dahabeah
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dahabeah
First recorded in 1840–50, dahabeah is from the Egyptian Arabic word dahabīyah
Example Sentences
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One of Gordon's forms of recreation was to get out and help to pull his dahabeah.
From The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger
What he did learn was this: a dragoman had come, in a small boat, from a steam dahabeah to the Enchantress Isis while we were away at Kasr Ibrim.
From It Happened in Egypt by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
He was just under thirty years, as good-looking as most men, with no one dependent upon him and an income that had withstood both the Maison Doree and a dahabeah on the Nile.
From Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
But Bedr thought that, if the Luxor plan had been a success, the steam dahabeah would have gone north from there instead of south.
From It Happened in Egypt by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
When a traveller goes aboard a dahabeah he tears up the calendar and lets his watch run down.
From In Pastures New by George Ade
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