 339 At ten o'clock on the 30th our cafila began to move. 1867Q. Rev. Jan. 102 (Y.) A carriage..followed by a large convoy of armed and mounted travellers, a kind of Kafila. |