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‖ dahabeeyah, -biah|dɑːhəˈbiːjə|
Also -beeah, -bieh, -beiah.
[Arab. ðahabīyah lit. ‘the golden’, f. ðahab gold: name of the gilded state barge of the Muslim rulers of Egypt.]
A large sailing-boat, used by travellers on the Nile.
1846I. F. Romer Pilgrimage Temples of Egypt I. 109 The Dahabieh and her crew were hired at a daily expense. 1876Western Morning News (Plymouth) 2 Feb. 3/3 Three young English ladies..were sailing up the river in a dahabeah. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile Pref. 12 The Dahabeeyah hired by the European traveller, reproduces in all essential features the painted galleys represented in the tombs of the kings. 1890Sayce in Trans. Lanc. & Cheshire Antiq. Soc. VII. 4 Coming down the Nile in a dahabiah. 1905E. F. Benson Image in Sand i, A couple of dayabeahs moored to the bank were a blaze of Syrian awnings. 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xvi. 244 The winding river, glowing with opal fire, and the dahabiehs, that was the Egypt of his dreams. 1936E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest iv. 249 The Sahara where horsemen..are silently riding towards the Nile to intercept the dahabiyeh. 1952C. P. Blacker Eugenics 24 The party travelled in some style in a dahabeyah. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 28/2 As his dahabia navigates the last of the cataracts. |