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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I hope you'll be pleased that I've given up my dream of having a private dahabeah, and that we shall be with you on Sir Marcus Lark's boat.
From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
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 Boulger, Demetrius Charles
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 Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
On landing at Alexandria, we were hurried on board a large mast-less canal boat, shaped like a Nile dahabeah.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh
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 McCutcheon, George Barr
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